presenting the industry's answer to all these attacks? You can't remember seeing that?
Because, on the left we have Obama and on the right we have the insurance companies executives.
They made a deal.
Islamofascism is more what it is.
This guy is right. I have talked to more than a few people who feel like this. Very sad America has come to this.
“I submit that this is not a small matter.”
No it isn’t but Mr. Goodman is 40 years late. If the gov’t tried to pull the PC crap that it has been successfully shoving down our throats, say a hundred years ago, the bankers would have HOWLED knowing that they must be complicit and thus blameable.
THAT is the difference Culture makes. We’re on the ride and we’re going where it’s going. We have ceded control.
so what are the options?
(1) The insurance industry is being bullied - one of the largest industries in the US that the Democrats can use as an example for the other large private enterprises to follow suit....because the Democrats know that providing health insure for those that couldn’t get it (or didn’t want it) was an emotional response to a made up crisis???
or
(2) The insurance companies were tired of the capitalist approach at health care and found it more appealing to offer only 1 whole policy for each person that cover such things that may not even be needed - but that money could be transferred over to other insured people that do need it - while the insurance companies rack in a large sum of profit?
uhm....seems like the Dark Side is at work...
Likely the largest health insurance companies are doing this from a combination of greed and fear. They play with Obama and get paid off. They don’t play (or speak out) and they go under. Crony Capitalism.
However, they can also go under by following the regs or giving too much away.
As a result, Obama blinked this week: they are going to get subsidies for this latest decree from Obama too.
Rescind and Repeal is the only answer.
Totalitariancare tyrant FORCING lesser crickets-chirping socialists to bite their tongue as his tongue-lashing continues? What is “insurance”?
Legal Plunder Has Many Names - The Law
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.
Want more?
Here’s some social security “insurance” and medicare “insurance” tossed in for good measure…
FUBO, FUCONgress, FUUSSC, FUlesserplunderers
Václav Havel was a playwright, essayist and a poet. He was also the last President of Czechoslovakia before it was broken up into the Czeck Republic and Slovaka.
He lived under suffocating socialism. Socialism depends upon a fundamental lie: that society will be better when everyone lives at the expense of everyone else. This required institutionalized lies that had a horribly corrosive effect on humanity. In his famous essay, Power of the Powerless, he wrote:
“...[socialism] touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the work ing class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
“Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.”
from: http://bit.ly/4bqmRu
The United States has been a fascist state since 1933 when President For Life Franklin Roosevelt began to implement his "New Deal", modeled after Benito Mussolini's program in Italy. The Supreme Court undermined a part of Roosevelt's program when they through out the National Recovery Act but for the most part the program remained intact. Roosevelt broke with Mussolini in 1940 after the invasion of France but the march toward fascism continued in the United States during the war with such programs as tax laws that benefitted employers who provided healthcare for workers while not providing the same sort of deductions to individuals.
If Roosevelt had not died in 1945 the post war period would have probably seen an expansion of fascist regulation in the US. As it was, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy made no significant effort to expand the regulatory state but did nothing to reverse Roosevelt's usurpations either. Then came LBJ and Nixon who, between them outdid even FDR. It looked for a time as though Carter had provided the straw that broke the camel's back when America's greatest anti-fascist leader, Ronald Reagan, slashed thousands of pages of regulations from the Federal Register and worked to free the economy from the fascist stranglehold that had crippled the great post war expansion.
Reagan unfortunately was not able to close a single cabinet level department. In the post Reagan era, Bush, Clinton and Bush returned to the fascist course, expanding the regulatory state while keeping the anti-regulatory rhetoric. Clinton's attempt to take over healthcare in 1993 lead to a populist uprising that swept Republicans, some of whom were anti-fascist, into power in Congress. The result was at least stalemate. The fascists learned that they needed to boil the frog more slowly. At the same time, left leaning fascists infiltrated the boards of most industry leading corporations. "Deregulation" came to mean something different than it had previously. "Deregulation" just meant a change in the regulatory scheme to benefit supporters of the fascist state. The "Deregulation" of California's power grid in the late 1990s largely discredited the term. It has been largely replace by the term "Reform".
With the coming of Obama and the manufactured financial crisis of 2008, the stage was set for a massive fascist surge. New banking regulations served to minimize competition in the financial services industry and protect the positions of the handful of remaining financial institutions who were, after all, too big to fail. "Green energy" initiatives funneled billions of tax payer dollars into businesses run by reliable campaign contributors who received massive kickbacks for their participation. The centerpiece is of course the "Affordable Care Act", which is neither affordable nor caring. With the Supreme Court's betrayal, the course was set for the next great leap forward. Then the wheels started to come off. The web site didn't work quite right and people's policies started to be canceled. The state supporting media tried their best to spin the tale - it was just a few glitches, only a handful of people were actually loosing their policies and besides, they were substandard policies anyway...
We can hope that the 2014 elections will deliver us a Congress with more backbone than what we have now but it won't happen if the Democrats and pro-fascist Republicans have their way. They control about 90% of the means of propaganda and will be much more effective in getting their message out. Nothing will change if we don't all work hard to make it change. Support populist and anti-fascist candidates at all levels of government. Get involved and stay active. It's a long time until November 4, 2014 and the bad guys can do a lot of damage between now and then.
The Trains Shall Run on Time - or there will be hell to pay.
I read in a National Geographic mag about one of their field agents who went to North Korea. The one thing that stood out to him was how quiet it was in terms of people speaking to one another.
I can relate to that. In 1963, I did the same thing, except as part of a military convoy.
The only smiles we saw were secretive, furtive ones at us. Everyone except some kids (boys only) kept well away from us and even then the kids would only approach us if they were in a group but it was obvious some were lookouts while others were talking. You could see the adults constantly looking around with anxiety and fear in their eyes and they obviously dreaded to be seen near us. The kids freely told us how bad things were and how little they had to eat. But when a stranger approached, they sensed the danger, scattered, and ran. That was a lesson I have never forgotten about totalitarianism - the fear and anxiousness in eyes of most adults (the exceptions were probably the undercover secret police or informers).
As the author notes, we see a lot of that today among many who are in a position to and should be speaking up. Instead, they fear the Stasi. You can see it in the way they fudge or ignore the truth to avoid being singled out for retribution. This is not without a good reason and it is a reason we ignore at our peril.
It’s not fascism, it’s progressivism and progressivism, run by progressives, is love, kindness and salvation for humanity.
/Sarcasm/!!!!
IMHO
Or maybe the big players on in on the take...