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I would feel more comfortable if there was more financial news on the front page, and we would let up on letting Fox/Limbaugh/Sean Hannity or Moron Palin bait us. Those people are Trolls on a National level, making it impossible to see the life and history changing possibilities we have in front of us.
Every progressive economic agenda can be institutionalized in the next two years, if the right people focus, and ignore the trivial and tabloid news that our society has invested in.
Demand healthcare before bailing out the banks. Demand investments in new energy, and don't let old oil/coal slow things down so they can position themselves to benefit.
Fuck the Wall Street firms that have been living high on the hog as aristocrats while doing nothing of value. Fight for your children, and their access to education of the highest value.
Our lazy, and frankly comfortably dumb, journalists have really put all of their chips into the "there is not enough money" argument. They of course neglected this line of reasoning when they considered a War in Iraq, or in the different subsidy's and bailouts of Airlines, Automobiles, or Telecom throughout our History.
Remember please that most national popular journalists never saw the subprime crises coming. These journalists never considered finance as a concern of national dialogue although the subprime crises was in full view for almost a year (or more) before everything came to a screeching halt during the election.
We deserve healthcare. Health care is not a luxury, and is a staple of a civilized society. It is one of the pillars of civilization and a productive populace. Healthcare fulfills both ideals of capitalism which demands a healthy population, and socialism, which demands that a productive society take care of the people that make it productive.
Since it fits both concerns -- Healthcare is not a capitalism vs. socialism argument. It is The Right Thing to do, and otherwise, we would allow ourselves to be beholden to an Insurance Culture that does not work at all. The Lie is that Insurance is needed and worthwhile. We know better.
For the capitalists or free market people -- Sick people do not work. People that are worried about getting sick do not work as well.
People that have no assurance that retirement is possible do not work either. People that do not know if their wages will provide for their children will not work either.
We semed to have lost this insight in our media. Labor demands for retirement, healthcare, or ability to provide for family is a necessary element of being a productive person. Capitalism's ability to simply push and pull labor when it needs to is over. They will have to provide for us, if they expect work.
Do not for a second believe that if we have money to bailout our banks -- institutions of national privileged birthright, where junior analysts make $120,000 a year in good and "bad" years and that their bosses make even more, that we do not have money for our needs.
They will use the old paradigm to prove that we do not have money for infrastructure or green energy, but ignore them. Ignore them because they do not understand that his is not the Cold War.
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The "Rich" are merely people that understand that their "worth" is protected by the
State, and given to them by commercial behaviors of previous centuries (investment banks and fossil fuels). They do not deserve to leave the rest of us in servitude and uncertainty. Reclaim healthcare. Reject easy credit and embrace wages. This is our fight, and we have to fight it as hard as Republicans do when immigration or civil rights issues come up for them. Do not let this moment pass.
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