The sole purpose for health care reform is to solve a dilemma. If you become sick or are injured, hospitals are required to treat you despite an inability to pay. They had changed the laws making it easier for doctors and hospitals to come after those with assets. Then they changed the laws to make it harder for individuals to file bankruptcy. But still millions are slipping through and what can be done about it? Mandate by law that they purchase health insurance. You thought that they were trying to help you?
Fade to black, in fifty years we evolved from a nation that once prosecuted the torturers of prisoners to the torturer of prisoners. Had Richard Nixon proposed what George W. Bush proposed, he would have been impeached long before the Watergate Hotel ever became famous. Nixon's crimes are almost laughable in comparison. Japanese military officials were sentenced to death for the same crimes Bush administration officials now brag about. The same crimes the Obama administration refuses to investigate and prosecute, which makes them criminal accomplices after the fact.
While George W. Bush can plead ignorance of the law or having received poor or defective legal advice, the current President and law professor codified the Bush doctrine thus making himself and his administration not just accomplices but principals. While in office the Speaker of the House, where such investigation should begin, publicly declined not just to begin articles of impeachment but even to hold hearings on articles of impeachment. As if obeying the law was a partisan choice to make, like a policeman who can pick and choose when to enforce the law, it is not a right, it is a responsibility. It is a professional responsibility to the public, which is why it is treated so lightly.
"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do." (Joseph Stalin) When the United States Supreme Court decided to stop counting the votes in Florida, they assassinated democracy no differently than November 22, 1963. The Constitution of the United States leaves the administration of elections in the hands of the states. From that point forward it doesn't matter who received the most votes; the election was stolen.
The Enabling Act of 1933 gave the German government the executive authority to enact laws on a whim. It stripped the German public of their civil rights, but even more it made a dictatorship legal. The Patriot Act did the same to the American public. Corporations received legal immunity for illegal acts, while Americans can be denied the right to fly on aircraft or even to buy an automobile by government whim. No trial, no hearing, no charges, just because we say so.
A Democratic majority in the Senate and in the House and the White House and there is zero talk of repealing the Patriot Act. The executive branch of the government allowed the IRS to allow Citicorp to take an extra $38 billion tax exemption and all they had to do was to violate the IRS's own rules. Welfare for corporations and the bill goes to the taxpayer.
The military of the United States is suffering from a lack of junior officers because of repeated deployments. Meaning that officers are being promoted not on the basis of quality but because of need. The long wars have hollowed out the military to the point where future procurement programs for national defense are being cut to pay for today's war. The military are cutting their recruitment standards for education, criminal past and gang membership, all to keep the line full. On the front lines private contractors outnumber regular military six to five.
We have a rightist center party with an extreme right and center left fringe parties. We have an electorate that either doesn't understand or doesn't care what that means. We have a one party system that works for corporate interests. They enact laws for the benefit of the oligarchy and to the detriment of the public in general.
Fascism has no requirement for jackboots and waving flags. The propaganda pours out of the corporate media twenty-four hours a day. Information, misinformation and disinformation until the public cheers for corporate solutions and the religious vote for those who favor the patenting of human DNA. So ask yourself, if you were one of the oligarchs and you felt that the Bush administration had gone too far and had damaged the myth of democracy, what would the answer be to restore the public's faith.
What would the oligarchs do to restore faith in the system? Would they support a candidate who promised more of the same? Or would they support a candidate that promised hope and change and then ruled with more of the same?
Dissolution (legal), in law, means to end a legal entity or agreement such as a marriage, adoption, or corporation; dissolution (chemistry), or solvation, in chemistry, the process of dissolving a solid substance into a solvent to yield a solution. Our democracy and our nation is at a state of dissolution, the reason why the left is unhappy, the right is unhappy and why Sarah Palin sells five million books. The reason why the Senate health care vote sent health care stocks to fifty-two-week highs.
Fade to black, in fifty years we evolved from a nation that once prosecuted the torturers of prisoners to the torturer of prisoners. Had Richard Nixon proposed what George W. Bush proposed, he would have been impeached long before the Watergate Hotel ever became famous. Nixon's crimes are almost laughable in comparison. Japanese military officials were sentenced to death for the same crimes Bush administration officials now brag about. The same crimes the Obama administration refuses to investigate and prosecute, which makes them criminal accomplices after the fact.
While George W. Bush can plead ignorance of the law or having received poor or defective legal advice, the current President and law professor codified the Bush doctrine thus making himself and his administration not just accomplices but principals. While in office the Speaker of the House, where such investigation should begin, publicly declined not just to begin articles of impeachment but even to hold hearings on articles of impeachment. As if obeying the law was a partisan choice to make, like a policeman who can pick and choose when to enforce the law, it is not a right, it is a responsibility. It is a professional responsibility to the public, which is why it is treated so lightly.
"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do." (Joseph Stalin) When the United States Supreme Court decided to stop counting the votes in Florida, they assassinated democracy no differently than November 22, 1963. The Constitution of the United States leaves the administration of elections in the hands of the states. From that point forward it doesn't matter who received the most votes; the election was stolen.
A Democratic majority in the Senate and in the House and the White House and there is zero talk of repealing the Patriot Act. The executive branch of the government allowed the IRS to allow Citicorp to take an extra $38 billion tax exemption and all they had to do was to violate the IRS's own rules. Welfare for corporations and the bill goes to the taxpayer.
The military of the United States is suffering from a lack of junior officers because of repeated deployments. Meaning that officers are being promoted not on the basis of quality but because of need. The long wars have hollowed out the military to the point where future procurement programs for national defense are being cut to pay for today's war. The military are cutting their recruitment standards for education, criminal past and gang membership, all to keep the line full. On the front lines private contractors outnumber regular military six to five.
We have a rightist center party with an extreme right and center left fringe parties. We have an electorate that either doesn't understand or doesn't care what that means. We have a one party system that works for corporate interests. They enact laws for the benefit of the oligarchy and to the detriment of the public in general.
Fascism has no requirement for jackboots and waving flags. The propaganda pours out of the corporate media twenty-four hours a day. Information, misinformation and disinformation until the public cheers for corporate solutions and the religious vote for those who favor the patenting of human DNA. So ask yourself, if you were one of the oligarchs and you felt that the Bush administration had gone too far and had damaged the myth of democracy, what would the answer be to restore the public's faith.
What would the oligarchs do to restore faith in the system? Would they support a candidate who promised more of the same? Or would they support a candidate that promised hope and change and then ruled with more of the same?
Dissolution (legal), in law, means to end a legal entity or agreement such as a marriage, adoption, or corporation; dissolution (chemistry), or solvation, in chemistry, the process of dissolving a solid substance into a solvent to yield a solution. Our democracy and our nation is at a state of dissolution, the reason why the left is unhappy, the right is unhappy and why Sarah Palin sells five million books. The reason why the Senate health care vote sent health care stocks to fifty-two-week highs.
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