If I didn’t have the VA I’d be paying for my own health insurance right now (about $800/mo). In other words, I’d be busting my butt in some sweatshop grind at minimum wage just to pay for insurance (If I could even find any, at my age, with my pre-existing conditions!) instead of enjoying the well-deserved retirement I am so entitled to. No thanks. I’d much rather have some Republican working his fat ass off and paying taxes for me. He can afford it.

Now THAT’s power.

“The ability to be the only provider of everything we need to live or the only source of employment that allow us to purchase those things, is the ultimate economic power. It works better than bayonets.”

An interesting idea.

And they believe it.

How Conservatives gloried in their 1 to 0 victory over Al Gore, not even pretending it was fair, democratic or the people’s will.

However, when one has to be scored for the Constitution, even against vigorous Concervative opposition, it’s “partisan”.

Some people should have participated in sports in school. Bad losers where taught by both sides that sometimes they just weren’t good enough and to quit complaining. A lost art, I believe.

Arf

What I’ve seen of the majority opinion written by Roberts is rather even-handed and sober. Though he got his zinger in, by writing several paragraphs that sounded like throwing out the mandate, until he then found a different reason to keep it. Fooled CNN and Fox and the White House, from what I’ve heard. I’ll bet that brought the faintest little smile to Roberts’ normally botoxic mien.

A lot of Americans never fell for
the consumerist and easy credit Madison Avenue propaganda program, they lived responsibly and had their bills caught up and a little extra in the bank. They
have the financial resources to take a chance and leave their jobs; to either
look for a better one, go back to school, change careers, start their own
business, try something a little less stressful, or even retire to a little well-deserved rest. And they are willing to take those chances. They are in a stronger position to negotiate with their boss for a better job or a raise because they can actually back up their threat to
quit, and their boss knows it. After all, most employers realize that if they need an employee more than he needs them, they are going to have to pay him what he’s actually worth, not just what they can get away with. Now THAT’s what I call a free market!

But no matter how prosperous or competent you may be, if you or your family are caught without health insurance, it is potentially catastrophic, even for a medically routine treatment or procedure. No matter how well off you are,
financially or health-wise, no matter how ambitious or hard working you may be, a medical bankruptcy can ruin you. And health insrance is expensive, and often only available through our ermployers.

Think about it. In a time of world-wide declining economies and a bleak global financial outlook, the American health and medical insurance
industries are obscenely prosperous, and becoming ever more so every year. That is
not a coincidence, it is the result of policy. It was planned that way. Don’t you think anyone who is profitting from that situation
isn’t going to do whatever it takes to keep it from changing? Don’t give me any
pious humbug about Freedom or Liberty, or the Federalist Fucking Papers. Just follow the money.

They did the same thing to health care they did to energy, consumer credit, the stock market, real estate, college educations and jobs. I predict food, will be where they make their next move.

Can you spell H-U-N-G-E-R?