A lot of people dislike, actually they hate President Barack Obama, as if someone could be more despicable than George W. Bush was as our "leader".
Yep, Obama and the Democratic Party managed to be so inept, even though they had a clear mandate for change voted on by the American people to take us back to some sanity, and actually so incompetently screw it up, as to now put the GOP/TEA Party in a position where many Americans may just elect one of this group of highly unqualified, somewhat "challenged" presidential candidates.
These very same political parties are back,the ones that gave us this disaster in the first place, and whose skills consist of extreme amnesia, lying, distorting, hate, and dividing the American people, to further their own personal political ambitions, plus doing the bidding of those who own them through political "contributions".
I am not here to post a pro Obama, Democrat opinion. Truth be told I don't like Obama and I don't like ANY politician, I disdain all political parties. It is no longer possible for any politician to be considered as a real candidate for any office, including Dog Catcher, without having sold their soul, personal ethics, and anything that is human about them to the puppet masters.
Whatever political persuasion you may belong to or not, understand, whether you like it or not, no politician gives a damn about regular people such as yourself, and it's always all about their arrogance in being "better than you", getting as much as possible in, but not limited to: money, greed and power.
Today I heard President Obama "call out" the GOP/TEA party and other defenders of the obscenely rich in a way I have not heard him do so before.
THIS IS NOT CLASS WARFARE-THIS IS MATH!
No doubt a political "get tough" facade for those of us who have complained that he has no balls and doesn't stand up for what he believes in.
On the other hand, not so bad on his part, considering we have not heard ANY coherent ideas, suggestions, plans, or words from his detractors that make any financial sense in making our economic situation any better. They focus on slash, burn, old policies that got us into this mess, and personal political attacks aimed at keeping Obama a one term President.
Today Obama asked a simple, clear, but so very important question in a tone that resonated with me, and should with you also.
He asked, quite emphatically, why should any politician defend not raising revenue to reduce the budget deficit, by pledging to refuse imposing tax hikes on those who earn $5 million, $50 million, or $50 billion dollars a year, but still proportionately pay the same percentage in taxes as someone who only makes $50,000 a year?
At the same time that these opposition politicians have promised to never waver on their taxing the filthy rich, they are ever so willing to destroy the internal overall Infrastructure of the Country, Education, all kinds of Programs for regular folks, Health Care, Medicare, Medicaid, Mortgage tax deductions, just about anything we need to survive.
These opposition, pro rich phonies, moronically talk about job creation being stopped if we tax the rich, close tax loopholes for them, Corporations, Hedge Funds, Wall Street, Banks, but somehow never say a word of truth about how do we create jobs.
When Employers are hoarding 2 TRILLION DOLLARS in cash and not hiring any significant amount of new workers (in fact they are firing employees), or using it in any way to carry a remotely token share of the pain we are all supposed to share, in saving our Country from financial ruin.
It's real simple, if America is serious about fixing its economic problems, then we must face the truth that we are being lied to, and deal with it by stopping the bull shit, the rhetoric, games of clowns fighting over who is dumber, and address the real class warfare waged by the untouchable "haves", who have suddenly conveniently forgotten their math skills, because it suits them to never assume their role as being part of the rest of America.
Only we the people are asked to "assume the Bubba position", get screwed, as always in the name of what's good for the Country.
Fairly taxing the affluent with their strong backs, huge assets sitting dormant, living unscathed privileged lives, are key to the foundation of there being any future for all other Americans.
Will the garbage that gets repeated over and over by the burn and slash maniacs continue to get lapped up by the very citizens who will be hurt the most by these lies?
Again President Obama said THIS IS NOT CLASS WARFARE-THIS IS MATH!
Are we so stupid as a nation of citizens to recognize that Obama today has actually clearly spoken the truth, in a way that anyone can understand, about how to start getting out of this mess?
I think the answer, and this is just my olde Brooklyn "me" talking, yes, I think Americans are that stupid, but it will be close, there is hope that enough Americans just might, possibly, perhaps, wake up.
It will be close, too close for me to call, perhaps, the Supreme Court will eventually legally decide for all of us, as it so gleefully did on "our behalf" in the 2000 year presidential election.
Freedom is all about "taking your own risks," physician and presidential candidate Ron Paul said when asked who should pay to care for an American who chooses not to purchase health insurance and then gets critically ill. |
The French Revolution had Marie Antoinette reportedly urging the masses starved for bread to eat cake instead. Now progressive circles are jeering over an exchange involving Rep. Ron Paul that they say shows that conservatives are unwilling to use society’s power to treat sick Americans and would rather let them die instead.
The confrontation took place Monday night at the CNN/Tea Party debate among the Republican contenders for the nomination to face President Obama in 2012. At the center was Paul, a Texas congressman and libertarian icon. In many ways, it has been Paul who have helped define the “tea party” movement, by pushing limited government, more spending cuts and mistrust of central institutions such as the Federal Reserve.
Healthcare, and the role of a strong central government in providing it, is one of the key issues separating the GOP, which opposes Obama’s healthcare insurance overhaul. So it was no accident that the issue became part of the debate as host Wolf Blitzer posed a hypothetical to Paul, who is also a physician.
