No it is much much worse.
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 | As Rob says, “Think Big”. You can read the whole article with detailed explanations here:
Sounds like a contract for a new America to me. Seems as though we are actually making some progress on a few of these goals, albeit very slowly. The Progressive Revolution  Having been a retailer myself for 11 years, I have an abiding sense of awe at how well-managed Costco is. It never ceases to amaze me that this outfit is able to offer just the right mix of merchandise at the right price. They stock 4000 items versus Walmart’s 125,000 and yet I never shop the latter. And I can also get cheap gas while I am there. They know how to keep their overhead low. The products they sell are of high quality. They pay their employees well. And the rebates I get from the Costco Amex Card and from Costco (business member) makes their annual fee irrelevant. Find out why Costco is the number one wholesale buying club in America. Full disclosure: I am not a stockholder or employee but I am a regular customer (just bought a $30 coffee maker there the day before yesterday). This post is not intended as an infomercial, just a shout out to the company for a job well done. And I wish I could stay away from their chocolate muffins.  Thanks to Cindy Sheehan on FB for Carlin’s reminder of how it all works and for the quote. I miss George.
“No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.” Emma Goldman 
Reminds me of the anti-war movement of the 60′s and 70′s. In the beginning, the country was firmly for the war and denigrated the anti-war protesters as anti-American. By the time the Vietnam war actually ended, there was hardly anyone left who still supported the war effort there. Let’s hope this is history repeating itself in reverse since there was/is such vocal opposition to this legislation starting out. By the time the health care legislation is fully tweaked and functional, will most everyone be dancing in the streets?  Part of the reason for all the controversy over the health care insurance reform legislation just enacted is the Democrats ongoing ineptitude with regard to framing issues. The provision in the health care legislation to enact a fine for not having health insurance should never have been called a “mandate”. It is not a mandate. A mandate means you have to do something. The legislation does not require you to buy health insurance as this term implies. A better way to have framed this would have been to call the provision a “health insurance opt-out fee”. If you do not want to buy health insurance, you pay a fee to the government on your income tax return. You opt-out. The government is not requiring you to do anything more than subsidize the consequences of you not paying for the possibility that you will need health care services in the future that must be paid for by someone other than yourself. In essence it is a fee for health care services that are not insured for and therefore not paid for up front. The health insurance opt-out fee is not unconstitutional as Rob McKenna and some other state attorney generals would have you think. If this fee was to be deemed unconstitutional, it would follow that social security and medicare taxes are also unconstitutional. These monies are also required to be paid by employees and employers to fund for the living and medical costs of the elderly. It does not matter if you call it a tax, a fee or a fine. It is still the government collecting money that will be used to provide a service. And no one would seriously argue that a constitutional challenge to these taxes would ever prevail. So Rob McKenna, I hope that you read this and reevaluate your poorly considered decision to join a multi-state lawsuit to challenge the recent health care insurance reform enactment. You do not have to be a legal scholar to know that you are just “chasing your tail” for crass political purposes.
If you want to get involved in the movement to stop Rob McKenna’s misguided, politically motivated lawsuit, there is a fast growing Facebook site here. Note: The above post should not be construed to mean the author endorses the health care insurance bill recently enacted into law. |      | ||||
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