tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161276371671617722.post4681745133383311994..comments2014-11-21T05:52:25.432-06:00Comments on SO IT GOES...: A Healthy IndustryMike Rodbardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03844801254518054528noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7161276371671617722.post-32295055956860196952009-09-09T08:10:01.953-05:002009-09-09T08:10:01.953-05:00After attending a speech by Dennis Kucinich, who w...After attending a speech by Dennis Kucinich, who was promoting both his bill for single payer and the current bill (but only because it contained an amendment he co authored, one which lifted the restriction on allowing individual states to opt into single payer)..I was convinced more than ever about a basic idea: health care and quality education are Civil Rights, not consumer goods. That is the short of what you just wrote, Mike. And you can call it what you want (I call it messin wit da kid, h/t Jr Wells) but it is the only thing that works, and that has been proven time and again. <br />But the 800 BILLION dollars the corpse (literally) uses for "management" will not be given up, because it's a simple matter of following the profits. And that money buys house and senate votes. <br />The harnessing of the theocracy by the plutocracy that started with Ronnie's "Morning in 'merika" in 1980 has proceeded to rip apart almost every idea of social safety nets..... I am including Willie C here as well. Their program was to obliterate the New Deal..and look where we are. <br /><br />As I said yesterday..actually Mike, as Kurt Von once said.."You cannot reason or negotiate with people who operate on "bad chemicals and faulty wiring."<br /><br />I came here (glad I did too) through FB..I suppose it's good for sumpin' after all.John Pazdanhttp://www.johnpazdan.comnoreply@blogger.com