Thursday, December 10, 2009

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

THE MIDDLE CLASS MUST STRIKE BACK

America used to practice a democracy that was the envy of the rest of the world. One of its components was a free enterprise system that produced and benefited a large middle class. While it took 300 years to nurture this breathtaking experiment, it has taken the Bush administration a mere 6 1/4 years to trash it.

While sacrificing our nation's blood and treasure in the name of democracy in Iraq, Bush has trampled the Constitution here at home. It is, after all, as he said himself, "just a piece of paper."

What we have now in this country is something called "authorative free enterprise" or what I prefer to call "conspiratorial capitalism." The corporate elite and the most powerful members of our elected government are in collusion to separate the once proud middle class from its financial assets. By outsourcing the best jobs to China and India and "insourcing" cheap illegal labor across our southern border, by becoming the greatest debtor nation in the history of the world, by debasing the U.S. dollar and then lying about the rampant inflation that has been taking place for years (the greatest hidden tax on each and everyone of us), by spying on the American people through tapping of their telephones, tracking their emails and snooping into their financial records, by detaining so-called "enemy combatants" without allowing them recourse to legal assistance and torturing them in the process, by repeatedly sticking it to Congress with its super secret, none-of-your-business response, this small covey of power-hungry individuals are running the United States of America down a slippery slope to bankruptcy and world scorn.

This Bush guy is so much more impeachable than Clinton and Nixon put together, that one would think it would be a piece of cake. But the Congress doesn't have the stomach for it --- or for anything else for that matter.

If we have to hold out until November of next year, there's two things everyone of us can do: 1- whatever is necessary to insure that all voting machines leave a paper trail in 2008. (These guys will stop at nothing); 2- Whatever is necessary to protect our financial assets. Remember, those assets are on a one-way track from the many to the few, and all paper assets are nothing more than that: "just a piece of paper."

04/17/2007