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Why I Voted NO
Seeded on Mon Nov 9, 2009 5:58 AM EST (Common Dreams)
We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care. We cannot fault the insurance companies for being what they are.
I'll Bet the 10.2 Percent Can't Keep What They've Got
Seeded on Sun Nov 8, 2009 7:07 AM EST (Common Dreams)
Hey There, Congress and Mr. President. It's your citizens. Lots of us are losing jobs and benefits. We cannot keep the benefits we've got when we lose our jobs. In fact it's really hard to keep paying all the bills without a job and an income.
10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Have Made in the Health Care Battle
Seeded on Sun Nov 8, 2009 3:54 AM EST (AlterNet.org)
It hasn't been the usual conservative boilerplate -- blather about "tort reform" or dubious "analyses" predicting the latest proposal would break the budget and blow up the national debt.
Dennis Kucinich: Why Is It We Have Finite Resources for Health Care but Unlimited Money for War?
Seeded on Sun Nov 8, 2009 3:31 AM EST (t r u t h o u t)
Washington - Following a statement on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement: "Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money for war?
Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh?
Seeded on Sun Nov 8, 2009 3:16 AM EST (Common Dreams)
But there is another reason high unemployment may excite investors. Current layoffs are likely, for many workers, to be permanent.
Want to Save Our Economy from Almighty Greed? Here's 10 Targets That Stand in the Way
Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 6:53 AM EST (AlterNet.org)
1. A New Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Subprime mortgages. Abusive and arbitrary rate hikes on your credit card. Payday loans. If you're wondering who lets banks get away with this crap, there are more people at it than you think.
Are We Willing to Start Living for Others?
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 6:38 PM EST (Common Dreams)
Sustainability is founded on altruism – caring for others. Auguste Comte (1798 -1857) coined the word, proposing that we should 'live for others' – vivre pour autrui – instead of living for God, or money, or self-gratification.
The Long Gaze of the State
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 10:13 AM EST (CounterPunch.org)
It is no accident, Thomas Wilkinson, a CounterPuncher now living in Germany, pointed out to me a while back, that the first "political" novels about the US, e.g.
The Iron Cheer of Empire
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 9:10 AM EST (CounterPunch.org)
It may be my bias, or my imagination, or my distaste for toil, but from here America looks like one big workhouse, "under God, indivisible, with time off to @!$%#, shower and shop." A country whose citizens have been reduced to "human assets" of a vast and relentless economic mach …
When the Tough Should Get Going
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 8:21 AM EST (Truthdig)
The former Marine officer Matthew Hoh, who resigned his Foreign Service post in Afghanistan because he feels the war is pointless and not worth dying for, deserves all the attention he's gotten and more.
Getting Smart About The "smart Choices" Label
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 8:09 AM EST ()
How can you tell when a consumer product might be one you should avoid? Easy. Whenever a corporate spokesperson declares that the product in question "complies with all U.S. laws and regulations" – run away as fast as you can.
Life's Not Fair To Wall Street Bankers
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 8:02 AM EST (jimhightower.com)
It used to be that corporate CEOs drew their narrowly-focused business ethic from the laissez-faire novels of Ayn Rand – but today's corporate chieftains seem to be drawing their business models from "The Godfather" and Robert de Niro's Mafia movies.
Big Bad Government Is Coming to Get You
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 7:54 AM EST (Common Dreams)
Liars, delusional, petrified, hypocritical, idiotic. I often can't decide which of these most accurately describes regressives when I'm listening to their insane rants. Maybe it's all of the above, in some combination or another.
5 Habits to Break Before It's Too Late
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 7:37 AM EST (yahoo.com)
"Someday," you say, "I'm going to get my health back on track, after this next project," or "when I get back from my cruise," or "when the kids get a little older" ... C'mon, you know your list of reasons -- or what I call EXCUSES -- better than I.
Single-Eyed Vision
Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:15 AM EDT (Common Dreams)
"What is seen with one eye has no depth."
We Can't Reform Health Care Without Reforming Food
Seeded on Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:06 AM EDT (Common Dreams)
If and when health care reform finally passes, we will have successfully ameliorated only half of the crisis. The treatment half.
Glenn Beck's Bizarre Outburst Against Meatless Mondays and Vegetarians
Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:12 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Fresh fruits and vegetables remain the Rodney Dangerfield of the Western diet, getting no respect from cable commentators -- the comics or the crackpots.
Grading the Public Options That Already Exist
Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:35 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)
Pundits and politicians from both sides of the fence have been hollering themselves blue about a potential public health care option. Instead of relying on private insurers, the government would insure people itself.
States Reconsider the Death Penalty
Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:19 AM EDT (YES! Magazine)
A report released today by the Death Penalty Information Center concludes that states are wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on the death penalty, draining state budgets during the economic crisis and diverting funds from more effective anti-violence programs.
Path to a Peace Economy
Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:11 AM EDT (YES! Magazine)
The Wall Street financial collapse has stripped tens of millions of previously middle class Americans of their jobs, homes, and retirement assets and plunged them into poverty and despair.
Lessons Overlearned
Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:02 AM EDT (the american prospect)
Presidents tend to overcompensate for the errors of their predecessors in the same party and in so doing, sow seeds of their own mistakes. Bill Clinton wanted above all to avoid Jimmy Carter's fate -- losing re-election because the economy was heading south on Election Day.
What's So Scary About Michael Pollan? Why Corporate Agriculture Tried to Censor His University Speec
Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:57 AM EDT (t r u t h o u t)
Even if agribusiness could shut Michael Pollan up, the outspoken author of Omnivore's Dilemma and a journalism professor at University of California, Berkeley, it still has the Los Angeles Times to contend with.
Pot Politics: California Could Go All the Way
Seeded on Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:22 AM EDT (Truthdig)
California was the first to legalize medicinal marijuana and, if three ballot measures and a bill floating around the state legislature have anything to say about it, the Golden State could be the first to legalize and tax adult marijuana use across the board.
Centrist Democrats = Corporate Sellouts
Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:03 PM EDT (Common Dreams)
Every time I hear about Joe Lieberman's latest apostasy, I think, Oy vey! There he goes again. More Joementum.
Healthcare Hypocrites
Seeded on Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:53 PM EDT (Common Dreams)
How do you spell "hypocrisy"?
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Why I Voted NOWe have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care. We cannot fault the insurance companies for being what they are.
- I'll Bet the 10.2 Percent Can't Keep What They've Got
Hey There, Congress and Mr. President. It's your citizens. Lots of us are losing jobs and benefits. We cannot keep the benefits we've got when we lose our jobs. In fact it's really hard to keep paying all the bills without a job and an income.
- 10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Have Made in the Health Care Battle
It hasn't been the usual conservative boilerplate -- blather about "tort reform" or dubious "analyses" predicting the latest proposal would break the budget and blow up the national debt.
- Dennis Kucinich: Why Is It We Have Finite Resources for Health Care but Unlimited Money for War?
Washington - Following a statement on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement: "Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money for war?
- Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh?
But there is another reason high unemployment may excite investors. Current layoffs are likely, for many workers, to be permanent.
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Why I Voted NO
Why I Voted NO
I’ll Bet the 10.2 Percent Can’t Keep What They’ve Got
I’ll Bet the 10.2 Percent Can’t Keep What They’ve Got
10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Have Made in the Health Care Battle
Dennis Kucinich: Why Is It We Have Finite Resources for Health Care but Unlimited Money for War?
Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh?
Want to Save Our Economy from Almighty Greed? Here's 10 Targets That Stand in the Way
Are We Willing to Start Living for Others?
Getting Smart About The "smart Choices" Label