I'm going to go ahead and start this by saying that this is just to help me feel better. This doesn't involve fixing the health care system or getting rid of the Stupak amendment or auditing the Fed, all things that are more important to the community at large. But I just need to get this out and tell everyone who cares to listen what a horrible company NRA Group, LLC is.
For the first time since a now six year old bill called H.R. 676 that was never meant to pass in the first place, someone was working to raise awareness on the issue Americans face from the merchants of death. So this seems like a good time to remember one the few loud voices in this nation that is not influenced by free market of death and praise a few others who are taking it to the streets. Some people who believe our good health is a priority.
There is still the problem of the U.S. Government that will not represent the will of the people and can not look at the devastation that Americans must face each day. The falsehood of the present healthcare debate prevents anything but false reform. In the transition from Bush to Obama will honest hardworking Americans see justice or just campaign donation based propaganda?
(some revisionist history... - promoted by poligirl)
Unless you've been living in an "undisclosed location" for the last several months, you've probably heard more than enough, from the Party of Losers. Funny, I don't remember the Dems, getting so much easy air time, as Cheney has, since being cast to the hinterlands, by the American Voters. Worse yet, the Media foils on stage with him, couldn't ask a challenging question, even if, say, there was a "ticking time bomb" on stage, so that they had to get to Truth ...
"Thankfully they Kept Safe for the last 7 years" ... Say What?!
Throughout its history, but especially during its ascendency in the 19th century, capitalism has had certain key characteristics. First, basic production facilities-land and capital-are privately owned.
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Consumers are free to spend their incomes in ways that they believe will yield the greatest satisfaction. This principle, called consumer sovereignty, reflects the idea that under capitalism producers will be forced by competition to use their resources in ways that will best satisfy the wants of consumers. Self-interest and the pursuit of gain lead them to do this. [...]
if competition is present, economic activity will be self-regulating.
Capitalism assumes Self-interest will lead to Self-regulation. But what do Current Events really tell us, about this basic assumption that in Capitalist systems, consumer-driven "course corrections" will naturally lead to "the well-being of society" as a whole?
(aka. The theory of the Invisible Hand, promoted by Adam Smith, and others)
I'm currently watching Comedy Central, enjoying a new stand-up comedy special from a stand-up comic that I've never heard of before. He's both hilarious and not the subject of this diary. Instead, the subject of the diary is a commercial that I just saw that is truly disgusting. It was a commercial for a product from the National Collector's Mint. Follow me below the fold for the truly disgusting information.
(on evangelicals, Rick Warren, and the meaning of that choice... - promoted by poligirl)
There has already been a lot of discussion regarding President - Elect Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration. But I feel like I have a responsibility to add my voice to the chorus. I'll explain why below.
(fair play, simple basic decency, & Republicans: an exercise in contradictory terms... - promoted by poligirl)
When the Republicans are NOT in the majority in the Senate, being partisan hack obstructionists that give not one damn about what happens to the American people or the country of America as long as they can point to the Democrats in the majority and say "look, nothing is getting done!"
For the Republicans in the Senate, the entirety of the incredible amount of issues that our country is facing at this time is nothing more than another wonderful invitation to play politics with the country and continue to thumb their collective nose at the middle class and the needs of working families in America. Considering they were the majority party in power when all, and I mean ALL of the foundation was set for the myriad destructive economical, societal, ecological and constitutional destructive policies that has been visited upon our country and its people were enacted, one might think they would be a bit more interested in assisting cleaning up those messes that we can now SEE with our own eyes and feel with each passing day weighing down on people like a ton of bricks.
