tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post3735210369227654688..comments2024-03-13T07:52:13.478-04:00Comments on THE SWASH ZONE: I HAVE SEEN THE ENEMY: AMERICA’S MEGA-CORPORATIONS AND THEIR MEDIA SHILLS(O)CT(O)PUShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07589336822561030860noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-514895763006637052009-08-08T13:16:20.393-04:002009-08-08T13:16:20.393-04:00Can CNN sink any lower these days?
Water-bound mi...Can CNN sink any lower these days?<br /><br />Water-bound minds think alike, Octo. Just this morning I was thinking to myself about the mob rule erupting over health insurance and was thinking, in turn, that what the Obama administration needs to do is to document LOUDLY and CLEARLY how much the lack of a national health care system costs this country.<br /><br />1) Health industry executive salaries - i.e. salaries that requires higher costs in order to be paid<br /><br />2) the fact that one of the leading causes of personal bankruptcy is due to medical bills<br /><br />3) hospitals footing the bill for the uninsured (passed off on medicaid)<br /><br />etc<br /><br />etc<br /><br />etcSQUIDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07584107574489225282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-50191819883661660232009-08-06T10:13:44.695-04:002009-08-06T10:13:44.695-04:00It's sad that it's so easy for them to bru...It's sad that it's so easy for them to brush off anything Chomsky says with the magic word "socialism."<br /><br />I've frequently said that the natural state of human affairs is feudalism and it's the most stable form of government. It has the ability to absorb even temporarily victorious challenges and rebuild itself in a more powerful form.<br /><br />We're back to it even now, we just don't have Barons and Earls who come and go according to their mortality: we have corporations and corporations are potentially immortal.<br /><br />Rise up and lose our chains? Forget it - our ability to believe without much thought makes it easy for them to make us want the chains, to install them on ourselves. It's all about freedom and God's will, after all.Capt. Fogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03093968390001879062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-74789705396162422382009-08-06T09:55:08.846-04:002009-08-06T09:55:08.846-04:00Here is the irony of all the theatrical hysterics ...Here is the irony of all the theatrical hysterics over page 425 - doctors and other healthcare professionals have been following this mandate for years; it is NOT a new concept.<br />I have been a nurse for years and so have participated in these conversations many times, with the elderly, the terminally ill and sometimes young, healthy people.<br />What has driven this dialogue is the vast strides technology has made in being able to keep our bodies alive longer but not always better.<br />I have had this conversation with my own doctor and I'm only in my 50s. But there are things I do not want done to prolong my body's life if I'm not able to participate in my life.<br />I think I'll go send an email chastising CNN and MSNBC for not helping to get the truth out there.rockynchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00772988855661101621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-73995892140016431202009-08-06T09:06:46.608-04:002009-08-06T09:06:46.608-04:00No doubt here, either.
Corportism in Germany in t...No doubt here, either.<br /><br />Corportism in Germany in the '30s helped Hitler gain power. Corporations at that time were extremely fearful of the growth of Communism and supported Hitler as an alternative to the Communist movement. <br /><br />Thus, in Germany, Fascism was supported by corporate interests. There is an analogy to the fascist tactics that are opposing our current plans to improve our health care system.<br /><br />The corporatists (the insurance companies) will stop this overhaul because they want to maintain what is producing handsome profits for them.Shaw Kenawehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396840695026739991.post-92050515106924267972009-08-06T07:06:19.335-04:002009-08-06T07:06:19.335-04:00No doubt here...
Its funny if you study our polit...No doubt here...<br /><br />Its funny if you study our political system and you review elected officials and policies enacted from the times of FDR to today you notice that we just cannot seem to formulate and or pass bills that benefit the nation as a whole. Look at the policies enacted under FDR or the Great Society legislation....<br />Couldn't achieve anything like that today....unless of course it benefits some vested money interest.<br /><br />Need a bailout we can get right on that...healthcare reform, well, not a chance.<br /><br />New consumer bankruptcy laws are easy, NAFTA no problem....but gay marriage, don't ask don't tell....<br /><br />Heck, look at the battle over healthcare for children...<br /><br />Hmmm....thats all strange....TAOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452702225885449029noreply@blogger.com