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Health Care

ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE

Corporate America wins another battle!  HR3200l effectively hands over every one of us to the Health Insurance companies on a silver platter, creating a monopoly in an industry which we cannot live without, unlike telephone service or car insurance. The sheer lie of the title, “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009” is as Orwellian […]

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Health Care

$35 MILLION A YEAR

Tsk. Tsk.  In the United States, we just keep right on throwing good money after bad, putting ourselves further and further into debt.  At this point in time, we owe the rest of the world more than $11.5 trillion.  That works out to $37,635.57 for every man, woman and child. The United States military budget […]

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The USA

FAT CAT JUNKETS

I’m just getting around to reading the The Second McCain-Obama Presidential Debate transcripts from October 7, 2008 and Barack Obama’s words caught my eye: And, in fact, we just found out that AIG, a company that got a bailout, just a week after they got help went on a $400,000 junket. So I went and […]

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The USA

POETIC JUSTICE

I found a little poetic justice in the following article, “In Face of Hurricane, a Rush to Secure Oil Operations, ” in which: “The many refineries along the coast of Texas were also bracing for a harsh lashing by strong winds, rain and flooding.” So, we’ve spent billions of dollars wrecking havoc on Iraq in […]

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Corporations Nicaragua Observations

AUTOPSY OF A SICK SOCIETY

The other day I saw something that really turned my stomach. No, it wasn’t the dead gecko in my notebook or the rotten pineapple behind the kitchen, or even the sight of Walker hacking up a wad on the porch – it was a Newsweek. I have not read a news story since last year […]