Congress, having for the past nine years gifted half of our treasure to the military-industrial complex, now readies to give the other half to the insurance industry in the guise of a national healthcare program.
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Some Congress folk are actually claiming that "although not ideal," the current Frankensteinian bale of paper costumed as a national healthcare billwould be"a step in the right direction for the future."
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Sounds like more of the "Hope!" and "Change!"con to me.
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Let's face it, the Congress is supposed to represent the will of the People.The polls say that the People want a national healthcare program the likes of other industrialized nations, that the plurality if in fact not the majority favor a single-payer program. EVERYONE I know dismisses and resents any plan thatplaces our medical care in the rapacious hands of Big Private Profiteering Insurance interests.
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Single-payer is where the debate should have begun and ended. Where the never-ending debate seems headed is to a plan that might just move America up from the world's 37th "best" system to what? 36th? Maybe High Twenties? Whoopiddydodah!
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Let's not try to kid the citizens. This Congress, beholden to itsDaddy Warbucksmasters, has unprogressively diluted the people's will and welfare at every turn, and presents as some kind of "progress" a 2000-plus page monstrosity that no one comprehends EXCEPT FOR ITS ENTITLEMENTS TO BIG PRIVATE INSURANCE INTERESTS.
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History will record this bill -- if anything similar to the latest iteration actually passes -- as its largest documented disgrace, withthree times the page-count of Mein Kampf.
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This entire fiasco, this venal treachery, along with the Congress persisting tofund the unconscionable War of Lies and the slaughter of innocents 9000 miles from our coast, is a disgrace to America's future history.
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But know this, Congress folk, the American people -- despite your apparent disdain for their capacity to stand up for their own best interests --are starting to catch on. The word now spreading amongst the citizens (Do you ever actually listen?) is that not only are you corrupt but that Congress is INSTITUTIONALLY broken, that in its current state it cannot be repaired, cannot be brought up to the minimal level of decency required as an instrument of the electorate's will and welfare.
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Know this also: We, the people, will attend to this, we will fix this. We do possess the fortitude as well as the growing numbers. One can only sincerely hope that we act before youdotoo much more damage, and that we can mustersome minimumpatience to do so constitutionally.
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........"Just" a citizen, Rafe Pilgrim
Authors Bio:Leaving behind a treacherous government now addicted to perpetual war, its limitlessly greedy and power-lusting masters, as well as the retarded albeit smirky Republicans and their evermore clonish Democrat colleagues, a braindead electorate incapable of recognizing its own best interests, the hypocritical Christians who '"support our troops," and the tiresome, sloganeering and feckless activist-hobbyists, as well as those who profit from their plastic morality -- I now repair to my Jungle Home amidst the giant palmettos on a dirt road running east from the Gulf coast that neither the US Mail nor school buses dare assay, and there to gain the more decent and trustworthy company of the indigenous sand tortoises and rattlesnakes.