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As I See It: Class Warfare The Only Resort To Right Wing Doom

2010-09-01T03:20:33Z

America is currently at a tipping point. We all know here that we are in an ideological battle between the Left Progressive Liberals and the Right Wing Conservatives.

I have written a book that illustrates the massive defects in the Right's policies that have led us to the brink of a precipitous fall over a cliff. It first presents the path that led us here with easy to understand presidential chronology. It then presents the ills of several mechanisms that corrupt our form of capitalism. Lastly it provides the real narrative that should be the balance between the corporation, the government, and the individual citizen. It dispels the notion of the corporation being inherently more benevolent than the government.

Most importantly the book presents a logical solution to the economic woes of the country. Implemented over time the suggested policy changes would ensure that America lives up to the America we all expect it to be.

With the election at our doorsteps seeming to indicate a cataclysmic defeat for progressives if we do not get our act and "enthusiasm" together, a coherent message is important. This book provides sufficient information that is generally not heard in the main stream media to educate the few swing voters that can vote to somewhat maintain a progressive agenda.

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CAPITALISM FAILED. The solution is ...

2010-08-08T17:04:51Z

The current implementation of capitalism has failed. There is much that needs to be done.

Our infrastructure needs rebuilding. Drive around any city or country road in the United states and one would see bridges in the state you would only expect in a third world country. Many of our roads are in such state of disrepair that they damage our automobiles. With states losing tax revenues because of the unemployment and underemployment rate as well as the loss in property values, this is likely to get much worst
We need more teachers in the classroom. Teachers more than ever are needed for the change forthcoming for preparing current and future generations for the new professions and methodologies that will be needed in our economy going forward.
We need immediate and substantial investments in research and development in alternative energy sources.We need a real synthetic fuel program on the scale of the Manhattan Project. In addition to increasing employment it would enable the reduction of our trade deficit, budget deficit. and military budget (less shipping lanes and countries to defend to ensure our energy supply).
We need to build out our energy infrastructure for today's technology. The power grid needs to be expanded to places where we can take advantage of local energy sources flushed with geo-thermal energy, wind energy, and solar energy.
We need to make the term Made In America a national security issue. The systematic exporting of our jobs because it makes financial sense for the profits of corporations is the illustrative example of ho our implementation of capitalism is anti-American interest.

That we have a 10% unemployment with all the work that needs to be done in the country with the enumerated problems above, is proof positive of a failure of our brand of capitalism. Given that the private sector is unable to match this unbalance of work to those seeking work it is imperative that some alternative system provide the catalyst to do so. The only entity capable is the government.

Let me be clear, the private sector current has the funds to invest and employ. However because of their unlimited desire for profit maximization at all cost, even the cost of the well being of the average human being they fail to act. The government of the people and by the people must.

Government must create a bank to compete with private banks and lend. This is deficit neutral as the loan money is capital the government owns.

The government should print money to build out new energy infrastructure. This can be deficit neutral or revenue positive if it is then sold to new privately formed corporations after build out.

The government must spend profusely to rebuild our roads. While in the long run deficit spending may cause inflation, said inflation will be a good thing to devalue the debt owned by many who bought said debt with tax cut dollars reaping a double bang from deficit spending previous.

Mathematically this must work though the laissez-faire capitalists will hate the control they've lost to decide the allocation and use of resources they claim their god almighty, the market, dictates.

CNN iReport on this issue http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-479553

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The Fix Is In - This Misinforming Of America

2010-08-03T23:20:41Z

Something extraordinary occurred on Sunday August 1st, 2010. Three prominent Americans versed in economics from all sides came out in support of letting the Bush Tax cuts expire for fiscally responsible reasons.

Alan Greenspan, previous Federal Reserve Chairman and free market conservative went on NBC's Meet The Press and told David Gregory that he does not support tax-cuts with borrowed money. Additionally he stated that unlike what most Republicans say, tax-cuts do not pay for themselves (Transcript at: http://bit.ly/bTKZ1M).

Fareed Zakaria, a Centrist, author, commentator, and political expert said the following

"We have to be willing to pay for the government we want, which by the way is among the smallest in the industrialized world.... Or we have to dramatically cut the government, which means cutting popular middle-class programs, since that's where the money is... So I have a proposal.... Let's let the entire slew of Bush tax cuts retire... That would take us back to Clinton-era rates, when the American economy had its strongest growth years in three decades and the budget was balanced for the first time in four decades. "

(Transcript at: http://bit.ly/aXKPAw).

