The raging debate over the Obama health care law that is now going before the Supreme Court is both ludicrous and a tragedy. A tragedy because it is ordinary people – the citizens of America – who will be the losers, one way or another. Yes, we need new and revamped health care legislation, and [...]
So now people are finally bringing the revolution to the streets. At New York’s Stock Exchange, we suddenly see hundreds of people, young and old, protesting greed, protesting banks and bankers, protesting the stock market, protesting something almost indefinable now in the air in America. It is despair, it is disgust, with our own government. [...]
A week ago, Dennis Kucinich gave a speech in Seattle. It is about a new America, and the Dream of America. It is about the kind of America we all yearn for, and envision for our children. Draw your own conclusions. Here is the speech: Hello Seattle. On this day, in this place of great [...]
Tax day has come and gone, and we had the Tea-Partiers making a lot of noise about taxes and big government. They proclaim a slide into socialism and the big hand of government and European socialism taking over all our lives. So you have paid your taxes. What are you getting? This is really the [...]
Something new is emerging in America. The bitter and fanatical cry of outrage from Republicans, conservatives and Tea-Partiers at the final passage of a first-ever national health care bill is the sign that something unusual is now coming to the fore in America. The rage, of course, is directed against Democrats, but its real target [...]
The efforts at health care reform now working its way through the hallowed halls of our government is something that should deeply anger all Americans, left and right, Democrat or Republican or Independent. Nothing that comes from these current efforts will ever solve the agony and suffering of tens of millions of Americans who are [...]
Here in the United States, in regards to Health Care, we seem to have blinders on. There is a mindset here in too many of our people that refuses to believe we can be anything but number one, no matter what the facts and statistics show. Our healthcare, if you can pay, is good; but [...]
Right now, there is a great deal of confusion blowing rampant through the halls of the media about health care reform. One of the remarkable things that emerges from all of these so-called national discussions is a mind-set in many Americans that absolutely refuses to look at the facts about our own health care system [...]