Welfare, Slow versus Fast, corporate health versus human health

[Trillo]

Just a short thought relating to the president's speech last night. To me, one of the most instructing aspects was not what President Obama said (I wanted him to come out gunz blasing for Single-Payer Medicare), but the reactions of an entire group of Congress, possibly mostly Republican (though C-Span, one of the few channels I get over digital satellite, didn't show much of the dissent).

Isn't it amazing that when the banks needed help, there was no time for discussion, the problem was a dire and pressing need, something which needed attention "immediately": "Let's make a deal, NOW". Of course, Obama wasn't yet president, but I don't think that matters a great deal for my point.

Yet, we have people dying for lack of healthcare, we have bankruptcies from medical care expenses occurring left and right, and we have a populace a large majority of which wants insurance companies completely out of the picture of their healthcare; so Congress' solution is to go slow, "we don't want to mess this up", "we want it done right" blah blah blah, and the discussions and the fighting about it go on and on and on, while what the people want gets scaled back with each passing new idea media deems worthy to report, such as "death panels" Fear Fear Fear, probably for the sole purpose of scaring another small portion of the populace away from wanting change from the status quo so profits can ultimately still accrue to the few.

My, if only our congress critters had practiced such careful deliberation with the bank bailouts, and if only the media had cooperated by running short docu-skits (grab a couple off YouTube) about how the Federal Reserve and members really work to launder, and create, money out of thin air.

In spite of last night's speech, It's Absolutely Clear what's really important to the corporate government. Humans, just crawl away and die once corporate has wrung every last penny you had out of your fading, but not yet cold and dead, hands.

Money is all that matters, everything else is lipservice, sometimes brilliant and inspiring, but still lipservice, to pacify and delay until the next financial scam can be adequately worked out to fool most of the people.

[Zoeisright]

1. It is so frustrating.

Perhaps if people started dying on the steps of the Capital building our representatives would start to wake up. Because people are dying behind closed doors, it doesn't seem to make much of an impression.

[inna]

2. it's enormously frustrating and it surely shows what the priorities are -

- Wall Street, financial industry, and endless wars. deficit spending is fine, as long as any of these issues are concerned.


not to mention the fact that Bush's obscene tax cuts for the rich have not been rolled back yet, and maybe won't be.


:argh: