Progrimm

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Sat Sep-04-10 04:43 AM
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I'm Dying

Edited on Sat Sep-04-10 05:29 AM by Progrimm

From the coal miners killed by deregulation to the Americans who died from salmonella out breaks by wreck-less corporations, to middle Americas falling salaries.

You, me, our entire middle class is dying, being destroyed, being murdered both financially and physically by the corporate profit first policies that the Republican party champions.

How to fight back against the GOP (Note: I made this ad :P )

watch?v=gclEjjCDTZA

If you would float this video on the front page for a while that'd be awesome :) , already posted it last week and everyone loved it, but like all videos it quickly sunk out of view

But in this on going unfolding tragedy of growing corporate power in which we are living nothing is arguably more tragic than the way private health insurance companies murdered and bankrupted millions of Americans.

17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan, died after CIGNA denied her a liver transplant calling it "too experimental"

Health America denies five-year-old boy with cancer Kyle Van Nocker a life saving treatment deeming it experimental.

Six-Year-Old Girl ‘On Verge Of Never Hearing Again’ Due To Insurance Company Denial
">Patient Denied Care For Her Brain Tumor Says Insurers Want You To ‘Die Now, So We Can Save Money Later’
Insurers’ pre-existing conditions include being a cop, expectant father, or having acne.
Woman Who Was Denied Insurance Due To Pre-Existing Condition Looking To Get Married For Health Care

It's perhaps the most clear cut moral issues of our time corporations murdering and defrauding Americans on a massive scale because for several years the Republican party not only blocked all attempts to add additional regulation upon these companies, they went the extra mile for industry after industry and appointed industry insiders to regulatory positions not to regulate their industries, but to help them get around rules.

Or to put it another way the Republican party is directly complicit in the defrauding of millions of Americans and the murder of more Americans than the 3000+ that died on 9/11
And yet where were the democratic leaders and strategists that stated the facts as clearly as I just did?

With the exception of Alan Grayson and a few others nowhere

To Quote Robert Reich:

The Democrats are reactive at best – notwithstanding the worst string of corporate outrages since the robber barons rampaged in the late nineteenth century. Consider what the public has witnessed over the last year -- the greed and wild recklessness of BP, Goldman-Sachs, Big Pharma, health insurers, and large profitable businesses that continue to lay off millions. Where are the political thought strategists that connect these dots and illuminate these stories and thereby shape a Democratic agenda for the future? Nowhere.

From the economic crapper were in caused by Republican deregulation to the tea bagger enthusiasm on the right there are a number of factors we can't do much about in the next short months.

But the one thing we can do, the one area where we can turn things around is OUR messaging which right now sucks ass.

But our leaders are not going to do it, Obama isn't willing to do it like FDR did. If he was right now

+Inequality and the growing gap between the rich and the poor would be a massive if not the biggest campaign issue of today.
+In the health care debate we would have created powerful narratives with all the families of the fallen Americans who died at the hands of our murder for profit health insurance Cartels.
+Everyone in our country would know that wreck-less deregulation of the past three decades caused all the economic pain they are feeling right now.
Everyone would know Millions of our jobs have gone overseas with trade policies crafted by politicians not for the betterment of our country, but so multinational corporations can up their profits with third world dirt cheap slave labor.

And then some..

So we have to change it ourselves to give us a fighting chance and I have a plan to do just that by running ads like this we need to start hammering the GOP on the disasters that their policies cause.

Change it by running ads like this one I made myself

Ad moved to the very top! :P

Or this one I wrote on our collapsing wages.
(Each number (C1, C2, etc) represents a different person in the ad)
In the ad their are young adults standing in front of a white background, (I'm sure you've seen an ad or two that does this)

C1-I'm studying to be a pilot
C2-A biologist
C3-A illustrator
C1-To be in the middle class
C3-but my pay
C2-will never be as much as the previous generation
C1-in my field
C2-because over the last thirty years

C1-The Republican Party deregulated
C2-Wall Street
C3-the oil industry
C1-Removed trade barriers with china
C2-rewrote the tax code
C3-redesigned our whole economy

C1-And as a result the middle class makes much less than they did thirty years ago after inflation
C2-While the salaries of the top one percent have rocketed (show graph)
C3-Republican trickle down economics
C1-the rich won and everyone else lost

I believe this Idea has the power to impact the elections, but outside of posting a link to my video everywhere I can, I've exhausted my resources to move this idea much farther without some help. The ads like the one above and many more can be made fast with the resources to do so, a connection with an organization that can do so, I've been trying, sending this to everyone who's anyone and with the exception of Paul Rosenberg at Openleft.comAt link you can read the extended version of this diary btw :) ) who put this on the front page of their site I haven't so much as gotten a response from anyone.

So if you want to help you could email this around, facebook,tweet,digg it, etc. Thanks

And here's an example of a health-care ad idea

Death Dealers
_
I refer to them as death dealers
(((S-Camera looking at a gravestone, card of death falls in front of grave))

You pay for your health care for years and they cover the cheap stuff without much hassle prescriptions, check ups, but then disaster hits. Your child gets leukemia, your wife gets breast cancer.
They deny your care, cancel your policy, it's called rescission and it has
Resulted in far more deaths than nine eleven, left millions of families ruined, bankrupt.

Because the Republican party doesn't believe in the regulations that would have stopped insurance companies from rescinding care.

Doesn't believe in the rules that stopped Wall Street greed
-that kept oil companies in check
So they removed them and
-Our economy collapsed
-Unmeasurable environmental damaged ensued and
((( S- Camera pans up - Reveals narrator as family member of person whose grave he is standing in front of (lays flowers?") )))
My Son died when his operation was denied by our health insurer
disaster, death it's what happened when they put the wealth of a few before the safety of the rest
It's what happens when you vote Republican

I'm Dying

How to fight back against the GOP (Note: I made this ad :P )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gclEjjCDTZA

But in this on going unfolding tragedy of growing corporate power in which we are living nothing is arguably more tragic than the way private health insurance companies murdered and bankrupted millions of Americans.

Richest lawmakers grew wealthier as economy faltered