John, You are absolutely right on the hijacked debate and tea party numb-nuts. I watched ex-president Clinton give a lucid accounting of the health care problem on Sunday TV. The sound bite went something like...'The US spends 17% of GDP on Health Care. Other major nations spend 10%. The difference is the profits of the insurers.' (I like 'Slick Willy' more as an ex-president than when he was in office.) Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:10 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "William Robb" >> >> From: "John Sessoms" >> Subject: Re: OT: Civil Rights Photographer Unmasked as Informer >> >>> > From: P N Stenquist >>>> >>>> >> Frank. The guy with the most votes wins. Period. Sorry, but that's >>>> >> the >>>> >> truth. >>> >>> > >>> > Not always. >>> > >>> > Consider also why voter turnouts are so frequently low. There are other >>> > ways to rig an election besides stealing a ballot box. >>> > >>> > Every election in this and the last century was "decided" by a minority >>> > of >>> > the eligible voters. The "majority" of a minority is still a minority. >>> > >>> > And it wasn't until late in the latter half of the 20th century until >>> > all >>> > citizens were technically eligible voters. There's still hanky-panky >>> > with >>> > that even today. >>> > >> >> I think this is happening somewhat more in your country than in mine, >> although our last election had voter turnout appallingly low, but the >> system >> is becoming polarized around money, and we are seeing a political system >> by >> the rich for the rich. >> I offer up as evidence the apparent voter refusal around universal health >> care in your country, which apparently a majority of voters don't want, >> even >> though a vast majority of citizens would benefit from. >> >> William Robb > > I wouldn't base an opinion of what a majority of voters in the U.S. want on > what the mass media in the U.S. is saying. They're part of the self selected > elites who shape perception to further their own financial and political > agendas. > > The vast majority in the U.S. want a Medicare like single payer system. A > large majority in the U.S. would like to have a system like Canada has. > > The problem is that a wealthy minority, in this case for profit insurance > companies, oppose it and have the money to flood the media with > disinformation aimed at protecting their profits. > > They hijacked the debate and flooded the airwaves with outright lies to > frighten the majority into believing that the proposed health care bill > would be deny them the right to continue using the doctors they're already > going to. > > As evidence, I point out the "tea party" numb-nuts protesting the Federal > Government "Keep your hands off my Social Security" ... they don't even know > Social Security *IS* a federal program. > > Nor do they understand that it's the financial and political elites who are > really trying to end Social Security ... or at least loot it; doing the same > to Social Security that they did to the pension system. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
