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Thursday, September 17, 2009
THE UNIVERSAL HEALTH PLAN
FOR ALL AMERICANS
Written on: March 9, 2009
Posted on: September 17, 2009
Dear president Barack Obama:
Your meeting with
all those big shots sounded great, but, I would advise you to consult with three average Americans, first.
They would include one that has health insurance with their employer, the other, who is self insured and the last,
that poor individual who cannot afford any coverage. For the moment, Medicaid or Medicare recipients are
excluded but must be included in any plan formulated.
There is no question but that
something must be done about rising costs of health care, so every American may be covered by an affordable plan.
The problem is not limited to providing coverage for all the problem is mainly, the cost of that coverage. At the present time, without insurance health care would
be prohibitive, but even that coverage is so expensive about 40% of Americans are not covered under an insurance plan.
Hospital costs and co pays for doctors are becoming so burdensome, some elderly persons, although covered by Medicare
are hesitant to see doctors unless absolutely necessary. You can well imagine the plight of the uninsured
Americans who wait until they have an emergency before seeking treatment, at their local hospital that cannot refuse them.
These visits should be paid by welfare or a separate fund, not related to a universal health care program.
Most
health plans were born in corporation employers because of bargaining agreements with unions. Unfortunately
because of their high costs corporations are at the point they cannot stay in business and also provide health plans for their
employees. This burden should be lifted from American businesses and placed on every health
covered individual and one national health plan for all. In fact Medicaid and Medicare plans have caused health
care costs to increase dramatically each year if only because the government is picking up the costs.
In addition, insurance companies and HMO’s have restricted the costs of hospitals and care givers who in turn
raise their prices in order to recoup, while insurance companies demand more and more profit while their costs also rise.
It is estimated that the overhead and profit margin for insurance companies average 50 % of the premiums each year
and they rise about 8% a year, much higher than the inflation rate. This is a runaway system,
left with very little competition of alternatives, since most plans are close duplicates of others in cost.
Doctors
and care givers resent the caps placed on their services by insurance companies bent on limiting their fees, these same caregivers
pass the costs onto the patients by way of co-pays over and above those set by insurers.
It
seems that the whole system needs to be overhauled first, costs cut by economizing procedures, use of volunteers, limiting
salaries and co-coordinating services, allowing clinics to provide non emergency and elective surgeries at lower costs and
in competition with hospitals to keep costs low. Insurance companies need to have their costs,
overhead and profit on a national health plan segregated and controlled by any plan finally adopted.
Politics and lobbyists cannot be allowed
to influence the final plan which should be based alone on cost, efficiency and quick availability to all Americans.
To control costs and unnecessary
abuse of the healthcare services, co-pays should be set, rather than maximum premiums, to help cover the overall costs.
If
insurance companies are used, there should be on a state by state award of contracts for care with yearly review to keep them
competitive against each other and to avoid monopolies and price rigging to occur. Limits
should be set on the number of states an insurer may contract with initially, but this number may be increased or decreased
to allow real cost saving plans to flourish in competition. Medical
supplies and equipment need to be scrutinized to insure they are being supplied at the lowest prices.
Doctor owned supplies and equipment leased to facilities must be banned as non competitive and a conflict of interest.
Prescription drug prices must be reduced at least
two thirds in keeping with international prices, plus a small discount in the national interest. The
cost of all pharmaceutical goods needs to be controlled. They are part of the health care problem.
Companies need to be examined for overcharging.
Politics
in health care must be eliminated for this plan to work; all politicians should not have any
say in the plans for any type of national insurance. The plan needs to be prepared and approved
by the American people who will pay for it and who will also be the sole beneficiaries of the plan.
They should be the guardians of the plan with consultation with all the providers under the plan and no one else.
This plan may take a year to develop and submit to congress.
Mark our words, if you let politicians, lobbyists, care providers, suppliers, pharmaceuticals
and insurance companies formulate this plan it will never be formulated with the American people’s BEST interest and
benefit in mind.
