Three words that are detrimental to America's Ecomomic Recovery are ((( Made In China ))).

How can we possibly expect to recover jobs in this country when every so called American company now has their products made in china? Something need to be done to stop this practice before we have no jobs left for us. A congressional resolution needs to be passed requiring these turncoat American Companies to stop using the term (American Company). They should be taxed much more than true American Companies that are willing to put Americans to work in American Factories. ( and that does not mean Central America or South America.) It means United States of America.  If we do nothing about the mass exodus of jobs from here, we might as well become The United States of China.

Thank You Wayne Blackshire, Proud Active Democrat and  citizen of (My) United States,--- at least for now.

In the last 2 weeks I have contacted Rep. Bart Stupak in Michigan, and Sen. Mary Landrau in Lousiana about supporting the public option for thr Health Care Bill.  I am asking all of you great Democrats to contact your Congressional Representatives, and Senators and tell them that the public option is absolutely necessary.

The insurance industry has America held hostage by their practices.  When I recently retired I found that health insurance runs from $180-$850 per month after retirement.  Who can afford this?

The American working men and women deserve to have health insurance that covers any and all illnesses, not just the ones the insurance companies say they will cover.  The working people of America should all be insured, not just the people that can afford it. 

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There are several things that can be done to improve access to
healthcare, lower costs of insurance and does not require a federal
governement takeover.

1.  Meaningful Tort Reform.  Practicing professionals and their
insurance providers can work far more efficiently if they has some
grasp of their maximum exposure in lawsuits.  While no one wants to
take away an individual's right to sue when they've been injured,
unquantifiable awards under the headings of 'pain and suffering' and/or
'punitive damages' must be capped.  Using the federal anti-trust
measure of treble damages seems a reasonable standard.  If the limits
on damages are say, 3 times the actual damages for pain and suffering,
and an additional 2-3 times the combined damages for the punitive
category, real reductions in medical malpractice insurance can be
realized with a resulting reduction in cost at the doctor's office. 

Nationalize Our Natural Resources

Nationalizing "OUR" Natural Resources like the Netherlands, (I believe I saw it on PBS) did to preserve and manage their future access to Oil, Timber and other Natural Resources.

The government realized they needed to ask the right question, in order to get the proper and correct answer to: "What type of system do we use to manage our National Resources"?
They then decided, to do the unbelievable! (by American standards) they ask a philosopher for help! with the question. it quickly became obvious that the real question was: "Who Owns the Natural Resources"? and who should be allowed to profit from the sale of the Natural resources, corporations, government, or People?

It also became apparent by asking the philosopher that,

San Francisco General Hospital does not accept private insurance.  It is the only public  hospital that does not accept private insurance in the general area.  This could prove to be a thorn in the side for those public figures championing for health insurance.  I have written Mayor Gavin Newsom, asking why he would want all San Franciscans insured when the largest general hospital in the city will not accept private insurance.....no answer.  Ditto for Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein and local ABC news.  Maybe someone here could get the ball rolling.  Make them put the money where their mouth is!!

Insurance: Top Recipients

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FROM www.opensecrets.org: 

In 2006 and 2008 Democrats won. Yet corporate money going to anti-Democratic groups and to the pockets of our Congressional representatives has trumped the votes of the people. Getting health care reform, getting out of Iraq, not staying in Afghanistan to mention a few are failing or being watered down to the point where they are not significant. Private insurance kills thousands per year and the wars kill our citizens based on decisions of politicians who don't do the dying. Do you want to keep winning at the polls and losing when your selected representative fails to keep his/her promises.?? I don't . Listen to Bernie Sanders. He speaks truth to the system but he is in a small minority. It is possible to have a government that focuses first on the social needs of the people and second on the needs of the capitalists and have it work quite well -- for the people and the capitalists. Europe has seen the value in providing a real safety net for the citizens.

Crossposted from Hillbilly Report.

Today, there was a lot of news on the Healthcare front. It seems as if everyone is having some kind of problem or another with the way things are going. We have Corporate Democrats and Republicans who seemingly want no reform and are stalling for time, we have others calling for the states to take responsibility for a public option, and we have union middle-class workers crying foul for being expected to sacrifice even more as the drama rolls on.

First, we have Corporate Democrats and Joe Lieberman crying that they need more time before debate can be allowed in the Senate Finance Committee "to review" before even debating in the Senate Finance Committee: