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Here’s how it is: The healthcare struggle is between the American People and the Insurance Profiteers. Government is simply a tool, or weapon, to be used by either side.
With apologies to present company, the simplistic knee jerk anti government stance espoused by “Republicans” and “Libertarians” is a philosophy for teenagers and dupes.
Some of you talk like the government is some foreign object imposed on us from Mars or Soviet Russia. Was Lincoln just whistling Dixie when he rhapsodized on a “government of the people, by the people and for the people,” designed by our Founding Fathers to “promote the general welfare”?
When We the People give up on the use, care and upkeep of our democratic institutions (as so often in our history) we leave them to their sole use of powerful forces whose appetite for ripping us off is insatiable. We emulate the beaver, said to bite off his own testicles as a peace offering to his assailants.
A major reason we picked the representatives and President we did in ’06 and ’08 was our desire to change the health care “system” that the Profiteers and their shills in government have burdened us with — a “system” that bankrupts a million of us each year, with a Sept. 11 death toll every three or four weeks.
This year’s timid baby-steps toward reform means we’re finally starting to make the government fight on our side in this life-and-death struggle. Even so, to call the proposed, modest, premium-funded Public Option (which is non-negotiable to us progressives) a “Government Takeover” is a stretch as ludicrous as … well, calling Obama Hitler. Oh yeah, I forgot. They’re doing that, too.
But look at me going on and on and you can’t get a word in edgewise! I’ll cut this short and write more soon about all the ways corporations use our government to screw us over, how we can use it fight back, and about the Public Option specifically. Okay, bring it!
Vern, you are right about corporations and business interests using the power of the government for their own welfare. I believe that’s one of the reasons libertairians argue for a smaller, less powerful government.
Vern,
I am really, really glad to hear that the “Public Option” is non-negotiable to you libs.
Our Republican/conservative/libertarian friends need to read;
Joe Republican Should Thank a Liberal.
Here’s the link;
http://confessionsofalibertine.blog-city.com/joe_republican_should_thank_a_liberal.htm
Keep talkin’ Vern, keep talkin’. You and BHO are doin’ FINE!
From Rasmussen: Health Care Reform – Opposition to Health Care Plan Hits New High of 56%
Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide now oppose the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the highest level of opposition yet measured and includes 44% who are Strongly Opposed.
Just 43% now favor the proposal, including 24% who Strongly Favor it.