OBUMMER-CARE: THE FIX IS IN

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It will be smoke and mirrors and in the end another big bonanza of big corporate welfare at the expense of the everyday person and contributing a huge chunk to a growing deficit without really being worth what the taxpayer will pay for it. Involuntary care that drives everyone into the loading chutes of big insurance and big pharmaceuticals...like cattle being herded toward the involuntary slaughter house.

Such a deal we're getting. It's a deal that, with government coercion, we can't refuse. We get to pay, but the big boys get to play.

While our states drown in red ink, the fat cats get to suck down trillions of taxpayer "money" (borrowed on the Chinese credit card at exorbitant interest rates), while the

taxpayer continues to lose his or her job, his or her house and his or her quality of life. In other words, we the people LOSE again, bigtime. And 40 percent

of that public is so brainwashed, stupid and ignorant that it actually WANTS to be sold out and lose. The media-amplified noise machine wants the corporate sellout. They don't want reform.

So let me get this straight. We CAN'T help the states drowning in red ink balance their budgets or salvage their social safety nets that

are slated for destruction in the name of budget cutting: we CAN'T help them dig out of their deficits and create new jobs but we CAN continue the war in

Afghanistan.

We can't rein in the banks or institute drastically needed reforms to the financial system to prevent future ponzi schemes like the mortgage crisis that brought down

our economy but we CAN continue to pour trillions into hands of banksters who are not accountable for what they do with the money.

These same "helped" banksters can then turn around and price gouge the public who bailed them out with tax money.

We can't get the stimulus money already appropriated out the door and what little has gone out put it in places that are needed to rebuild infrastructure, as

was originally intended, but we apparently CAN look the other way while states use it to pay off old debts..

We can't afford the public option for health care, which would keep costs down, but we CAN afford to feed fat cat insurance and pharmaceutical

companies with hundreds of millions of forced, new "customers" who will have no choice but to participate whether they like it or not and we CAN

pay for it all with massive increases in borrowing piled on top of an already collosal public debt which may well soon sink our

economy for good and lead to hyper inflation and even worse economic collapse in the near future.

Here's what Ralph Nader said : "Obama is squandering his positive response with his base here at home and with other countries' governments around the world. He could raise a call to come home from the military budget abroad but now it's evident that in terms of foreign and military policy, Obama has a distinct continuity with Bush. Iraq, Afghanistan, the militarization of foreign policy, the continued expansion of the Pentagon budget and pursuing more globalized trade agreements. He is ironically becoming Bush II. That is supposedly why we didn't elect John McCain. Or maybe we did elect John McCain in sheep's clothing. Obama's policies and the GOP's seem to be increasingly the same.Mostly, the underlying structure of the policy remains the same because the Obama foreign and defense policy senior team consists of centrist experts from the Democratic Party, it is unlikely to make radically different judgments about the world than did the Republicans. Obama should have gradually steered the country away from imperial and corporate tyranny.

But instead of redirection, we get congeniality. We need demilitarization, not just the ascension of smart diplomacy. We need the downsizing of the Pentagon Imperial

Military Machine. We need to plan for human needs like farming, healthcare, and human disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis,infectious disease programs which can be done for $50 billion a year in Third World countries. These countries could be helped with a MINIMAL investment with needed nutrition, minimal health care and minimal shelter."

Instead Obama has expanded the assistance to our Wall Street extortionists through taxpayer financed subsidies, loan guarantees and backup declarations to banks. His stimulus package does not address the crisis in our public works infrastructure in any systematic fashion. Instead it doles out funds to bandaids like Medicaid and unemployment compensation. There will be no huge public works program to remodel the country but we will stay in Afghanistan. The president refuses to acknowledge the obvious""we can no longer afford our empire.

Nader further suggested. "Obama could have created a new constituency instead of the fragmented, scattered, haphazard and slapdash spending on the stimulus which is being largely wasted in the budgetary black holes of individual states.. He could get the progressive parts of our country to confront the necons and demand we cut the military budget, and do more in terms of public reinvigoration and public works."

"They [administration leaders], like the Republicans, just don't see the distinction between public power and corporate power," Nader said. "This is their time in history to reassert public wellbeing of workers, consumers, taxpayers and communities. Instead they are creating a jobless recovery, the worst of the worst, with the clear specter of inflation on the horizon and chronic poverty like that of Bangladesh and Africa. We are heading for the big muddy, and the fool just says "push on"

The massive borrowing acts as an anesthetic. It prevents us from facing the new limitations that the United States faces domestically and abroad. The borrowing temporarily allows us to live in the illusion that we are not in a state of irrevocable crisis, that our decline is not real and that catastrophe has been averted. But running up the national debt can work only so long. Then the house of cards will again collapse, only worse this time. "

So, another chapter in the Obummer sellout: Forced, phony health care 'reform' and cooperatives, whatever that means, which won't solve our spiralling

health care costs but which WILL enrich more fat cats. . It may provide nominal health insurance but it will do nothing

to increase quality of care and nothing to prevent the bankrupting of our economy from out of control health costs.

Instead, taxpayers will be on another big taxpayer funded hook like we were with the bankster bailouts. With health care we are

on track to get a similar swindle.

It all goes to show that neither the capitulating 'centrist' Blue Dog Democrats nor the openly corporate lackey Republicans can distinguish between corporate welfare and the public good.

Another giveaway and bonanza at the top and another step toward bankruptcy for the American public.

Mark my words: by betraying his base of Democrats who put him in office, he has guaranteed his own demise. Obama will be a one term president. Even George W. Bush was smart enough to realize that you don't mess over your base if you want to stay in the White House.