*My Dear Assumpta, Obama's win on the Health-Care-Bill gives him a shot to a second term at the Presidency.
But I dont get carried away!! After all Obama is just a politician, like the rest in DC. * On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Assumpta Kintu <assumpta.ki...@gmail.com>wrote: > I did not know you read truthout etc and follow issues here that > tight. Thank you for sharing. I hope the new year is treating you > and your family well. But then again what can be worse than what our > people are experiencing at home? We are very blessed. Prez Obama knows the > needs of his fellow Americans and the demands the global world and economy > have on USA. I wish these people who don't want to change and be in the > 21st Century would give up their seats and > let others not afraid of changes of the 21st century take over. Without a > good education for every USA citizen black white latin asian they cannot > take jobs and who will take care of them? High school diploma used to take > people far, not anymore. It has to be more than high school. Give them the > money and they go to college whether technical or 4 years colleges, they > will be productive in the nation. Right now USA is braindraining our nations > of the few educated people we have and underpays them but they are better > here than home where there are no jobs in Medical area, economic > development and even education. Teachers not paid students not fed and > someone wakes proud to be President of a Nation??? Back to the original, > Obama was installed by God for a reason and anyone who stands in his way > will not succeed until God says his work is done. He will even get second > term whether they like it or not to clean up the mess. > Have a super weekend, Ssebo rejoicing over the gift of life! > Assumpta > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mitayo Potosi <mitayopoto...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:56 PM > Subject: Hail to Obama for the College Loans win > To: The First Virtual Network for friends of Uganda <ugandanet@kym.net>, > editor...@monitor.co.ug > > > We Won a Robust Public Option . . . on College > Loans<http://www.truthout.org/jeff-cohen-we-won-a-robust-public-option-college-loans58048> > > Friday 26 March 2010 > > by: Jeff Cohen, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed > > <http://www.truthout.org/jeff-cohen-we-won-a-robust-public-option-college-loans58048> > > [image: photo] > (Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t<http://www.flickr.com/photos/truthout>; > Adapted: pmarkham <http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmarkham/4208826846/>, > dbking <http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/290148191/>) > > We won! > > When President Barack Obama signs the health care reconciliation bill on > Tuesday, we can crow about a robust public option – en route perhaps to a > more inclusive, cost-effective single-payer system. Soon, private profiteers > (and subsidies to them) will be sidelined, and the government will save > taxpayers billions by providing service directly to Americans in need. > > I'm not hallucinating. We should savor this victory. > > Unfortunately, it's not a health care victory. > > Attached to the health care reconciliation bill is an unrelated college > loan measure that goes in the opposite direction of health care reform. The > loan measure sidelines private profiteers – the banks – and saves taxpayers > money by making the government something of a "single-payer" which will soon > be directly issuing most college loans in our country. > > Direct lending by the government will cut out the middleman and save > taxpayers, according to the Congressional Budget > Office<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/us/politics/26loans.html>, > $61 BILLION OVER 10 YEARS – with $40 billion in savings being redirected to > higher education in the form of more Pell grants, more aid to > minority-serving colleges and more aid to lower-income graduates for paying > off their student debt. > > What a concept! > > Instead of moving to subsidize a bulky private industry and its waste, > profits and exorbitant executive pay (as the new health bill does by > mandating that millions become new customers of corporate insurers), the > college loan reform reduces bureaucracy, profit and streamlines the > syste<http://www.slate.com/id/2248377/?from=rss.> > m. > > Yes, the right-wing in Congress yelled "government > takeover<http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/22-0> > ." > > And, yes, corporate lobbyists put > up<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/us/politics/26loans.html%20a%20fierce%20fight> > A > FIERCE FIGHT to stop this common sense approach that ends years of wasteful > subsidies to private banks. > > But Democrats in Congress stood up to them – passing a measure in the > public interest that can easily be explained and justified to the public. > > It's a far cry from the backroom deal-making Obama and top Democrats > engaged in with lobbyists as health care reform got watered down, as even a > weak public option got jettisoned and as private insurers and big pharma > deepened their control over the system. > > I want to be happy at a time like this. I keep hearing everyone from > liberals to mainstream media to right-wingers hailing this health care bill > as a world-historical event. Sort of like the first man walking on the Moon. > > To the skeptic in me, it's more like "one small step for humankind, one > giant leap for private insurance firms." > > But, today, it's great to be able to crow about some good news – college > loans – where Congress put the needs of the public and students and families > above the needs of private interests. > > *[image: Creative Commons > License]<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/> > This work by Truthout is licensed under a Creative Commons > Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States > License<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/> > .* > >
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