Monday, September 14, 2009
THE ANSWER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA’S QUESTION, “HOW EM I DOIN?”
September 10, 2009
BARACK OBAMA, THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE,
WON THE PRESIDENCY LAST NOVEMBER, ON A PLATFORM AND PROMISE OF “CHANGE” FROM THE OLD WAYS IN WASHINGTON BY CONGRESS
AND PAST ADMINISTRATIONS. HIS SLOGAN OF “CAN DO” WAS ACCEPTED BY THE VOTER AS A
PROMISE TO CLEAN THINGS UP AND GET THINGS MOVING IN A CONGRESS PLAGUED BY POLITICAL INFIGHTING BETWEEN DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS,
WHICH RESULTED IN STALEMATE WITH MANY PROBLEMS LEFT UNRESOLVED, FROM YEAR TO YEAR.
THERE IS NO QUESTION BUT THAT HIS ELECTION
WAS A MANDATE BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR REAL CHANGE AND FAST ACTION TOWARD RESOLUTION OF URGENT PROBLEMS THAT NEEDED IMMEDIATE
HELP. UNEMPLOYMENT WAS NEARING ALL TIME HIGHS, BANK FORECLOSURES WERE DEPRESSING THE
HOUSING MARKET TO THE POINT THAT THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY CRASHED TO A SUDDEN STOP, RESULTING IN MORE UNEMPLOYMENT, THE ECONOMIC
RECESSION FED ON ITSELF TO THE POINT THAT MOST AUTO MANUFACTURERS COULD NOT SELL THEIR PRODUCTS AND MORE LAYOFFS ENSUED.
FANNIE MAE AND FREDDY MACK COLLAPSED BECAUSE OF FORECLOSURES AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, WHO HAD GUARANTEED THE LOANS,
HAD TO USE TAXPAYER’S MONEY TO BAIL THEM OUT AND EVEN TAKE THEM OVER.
INTO THIS MORASS, OBAMA WAS ELECTED, AS THE
ONE CANDIDATE MOST SUITED AND PROMISING TO CORRECT THE NATION’S PROBLEMS WITH THE CHANGE AND PROMISE NEEDED TO SOLVE
THOSE URGENT PROBLEMS AND GET THE COUNTRY MOVING AGAIN.
THEREFORE, YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO ASK WHAT OBAMA HAS DONE THESE LAST EIGHT CRITICAL MONTHS TO SOLVE THESE
PROBLEMS.
ONCE ELECTED, OBAMA, INSTEAD, STARTED NOMINATING TO HIS STAFF AND CABINET, THE SAME OLD HAT POLITICIANS
HE HAD PROMISED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HE WOULD REJECT AS PART OF THE “CHANGE” AND “CAN DO “PROMISES”.
SOME, LIKE GOVERNOR “PAYOFF” RICHARDSON OF NEW MEXICO, BOWED OUT BECAUSE OF GRAFT ALLEGATIONS WHILE ANOTHER
FOLLOWED SUIT A FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER HAD CONVENIENTLY FORGOTTEN TO PAY HIS INCOME TAXES. THESE
WERE NOT THE KIND OF PEOPLE OBAMA SHOULD HAVE SELECTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. HE AND HIS TREASURY
SECRETARY, MR. ”GETMORE” JUMPED IN WITH ALMOST A TRILLION DOLLARS FROM OUR TREASURY TO BAIL
OUT AND GIVE MONEY TO THOSE SAME FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS THAT GOT US INTO THIS TROUBLE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
THE VOTER STARTED TO LOOK UP AND TAKE NOTICE THAT THIS MAN WAS ACTING NOT AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE BUT AS
A REPRESENTATIVE OF ALL THAT WAS ROTTEN AND STINKS IN CONGRESS AND THE U. S. GOVERNMENT. HE
HAD FOOLED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WITH HIS CHARM AND RHETORIC, BUT IN FACT, WAS A CARBON COPY OF ALL THAT WAS WRONG IN
WASHINGTON AND HE JOINED THEM.