“A healthy, 30-year-old young man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides: You know what? I'm not going to spend 200 or 300 dollars a month for health insurance, because I'm healthy; I don't need it,” Blitzer said. “But you know, something terrible happens; all of a sudden, he needs it. Who's going to pay for it, if he goes into a coma, for example? Who pays for that?
“In a society that you accept welfarism and socialism, he expects the government to take care of him,” Paul replied. Blitzer asked what Paul would prefer to having government deal with the sick man.
“What he should do is whatever he wants to do, and assume responsibility for himself,” Paul said. ”My advice to him would have a major medical policy, but not before —"
“But he doesn't have that,” Blitzer said. “He doesn't have it and he's — and he needs — he needs intensive care for six months. Who pays?”
“That's what freedom is all about: taking your own risks.,” Paul said, repeating the standard libertarian view as some in the audience cheered.
“But congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die,” Blitzer asked.
“Yeah,” came the shout from the audience. That affirmative was repeated at least three times. Paul, who has always had a reputation for being a charitable man, disagreed with the idea that sick people should die, but insisted that the answer to the healthcare problem was not a large government.
“I practiced medicine before we had Medicaid, in the early 1960s when I got out of medical school,” Paul said. “I practiced at Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio. And the churches took care of them. We never turned anybody away from the hospitals. And we've given up on this whole concept that we might take care of ourselves and assume responsibility for ourselves, our neighbors, our friends; our churches would do it. This whole idea — that's the reason the cost is so high. The cost is so high because we dump it on the government. It becomes a bureaucracy. It becomes special interests. It kowtows to the insurance companies, then the drug companies.”
Still, that some in the audience were willing to let people die became a symptom of the conservatives’ disregard for people, at least as far as progressives are concerned.
“Last night we got a disturbing view into the tea party’s extreme right-wing position on healthcare when members of the audience clapped and cheered the idea of letting someone without health insurance die,” Eddie Vale, communications director for the group Protect Your Care said in an e-mail.
The confrontation took place Monday night at the CNN/Tea Party debate among the Republican contenders for the nomination to face President Obama in 2012. At the center was Paul, a Texas congressman and libertarian icon. In many ways, it has been Paul who have helped define the “tea party” movement, by pushing limited government, more spending cuts and mistrust of central institutions such as the Federal Reserve.
Healthcare, and the role of a strong central government in providing it, is one of the key issues separating the GOP, which opposes Obama’s healthcare insurance overhaul. So it was no accident that the issue became part of the debate as host Wolf Blitzer posed a hypothetical to Paul, who is also a physician.
“A healthy, 30-year-old young man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides: You know what? I'm not going to spend 200 or 300 dollars a month for health insurance, because I'm healthy; I don't need it,” Blitzer said. “But you know, something terrible happens; all of a sudden, he needs it. Who's going to pay for it, if he goes into a coma, for example? Who pays for that?
“In a society that you accept welfarism and socialism, he expects the government to take care of him,” Paul replied. Blitzer asked what Paul would prefer to having government deal with the sick man.
“What he should do is whatever he wants to do, and assume responsibility for himself,” Paul said. ”My advice to him would have a major medical policy, but not before —"
“But he doesn't have that,” Blitzer said. “He doesn't have it and he's — and he needs — he needs intensive care for six months. Who pays?”
“That's what freedom is all about: taking your own risks.,” Paul said, repeating the standard libertarian view as some in the audience cheered.
“But congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die,” Blitzer asked.
“Yeah,” came the shout from the audience. That affirmative was repeated at least three times. Paul, who has always had a reputation for being a charitable man, disagreed with the idea that sick people should die, but insisted that the answer to the healthcare problem was not a large government.
“I practiced medicine before we had Medicaid, in the early 1960s when I got out of medical school,” Paul said. “I practiced at Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio. And the churches took care of them. We never turned anybody away from the hospitals. And we've given up on this whole concept that we might take care of ourselves and assume responsibility for ourselves, our neighbors, our friends; our churches would do it. This whole idea — that's the reason the cost is so high. The cost is so high because we dump it on the government. It becomes a bureaucracy. It becomes special interests. It kowtows to the insurance companies, then the drug companies.”
Still, that some in the audience were willing to let people die became a symptom of the conservatives’ disregard for people, at least as far as progressives are concerned.
“Last night we got a disturbing view into the tea party’s extreme right-wing position on healthcare when members of the audience clapped and cheered the idea of letting someone without health insurance die,” Eddie Vale, communications director for the group Protect Your Care said in an e-mail.
“Even worse, none of the Republican candidates on stage expressed a word of disapproval as the tea party audience literally clapped for blood. This was a spectacle one would have expected back in the gladiatorial combat of ancient Rome, not at a presidential debate.”
According to census data released Tuesday, the number of Americans with no health insurance rose slightly in 2010 to 49.9 million from 49 million the year before. About 1.5 million fewer Americans were covered by employer-sponsored health insurance plans, while the number of people covered by government health insurance increased by nearly 2 million .
