Years ago in America, it was agreed upon that the lowest form of life was the used car salesman - in fact Nixon’s picture was often accompanied by the question, “Would you buy a used car from this guy?”

Well, now that the lowest form of life in America is the politician it should be written under a picture of any one of them “Would you buy a health-care system from this guy?”

Please help us rid ourselves of Grassley.  I was going to write something here about what a putz he is, but I think you know that already.

There is a Dem challenger, Bob Krause.  If you are in the mood, please visit his website, drop a few bucks on him, and tweet it up.

http://www.krauseforiowa.com/

Thanks in advance, I sure would like to wake up some day and find out that Grassley no longer claims to represent us.

-Wexler

If the politicians know little about health care reform, then Obama knows the
least.

He listens to crazy Dr. Emmanuel who thinks health care should be rationed to
save money. Read it yourself.

He says, “the system is broken” Broken. But…. “we don’t want to do anything too
radical to upset what is working”

This is pretty verbatim from his speech.

He is a lost man from an alien planet. He needs to be returned.

ThomasG,The current beneficiaries, Congress and Business, of socialized private capitalism, THE CORPORATE WELFARE KINGS, know a good thing and want to restrict socialism for themselves.These same beneficiaries are quite happy with their lot and with the Federal deficit financed by Treasury bonds with the proceeds DOLED OUT TO THE CORPORATE WELFARE KINGS and the interest and principle paid by individual taxpayers. It was Reagoon who ushered in the huge Federal deficits explicitly for this purpose while simultaneously cutting and/or eliminating corporate taxes.

No they’re not really that dumb. They’re just trying to cash in on the legal bribes they’re allowed to collect while the money spigot’s running.

Ain’t nothin gonna change and for a simple reason…. The Congress of the US are members of the Party and as such could give a damn about the Proles. (that’s you and me folks)  They’ve got their gravy health care plans and their gravy pension plans and to hell with the Proles….  Give the Proles their Victory Gin, their Victory Cigarettes and their internet porn and we will provide the Perpetual Wars to keep their simple minds off of what really matters…. Orwell maps it all out in “1984” and we have no excuses for not seeing this country for what it is:  A Gigantic Lie!!!  And my fellow peons it’s just gonna take another attack by the freedom fighters/terrorists to completely and totally seal the deal…. We will all be sitting in front of our 60” telescreens watching the latest carnage brought to our shore and will realize as a Gin soaked tear glides down our cheek that we too Love Big Brother…. Back to my internet porn… So long losers!

The United States is resigned as a nation to having socialized responsibility for privatized capitalism, therefore the U.S. government should move to having Socialized-Capitalism, rather than Privatized-Capitalism, so that the masses of the population of the United States receive benefit from Socialized-Capitalism, rather than only a select minority of privatized interests being subsidized by socialized responsibility for the privatized benefit of Privatized-Capitalism.

Socialized Capitalism can provide both jobs for the masses of the population of the United States and socialized benefit to the masses of the United States beyond jobs and a paycheck; the obscene profits of capitalism when returned to the interests of the masses of the population, rather than a few greedy, self-serving private interests will reduce taxes for the masses of the population and provide a monetary resource for funding the government and maintaining the infrastructure of the United States.

The time is past for the “smash and grab greed” of Privatized-Capitalism in the United States.

The time has come for socially responsible “Socialized-Capitalism” in the United States that will provide benefit for the many, rather than benefit for the few at the expense of the many.

That U. S. politicians are ignorant is a tautology.  They run on the fact that they are NOT better educated or more expert than their constituents.  They teach their constituents that ignorance is preferable to education with their “pointy-headed intellectuals,” and “eggheads,” and “so-called experts.

Merkins fall for it, and, taking direction from their “betters,” decide that education is bad for one.  The Chinese and Indians feel differently about education, and our arable land and ignorant peasants mean we can provide food and stoop labor for our Asian masters.

It is good to read a Joe Conason article here. He usually writes with great clarity.

This time I believe he fails to complete his thought, however. While it is certainly true that the opposition to health care reform has uttered many untruths and even absurdities, a rather common phenomenon in the halls of Congress anyway, the reasons behind such silliness must , once again, be noted.

All the BS, all the denials of the desperate need for reform of a system that kills about 40,000 a year to increase profitability, that refuses to cover far too many of us, that is helping to wreck our economy, that plunges a million or so into bankruptcy every year is sparked by the desire to continue to receive campaign funds from the industries that would see a lessening of profitability from said reform.

I think the last sentence says it all.  All of them (Dems and Repubs) play with words and on our fears to manipulate the debate.  They know that most Americans are uninformed and naive which enables them to lie and obfuscate without risk.  The reality is they are firmly in the employ of big business and make decisions based on what their employers want.  They count on the 15 second attention span of the typical American to get re-elected over and over.  What a wonderful system we have made for ourselves!