SUDDENLY AND SADLY, WE REALIZED, HE HAD SOLD US A BILL OF GOODS AND HAD NO INTENTION TO DELIVER AS
PROMISED. WHEN YOU SEE WHAT HE LET CONGRESS DO WITH THE TRILLION DOLLAR STIMULUS PACKAGE
THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO PUT PEOPLE BACK TO WORK AND THE PHONY CREDIT CARD REFORM BILL PASSED BY CONGRESS YOU
SOON REALIZE HE IS IN CAHOOTS WITH THE SAME GANG HE WAS ELECTED TO GET RID OF.
NOW, UNEMPLOYMENT CONTINUES TO RISE WHILE HE ATTEMPTS TO TAKE CREDIT FOR THE “SLOWING RATE OF ITS RISE”.
HE AND CONGRESS HAVE DONE NOTHING TO STOP THE RUNAWAY PRICE OF OIL AND GASOLINE PRICES THAT HAVE CRIPPLED THIS NATION,
FOR 35 YEARS AND HAVE CAUSED THE AUTO INDUSTRY TO GO INTO THE TANK. RECENTLY, REAL ESTATE PRICES ON HOMES HAVE FALLEN TO ABOUT
50% OF PREVIOUS VALUES, ONLY TWO YEARS AGO, WIPING OUT THE ONLY EQUITY MOST PEOPLE HAD TO DEPEND ON.
THE PROMISED REFORM LAWS AGAINST LENDING INSTITUTIONS HANDING
OUT SUBPRIME LOANS, A CERTAIN URGENT NECESSITY, HAS BEEN AVOIDED BY CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT, WHILE HE TOUTS THE PARTIAL
RECOVERY OF THE STOCK MARKET THAT MAKES ONLY THE RICH AND MONEY MEN, RICHER. AMERICANS WILL ALWAYS
BE WARY OF THE STOCK MARKET BECAUSE THEY NOW REALIZE IT IS NOTHING BUT A GAMBLER’S DEN CONTROLLED BY BIG MONEY, NOT
US LITTLE PEOPLE.
THE PLAN TO
INTRODUCE RENEWABLE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY FOR THE COUNTRY TO PUT MOST AMERICANS BACK TO WORK PERMANENTLY TO RID US OF THE DEPENDENCY
ON FOREIGN OIL AND ELIMINATE THE TRADE DEFICIT WAS GIVEN ONLY TOKEN ATTENTION IN THE STIMULUS BILL. OBAMA
BRAGS ABOUT THE STIMULUS HELPING TO KEEP A MILLION JOBS ONLY HELPS POLITICIANS AND THEIR FRIENDS ON THE PUBLIC PAYROLL.
OBAMA CALLS IT AN ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT, WHEN IT DOESN’T PROVIDE A SINGLE NEW PERMANENT JOB FOR THE UNEMPLOYED.
OBAMA STATES HE INTEND TO HONOR THE FREE AGREEMENTS
THAT HAVE TAKEN ALL OUR MANUFACTURING JOBS AND COMPANIES AND SENT THEM OVERSEAS, MOSTLY TO CHINA, A MAJOR
CAUSE OF OUR UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM. WE SOON WILL OWE CHINA MORE THAN WE ARE WORTH, AND IF THEY
CALL IN THE LOANS WE WILL BE BANKRUPT. WHILE ADMITTEDLY, CHINA IS OUR MAIN POTENTIAL ENEMY WITH A
COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY, SLAVE LABOR AND SUPPRESSOR OF ITS PEOPLE’S FREEDOM. THE ECONOMY WILL
NEVER RECOVER IF IT IS LEFT TO ITS OWN RESOURCES. PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER PROVED
THAT TRUE AND IT COST HIM HIS RE-ELECTION.
