This "Medicare Part E" (for everyone) program would almost immediately bring our health care costs under control, and cover the 16 million Americans without any proper health care, while substantially aiding the other 16 million-plus Americans who are under-insured.
The people in Wisconsin, and France, and Spain, and Greece, and Egypt, and Tunisia, have shown us the way: non-violent protest against the powers that be; a reminder that real power does not come from the end of a gun (as Trotsky and Mao believed) but from the belief of a people in an idea.
"You say you'll change the constitution,
Well you know
We'd all love to change your head;
You tell me it's the institution,
Well you know
You better free your mind instead.
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow.
Don't you know it's gonna be alright..."
"Revolution", Hey Jude;
The Beatles (1968)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were revolutionaries in theory; Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were revolutionaries in fact. Charles Beard in his book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913) stated that the United States was founded to protect wealthy interests. The influence of this book has lead to the cynical view that the Founders and Framers broke away from Great Britain and wrote the Constitution solely for economic reasons.
Forrest McDonald published a refutation of Beard in 1958: We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution; where he stated "Economic interpretation of the Constitution does not work."
Kevin Phillips in his book Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich (2003) , points out that George Washington, one of the wealthiest of the Founders, was no wealthier than the average English squire of his time. And Bernard Bailyn demonstrated in his 2003 book To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders; that compared to contemporaneous British aristocracy, none of the Founding Fathers were anywhere close. (See Thom Hartmann's What Would Jefferson Do: A Return to Democracy, p.p. 65-76, where I first read of Beard and his refutation--I had already read both Beard's and Phillips' books when I read Hartmann's book--for further amplification of this information.)
Marx was certainly not a better read revolutionary than Jefferson; in spite of spending the last thirty-plus years of his life in the library of the British Museum. The 6000+ books Jefferson donated to the Library of Congress after the British burned Washington D.C. demonstrates that fact beyond any doubt.
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