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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
12:15 PM
An army of corporate accountants believes that they should be entitled to fat paychecks because their lobbyists and the congressional slaves of that money have invented a labyrinth of regulations over the years which they feel entitles them to decide how insurance pool money is spent.
They cannot ever be objective or fair because their personal profit relies on their bottom line. Therefore, morally and legally, insurance corporations are not entitled to make these decisions. Associations develop in the minds of corporate policy makers that are unavoidable - money is power, and money entitles one to life. This is false, and demonic.
There can be no compromise with corporate insurance that does not leave some Americans out in the cold deliberately. No compromise will ever heal the division this injustice creates. This division is yet another tool in the arsenal of those who torture America by sending her in harm's way for their own pocketbooks. Leaving some people out of power as a way to consolidate it is anti-democratic in the extreme. It's the same strategy as denying the vote to excluded groups in order to keep the voting group in line. It's anti-democratic and anti-American.
Obama is doing some good by narrowing that gap, but I hate to ask it this way, does he make himself a slave to the corporations through compromise? He should get up there and kick their asses out of town.
The angry "town hall" mob talking about "death panels" and revolution is all too happy to seek any excuse to start killing people in the streets. If it comes to that, I have a feeling the rest of us won't need weapons, we will just hold hands and sing songs and walk straight over you. Are you really that frightened, poor little people? Maybe the right answer is to pray.
No compromise can satisfy the 14th amendment demand for equal justice under the law. Unless Congress passes health care reform that ensures health care for every American, they only pay lip service to our votes and our good judgment as intelligent, caring citizens, and consign themselves to continuing slavery to the lobbyists, lawyers and trans-national corporations, selling Manhattan for a string of pretty beads, as it were, to the conquerors from foreign lands.
Government bureaucracy has the same tendency to fatten itself, it's true. However, in a market like health care, government salaries and incentives would not be tied to increase in short-term gains, but to breaking even over long term and having enough in reserve well into the future. It removes the financial incentive from policy decisions. And, we can march down to our congressional office to speak our minds, or elect a new Congress to change the rules if they don't work out, but no one gets into a corporate board room past corporate security who doesn't belong there. Simply put, no one in a corporate board room gives a damn whether you live or die. At least we can fire the politicians.
While the root of all evil may be deeper than love of money, love of money is nevertheless symbolic of loving an icon, a symbol, an idol, or an abstract idea. By tokenizing social relationships and religion, we think we are able to get a little distance between ourselves and the overwhelming force that bears down on us when we open our minds to the boundary between sense and imagination: the "fear of God." Thus we think we are able to maintain a little sanity - but God and creation are largely beyond our control, and deep down we know this in the core of life. We confine only ourselves to predetermination - the living God does not have to follow a set course that really we are dreaming up in our heads as just an idea. God is free: are you?
no compromise is possible with insurance corporations
Healers should be paid for their skills, but the art of healing is either about healing people or about making a profit, it cannot be both.An army of corporate accountants believes that they should be entitled to fat paychecks because their lobbyists and the congressional slaves of that money have invented a labyrinth of regulations over the years which they feel entitles them to decide how insurance pool money is spent.
They cannot ever be objective or fair because their personal profit relies on their bottom line. Therefore, morally and legally, insurance corporations are not entitled to make these decisions. Associations develop in the minds of corporate policy makers that are unavoidable - money is power, and money entitles one to life. This is false, and demonic.
There can be no compromise with corporate insurance that does not leave some Americans out in the cold deliberately. No compromise will ever heal the division this injustice creates. This division is yet another tool in the arsenal of those who torture America by sending her in harm's way for their own pocketbooks. Leaving some people out of power as a way to consolidate it is anti-democratic in the extreme. It's the same strategy as denying the vote to excluded groups in order to keep the voting group in line. It's anti-democratic and anti-American.
Obama is doing some good by narrowing that gap, but I hate to ask it this way, does he make himself a slave to the corporations through compromise? He should get up there and kick their asses out of town.
The angry "town hall" mob talking about "death panels" and revolution is all too happy to seek any excuse to start killing people in the streets. If it comes to that, I have a feeling the rest of us won't need weapons, we will just hold hands and sing songs and walk straight over you. Are you really that frightened, poor little people? Maybe the right answer is to pray.
nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
No compromise can satisfy the 14th amendment demand for equal justice under the law. Unless Congress passes health care reform that ensures health care for every American, they only pay lip service to our votes and our good judgment as intelligent, caring citizens, and consign themselves to continuing slavery to the lobbyists, lawyers and trans-national corporations, selling Manhattan for a string of pretty beads, as it were, to the conquerors from foreign lands.
Government bureaucracy has the same tendency to fatten itself, it's true. However, in a market like health care, government salaries and incentives would not be tied to increase in short-term gains, but to breaking even over long term and having enough in reserve well into the future. It removes the financial incentive from policy decisions. And, we can march down to our congressional office to speak our minds, or elect a new Congress to change the rules if they don't work out, but no one gets into a corporate board room past corporate security who doesn't belong there. Simply put, no one in a corporate board room gives a damn whether you live or die. At least we can fire the politicians.
While the root of all evil may be deeper than love of money, love of money is nevertheless symbolic of loving an icon, a symbol, an idol, or an abstract idea. By tokenizing social relationships and religion, we think we are able to get a little distance between ourselves and the overwhelming force that bears down on us when we open our minds to the boundary between sense and imagination: the "fear of God." Thus we think we are able to maintain a little sanity - but God and creation are largely beyond our control, and deep down we know this in the core of life. We confine only ourselves to predetermination - the living God does not have to follow a set course that really we are dreaming up in our heads as just an idea. God is free: are you?
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