IT IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT
TO CALL THE LAST EIGHT MONTHS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, A FAILURE, BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN A DISASTER.
ALL THE ECONOMIC INDICATORS HE WAS SUPPOSED TO FIX HAVE FALLEN INSTEAD OF RISING. MOST
OF HIS BACKER’S CLAIM, HE NEEDS MORE TIME TO TURN THINGS AROUND, HOWEVER, IF HE IS GIVEN MUCH MORE TIME WE WILL ALL
BE BROKE AND IRRETRIEVABLY LOST FOREVER. WE NEED RELIEF AND WE NEED IT NOW.
AN ASPIRIN WILL NOT SUFFICE.
WHILE WASHINGTON
IS BURNING IN THE SUMMER HEAT, OUR PRESIDENT DECIDED THAT HEALTH CARE WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT NEED AND CHALLENGE IN THE COUNTRY,
TODAY. AFTER PROPOSING THE PLAN IN JUNE AND DEMANDING CONGRESS TO PASS IT BY THE AUGUST VACATION
RECESS, HIS FRIENDS IN CONGRESS ANSWERED HIS CALL BY IGNORING HIM AND GOING ON VACATION. WHEN THEY
CAME BACK, HE DECIDED TO WIN CONGRESS OVER WITH HIS CHARM AND PERSUASIVE POWERS.
IT PRODUCED A SPONTANEOUS BURST OF REJECTION, WHILE ONE REPUBLICAN CALLED HIM OUT LOUD A “LIAR” ON THE
FLOOR OF CONGRESS, SOMETHING THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED TO A PRESIDENT BEFORE, NO MATTER HOW UNPOPULAR.
OBAMA’S ANSWER TO THE NAME CALLING WAS JUST TO KEEP ON LYING. OBAMA HAS INVITED
ALL THIS MISTRUST BY HIS ACTIONS AND INACTIONS SINCE JANUARY. MOST PEOPLE NOW THINK THAT IF HE IS
NOT A LIAR, HE MUST BE INCOMPETENT. EITHER WAY HE HAS FAILED IN HIS TASK AND IS AN UNBELIEVABLE AND
MISTRUSTED PRESIDENT WHOSE POPULARITY HAS SUNK TO THE LEVEL OF GERALD FORD WHEN HE AGREED TO PARDON NIXON IN EXCHANGE FOR
THE PRESIDENCY.
JUST BEFORE
OBAMA’S SPEECH BEFORE CONGRESS HIS CHIEF OF STAFF, DAVID AXELROD, WAS INTERVIEWED BY “WUFF BLISTER”
HE TRIED HIS BEST TO EXPLAIN OBAMA’S NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN, BUT STUTTERED AND STAMMERED THROUGH THE TORTUOUS INTERVIEW,
UNTIL EVERY LISTENER CONCLUDED HIS EXPLANATION OF THE PLAN WAS AS CLEAR AS AXEL GREASE. IF
HIS OWN CHIEF OF STAFF COULD NOT DO BETTER THAN THAT, WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THE PLAN IS VIEWED AS A GRAB BAG, AN UNKNOWN SURPRISE
WITH HUGE UNCERTAINTY WITH THE ULTIMATE COST.
