The "public option" is a complete scam

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Sunday July 19, 2009 · 10:26 AM PDT

2009/07/19 · 10:26

Talk me down here.

The way the "Democrats" crafted the so-called "public option", it is only available to people who have no health insurance (unemployed, or own a small business).

Hence, the so-called "public option" is not available to the vast majority of people (people who have jobs), and thus they are all stuck with their lousy, failing private insurance plans.

So there is no true choice or option being provided here, and thus, there is no straight-up competition with the corrupt private insurance industry. If the goal was competition, this clearly ain't it.

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Sunday June 28, 2009 · 10:46 AM PDT

2009/06/28 · 10:46

Utah's Salt Lack City Mayor, Rocky Anderson makes me proud.
This is what our public officials are supposed to sound like.

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Friday June 19, 2009 · 9:02 AM PDT

2009/06/19 · 09:02

Consider the following words of hope by President Obama, and the commitments made upon his taking office:

Obama's Words:

"All agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open Government.

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency."

--President Obama, January 21, 2009

"My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government."

--President Obama, January 28, 2009

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Okay, so let's look now at how President Obama has actually put those words and those goals into action.

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Tuesday June 16, 2009 · 10:09 AM PDT

2009/06/16 · 10:09

Bill Maher makes some good points about Obama and the Democratic Party:

"If he doesn't act boldly, then he's probably going to lose the midterm elections. If he can't shove some progressive legislation down their throats now, then I don't know when it's going to ever happen."

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Saturday June 13, 2009 · 12:21 PM PDT

2009/06/13 · 12:21

During 2005-2006-2007, it looked like a real tipping point occurred where the unwanted U.S. Foreign Occupations, Invasions, and mass-violence were finally exposed for what they were: a total sham, a corrupt War-Profiteering boondoggle, a theft of the American citizens (bankrupting the Country), and based upon demonstrable lie after lie after lie.

In addition, rather than making anyone safer, they have created chaos in the World, and just made far greater and deeper hatreds against Americans then ever had existed before. The Wars became unpopular back then, but today, I fear that there is no real anti-War movement anymore in America.

It's time to speak up and speak out.

Poll

43 votes Show Results

What action will you take?

43 votes Vote Now!

What action will you take?

I will call my Representatives and told them to vote NO on the War Supplemental

11 votes

I have all ready called my Representatives and told them to vote NO on the War Supplemental

6 votes

I want my tax money spent on more War and Foreign Occupations

26 votes

Audit 'Ben Bernanke' Bill, H.R. 1207, Now Has 222 Co-Sponsors!

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Friday June 12, 2009 · 7:45 AM PDT

2009/06/12 · 07:45

The Central Bank Monopoly might finally be audited sometime in the future for the first time in over 95 years (since the inception of the Federal Reserve system). House Resolution H.R. 1207, the Bill to Audit the books of The Federal Reserve Oligarchs, now has 222 Congressmen/Congresswomen signed on as official co-sponsors.

The Federal Reserve Transparency Act (official title of H.R. 1207), is now co-sponsored by a majority of the U.S. House members, with Dennis Kucinich D-OH being the offical 218th co-sponsor. The bill is expected to pass by a very comfortable margin in the House, as long as Nancy Pelosi ("Bank Bailout" puppet) doesn't find some parlimentary way to torpedo this opportunity for some long overdue government transparency.

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tommorrow morning."

--Henry Ford

Apparently nobody at the Federal Reserve now can account for some $9 Trillion dollars ($9,000,000,000,000.00) in off-balance sheet transactions.

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319 votes Show Results

Is it time?

319 votes Vote Now!

Is it time?

Yes, I support H.R. 1207 and S.604. It is time to Audit The Fed!

307 votes

Hey what's a few Trillion here and a few Trillion there really matter anyway...I trust them.

12 votes

Investigative Journalism Does Exist!

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Monday June 08, 2009 · 9:50 AM PDT

2009/06/08 · 09:50

On the Bill Moyers show (PBS). You won't find it anywhere else on the Television set (with the exception of very small snippets occasionally on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow or Keith Olbermann).

Part 1

Part 2

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Wednesday May 20, 2009 · 10:16 AM PDT

2009/05/20 · 10:16

DemocracyNow.org has posted the following sobering story today..

