The public health plan is unravelling as we speak. The housing is still plummeting, while the banks are growing stronger. We have just put sand bags on the leak of a levy that is seeping through at the bottom. We are oozing blood with the poor & middle class. While the banks are getting richer. Having a bottom line that looks good because they laid off at one time, and at one bank, CITI, 50000 people! That is just one of them. They have laid off more since then, too.
The Federal Reserve have flushed the economy with trillions of dollars. Of course, it is an injection like a flu shot; as you will see, the flu shot has come too late. We already have the virus, and as you know, we don’t have a cure for the flu, just a prevention. Even then, it sometimes fails. The banks of course, are paying us back for the $800 billion plus at a record pace. The money that they borrowed from the tax payer. Unwillingly, by the people. The interest the banks are paying on the TARP money is 0.25%, which is the rate they give for a regular savings account, pathetic. After receiving these loans they start charging us interest of 30% on our credit cards and loans, up too 30%!! With no accountability to the money. Still the federal reserve, which has nothing to do with OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, is railroading Americans. If we get a audit of the fed reserve. We would find those trillions of dollars flushed into our economy, are worthless. That is why they do not do a audit of the federal reserve. They could have flushed these problems out of our economies system, along with health care, a long time ago; with a LOT less money. The inflation is going to be astronomical and the health care is going to collapse. We had to control the cost of these insurance companies and a public option was the only way. This health care has the potential of bankrupting America.
And the H1N1 is coming, with jobs still being lost. With job loss, creates more people without insurance, depending on emergency rooms. They don’t have the funds to stay open. Hurley Medical in our area was just asking for a millage to pass, which failed. Our state run hospital was asking for money for teaching and equipment. Since, I live in Michigan, unless your living under a rock, you know, our state and municipalities are broke; Winter is approaching. Roads are still busted from last winters snow because of lack of funds.
I have noticed that the Haves do not want the Have nots to have health care. I have seen it both ways; Either the rich who have, or the poor on the governments health care medicare/caid, are fighting this Public Health Care Plan Option. I say then why should I who is a have not PAY for the ones who are poor. I pay in my taxes every week, these fees. I also pay for a Social Security, when I don’t expect it to be there, when I need it. I pay for schools when some of us has no kids. These are social issues. I pay for mail, I pay for sewer… These public domains are a needed and welcome addition to our societies. It makes it easier. Look, at UPS, or FedEx they still compete, right.
I am proposing this if I can’t have a health care plan in some way that I can have preventative visits to a doctor for me or my family, then I shouldn’t have to pay for it. Business’s like insurance companies should have too pay for it through taxes on excess earnings to their insurance companies.
h1n1 has already exceeded by double of expected cases and earlier than they expected. This is the beginning of the destruction of American hospitals dr.s and sick people.
Reply to TrudyThe path forward is a hard one, I would love to see broad and sweeping reforms to health care, our tax code, and curbing our litigious excess. I doubt we will see much if any of these things come to pass in any real sense.
Reply to chrispy02160so very true. America is on the brink of total collapse all because of GREED.
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