MOST AMERICANS ADMIT SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT HEALTH CARE, AND THE MAIN PROBLEM
WITH THAT IS THE COST. THE FACT THAT 30 - 40 AMERICANS ARE NOT COVERED TODAY IS
THE RESULT NOT THE CAUSE. IF THOSE CONGRESSMEN AND THE PRESIDENT WERE TO ATTACK THE COSTS AND
BRING THEM DOWN WITH THE PROPER LEGISLATION, EVERYONE WOULD BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE COVERAGE FOR A PRIVATE PLAN TO COVER THE
UNINSURED AND THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN. EXPERIENCE HAS TAUGHT US,
COSTS USUALLY INCREASE ONCE THE GOVERNMENT GETS INVOLVED. THE BEST EXAMPLE AGAINST A NATIONAL
PLAN IS THE COST OF THE GOVERNMENT RUN MEDICAID AND MEDICARE SYSTEMS WE HAVE NOW. ITS
COST IS SO PROHIBITIVE THAT, A MAJOR PART OF HIS PLAN IS THE SAVINGS OBAMA CLAIMS HE WILL MAKE IN THE FUTURE IN THESE TWO
NATIONAL SYSTEMS. THAT SAVING WILL PAY FOR THE MILLIONS OF AMERICAN NOW UNINSURED.
THEREFORE, ANY SIMPLE SIMON CAN UNDERSTAND THAT THE ANSWER IS, IF THE GOVERNMENT EXERTS ITS ENERGY TO REDUCE THESE
COSTS, AS A FIRST PRIORITY, THE OVERALL COST OF HEALTH INSURANCE WILL BE REDUCED TO AN AFFORDABLE FIGURE ALL AMERICAN CAN
AFFORD AND THE HEALTH COVERAGE PRESENTLY AVAILABLE WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL AMERICANS.
THE FIRST FIX IS TO FORCE THE DRUG COMPANIES TO CUT THE COST
OF DRUGS IN HALF AS THEY ARE AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, EXCEPT IN THE U. S. A. THIS
QUESTION OF HEALTH CARE HAS SPARKED A STORM OF PROTESTS, INSULTS AND EXTREME EMOTIONS FROM BOTH POSITIONS TAKEN BY AMERICANS.
MOST INSURANCE COMPANIES OPPOSED TO THE PRESIDENT’S PLAN HAVE SPENT ABOUT 300 MILLION DOLLARS TO PUBLICIZE THEIR
POSITIONS THAT ARE ABOUT 100 MILLION DOLLARS A MONTH, AN AMOUNT UNPRECEDENTED TO DATE. THAT
FACT ALONE SHOULD GIVE YOU A CLUE AS TO THE IMPORTANCE OF HEALTH CARE. IF THE INSURANCE
COMPANIES WERE NOT MAKING SUCH A PROFIT ON HEALTH CARE IN ITS PRESENT FORM THEY COULD NOT AFFORD TO SPEND THAT KIND OF MONEY
TO STOP A NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN.
I WAS SHOCKED
WHEN RECENTLY, A BAPTIST PREACHER PUBLICALLY FROM HIS PULPIT PROCLAIMED HE HOPED THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA WOULD SUFFER A BRAIN
TUMOR AS SENATOR KENNEDY HAD SUFFERED WHILE HOPING ALSO THAT HE ALSO WOULD DIE FROM THE AFFLICTION.VICE-PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN COMPLAINED THAT “THIS MAN CANNOT BE A MAN OF GOD IF HE WISHES SOMEONE ILL.”
ALL THE WHILE JOE WAS ANXIOUSLY BIDING HIS TIME AND LICKING HIS LIPS AT THE PROSPECT.
FINALLY, IT IS OBVIOUS TO MOST AMERICANS, THAT CONGRESS IS HOGTIED
IN THIS REGARD BY LOBBYISTS BECAUSE OF THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEIR CAMPAIGN FUNDS EACH YEAR. THEY
HAVE BEEN BOUGHT BY THE CREDIT CARD COMPANIES, THE OIL COMPANIES THE DRUG COMPANIES AND THE HEALTH AND OTHER INSURANCE COMPANIES.
EVERY ONE NOW KNOWS THE LOBBYISTS ARE THE MAIN AND LARGEST CONTRIBUTORS TO CONGRESSMEN OVER THE
YEARS. DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT I AM TELLING YOU, JUST LOOK AT EACH CONGRESSMAN’S
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. IT IS OBVIOUS, THIS COUNTRY IS CONTROLLED AND RUN BY BIG BUSINESS
INTERESTS AND CONGRESS, THEREFORE, IS RUN BY EVERYONE EXCEPT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHOM THEY SHOULD REPRESENT, FIRST AND ALWAYS.
