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Common sense decision after you watch this video!
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AN esay way to understand the election!
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The American Civil Liberties Union last week faulted President Barack Obama for signing an executive order that bans federal funds from being used for abortion procedures and revives funding for expired abstinence-only sex-education programming.The American Civil Liberties Union last week faulted President Barack Obama for... more
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I was going to open this piece with an analogy about the tea party groups and why they're treated seriously by the press and the Republicans. The analogy would go something like: "Imagine [insert left-wing activist group here] getting a serious profile in a mainstream newspaper, and imagine serious Democratic politicians appearing at their convention."
The problem is, when I really evaluated what the various far-left activist groups are all about and compared them with the tea party movement, there really wasn't any equivalency. At all.
Because when you strip away all of the rage, all of the nonsensical loud noises and all of the contradictions, all that's left is race. The tea party is almost entirely about race, and there's no comparative group on the left that's similarly motivated by bigotry, ignorance and racial hatred.
I hasten to note that I'm talking about real racism, insofar as it's impossible for the majority race -- the 70 percent white majority -- to be on the receiving end of racism. That is unless white males, for example, are suddenly an oppressed racial demographic. But judging by the racial composition of, say, the Senate or AM talk radio or the cast members playing the Obamas on SNL, I don't think white people have anything to worry about.
This isn't an epiphany by any stretch. From the beginning, with their witch doctor imagery, watermelon agitprop and Curious George effigies, the wingnut right has been dying to blurt out, as Lee Atwater famously said, "nigger, nigger, nigger!"
But they can't.
Strike that. Correction. TeaParty.org founder Dale Robertson brandished a sign with the (misspelled) word "niggar." So they're not even as restrained as the generally unstrung Atwater anymore.
Most of the time, they merely imply the use of the word. Rush Limbaugh referring to the president as a "black man-child," for example. Every week, a new example pops up on the radio and somehow the offenders are able to keep their job while Howard Stern is fined for saying the comparatively innocuous word "blumpkin." Limbaugh, on the other hand, can stoke racial animosity on his show by suggesting that health care reform is a civil rights bill -- reparations -- and no one seems to mind. And no, the impotence isn't an adequate Karmic punishment for Limbaugh's roster of trespasses.
The tea party is an extension of talk radio. It's an extension of Fox News Channel. It's an extension of the southern faction of the Republican Party -- the faction that gave us the Southern Strategy, the Willie Horton ad, the White Hands ad and the racially divisive politics of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove. It's an extension of the race-baiting and, often, the outright racism evident in all of those conservative spheres.
But unlike the heavy-handedness of Dale Robertson and others, the tea party followers are generally more veiled about why they're so outraged by our current president.I was going to open this piece with an analogy about the tea party groups and why... more
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News organization Raw Story has obtained an exclusive analysis that shows President Obama received a staggering $20,175,303 from the healthcare industry during the 2008 election cycle.News organization Raw Story has obtained an exclusive analysis that shows President... more
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AARP Faces Backlash From Seniors Over Health Care Reform Stance:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/10/aarp-faces-backlash-seniors-health-care-reform-stance/
You Should Live So Long
By Reid Baer
Nature’s first green may
be some kind of gold
But today’s money
is even greener
For our hasty youth
think they’ll live forever
And here I am
alive at 55
Old and still holding
on to everything
I stole and in the
end I like some Frost
On my window
after summer unfolds
-AARP Faces Backlash From Seniors Over Health Care Reform Stance:... more
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In recent weeks, liberal groups have largely refrained from directly pressuring the White House on the public option -- even as there's been lots of grumbling behind the scenes that Rahm Emanuel is the leading force within the White House trying to trade it away in exchange for compromise.
No longer. A coalition of liberal groups is now openly calling out the White House, demanding it take a "stronger stand" in support of a robust public option -- and in an unusual move, the letter is specifically targeting Rahm and demanding he make it happen.In recent weeks, liberal groups have largely refrained from directly pressuring the... more
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Are death panels real?
