If you stay to the end of this post, you will see an offer you can’t refuse – no strings attached.
My last post was about a health issue, not healthcare reform. Writing so frequently on healthcare reform and the economy has built up a tremendous reserve of frustration.
I wanted to take a psychic break by [...]

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Today, speaking of the bonuses, Obama says, “I, like most of the American people, don’t begrudge people success or wealth. That is part of the free-market system.”
Not that long ago he was calling those bonuses obscene and shameful.
Which is it?
Larry Summers was in full support of anything that the Wall Street casinos wanted. Tuesday he [...]

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You have been sold down the river. So have we all.
We need to differentiate between healthcare reform and tinkering with health insurance. Yes, there is a difference. The entire burlesque these past few months has revolved around the tinkering.
A handful of congressmen offered HR 676, Medicare-For-All. That represents reform. All of the rest of our [...]

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It appears the leader is being led.
Obama has kicked out Paul Volcker, the closest thing to a sane voice on his team of economic do-dos.
He is reportedly sending 40,000 more of our young to be wasted in Afghanistan. He long ago abandoned any pretense of leadership or backbone in the farcical pursuit of healthcare reform. [...]

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I am going on a little trip. This coming Saturday I will be off on the first leg – to North Carolina. I depart from New York on Sunday.
It has been some time since I last visited Scotland; 1971, in fact. I lucked out and left the States the day after Nixon allowed the Dollar [...]

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This is not a prediction. It is only what I see as an optimistic scenario.
What’s going to happen with healthcare reform in Congress? Your guess is as good as mine. Because there is no leadership, no one knows what the outcome will be.
We do know a few things, however. Since it was given away before [...]

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It seems that I have reached the age where history and autobiography become the same.
Senator Joe McCarthy’s antics permeated every aspect of the politics of his time. He was none too bright, as Joseph Welch and Ed Murrow showed. His accusations came from whole cloth. He played upon the fears and ignorance of the time [...]

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I finally received a response from Bart Gordon, my Congressman. He totally ignored my request for a debate. Now I know why.
I had challenged him before the August recess. As September has arrived, that means it took him a month to respond. It is obvious from his email that he would have had to come [...]

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A few of us are unfortunate enough to be able to remember the decade of the 1950s. I’ll refrain from naming names. But, I will if I have to.

There was a major scare back in that strange, misbegotten decade. The “Bomb,” of course. No. Even scarier. The Communists had an even more devious plot [...]

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Who’s in charge? Here is an article from the New York Times illuminating the real role that al-PhARMA is playing and how the administration is prostituting itself, unnecessarily.
Be prepared to be sickened. Understanding what they are doing and how they are doing it spotlights just who is in control and why the final result of [...]

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