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Angry About AIG But Not Congress and Health Insurance?
Mad at the AIG rip-off. So am I. That is our money. And we know they are not going to help us.
What about Congress? Don't you see the connection? We pay for their health insurance. No worries for them. Sure, some of them say they are going to help us. But, really, do you think it's at the top of their concerns?
Want health insurance? TURN OFF THE SPIGOT FOR CONGRESS. We'll get it then. Sink or swim, we will all be in the same boat.
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Single payer universal health insurance for all!!!
March 16, 2009 5:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm confident health insurance is in the hopper. I'm worried we won't get it right, but if we don't I hpoe we have a way to alter its course.
Frankly, the first thing we should do is eliminate the obstacle to negotiating with the pharmaceutical companies on Medicare stuff. I'll bet we would find a ton of overpaid medications there and we could put the money into a more useful place. I'm optimistic if that money went to the VA, the seniors could live with the decision. Afterall, they will not have lost what they had, only not gained when the savings were made. Seniors tend to be supportive of the troops. This could be done.
March 16, 2009 5:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think you've hit on something else, very common in politics and the media, in all this.
I've had a strange feeling about the way the whole bonus issue has been built up and played up by media and politicians. It seems to me that it is being used effectively as a distraction from everything else.
I'm not saying the issue of the AIG, et al. bonus bonanza is bogus (say that three times fast). And there is no other reflex or reaction to this than to be completely enraged about the crooks getting the reward for their capture, so that we can keep then on as the expert crooks they are. But the whole thing seems manipulated; like a magician's misdirection.
March 16, 2009 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I've had a strange feeling about the way the whole bonus issue has been built up and played up by media and politicians."
There are two issues that are front and center on every single Blog and even in the general public discussion, right now. But only one takes up a large portion of the media's attention.
We know they know what they are doing. Part of the reason everyone keeps asking you to write and call your Congress critters and even send an LTTE to your local papers. If they won't write about we will! lol
March 17, 2009 9:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yep. It's why Republicans criticize any reforms as taking advantage of the economic recovery that is priority one, naturally. Thing is, they’re damn right about that; and that’s as it should be (even more).
If the economy had not been driven into a ditch, putting it mildly, the public demand for reforms (health care, education, civil liberties, taxes and wages, and all of the other inequities) would still be there.
Dems share some responsibility for everything that’s transpired, including the economic implosion, and have an obligation and mandate to change it. I think it’s just the same-o’ same-o’ status quo using the economic crisis to thwart real reform and cement control even more.
March 17, 2009 2:25 PM | Reply | Permalink