Do I have to loose my plan?
Are you going to kill veterans health care?
Do I trust the crooked companies that profit off of us or the crocked branch of government that allowed the HMO to be created? (Thanks Nixon and Kaiser you jerks)
Neither, lets trust the market-
The only way I know to bring costs down is to start selling a lot more of it. Anything is better than what we have now. The truth is I'm already paying for socialized health care. Im 25, I've been working since I was 13, every two weeks I get social security deducted from my pay check, they estimate that before I retire social security will be long bankrupt. So when it comes down to it, I'm paying for seniors to get there health care costs at premium prices set by the company. I would much rather those costs set by the government. That way the might be a a few bucks left in the account that I've paid MY WHOLE WORKING LIFE IN TO. And maybe, if the costs are low enough it can pay for a hearing aide or something.
The Clinton's convinced the pharmaceutical companies to lower prices of HIV treating drugs in Africa by one simple principle. Minimal profits will be made at high prices, if you sell ten times as much product at a reduced price, you can yield more profits by expanding your market base. Good for the pharmaceutical companies, EXTREMELY good for the HIV victims of Africa. Since this has happened 1.4 million lives have been reclaimed.
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/what-we-do/clinton-hiv-aids-initiative/
Why can't we do this in America? Because there is a middle man in America that isn't in the African HIV equation, the insurance company. The insurance company makes its money by charging the patient even for when it isn't sick. In way it's like the mob charging you weekly for "protection", when the only people that you need to be protected from is the mob itself. I hate these damn companies.
So anything we can do to disband these jerk offs is a good plan. And this isn't to say it can't be revised later to work out it's kinks, all good plans have them, all good plans work them out.
Look at me for instance, I'm a union boy, I work in the hotel workers union. On average my company pays $1100 hundred dollars a month per employee. With that amount of money you would think I would have the health of a god, I don't, just found out I have high cholesterol. And I won't take pills I want to get rid of it naturally, so I've given up meat, in two months it's come down 20 something points. This is good, but I'm not taking drugs, where is the money going? To the insurance company. I've only been to the doctor a handful of times in the last few years. Im healthy, but it's not my company thats really paying this money, it's me, they find a way to deduct form my paycheck at the end of the day no matter what.
This week I'm being laid off. I was hired 9/17/07 that means my company has paid about 25k in health benefits on my behalf. When I lose my insurance next week, I won't even have the option to take pills for my cholesterol if I decide I need to, it will be a pre existing condition.
This reminds me of when you borrow money from the mob and then when you repay them they more and then more and then more. Or more precisely, when you pay them for protection and when you finally need it, they don't protect you, you get your ass kicked, and then at the end of the month they still come around looking for money for "protection".
Wake up America, we need to be come together on this, we know the nasty game they are playing we've seen it before. United States of America, not the United States of Amnesia.Are death panels real?
Do I have to loose my plan?
Are you going to kill... more
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According to Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite (R-Florida), the House of Representive Democrats and President Obama's healthcare bill essentially tells senior citizens to "drop dead."
Despite their promise to care for our seniors, Democrats have decided that it's too expensive to care for my senior constituents and everyone else's constituents.
This bill would cut an additional $156 billion from the Medicare Advantage program in order to pay for the government expansion of healthcare for the young, the healty, and the wealthy.According to Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite (R-Florida), the House of Representive... more
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The more Obama talks about his health care reform program, the more inconsistencies are being found by fact-checkers. The basic facts about coverage, cost and who foots the bill that he touts are being challenged by independent organizations who have begun to expose the fabrications. The inconsistencies by Obama between his rhetoric and reality are becoming more obvious every time he opens his mouth trying to fend off criticism of his health care proposals.The more Obama talks about his health care reform program, the more inconsistencies... more
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Apparently Blue Dog Democrats are now listening to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the same disbelief as the American public. When they went home over the July 4th holiday, they got an earful, as did other Democrats.Apparently Blue Dog Democrats are now listening to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the... more
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