David Stockman, a staunch Conservative and President Reagan's OMB director & architect of Reagan's tax cut and supply-side economic policies came out with a striking article in the New York Times titled "Four Deformations of the Apocalypse" (http://nyti.ms/bkIq0A) in which he rightfully illustrated the transformation of the Conservative fiscally responsible Republican leaders into nothing but "a mockery of traditional party ideals". He stated that:

"IF there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing."

"This debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party's embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don't matter if they result from tax cuts"

What is disturbing is that serious mainstream media Liberal or Conservative coverage of these stories have been all but non-existent. No in-depth analysis as to why in the heat of the Bush tax-cut expiration debate would these prominent commentators, two of which are Conservative ideologs, so vocally and outwardly express their opinions to have the tax-cut expire in no uncertain terms.

I often wonder how such a large percentage of educated Americans can be so

· Misinformed to the real genesis of our exploding debt which is provably a result of taxation not consummate with the average American desired level of government spending. Americans still believe that just cutting pork (earmarks) and a few entitlements would make a substantial dent in our deficit; no mention of a military budget larger than that of the rest of the world combined.

· Misinformed to the real reasons why healthcare reform requires full participation because whether government forces everyone to buy insurance or not, it is the responsible citizens taking care of those who decide to be irresponsible by fiat. Healthcare Reform if implemented as codified moreover is paid for and brings down the structural deficit.

· Misinformed that illegal aliens take more out of our society than they provide. Inasmuch as the borders must be secured, illegal aliens are being made scapegoats even as they played a major role in our long economic expansion.

· Misinformed and indoctrinated that somehow a corporation whose primary allegiance is to the fiduciary responsibility to its owners/shareholders is somehow more trustworthy than a government that is duly elected by the people and can be fired every two, four or six years.

· Misinformed about our current economic system that by design concentrate the country's wealth in the hands of a few. While most would like to believe that a pathway is available for anyone to get ahead, for most it is but a dream.

· Misinformed that corporations have exported American jobs and will not bring back American jobs until their extortion in demanding low American wages is realized thus reducing the standard of living of the masses while transferring wealth from these savings to the top 2%.

The fix is in. It is no longer a Republican or Democratic issue. It is a corporate issue. I am becoming convinced that the goal is to maintain either an uneducated or indoctrinated population that continues to vote against its own interest. If Right Wing Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats are elected in mass in the next election our faith is likely sealed permanently as our country is at a tipping point of being either Rome or remaining the USA.

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Right Wing Republicans Caused Economic Apocalypse - So Says Reagan's OMB Dir David Stockman

2010-08-02T16:27:06Z

David Stockman was President Ronald Reagan's supply side OMB director in 1980s. He wrote an impressive article titled Four Deformations Of The Apocalypse in the New York Times that everyone including those in the media should read carefully. For him to make these statements now shows the fear he has that we may return to the irresponsible supply-side policies of the Republicans over the last 30 years.

The media has been obsessed with whether President Obama would let the tax cuts for the wealthy expire and in effect raise taxes. They have adopted the narrative of the Right Wing not letting Americans understand specifically that when the Bush tax cuts expire it is a law passed by Republicans that is actually effecting said change in tax rates. Democrats as usual have addressed the narrative from the Republican point of view instead of the factual point of view. In effect Republicans borrowed money to give to the wealthy and want to continue borrowing money to give to the wealthy while the average American pays the interest on said debt.

But I digress. David Stockman's article had four distinct tenets in which he hits Republican's hard. In effect the demise of our economic system is predicated mostly to all the supply side policies driven by them under cover of Economist Milton Friedman.

Failure #1:

Milton Friedman persuading Republican President Nixon to abandon the Bretton Woods agreement to balance our accounts and printing money not back by anything but faith.

Failure #2:

The explosion of the debt beginning under President Reagan in 1981. His specific passage:

This debt explosion has resulted not from big spending by the Democrats, but instead the Republican Party's embrace, about three decades ago, of the insidious doctrine that deficits don't matter if they result from tax cuts.

In 1981, traditional Republicans supported tax cuts, matched by spending cuts, to offset the way inflation was pushing many taxpayers into higher brackets and to spur investment. The Reagan administration's hastily prepared fiscal blueprint, however, was no match for the primordial forces -- the welfare state and the warfare state -- that drive the federal spending machine.

