Re: Obama\'s getting too much attention...
We had eight years of Bush and Cheney, but now you get mad?
You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.
You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed..
You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn't get mad when we spent $1 trillion on said illegal war.
You didn't get mad when over $10 billion dollars (in hard cash) just “disappeared" in Iraq .
You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
You didn't get mad when they didn't catch Bin Laden.
You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed hospital.
You didn't get mad when they let a major US city drown.
You didn't get mad when they gave a $1.6 trillion in tax breaks to the rich.
You didn't get mad when GW bailed-out Wall Street and handed total control of government-backed student loan programs to private banks,
You didn’t get mad when, using reconciliation; a trillion dollars of our tax dollars were redirected to insurance companies for Medicare Advantage -- which cost more than 20% more for the same services that Medicare provides.
You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark, and our debt hit the thirteen trillion dollar mark.
No, but you did get mad when the government decided that people will now have more power over selection of health policies that include not being denied for pre-existing conditions, rate increases or policy terminations for claims filed while treatments occur, students now not having to pay 28-percent annual increases in interest rates for education loans, and finally some regulation on medical expense padding by third-party managers.
It's all politics and fear mongering financed in large part by the insurance industry, right-wing political organizers, and lobbying interests outside of medicine and health care (investment trusts, mortgage bankers, and pharmaceutical businesses).
Welfare, in true and expensive definition, is what the industry has been leaching from tax monies for private profit and what's been increasing the costs of health care more than any other entity, including proceedures and technology. Loss of this goldmine and publically-funded raping of the government for the pockets of industry will now come under scrutiny, which is why this law is a threat - not to
American citizens, but to the fatcats on Wall Street with accounts in the Carribean, tax-free shelters and as patriotic as Limbaugh's presciption-drug-induced child-sex preferences.
The talking points that first started the fires were candidates who lost in the last elections (Palin and McCain and the radio shock jocks). The "death panels" and "socialist medicine" are fine examples - never were to be nor will there be, but it stimulated a lot of fear and anger - to this day they remain the basis for the obstructionists on the bill - which is now law thank God.
Inticing violence, mimicking the industry of Timothy McVey and encouraging active warfare against the government, repeating base-less and inflated lies about true economy and debt costs is treasonous.
That's my opinion of the new law, the slim-minded and dangerous opposition to it, and how it's been for the last few republican presidents, but of course you all know that.
It's easy to repeat something someone said, it's harder to think something for yourself. I guess many find the easy street the most comfortable is throwing blame at imginary victims is a lot more fun that asking the insurance industry why they shafted America, and made record profits while the rest of us are starting to go hungry.
Start thinking what patriotism is, not jack-booting to the mindsets of "I can see Russia from my house" mentalities, please.
