******************************* RECONCILIATION - THE WAY FORWARD********************************
A team of lawyers should be buzzing around the WH looking into CREATIVE ways of using RECONCILIATION and the Senate's 51 majority. He should be sitting down with Reid and Pelosi RIGHT NOW to discuss the way forward and coming up with a plan get HCR done in 30 days.
YES, 30 DAYS. ENOUGH TIME HAS BEEN WASTED.
Screw the Repugnants, screw AMA, screw AHIP, screw Pharma, screw the Insurance companies, screw the Financial Institutions. Just do what the People want you to do - The Peoples' business.
******************************** FORGET THE 60-VOTE NONSENSE ********************************
Stop susidizing benefits to all federal employees till ALL Americans have health insurance.
Pass a Public Option or Medicare Buy-in available to ANY AMERICAN who wants it. Eliminate the Anti-trust exemption for Insurance companies. Remove the ban on drug re-importation. Impose a 95% tax rate for any total compensation that exceeds 25 times the poverty level. Remove the income cap on Social Security tax.
Impose stiff penalties for any job exported with an exemption if two local jobs are created for each one exported.
REGULATE the banks STIFFLY; they can be banks or investment houses, NOT BOTH.
................We would rather have 100% of what we want with 51 votes than 51% with 100 votes................
********************************** It's time to STEP UP and DELIVER *************************************
****************************** The BIG BANKS win again ******************************
The American Governments response to the Banks' Ponzi scheme was to give them all guarantees that they could go to the Federal Reserve and get as much money as they needed at zero percent interest until they were healthy again. This kind of deal allows the banks to carry on with the confidence that whatever they do the American people will back them up. This new form of Welfare Capitalism is irresistible to a risk taker because it takes the risk off of him and puts it on the taxpayer. This risk free Capitalism is a no brainer for a gambler. The game is rigged so you cannot lose. There is no downside. The party is on!
***************** My fellow Americans we have been had by the Democrats and Republicans ****************
We don't have real news in this country. We have an onslaught of corporate propaganda which serves the oligarcy and the corporate agenda. It is designed to divide and anger us. The more divided we are as a nation the more they can steal. The giant media megaphone consistently handed to the t-baggers is a case in point. You NEVER see them go after corporate corruption.
Does anyone really think the corporate media will relentlessly expose the corrupt system(s) they profit from?
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"In America, it's far more shameful to owe money than it is to steal it," Taibbi, who famously called Goldman Sachs a "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity,"
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********************** The BANKS are ruthless and showing it *******************
*********************** Consequences can be Unpleasant ... *****************
We have billionaires and multi-millionaires and corporate leaders, and politicians who get lobbyists to write their bills, so that Medicare cannot negotiate drug prices, so that the food industry does not have to reveal whether its products contain genetically engineered substances, pesticides, or synthetic hormones, and developers can take away your houses, or corporations can export your jobs. (add swipe fees or whatever else to serve elite)
These same politicians say they have to cut funding to Medicaid, student loans, Medicare, senior housing, Social Security, community policing and child care among other programs in order to pass permanent tax cuts for the wealthiest among us. Aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina is not fully funded, but the wealthiest corporation in the world (Exxon) gets billions in government subsidies. This isn't just a partisan pattern. This is a course of self-destruction: .
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From page 4 of S&P's assessment:
“We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.”