We no longer live in a democracy, at least not the kind out we started with. Citizen's United was the death knell of a free society and we now live in a true pseudo-democratic state, like Russia or China. Both of those countries have "free" elections but the results are rigged and we have become the exact same. As it doesn't really matter which party is in power, the corporations have complete control over us. The Republicans are just a little more obvious and impatient with the whole thing and want a slave class to call their own again. Anyone who is black, Hispanic or gay and votes Republican are indeed the dumbest people on the planet as they are literally voting their own extinction. Poor white people, who seem to voting for the GOP in huge numbers are no better. Until we start standing up and demanding more from our politicians, nothing is going to change and we are going to get the same kind of bills over and over again.
The GOP has become the party of stupid and should be headed for the dust bin of history if they keep it up. But their idiocy is destroying bills that are being watered down or eliminated to a point of irrelevance. Take Obamacare for example. Many of it's provision are quite good. Some are not. Take the price point for purchase rule. Someone making say $21,000 a year could be forced to buy insurance that would cost that person around 9.9% of their salary. In this case that would be $175 per month, which is most likely too low to find adequate care and too much for the individual to afford even if a health care plan can be found for that price. We still have a shortage of primary care doctors which has nothing to do with Obamacare by the way and everything to do with skyrocketing malpractice costs that can reach into the hundreds of thousands per year on top of the medical bills one accrues going through school. Most can only afford to become doctors if they find a lucrative, specialized practice which being a primary care physician isn't. The democrats have scrapped plans to overhaul malpractice suits because the ABA and individual lawyers are top money makers for the left. Because of money again, nothing is being fixed and this will continue until we either remove it from the equation, or wait until the whole house of cards blows over.
Obamacare needs tweaking but all the fuckwads of the right want to do is piss all over it with absolutely no plan to replace it. The old system was not working and many, including myself, have gone bankrupt dealing with sky high medical bills. If I lived in Europe, I'd still have my job, I wouldn't have paid a fortune for my medical care and I wouldn't be living in near poverty. That is a fact. But the idiot right is only doing what is best for them and not the country and any asshole still voting for these putzes are every bit the traitors they are. Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security were tweaked at least five times apiece after implication to fix unforeseen circumstances. Obamacare has been modified a grand total of zero. And then the Republicans jump up and down and say "see it's not working." The only reason it's not working is they don't want it to and for all those who live in Southern states like Tennessee, if you get sick, pray for a rout of the right in 2014 because your life literally will hang in the balance.
Anyone who voted for the Republican party in Colorado whose house burned down can blame themselves because the right cut funding for brush removal and climate change research. Anyone who died or lost a child in Oklahoma during the tornadoes who voted Republican might as well as just killed themselves because that vote meant no shelters for schools or homes and again, climate change research. Anyone who's sick in states like Texas and Tennessee better hope they get well soon or die quick because the alternative is a lot of money out of pocket and some voted to have this happen to themselves.
Another fiasco in the waiting is the new immigration bill. I have no problem with the DREAM act or allowing those here illegally to have a chance to become American citizens. The main reason we have so many Mexicans in the first place is because of the ill advised drug war which is the big reason people are still coming here. Illegal immigration has dropped dramatically over the years mostly due to the fact that there are fewer jobs here than in Mexico. Police opening are a dime a dozen but the chances of you and you family dying in a hail of bullets is surprisingly high.
But as always the bill that is being debated contains several right wing provisions to get their support that are not the best ideas. One of the biggest is the the fact that the right and Big Business have specifically asked for low skill workers to be allowed a chance to stay as they will be the easiest exploited and can be paid the least. This will drive down wages and take away jobs from low skilled US workers as the corporations will skirt the minimum wage like they always do and hire these people at a fraction what they pay you or me. If you are poor and black, this may be a death knell for their job prospects. As their employment is around 24% for those being black and lack a GED, expect that number to double.
While all this is being debated, most of you probably missed this story that the FED is missing some nine trillion dollars. Inspector General Liz Coleman, when questioned before Congress last week, said she had no idea where that money was. Funny, how that didn't make a single news story anywhere, print or TV. On the other hand, I have mentioned it several times on this site when the facts came out last year and was also ignored by everyone. Incidentally, my research suggested that most of that money went to foreign banks and people's pockets. We are being stolen from on a level unheard of in human history and no one seems to care. People will care when the economy collapses and this easy free ride we have taken for granted is pulled away. How well do you think the average person will fare if society collapses? I predict a hundred million dead in this country the first year alone. And we are rapidly heading for that cliff.
Congress is killing us. The right in particular has lost their minds as well as anyone voting for these dirtbags. We need new faces in Congress and people like Elizabeth Warren are the kinds of people we should be voting for. Since taking office, she has done nothing but stomp on corporate greed and banking malfeasance. We need 99 more just like her in the Senate.
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