IT DOES NOT MATTER
WHOM WE VOTE INTO OFFICE, BE THEY DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS, BIG BUSINESS AND THEIR LOBBYISTS WILL BUY UP THE MAJORITY AND
ALWAYS FRUSTRATE THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE, UNLESS AND UNTIL THE PEOPLE RISE UP AND TAKE BACK THIS TEETERING COUNTRY BEFORE IT
GOES DOWN FOR THE FINAL COUNT, VERY SOON. THERE IS NO TIME LEFT FOR US TO BE COMPLACENT, IT
IS URGENT THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ACT NOW TO SOLVE ALL THESE PROBLEMS THEMSELVES, BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS WILL
NEVER DO THEIR JOBS. IT IS TIME WE FIRE THEM ALL, WITH A REVOLUTION OF OUR BEST WEAPON, OUR
VOTE.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S HEALTH PLAN
WILL MAKE ALL OF US SICK September 5, 2009
PRESIDENT
OBAMA WAS ELECTED ON A PLATFORM OF “CHANGE” AND “CAN DO.” THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
WERE TIRED OF CONGRESS’S FAILURE TO SOLVE MANY OF THE EVERYDAY PROBLEMS AMERICANS EXPECT CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT
TO SOLVE. THEY WERE TIRED OF THE CONSTANT BICKERING BETWEEN THE TWO MAJOR PARTIES AND, WERE
LOOKING FOR A NEW LEADER THAT WOULD REPRESENT THEM, IN MAKING CONGRESS PERFORM THE JOB THEY WERE ELECTED TO DO.
HOWEVER,
EVEN BEFORE TAKING OFFICE, OBAMA BEGAN NAMING OLD HAT POLITICIANS AS PART OF HIS TEAM AND CABINET.
IN
ADDITION, ONCE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY WITH UNEMPLOYMENT RISING AND THE ECONOMY IN DEEP TROUBLE, HIS FIRST ACTION
WAS TO HELP THE BIG BANKING INSTITUTIONS AND THAT LARGE INSURANCE COMPANY, A I G, SAYING “THEY ARE TOO BIG TO FAIL”
THE RESULT WAS THAT THE BANKS EVEN REFUSED TO ACCOUNT FOR THESE FUNDS WHILE A I G CONTINUED GRANTING HUGE BONUSES AND
LAVISH PARTIES FOR THEIR AGENTS WHILE UNEMPLOYMENT CONTINUED TO CLIMB AND BANKS CONTINUED TO FORECLOSE ON HOME MORTGAGES.
OBAMA COMMENTED THAT THESE MORTGAGES WERE GRANTED TO PEOPLE WHO DID NOT QUALIFY IN THE FIRST PLACE, MAY HAVE SOME TRUTH,
BUT WHERE WAS THE SOLUTION TO HELP THE POOR WORKER WHO LOST HIS JOB BECAUSE HIS COMPANY DECIDED TO GO OVERSEAS IN SEARCH OF
CHEAP LABOR AND AS A RESULT DEFAULTED ON HIS MORTGAGE? HE WAS LEFT HIGH AND DRY WHILE THE CONSTRUCTION
INDUSTRY GROUND TO A HALT BECAUSE OF THE GLUT OF HOMES ON THE REAL ESTATE MARKET, WHICH HAS FALLEN ABOUT FIFTY PERCENT IN
VALUE, WHILE THE HOMEOWNER LOST THE EQUITY IN HIS HOME AND AS A RESULT MORE MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES RESULTED FURTHER DEPRESSING
THE MARKET AND COMPOUNDING THE PROBLEM, WHILE OBAMA REFUSED TO HELP. IN FACT, OBAMA PUBLICALLY
PROCLAIMED HIMSELF IN FAVOR OF FREE TRADE, FURTHER ENCOURAGING THE MANUFACTURING BASE OF OUR COUNTRY TO FLEE OVERSEAS IN SEARCH
OF CHEAP LABOR WHILE UNEMPLOYMENT HAS RISEN TO NEARLY TEN PERCENT NATIONALLY, FAST APPROACHING THE RATE DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION
OF THE 30’S.
