The Crazy Health Care Debate

Aargh…I’m so sorry that we are not able, as forward-thinking individuals, to create a single-payer Health Care System. We should not even be talking about insurance, public option, etc.
Let each and every citizen be able to walk into a medical establishment and get help for any condition. And when I say citizen, I mean, really, EVERY PERSON. Why should the “undocumented” be denied health care, especially when the paranoia about H2N1 has become so rampant? Do you really want the food service workers who handle your restaurant food to be flu carriers?

We are so short-sighted, fighting wars that are never necessary, while allowing our citizens to go hungry, homeless, and health-care deprived.

The War on Health Care...through...Bribery?

HMO's & MEDICAL INDUSTRY CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
(CAMPAIGN CMTE. AND LEADERSHIP PAC'S)


SENATE:

Baucus_______D-MT____$7,734,102
Feinstein__ D-CA____$5,032,779
McCain_______R-AZ____$42,047,998
Snowe_____ _R-ME____$2,440,607
McConnell____R-KY____$7,845,572
Corker_____ R-TN____$3,838,289
Boehner______R-OH____$4,498,881
Cantor_____ R-VA____$4,955,808
Graham_______R-SC____$2,965,514
Coburn_____ R-OK____$2,127,748
Hatch________R-UT____$4,146,150
Bayh_______ D-IN____$5,232,738
Kyl__________R-AZ____$5,653,387
Voinovich__ R-OH____$3,851,961
Lieberman____R-CT____$12,686,804
Bond_______ R-MO____$4,305,034
Grassley_____R-IA____$5,457,287
Burr_______ R-NC____$4,892,513
Conrad_______D-ND____$5,187,891
Isakson____ R-GA____$5,724,045
Nelson_______D-FL____$8,814,895
Carper_____ D-DE____$3,692,380
Reid_________D-NV____$9,684,761
DeMint_____ R-SC____$4,255,881
Durbin_______D-IL____$4,496,851
Wyden______ D-OR____$3,764,311
Collins______R-ME____$4,381,596
Vitter_____ R-LA____$3,928,295
Ensign_______R-NV____$5,226,139
Cochran____ R-MS____$1,672,162
Nelson_______D-NE____$4,983,765
Bennett____ R-UT____$3,288,146
Landrieu_____D-LA____$7,064,242
Barrasso___ R-WY____$1,111,961
Chambliss____R-GA____$6,433,300
Lugar______ R-IN____$3,606,762
Lincoln______D-AR____$4,190,592
Roberts____ R-KS____$3.194,379
Cornyn_______R-TX____$6,703,096
Bunning____ R-KY____$4,638,599
Enzi_________R-WY____$1,979,418
Gregg______ R-NH____$2,833,808
Alexander____R-TN____$8,883,735
Murkowski__ R-AK____$1,590,867
Specter______D-PA____$16,800,629
Sessions___ R-AL____$4,447,950
Crapo________R-ID____$2,121.610
Shelby_____ R-AL____$8,463,047
Durbin_______D-IL____$8,496,851
Martinez___ R-FL____$2,751,590
Inhofe_______R-OK____$2,814,316
Hagan______ D-NC____$1,141,908
Pryor________D-AR____$3,470,090
Thune______ R-SD____$5,675,418


REPRESENTATIVES:

Pomeroy______D-ND____$4,930,482
Tanner_____D-TN____$2,408,392
Gordon_______D-TN____$2,904,712
Hill_______D-IN____$1,459,618
Ross_________D-AR____$2,448,260
Boucher____D-VA____$2,653,094
Kind_________D-WI____$1,776,388
Stupak_____D-MI____$1,482,515
Altmire______D-PA____$1,193,879
Matheson___D-UT____$2,425,435
Inslee_______D-WA____$1,323,532
Barrow_____D-GA____$2,303,175
Melancon_____D-LA____$1,250,634
Pence______R-IN____$1,698,844
Braley_______D-IA____$1,461,368
Wilson_____R-SC____$1,223,467
Space________D-OH____$__789,900
Titus______D-NV____$__424,100

The L Curve

http://www.lcurve.org/images/LCurveFlier2003.pdf

The Dominionists/The Family?

You're right, it is about Power and Control
Wed, 11/11/2009 - 11:43 — moonsha

Meet the Dominionists -- biblical literalists who believe God has called them to take over the U.S. government. As the far-right wing of the evangelical movement, Dominionists are pressing an agenda that makes Newt Gingrich's Contract With America look like the Communist Manifesto. They want to rewrite schoolbooks to reflect a Christian version of American history, pack the nation's courts with judges who follow Old Testament law, post the Ten Commandments in every courthouse and make it a felony for gay men to have sex and women to have abortions. Their ultimate goal is to plant the seeds of a "faith-based" government that will endure far longer than Bush's presidency -- all the way until Jesus comes back.

Now, we see the Dominionists have been successful in recruiting Democrats into "The Family." The leader of this group has been quoted as saying their aim is "Jesus plus nothing". Men who understand how power should be wielded and people need to be directed to the cause.

Rep. Bart Stupak D-MI
Rep. Ike Skelton D-MO
Rep. Mike McIntyre D-NC
Rep. John Tanner D-TN
Rep. Lincoln Davis D-TN
Rep. Dan Boren D-OK
Rep. Heath Shuler D-NC
*All of these members need to be voted out of office. They are far more dangerous to our government and the Democratic Party than the Blue Dogs. Don't think they don't share Democratic closed meetings information with their Republican C-Street pals.

Rachel Maddow explained what she thought "The Family" meant: promoting American power worldwide, unfettered capitalism, no unions, no programs to help poor people - All with this idea that godly powerful rich men should get as many riches and resources personally and they should just privately help everyone else.

NY Times Makes a Case for Wage Slavery?

November 11, 2009
Breakingviews.com
American Wages Out of Balance
By EDWARD HADAS, MARTIN HUTCHINSON and ANTONY CURRIE

American workers are overpaid, relative to equally productive employees elsewhere doing the same work. If the global economy is to get into balance, that gap must close.

Of course, workers in the United States should earn more than their peers in China, Moldova or Vietnam. Americans take advantage of the higher productivity that makes their country rich: better education and infrastructure, abundant capital and a strong work ethic. But how much higher should American wages be?

The answer depends in large part on two measures: the difference in productivity in making goods that can be traded across borders, and the quantity of such goods. Both measures point to a narrowing wage gap.

Many factors are raising productivity in poor countries. Fast development, cheap capital and more efficient shipping all help. Cheap communication via the Internet reduces costs and makes it easy to trade many more goods and especially services.

The global wage gap has been narrowing, but recent labor market statistics in the United States suggest the adjustment has not gone far enough.

One indicator is unemployment, which has risen unexpectedly rapidly. The 7.3 million jobs lost are more than triple the 2 million during the 1980-82 recession. Some of that huge increase reflects the sharp decline in gross domestic product, but there could be another factor: the recession shows that many workers are paid more than they’re worth. Another possible sign is the huge surge in reported productivity, which has begun while output is declining. That suggests that some production is being outsourced, often to lower-paid foreign workers.

The big trade deficit is another sign of excessive pay for Americans. One explanation for the attractive prices of imported goods is that American workers are paid too much relative to their foreign peers.

Global wage convergence is great for the poor but tough on the overpaid. It’s possible to run the numbers to show that American manufacturing workers should take average real wage cuts of as much as 20 percent to get into global balance.

The required cut may be smaller. But if American wages get stuck above global market-clearing levels, as in the 1930s, the result could well be something approaching Depression-era levels of unemployment.