A CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

I just read an article entitled: "Bush's Healthcare Fantasy." It is, in my opinion, less a fantasy than a deliberate ideology that is determined to make sure that the United States stands alone as the one country amongst the developed nations of the world that does not have and never will have a universal health care system.

The health insurance companies do not want it, the pharmaceutical industry does not want it and the medical establishment does not want it. They will do whatever is necessary to make sure it never happens. And, of course, they will accomplish their goal by colluding with the appropriate members of the Legislative and Executive branches of government. After being paid handsomely to do the healcare industry's bidding, our elected officials will then leave office and seamlessly morph into lobbyists for the very industries they represented when they were in government.

The sole purpose for having a government in the first place is for the protection of the citizenry. Americans go to the polls with the unspoken understanding that those individuals they elect to office will represent their interests. That they represent the special interests who line their pockets at the expense of the American people is quite simply a conspiracy.

Yes, Virginia, there is a vast right-wing conspiracy. We bear witness to that conspiracy every day as our jobs leave our shores and the greatest transfer of wealth from the many to the few takes place right before our eyes.

Not only won't there be a universal healthcare system in this country, there will come a time very soon when our government officials, having bankrupted the country by killing people in unnecessary foreign wars, will look us right in the eye and tell us that we can no longer afford the entitlement programs that We the People counted on. Major cuts will have to be made in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. And Corporate America will renege on employee pensions and health insurace. In fact, that day is already upon us, isn't it?

The only way this is ever going to change is when a leader emerges who totally disassociates him/herself from the Republican and Democratic parties and states unequivocally that as a truly independent candidate, he or she will have no interest in special interests and will only represent the needs of ordinary American citizens. Such an individual will, of course, need the protection of our entire military establishment.

08/06/2007