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Did you know that more people believe in UFOs than oppose public option?
GeorgeR September 29, 2009 23:04:53
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“…Dear MoveOn member,
OK, this is amazing: More people believe in UFOs than oppose the public health insurance option.1
Seriously, it's easier to find someone who thinks aliens are landing spaceships in our cornfields than someone who thinks we shouldn't create a public option to keep the insurance companies honest.
The insurance companies are basically the only ones who don't like the public option—which is probably why their industry is spending nearly $5 million per week trying to fight off health care reform in Congress.2…”
OK, this is amazing: More people believe in UFOs than oppose the public health insurance option.1
Seriously, it's easier to find someone who thinks aliens are landing spaceships in our cornfields than someone who thinks we shouldn't create a public option to keep the insurance companies honest.
The insurance companies are basically the only ones who don't like the public option—which is probably why their industry is spending nearly $5 million per week trying to fight off health care reform in Congress.2…”
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UFOs or not I want the public option (discuss)
A majority of the public as well as a majority of doctors favor a public option. As for UFOs it is easier to believe that they exist than it is to believe the insurance companies will reform themselves without competition from a public option.View thread
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There isn't a single reason that more money has to come out of the public's already meager pockets. If our elected officials had been concerned about our health care, there would have been more than 6% of the annual budget allocated, annually, towards it. Instead, their answer is to bilk more money out of us, continue the debt slavery imposed on us nearly 100 years ago, and continue selling out to the highest corporate bidder. I can't imagine why anyone would trust this same government, today, that sold us out a long time ago.
Now, back to no money coming out of our pocketbooks. The US allocates $522 billion a year towards military defense. Unless they are lying, the government tells us we have the most advanced, technological military weapons in the world. We already know we've long had weapons that could turn countries into little more than slabs of green glass known as trinitite. In other words, we're covered on that end. However, this isn't the expenditure that I want to tackle. A great deal of our spending goes to the military welfare system we've set up in various countries throughout the world, lending them our military. This isn't crucial to our national defense and I'm willing to bet if we...
There isn't a single reason that more money has to come out of the public's already meager pockets. If our elected officials had been concerned about our health care, there would have been more than 6% of the annual budget allocated, annually, towards it. Instead, their answer is to bilk more money out of us, continue the debt slavery imposed on us nearly 100 years ago, and continue selling out to the highest corporate bidder. I can't imagine why anyone would trust this same government, today, that sold us out a long time ago.
Now, back to no money coming out of our pocketbooks. The US allocates $522 billion a year towards military defense. Unless they are lying, the government tells us we have the most advanced, technological military weapons in the world. We already know we've long had weapons that could turn countries into little more than slabs of green glass known as trinitite. In other words, we're covered on that end. However, this isn't the expenditure that I want to tackle. A great deal of our spending goes to the military welfare system we've set up in various countries throughout the world, lending them our military. This isn't crucial to our national defense and I'm willing to bet if we dug deeper, we could find more that could be better spent elsewhere.
If but, 20% were taken from the military budget and added to what is spent on health care, our health care system would be improved vastly and those who would like to remain on their existing health care programs could do so. Of course, that would be a compromise that would benefit the public. Our government isn't so fond of those sorts of things.
If you knew anything about me at all, you'd already know that I've blasted insurance companies to Hell for years and have done so here on SH for about a year. I'm from New Orleans. I've seen what damage insurance companies can inflict. It is because of insurance companies and our own government that people are still without homes in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast.
I detest insurance companies as equally as I detest our ethically bankrupt, corrupt cesspool of a government.
The US spends 50% of its annual budget on military and 6% on healthcare and somehow that translates to promoting insurance companies?
Way to avoid the elephant in the room.
PS I have blocked that jerk because he is a troll and an annoyance.