Jeremy Scahill reports the Obama administration is continuing to use a notorious military police unit at Guantanamo that regularly brutalizes unarmed prisoners, including gang-beating them, breaking their bones, gouging their eyes, and dousing them with chemicals.

This force, officially known as the Immediate Reaction Force, has been labeled the "Extreme Repression Force" by Guantanamo prisoners, and human rights lawyers call their actions illegal.

Jeremy Scahill, is an award-winning investigative journalist, and the writer of the book Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.

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Thursday May 14, 2009 · 9:33 AM PDT

2009/05/14 · 09:33

Former World War II hero (bomber pilot), Senator George McGovern, and the man who was correct all along about Vietnam (and offered the type of serious change that our Country so badly needed), asks the right questions in the OpEd This Year.

"President Barack Obama holds my admiration with high hopes for his message of change in Washington, D.C.

It is puzzling, however, that he has adopted most of the previous administration's formula for dragging out the withdrawal of our troops from the mistaken war in Iraq for nearly three more years.

Very little "change" here.

Three years ago, public opinion polls indicated that a majority of Americans believed our policymakers were wrong in ordering troops into Iraq. It is widely accepted that this sentiment more than any other factor in the 2006 congressional elections resulted in Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate."

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Thursday May 07, 2009 · 11:27 AM PDT

2009/05/07 · 11:27

If any other Country on the planet did something this, the U.S. News Media and all of us would regard them as tyrants, murderers, terrorists, etc., and the leader of such a Country deserving of being forcibly removed from power.

Today's headline folks:

After US Strikes, Afghans Describe 'Tractor Trailers Full of Pieces of Human Bodies;' Meanwhile, Obama Readies 21,000 More Troops

As rage spreads in Afghanistan after US bombing that killed up to 130 people, unnamed Pentagon officials are spinning another cover-up. Defiant Obama moves ahead with troop increases.

by Jeremy Scahill
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It never ceases to amaze me this profound double standard that we blindly have towards our own Country and our own violent, lawless government, compared to our attitudes that we apply towards other Nations (even anti-War, peaceful ones such as Venezuela).

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80 votes Show Results

Who continually kills the most innocent human beings in the World?

80 votes Vote Now!

Who continually kills the most innocent human beings in the World?

Hugo Chavez because the U.S. News Media says he's a "bad guy"

2 votes

Iran

2 votes

Afghanistan

1 vote

Pakistan

2 votes

Al Qaeda

12 votes

Usama Bin Laden

3 votes

The United States

49 votes

Russia

5 votes

Iraq

3 votes

Eygpt

1 vote

Arlen Specter out to Destroy the Democratic Party from within.

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Sunday May 03, 2009 · 1:11 PM PDT

2009/05/03 · 13:11

Arlen Specter's move to the Democratic Party is no victory whatsoever for either true Democratic-progressives, or the Democratic Party itself.

Others here have already diaried about the fact that Specter's goal is to defeat inclusion of "the public option" in any upcoming Health Care bill, and to reject the Employee Free Choice Act. This is a serious problem for the Democratic Party, which will now be inflitrated with yet another pro-Corporate voice who stands to totally obstruct any meaningful change.

But it is much worse then just that..
Arlen Specter has been one of the most corrupt and morally bankrupt public officials in U.S. history.

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Thursday April 23, 2009 · 2:07 PM PDT

2009/04/23 · 14:07

Former World War II bomber pilot, Senator George McGovern (a true, genuine War Hero), and the man who was right all along about Vietnam (and offered the type of fundamental change that our Country needed), asks the right questions now in the OpEd This Year.

Good to see George McGovern hasn't lost any of his immense integrity and wisdom.

"President Barack Obama holds my admiration with high hopes for his message of change in Washington, D.C.

It is puzzling, however, that he has adopted most of the previous administration's formula for dragging out the withdrawal of our troops from the mistaken war in Iraq for nearly three more years.
Very little "change" here.

Three years ago, public opinion polls indicated that a majority of Americans believed our policymakers were wrong in ordering troops into Iraq. It is widely accepted that this sentiment more than any other factor in the 2006 congressional elections resulted in Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate."

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END IRAQ In 2009!!