Soon, the neocons were pushing the military budget skyward. And the Republicans on Capitol Hill who were supposed to cut spending exempted from the knife most of the domestic budget -- entitlements, farm subsidies, education, water projects. But in the end it was a new cadre of ideological tax-cutters who killed the Republicans' fiscal religion.

Failure #3:

The unabated expansion of the financial sector with a corrupt shadow banking system that brought us corrupt financial instruments like credit default swaps to insure junk securitized mortgages.

Failure #4:

The avid support of policies (deregulation though he did not say that specifically) that outsourced our jobs, both high and low end.

Most importantly the article provides a glimpse of who benefited from these policies as well as illustrated the decaying effect of the gap between the rich and the poor. It is imperative that this paper gets coverage as the narrative being put out is a disservice to every American. It has allowed Republican failed policies seem plausible though they are devoid of reality.

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Rachel Maddow Expose GOP Lie On Reconciliation

2010-02-25T04:22:27Z

Rachel Maddow is fast becoming one of the most complete journalists on television bar none. Unlike most "journalists" that continue to be lazy, allowing politicians to spin without any challenge to any misinformation they make expound, she does her homework.

The video below is a must see. Not only is it a must see but you must pass it along.

The GOP is attempting to equate reconciliation with the nuclear option that Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist attempted. It must be noted, it is the Republicans that have been constantly ramming things through with reconciliation and have been the only ones to attempt a nuclear option.

As shown in Rachel's well researched piece, Republican Senators and Republican Congress people have supported reconciliation vociferously in the past. Some notable quotes:

Eric Cantor direct quote in 2005

"Reconciliation is a process I hope we can engage in every year"

Senator Judd Gregg

"We are using the rules of the Senate here. That's what this is Senator. Reconciliation is a rule of the Senate ... All this rule of the senate does is allow a majority of the Senate to take a position and pass a piece of legislation; support that position. Is there something wrong with majority rules? I don't think so."

Senator Kyl stated without any pushback

"it(reconciliation) was never designed for a large comprehensive peace of legislation like health care"

This is a lie as illustrated by Barbara Boxer where she stated that since 1980 reconciliation has been used 22 times. Out of those times the Republicans used it 16 times. It is in the Congressional record.

Harry Reid

My Republican Friends Are Lamenting Reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history. Realistically they should stop crying about reconciliation as if it has never been done before. It's done almost every congress. And they are the ones that used it more than anyone else.

To be sure, as stated in the video, reconciliation was used to pass Bush's two massive tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. NPR stated "...over the past three decades, the number of major health financing measures that were not passed via budget reconciliation can be counted on one hand. SCHIP(1997) and COBRA all passed by reconciliation.

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Obama Addressing Democratic Senate Caucus Shrunk To 10 Minutes Of Substantive Highlights

2010-02-04T02:18:40Z

President Obama addressed the Democratic Senate Caucus today. He addressed all that the administration along with the Congress had accomplished. He also contrasted GOP talking point with facts in effect illustrating to endangered Senators how to address American frustrations effectively.

We can only hope that the President continues educating the American public to the facts and let the Republicans actually defend the validity of their talking points, which they will ultimately fail at given the fallacies they comprise.

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Obama Obliterates GOP Talking Points At Republican Congressional Conference (Compressed Video)

2010-02-02T05:21:01Z

Over the last year one had to wonder if Obama forgot what got him elected. His pandering to Republicans was frustrating mostly because they were in fact the party that took the country to the brink of financial catastrophe, budgetary irresponsibility, and worldwide "pariahness".

With a slight glimmer of Obamanism during the State Of The Union, one would not have expected a total frontal confrontation with Republicans and their talking points on live national TV a few days later. Well, that is exactly what we got. His command of the problems, the facts, and the GOP's pseudo facts and talking points, made it an unfair competition that should give every progressive the modus operandi for tackling their corrupt message.

When forcefully asserting facts to fallacies explicitly, diligently, and continuously, truth will prevail. Even the some of the willfully misinformed will desist.

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Many Progressives Refuse To See The Big Picture. The bill must pass.

