The nation's capital is one sorry spectacle these days
source: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/05/89910/the-nations-capital-is-one-sorry.html
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/05/89910/the-nations-capital-is-one-sorry.htm...
This started out as a quick link to an article and has turned into a full on plea. Because I started thinking about the things I've recently seen going on in Washington and one issue really got me going and this is the result.
It sure is and spectacle is just the word to describe what I've witnessed for the last year as I've watched the debate over health care reform. The Republicans want to destroy social programs so compromising with them only serves to lessen the chance of these programs succeeding. Last year the Republicans said they were going to destroy Obama over health care. It was going to be his Waterloo. And instead of fighting for what was really right time and time again he caved in and compromised.
The far and away best solution to the health care crisis a single payer/Medicade For All plan was not even part of the opening discussion. It's supporters were not even allowed to participate in the discussion they were hauled off by the police. That's when you got the idea that things weren't going to go well. And then the second moment occurred when president Obama laughed at the idea of putting the health insurance industry out of business.
Here is an industry that makes money by denying people care. They deliver no care themselves they only serve to make a profit. We are alone in the developed world that supports such a wasteful inefficient system. Other countries may have insurance companies by they are non profit in nature. In this county they make 10-20% profit by doing paperwork and then spend enormous sums of money to defeat any attempt at reform.
So that's one mans view of this ugly spectacle and as a side bar this is not a new spectacle but one that has been going on for a good many years. It is because the government has been so self serving and dysfunctional for so long that our problems have become so huge.
There is one way that we as Americans can turn this situation around and serve notice to our leaders. Senator Mike Bennett has a letter signed by 35 other Senators calling for a vote on a public option. We need fifteen more names to make this happen. What we need is a virus and I am asking no begging to to help. All the polls say that a large majority of Americans support a public option. Seize The Day you can add your name to the letter and contact those Senators that haven't signed on. Here is a link
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/activities/284
MindsiMedia has several channels on YouTube and other video sharing outlets you can access all of them from our web portal at http://www.mindsimedia.info/ . You can also link up to our Pandora radio stations there and our Facebook and Cafe Press presences. We also have a Facebook page which serves as our blog. Here is a couple of links to videos I put together at the beginning of this health care debate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7mCC2DN_1s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5U6chUTEIY&feature=related
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/05/89910/the-nations-capital-is-one-sorry.htm...
This started out as a quick link to an article and has turned into a full on plea. Because I started thinking about the things I've recently seen going on in Washington and one issue really got me going and this is the result.
It sure is and spectacle is just the word to describe what I've witnessed for the last year as I've watched the debate over health care reform. The Republicans want to destroy social programs so compromising with them only serves to lessen the chance of these programs succeeding. Last year the Republicans said they were going to destroy Obama over health care. It was going to be his Waterloo. And instead of fighting for what was really right time and time again he caved in and compromised.
The far and away best solution to the health care crisis a single payer/Medicade For All plan was not even part of the opening discussion. It's supporters were not even allowed to participate in the discussion they were hauled off by the police. That's when you got the idea that things weren't going to go well. And then the second moment occurred when president Obama laughed at the idea of putting the health insurance industry out of business.
Here is an industry that makes money by denying people care. They deliver no care themselves they only serve to make a profit. We are alone in the developed world that supports such a wasteful inefficient system. Other countries may have insurance companies by they are non profit in nature. In this county they make 10-20% profit by doing paperwork and then spend enormous sums of money to defeat any attempt at reform.
So that's one mans view of this ugly spectacle and as a side bar this is not a new spectacle but one that has been going on for a good many years. It is because the government has been so self serving and dysfunctional for so long that our problems have become so huge.
There is one way that we as Americans can turn this situation around and serve notice to our leaders. Senator Mike Bennett has a letter signed by 35 other Senators calling for a vote on a public option. We need fifteen more names to make this happen. What we need is a virus and I am asking no begging to to help. All the polls say that a large majority of Americans support a public option. Seize The Day you can add your name to the letter and contact those Senators that haven't signed on. Here is a link
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/activities/284
MindsiMedia has several channels on YouTube and other video sharing outlets you can access all of them from our web portal at http://www.mindsimedia.info/ . You can also link up to our Pandora radio stations there and our Facebook and Cafe Press presences. We also have a Facebook page which serves as our blog. Here is a couple of links to videos I put together at the beginning of this health care debate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7mCC2DN_1s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5U6chUTEIY&feature=related
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