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• • 05 Feb 09
  • 3:10 pm

  "...really strict regulation of the private health insurance industry, so that it can't continue to have a business model that drops people when they need health care." The problem with our healthcare is the business model. For-profit healthcare does exactly what it is designed to do: distribute healthcare based on the profit motive. You can't fix that with "really strict regulation." If you assume healthcare is a human right--and that those rights ought to be distributed equally--then the proper goal of our healthcare system is to provide healthcare for all, equally. Not based on the profit-motive. Of course, our healthcare does …

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• • 11 May 09
  • 6:00 pm

  "And taxes really aren't that bad. I have paid taxes in both countries, and for me, there was only about a 5% difference between the two countries." I just saw a really good clip from The Real News where Senator Jim Bunning makes the comment: "When I look at Sweden and I look at Canada and I look at the United Kingdom, where we have single-payer, and government single-payer, we have a tax rate of 60 percent or higher in those countries. " 60 percent! What bullshit. here's the link: http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=3665&updaterx=2009-05-07+13:57:46 The guy narrating the vidoe goes on to blow up …

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• • 11 May 09
  • 8:46 pm

  I like the busload idea. A mobile protest in a protest mobile. There must be plenty of unemployed/uninsured with the time for a bus trip. What better way to Use Jobless Time to Build Better World? But since the Dems are the most formidable obstacle to single-payer I would focus on them. I'd like to pay Baucus a little visit. Then there's a Dem in Pennsylvania...and one in Hyanis Port too! What Happens When Angry Citizens Crash the Gates of America's CEO Class? By Mark Ames http://www.alternet.org/workplace/139479/what_happens_when_angry_citizens_crash_the_gates_of_america's_ceo_class/?page=2

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• • 16 May 09
  • 3:33 pm

  "Maybe if the front men for them, i.e., these people you mentioned realized that they could be the next to be visited, things might change." http://m-u-s-h.org/

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• • 16 Sep 08
  • 7:06 pm

  I'm truly sorry to see the folks at Sojourners unite what I believed was their cause for social justice with the motivations of those responsible for much of that injustice. Equality and greed do not mix.

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