2009-12-16T05:16:38Z

Irrespective of Democrat's veto proof majority, they are unable to procedural bring policies and bills that one would expect them to easily pass to the floor. This is the nature of passing legislation in the Senate. This is not new to Progressives. The inability to pass a strong progressive bill would only have been possible if Progressives were successful in owning the debate and educating Americans to the reason why at least a public option to healthcare or at best a single payer system would be the most efficient way to pay for healthcare. Unfortunately Progressives failed to step up to the debate as effectively as the GOP, Insurance Companies and many other Right Wing misinformation machines.

Democrats have been fiddling with this bill for the entire year and have come up with some policies that are good. It is granted that this bill is a panacea for insurance companies given the increased customer base they will get. Until Progressives find a way to decouple the Right's ability to have a large plurality of American citizens believe that any government provided health insurance is tantamount to a government takeover of healthcare the insurance will maintain monopoly on our healthcare dollars.

In that light it behooves us to see the big picture. There are policies in this bill that cannot be attained through reconciliation. There are many other parts that seem to be there as compromises to Senators owned by the insurance industry or some other industries in the healthcare arena that likely without the 60 votes would be unattainable. As such we must hold our nose and pass this dog to move a few steps closer to the goal. This will prevent a Right embolden victory march that will likely affect every other Democratic policy. More importantly immediately upon passage is when our work begins anew. As I have mentioned in many a post, Progressive's failure to win over the minds of Americans and instill confidence in a government run insurance system was a major reason for a less than stellar bill. We must not be polar opposites of the Right seeking ideological purity. We see what that can lead to. Simply killing this bill misses the big picture.

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Public Option Killed by Liberal's Lack of Guts and Inept Debating Skills

2009-08-17T01:27:32Z

Liberals are thoughtful, methodical, intelligent, intellectually honest, and calculative. Unfortunately the Right Wing and the Republican Party do not conform to any of these values in any discourse. They are willing to distort, misrepresent, and lie even when confronted with reality. It is our ineptitude to take the fight to the Right in every venue that has allowed the potential killing of the Public Option in the healthcare debate.

I live in a Right Wing Republican town in the suburbs and am amazed at how flat footed we have been found in the debate. Republicans have been successful in creating the perfect cyclical argument that works at our most instinctively carnal level. They first destroy their followers' faith in the government to accomplish anything positive for its citizens. They then vilify the reason for said governmental ineptitude as some effort to do you wrong. Once that concept of government is metastasized into their brain it becomes easy to make any government program or solution a cause for irrational and violent opposition as in their distorted view anything done by the government is bad.

We have failed to rightfully vilify the insurance companies early in the debate graphically, often, and in every venue illustrating their greed and inflation of our healthcare system. Our response to Rick Scott's ads has been tepid at best. We never have readymade effective sound bites to keep the opponent off guard on TV programs. Republicans understand that the feebleminded respond to message repetition and use it effectively.

The only hope we have of getting a public option now is scaring the hell out of folks into believing the truth that without the public option things will get much worst. Moreover, we must get beyond the Internet, mobilize to town halls with support placards, add public option support stickers to our cars, write supportive letters to newspaper/online editors, create videos in support on youtube.com, iReports.com, and any other video site. Videos, letters, and editorial must contain simple minded sound bites that can be remembered subliminally by the reader/listener.

e.g)

Without a public option insurance companies will continue to kill many you know.
Without a public option you will not be able to afford health insurance.
Without a public option Medicare will go bankrupt.
Those opposing the public option worship private insurance and not Christian values.
Those opposing the public option are the new Pharisees.
No public option the currently insured will become the poor and uninsured.
Without a public option your taxes will be raised.
Those without insurance will remain so without a public option.
Without a public option insurance companies steal our accumulated wealth.

REPEAT OVER AND OVER.

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Obama's Inability to Articulate Healthcare Reform to the Average American Could Be Fatal

2009-08-09T22:27:06Z

President Obama has been insightful in realizing that one of the tenants to ensure a robust and lasting recovery is a strong healthcare reform bill to ensure no one needs to be bankrupted by medical costs and to ensure that companies who provide medical insurance can do so in a deterministic way thus ensuring they can compete effectively with countries that do not place an inordinate burden of healthcare on private companies. Make no mistake, all positive social and humane changes in this country have been effected by Progressive Liberal Republicans and Progressive Liberal Democrats.