EVERYONE, EXCEPT THE PRESIDENT AND THE CONGRESS BELIEVE THE ANSWER TO THE FREE TRADE PROBLEM IS A NEW BALANCED TRADE
POLICY WITH OTHER COUNTRIES, THEY CAN SELL ANYTHING WE NEED BUT MUST TAKE BACK, DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR.
AN EQUAL AMOUNT OF GOODS FROM AMERICA THIS INSURES THE SURVIVAL OF
OUR INDUSTRIES, HERE.
EVERYONE, EXCEPT PRESIDENT BUSH AND VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY, ARE IN AGREEMENT THAT THE WAR IN IRAQ WAS A MISTAKE AND
OBAMA PROMISED TO BEGIN WITHDRAWING TROOPS AND GET US OUT BY THE END OF 2010. HE DID NOT TELL
US THAT THOSE TROOPS, WHO HAVE ALREADY ENDURED THREE AND FOUR TOURS OF DUTY IN THAT AREA, WOULD BE SENT TO AFGHANISTAN INTO
ANOTHER UNWINNABLE WAR THERE COSTING 40 - 50 AMERICAN LIVES EACH MONTH, WHILE THE UNNECESSARY MONETARY COST IS TWO BILLION
DOLLARS A MONTH. THIS MONEY IS NEEDED HERE, TO HELP THE ECONOMY AND CREATE NEW JOBS FOR AMERICANS.
THEN
IN AN ACT, SUPPOSEDLY TO STIMULATE THE SAGGING ECONOMY, OBAMA LET CONGRESS COME UP WITH A SPENDING BILL DRIPPING WITH PORK
PROJECTS THAT, TO DATE, HAVE DONE LITTLE OR NOTHING TO SOLVE THE UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM. THE ONE PLAN HE
SHOULD HAVE PURSUED, THAT OF DEVELOPING ALL SOURCES OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY TO PROVIDE PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT FOR THE JOBLESS
WAS GIVEN A MERE PITTANCE OF THE MONEY IN A PLAN TO FREE US OF OIL DEPENDENCE IN ABOUT TEN YEARS, HE SAID.
THE PLAN INSTEAD SHOULD HAVE BEEN A CRASH PROGRAM TO RID US OF IMPORTED OIL AND THE TRADE IMBALANCE, WITHIN FIVE YEARS
AT MOST. IT IS OBVIOUS THAT HE AND CONGRESS ARE BEHOLDEN TO THE OIL COMPANIES FOR CAMPAIGN
CONTRIBUTIONS, AND WILL RESIST ALL EFFORTS TO CURTAIL THEIR OIL PRODUCTION AND EXORBITANT PRICES AND PROFITS AS THEY HAVE
DONE FOR YEARS, AT THE CONSUMER’S EXPENSE.
ONE OF THE LAST STRAWS THAT BROKE THE CONFIDENCE OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WAS CONGRESS’S CHARADE IN PROTECTING
THE CONSUMER FROM THE GREED OF CREDIT CARD COMPANIES. INSTEAD, THEY SURRENDERED TO THEM BY
LIMITING THE CONTROLS TO NINETY DAY NOTICE BEFORE THEY COULD RAISE INTEREST RATES OR PENALTIES AS THEY DID RECENTLY.
MOST CREDIT CARD COMPANIES HAVE RAISED THEIR INTEREST RATES TO 29.9 PERCENT SINCE THEN.
