The "Long Con" - How Things Work
"A
'short con' is an opportunistic scam designed to instantly fleece the
victim of all the money they have with them at that time. On the other
hand, a long con takes much longer to execute and requires meticulous
planning in order to scam the victim out of much larger amounts of
money." Scam Types dot Com
The Money Party runs both short and long cons. When they weren't able to sell the Iraq invasion, the short con was: Saddam has weapons of mass destruction. He's ready to use them " on you! Get on board now or else! That short con operated within the long con of perpetual threats and endless war.
The current health reform debate is a classic long con. The debate is limited to only those positions that will work for the status quo. If reform fails, there's no change from the extortion perpetrated against citizens in need of affordable health care. If reform is adopted, the insurance companies are enshrined at the center of the program. The fight is then over the size of the rake off. That's called bending the curve of health care costs. Bend, don't break. It's a win-win proposition for The Money Party.
What do legislators do when their patrons demand that an irrational and deadly system remains in place? Confuse the dialog with weasel words and highly deceptive terms. Keep the public thinking that they're really going to benefit from a program and, better yet, that the opposition is trying to prevent that benefit. Get party loyalists whipped up to fight for your program even though it's a sham.
The current kind of public option is essential to The Money Party's long con on health reform. It allows people to think that there's a real debate going on. Someone is fighting for our option to choose decent and affordable health care.
It's all part of the long con that limits critical debate to unacceptable options advanced by allegedly differing parties. These debates always end the same way -- the perpetuation of the major corporate interests, the retention of those in power, and oligarchy; the triumph of The Money Party:
"The Money Party is a small group of enterprises and individuals who have most of the money in this country. They use that money to make more money. Controlling who gets elected to public office is the key to more money for them and less for us.
"In every campaign for major office, the party passes out money and buys candidates from both parties. Thanks to the candidates who get elected, this pay to play system remains perfectly legal " even though it looks like bribery.
'In return for contributions, the election winners
come through by fixing the laws so that The Money Party cleans up. "
Cost is no object, because in the end it's all paid for with our tax
dollars." Michael Collins: The Money Party, Sept. 30, 2007.
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See: Special Health Reform Series: The Money Party and the sickness unto death
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