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Massachusetts mess
Jan. 19th, 2010 09:14 pmSo the Dems fielded a mediocre candidate in a stupid flamefest and lost Kennedy's seat to a moronic right winger who's just as mediocre as the losing Democratic candidate. Before we can have health care reform, it seems we need political party reform and election procedure reforms in the US. Neither party produces good candidates. Both keep polarizing and running to extreme exclusionistic policies and views instead of trying to generate concensus and compromise.
The health care bills are a good example. The end result stinks. It is not any kind of "reform" and will not provide any improvements in our busted system. Nor will it really save money. It is written mostly to avoid stepping on the toes of wealthy insurance, drug, and medicare providers. Rather than reforming the worst flaws in the system, it perpetuates them in order to keep from cutting the profit margins of corporations. Your health care, or mine, or that of anyone else is not in any way a concern of those crooks in congress, on either side of the aisle. They are only worried about doing whatever they have to in order to keep their seat in congress. If that means selling us all to be ground into fertilizer, believe me, they'll vote for it.
We need real health care reform desperately. This administration and this congress are not going to give it to us any more than Clinton's weak and wishy-washy government did. But let the Republicans take control again and no one gets anything... except for the big corporations who bankroll their campaigns.
It's time to throw them all out. Both parties are bankrupt, mentally and morally. Whoever thought that a system with only two crooked parties was good had his head right up his own ass. Folks, it's not written into the Constitution that there have to be only two parties. Vote for someone else. Anyone else to shake up this deadlock and get those brainless clowns out of the government.
This applies to the office of president as well. Obama is useless. He promised the moon and is delivering nothing. He's not even trying to make congress work, he just hides out and hems and haws. Not that McCain would have been any better, though. He was a total sellout to the Republican right and big corporate profits. Unless Americans start to get wise to this cronyism and corruption, we are doomed.
The health care bills are a good example. The end result stinks. It is not any kind of "reform" and will not provide any improvements in our busted system. Nor will it really save money. It is written mostly to avoid stepping on the toes of wealthy insurance, drug, and medicare providers. Rather than reforming the worst flaws in the system, it perpetuates them in order to keep from cutting the profit margins of corporations. Your health care, or mine, or that of anyone else is not in any way a concern of those crooks in congress, on either side of the aisle. They are only worried about doing whatever they have to in order to keep their seat in congress. If that means selling us all to be ground into fertilizer, believe me, they'll vote for it.
We need real health care reform desperately. This administration and this congress are not going to give it to us any more than Clinton's weak and wishy-washy government did. But let the Republicans take control again and no one gets anything... except for the big corporations who bankroll their campaigns.
It's time to throw them all out. Both parties are bankrupt, mentally and morally. Whoever thought that a system with only two crooked parties was good had his head right up his own ass. Folks, it's not written into the Constitution that there have to be only two parties. Vote for someone else. Anyone else to shake up this deadlock and get those brainless clowns out of the government.
This applies to the office of president as well. Obama is useless. He promised the moon and is delivering nothing. He's not even trying to make congress work, he just hides out and hems and haws. Not that McCain would have been any better, though. He was a total sellout to the Republican right and big corporate profits. Unless Americans start to get wise to this cronyism and corruption, we are doomed.
