Now let’s see how well our privatized health care plans would be working for us if they were invested in Lehman Brothers….now let’s see how many seniors coffins would be lining the funeral homes across the country if he’d gotten his way with their social security money.

Now, has anyone realized that the issues with the financial institutions that have gone under recently was not because of deregulation, but because of the institutions’ own greed and the gullibility of the American public? I work for one of the other financial instituions that isn’t going under and the reason they aren’t is because they realized that to overextend their capabilities was not feasible. Also, people were placing all their money with these financial institutions without researching the policies and practices. All they saw was a really great return, or a loan that they couldn’t afford (as with the mortgage crisis). No one thought to ask what was the price of this great thing?

McCain health care adviser Al Hubbard has argued that Americans consume health care like caviar

Now, I’m sure this is taken out of context, but he does have a point. When a person tries to buy caviar, they look only for the best, regardless of the price. Americans do the same with healthcare, they want the best and they don’t care about the price. Except that with healthcare, they want the price to be free.

I have lived with the government’s current form of healthcare for the non-elderly (Medicaid), and it was a joke. I felt that I was treated like a low-life because I was unable to afford anything else. Also the beuracrats that created the system decided that I had no freedom of choice and refused to cover certain areas. Do we really think that socialzed healthcare would be any different?
Are you willing to put your health in the hands of a guy who’s only concern is keeping his job and is willing to change the rules if a biased poll deems it necessary?

Also, are you willing to use the money that you could be using for food on taxes to pay for the government’s healthcare that will be abused because the masses learn how to work the system?

I don’t fully agree with McCain’s statement, and I think that it could prove detrimental to his campaign, but I have to wonder what’s so great about the alternative?

People will do nothing. A handful will complain, protest, march, and get arrested, but the majority is so brainwashed and filled with Booze, Hormones, SSRIs, crap culture, rotten presidential choices, violence, war, fear, and aggression, that they will get away with whatever they want.

Starting before WW2, the US government have privitized the banking system, instigated two world wars, formed an intelligence service out of Nazis, hunted antiwar intellects, shot protesters dead, started a war in Korea, displaced the Iranian government, assassinated a president, let the Israelis shoot the USS Liberty, Watergate, Panama, Gulf War, Banking Bailouts, Iraq, Afghanistan, lied about Russia, FISA, on and on…….

The American people will sadly do nothing when confronted with the next disaster the NeoCons from the Left and Right have in cooked up. It is a Bi-Partisan creation, even though many people think the Demos have the answers. You can see the laying down and rolling over in the last two years.

Convert your money to metals, pay back debts ASAP, get protection, store food, and dig in, or get the hell out of here before it is too late.

EugeneDebs, surely you can believe the stupidity and tonedeafness of one man when you look at all of the people who support him. This stupidity is not confined to repugs; there are Dems in the mix. I just read an AP/Yahoo poll that says there are Dems who don’t think that Obama can bring as much change as he says that he can, so they will be voting against him.

This doesn’t make too much sense. Look at the crowds Sen. Obama attract compared to mcchimpy. The repugs/racist number don’t support your claim. Yeah there is a little racism in the dem camp, I saw this when hill was lying during her campaign. But it’s a fraction compared to the repugs.

Maybe you’re like the phonies the repug msm are talking about, the whites who will say one thing and do another behind the voter booth.

from the mc/budget thread:

katy Says:
“This cripples the domestic policy priorities of the next president,” …
part of the plan, man!

you’ve tossed another possibility into the equation, x…

if destroying those domestic priorities IS part of the plan,
it could just backfire, like everything else, by privatizing… which will need bailed out, nationalized/socialized, eventually… it could work…

almost diabolical…

i’m kidding there. i’m having trouble putting my thoughts into words…

i do know that’s a helluva way to get to the inevitable result…
a lot of people are going to suffer in the meantime…

They and their culture are characterized by a mercantile obsession with profit and trade and their constant efforts to swindle people into bad deals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi

I see a deregulated Health Insurance company only insuring people who have never had a claim an in the paperwork they would sign promise never to make a claim, and the insurance company holds a stipulation that if you file a claim they can refuse it and drop your coverage. This way, it all profit! Just keep sending in the checks and the insurance company won’t send any out, except to the CEO to the tune of $xxx million. Heck, people don’t need insurance, there’s Emergency Rooms.

If I could afford caviar, I would buy myself some health care. But since I can’t afford a trip to an emergency room, I won’t be buying any caviar any time soon.

Caviar is rolling up in your Bentley to the spa for a week long face lift, liposuction, rejuvenation treatment. NOT free condoms at the corner clinic.

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18,000 a year, Nader claims 40,000, die needlessly because they have no access to health care. These are not the elderly or disabled as they have medicare.

Most of us by now have either watched, heard stories or have been a victim of chronic illness or even death because of this insane health care insurance system we have… a system creating wealth for too many.

You mean to say, what we have now IS regulated?

And just who can afford caviar? The bastards that ran the ginormous corps and are now given aid.

5th Estate:
Love it…
It is weird that I feel sort of ill today considering I have a one pound container of tobiko in my freezer…

Tobiko? Ah I just Googled it. Never had it myself, though I’ve had lumpfish and salmon. Trouble is I’m spoiled for Beluga. Sooo expensive though!

stateofthedivision Says:

This should be the exclamation point in McCon’s week of gaffes. The financial innovation, of which he brags, is the anchor dragging the American financial system underwater.

Didn’t you hear, terrorist attack in Pakistan = good for McShitstain. We are so over the whole economy thing. We’ve got to bomb, bomb, bomb somebody and take the sheeples minds off money.

katy Says:

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Privatize the Profits – Socialize the Losses

Exactly. They only share the sh*tty parts. I guess Rethugs didn’t learn everything they were supposed to in kindergarten.

Apparently McCon wants to drown our social security accounts and health insurance in that same bathtub as Grover Norquist.