It boggles the mind why the Obama administration is incapable of articulating effectively that there are two major components to healthcare; One) paying for health care, a process tantamount to paying a bill that requires no innovation that morally should not be for profit, and Two) the delivery of healthcare, the process of treating, housing, and medicating a patient in which innovation provides for better healthcare justifying a profit motive in order to provide incentive. If that is understood, it is easy to dispel justifiable citizens' fears that the administration is trying to nationalize healthcare by illustrating that private insurance skimming 30% or more of our premiums to pay overpaid executive, advertising, lobbying, and shareholder dividends is much more costly than one entity collecting all premiums and paying all insured medical bills.

Additional efficiencies garnered from doctors no longer having to spend time fighting private health insurance companies to provide requisite care to their patients will also increase the number of patients they can see thus reducing costs per patient further. This is not conjecture, this is a fact. Medicare with all its problems including fraud, the inability to negotiate for drugs, and an older sicker population is much more efficient than private insurance. All of this information is readily available and verifiable.

That said, if a Progressive Liberal President and a Progressive Liberal Congress with large majorities are unable to pass an effective healthcare reform bill with a strong public option, an option 72 percent of Americans still want and an option that will force insurance companies to be more efficient, means that in effect we are becoming an oligarchy in which powerful private corporations with the assistance of small but very loud, vocal, and ill informed group of citizens will dictate a policy that continues a massive transfer of wealth using private health insurance system as the medium to do so. This will continue the process of the average American's loss of wealth. The question is whether we will come to the correct realization before the transfer is complete.

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Healthcare Reform - Wealthy & Rich Must Pay Fair Share

2009-07-19T15:40:18Z

For Healthcare reform to be of any value

Every legal American citizen and resident must be covered.
Everyone capable of paying premiums must do so. Those legitimately unable to pay should be subsidized.
Preferably a non-profit government run insurance should pay for healthcare but at minimum a robust public insurance option must be included that channel all healthcare dollars to healthcare.

The aforementioned requirements are simple but extremely difficult to implement for one specific reason; many large corporations make exorbitant profits from the current inefficiency of our system and have thus far successfully lobbied Congress to write Healthcare Reform to insure their exorbitant profits remain. The reality is the only way to reduce our healthcare cost is to remove profits from areas where no real innovation is required, specifically private insurance companies that take 30% of your premiums simply to pay your bill.

Let's be clear. If healthcare reform does not occur now, it will likely not occur for some time and will be more costly to solve going forward. If healthcare reform does not occur now, many employers will drop health insurance, all premiums will be increased immediately, those with pre-existing conditions will likely remain uninsurable, and private insurance companies will continue to rescind policies, select procedures you may have, select medicines your doctor may prescribe, select the hospital you are able to get care from, and select your doctor in order to maximize their profits.

Those concerned that illegal aliens may get medical care should insist that the healthcare reform ensure ones nationality for care except for communicable diseases which could affect us all irrespective of nationality.

Healthcare reform should be paid for by everyone based on one's ability to pay. While it is true that this will puts a heavier burden on the wealthy, said burden is justified given the nature of wealth in this country being unevenly distributed to the top 5% and 1%, not because they are more productive or produce anything of lasting value to society, but because of the structural design of our capitalist society rewarding capital manipulation more so than producing goods and services of societal value. With 1% of the population owning 34% of the wealth of our nation, 5% owning 58.9%, 10% owning 71%, 20% owning 85%, and the lower 40% owning less than 1% of the wealth, as well as income similarly distributed, the societal gain from marginally taxing those of us who benefited from a country rewarding the skills that allowed us to flourish, should be seen as a responsibility to maintain a viable society.

One should note that most working people pay taxes on most of their income while the very rich whose monies are tied to stocks and investments will generally pay a maximum indexed tax to 28%. One should also note that most working people pay social security taxes on all their income while the more well off stop paying social security taxes on income over $106,000.

The argument then that asking the rich to pay a bit more in taxes for healthcare reform is unfair or would affect the economy is at best a scare tactic or at worst selfish and evil. If one stands by facts and understand income and wealth distribution in the country and the real reasons for such inequity, the population at large will be able to force politicians to pass healthcare reform specifically and better laws that inhibits the unsustainable transfer of wealth our current healthcare system and financial structures continue to allow.