IT
WAS IN THIS ATMOSPHERE OF DISTRUST AND DISGUSTS THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS ATTEMPTED TO HAVE CONGRESS PASS A NATIONAL HEALTH
CARE BILL. HIS AND CONGRESSMEN’S ATTEMPT TO SELL IT AT SO CALLED TOWN MEETINGS
HAVE BEEN MET WITH A FIRESTORM OF PROTESTS AND OPPOSITION. SOME ADMITTEDLY COMES FROM THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY WHO TRADITIONAL IS PRO BUSINESS AND SEEK TO PROTECT THE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES, REGARDLESS OF THE APPARENT NEED
TO CONTROL THE RUNAWAY COST OF HEALTH CARE THESE LAST TEN YEARS. AMERICANS, THESE DAYS, ARE
NATURALLY WARY, CONFUSED AND SKEPTICAL OF ANYTHING THEIR GOVERNMENT CONTROLS. THE COST OF MEDICARE
AND MEDICAID HAS BALLOONED TO THE POINT SOMETHING MUST BE DONE OR IT WILL FINALLY BANKRUPT OUR NATION.
SO, AS A RESULT THE AVERAGE AMERICANS ARE AGAINST THIS PLAN MAINLY BECAUSE THE COST
OF MEDICAL SERVICE HAS NOT BEEN REINED IN AND CONTROLLED. CONGRESS HAS THE POWER TO DO THIS BUT,
OF COURSE, ITS MEMBERS ARE RELUCTANT TO DO THIS, AGAIN, BECAUSE THEY ARE CONTROLLED BY THE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY AND THEIR
LOBBYISTS BY THEIR GENEROUS CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE COME TO THE POINT THAT
MATTERS ARE SO SERIOUS AND THREATENING WITH THE ECONOMY THAT THEY MISTRUST CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT TO
SOLVE THE PROBLEM WITH HEALTH INSURANCE, UNLESS AND UNTIL THE COST IS BROUGHT DOWN TO FIGURES THAT THE ORDINARY AMERICAN CAN
AFFORD, IF THIS IS DONE BY CONGRESS, WITH CONTROLS AND MANDATES, THERE IS NO NEED FOR A PUBLIC PLAN AND
THE CONTROL IS PASSED TO THE AMERICAN CONSUMER TO SELECT THEIR INSURANCE COVERAGE UNDER OUR TIME HONORED SYSTEM OF FREE COMPETITION
IN THE MARKET PLACE.
THE LAST EFFORT BY PRESIDENT BUSH TO CONTROL
PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES ENDED UP WITH THE DRUG INDUSTRY WRITING THE BILL THAT CONGRESS PASSED, WHICH MAY HAVE PROVIDED RELIEF
TO THE ELDERLY BUT ABANDONED THE AVERAGE AMERICAN BY OUTLAWING THE PURCHASE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY WHERE
DRUGS ARE SOLD AT HALF THE PRICE. THE RESULT IS THE DRUG COMPANIES NOW HAVE A MONOPOLY WITH
NO COMPETITION FOR THEIR PRODUCT AND, CONGRESS HAS PASSED THE LAW TO ALLOW THIS TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, IN THE MAJORITY, NOW ARE SO DISENCHANTED WITH THEIR GOVERNMENT AND FEARFUL
OF THEIR FUTURE, THAT I PREDICT BOTH THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES WILL BE SURPRISED IN THE NEAR FUTURE TO SEE THE
INDEPENDENT VOTER, WHO NOW IS IN THE MAJORITY AND GAINING NUMBERS BY THE DAY TO FORM THEIR OWN INDEPENDENT POLITICAL
PARTY AS A NECESSITY. THIS ACTION WILL OBVIOUSLY PRODUCE THE NEW NEEDED LEADERSHIP IN THIS COUNTRY TO SAVE
US FROM THE RUIN WROUGHT BY THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES FOR THE LAST DOZEN YEARS.
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