Healthcare Reform Would Be A Done Deal If We Stick To The Facts

2009-07-10T00:52:23Z

If false and misleading ads from the private for profit health insurance companies and their cohorts were debated objectively by responsible journalists, the healthcare reform debate would be over. If Congress follows the will of the people and the facts that are readily available on the internet from reputable objective organizations, the healthcare debate would be over.

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Fact:
It is mathematically impossible for a for profit private insurer to be less expensive than a public not for profit insurance giving the same benefits. It is for this reason why insurers are fighting the public option. They must convince you that basic arithmetic does not apply here. Of course it does.

Fact:
Medicare's administrative cost is between a low of 2 percent and a high of 6 percent. Private for profit insurance ranges from 16 percent to over 30% in administrative costs. In other words for every thousand dollars you pay in premiums 300 of those dollars go into the pockets of shareholders, overpaid executives, advertising and other costs. Those are dollars that could have been used to lower healthcare costs.

Fact:
US Healthcare as % of GDP: 15.3%
Canada Healthcare as % of GDP: 10%

Fact:
US Per Capita Cost of Healthcare: $6714.00
Canada Per Capita Cost of Healthcare: $3,678.00

Fact:
Government Spending on Healthcare Per Capita is 23% higher in the US than Canada.

Fact:
Canadian health outcomes are better than ours.

Basic Statistics U.S. Canada
Life Expectancy (Male)74.8 77.4
Life Expectancy (Female) 80.1 82.4
Infant Mortality/1000 live births 6.8 5.3
Obesity Rate (Male) 31.1 17.0
Obesity Rate (Female) 32.2 19.0
HC spending as % of GDP (2005) 16.0% 10.4%

Fact:
Accusations by for profit health insurers and their cohorts stating that government will take over healthcare delivery are false. It is a fact that for profit insurance today tells you which doctor you can see. It is a fact that for profit insurance tells you what medical procedure you can have. It is a fact that for profit insurance tells you which hospital you can use. It is a fact that for profit insurance tells your doctor which drugs you may be prescribed. It is a fact that for profit insurance selectively rescind your coverage if they can find away to qualify your medical condition as pre-existing. It is a fact that for profit insurance will not insure those with pre-existing conditions.

If we stick to the facts healthcare reform will be realized

Links:
Most People Support Public Option
CBS/New York Times Poll
Quinnipiac Poll

Cost of Administering Healthcare in US Versus Canada Versus All Countries
The New England Journal Of Medicine
OECD Health Data 2009
World Health Organization Core Health Indicators

Healthcare Reform Now Require Eventual Private Health Insurance Death

2009-06-09T18:27:20Z

Healthcare must be an inalienable right and must be treated as such. This will only be realized if we find a balance between for profit free market services and not for profit government services.

Call your congressman today. Tell them you want a single payer public option in the healthcare reform bill. Do it today as the policy is being written now.

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Single Payer Healthcare Deafening Silence In the Media

2009-05-26T14:52:30Z

The media has been deafeningly silent on single payer insurance. It is imperative that the media explore the details of single payer insurance in order for citizens to get factual and unbiased information.

As citizens we must also ensure that Congress understand that we are aware that 60% of Americans want some sort of universal healthcare. We must bombard all avenues including blogs, chatrooms, call in programs, TV stations, radio stations (conservative and liberal) constantly and effectively daily, hourly to provide the logical reason we support a single payer healthcare insurance as well as detail the failures of for profit health insurance.

Contact your specific senator and congressperson and the specific representatives listed below.

Call frequently. Call them and let them know we want single payer. I am doing this everyday with many others.

Please do your part as this is for us all.

Waxman - (202) 225-3976 (DC) (310) 652-3095, (818) 878-7400, (323) 651-1040 (LA).

Rangel - 202-225-4365 (DC), 212-663-3900 (NY)

Miller - 202-225-2095(DC), 925-602-1880, 510-262-6500, 707-645-1888

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My Take on Bill Moyers Single Payer Expose (Excellent)

2009-05-25T17:59:23Z

Last night Bill Moyers Journal had an excellent fact based expose on Single Payer Insurance. Some clips are used to illustrate the realities behind why we must have such a system. President Obama understands that the state of our health insurance system will bankrupt both the country and individuals within. In fact he understood that single payer insurance was the only way out in 2003. If he does not use his ability to educate the masses as to what is at stake and support Single Payer Healthcare Insurance unnecessary deaths will continue. It would be the equivalent of Health Insurance Sanctioned Manslaughter.

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