Ex-Congressman William Jefferson Gets 13 Years

this is overkill 13 years for a 62 yr. old ???
sounds like racial overtones !!
George Bush and dick chain-saw-masacure never did any time and they broke the Bank of the United states which is estimated to be before 9/11 32.47 Quad-trillion dollars ; or something like that:
where is our money now…..??? white america puts only blacks in jail …..over money!!!does O.j. or this old man being in jail 13 yrs. put any money in your pocket……

Pelosi Presents Health Care Bill To Insure 36 Million People

Mr. Tauzin, a Democrat turned Republican, is the chief lobbyist for drug makers. After cutting an $80 billion, 10-year deal for his industry — blessed by the White House — to help pay for a health care overhaul, he is now working quietly to keep his pact from unraveling on Capitol Hill.

Ms. Ignagni, a Democrat who represents insurers, stood up at the White House in March and told President Obama he had her “commitment to play, to contribute and to help pass health care reform this year.”

Keeping My Audience Safe From Liz Cheney

the FOX news media corporation by and through its resources like TV and radio +newspappers and magizines…….and yes their drug companies !!
have waged a war and media blackmail -directed to this Whitehouse has been un-relenting and just recently the Whitehouse has responded:
( Major Garrett or Wendell Goler or Chris Wallace)
“The bigger thing is that other news organizations, like yours, ought not to treat them that way, and we’re not going to treat them that way.” Axelrod told ABC.

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn accused the network of being a “wing of the Republican Party.”
“What I think is fair to say about Fox — and certainly it’s the way we view it — is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party,” Dunn said on CNN. “They take their talking points, put them on the air; take their opposition research, put them on the air. And that’s fine. But let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.” this is one reason I went to the FCC web page and filed a complaint against the Fox network the racial overtones and comments are UN-Lawfull and offend me ..this nation is being divided into a new civil war by this unlawfull conglomeraite of media
control -Its AN ABUSE-OF-POWER : no corpration shall own more than 35% of the media market at anytime: U.S. CODE

John Kerry: More Troops To Afghanistan Would Be Irresponsible

somethings not right about this troop level affair…….why don’t the republicans want more troops and why are the taliban being captured with USA made TOW Misseles…….
and why is Kerry there in that nation ????
On Monday, U.S. Central Command chief David Petraeus met Pakistan’s prime minister and army chief in the capital. U.S. Sen. John Kerry also met the two Pakistanis to try to ease tensions over an American aid bill that has caused a rift between Pakistan’s army and civilian government…….WHAT AID BILL ???
are there deals going on while Americans are in shealters and collecting Food-Stamps?????

Isn't The "Obama Is A Commie" Meme Getting Old?

the right wing is being supported by non-american
Billionairs who are in control of Americas vast wealth…health care , drugs,media,oil and manufacturing and our military suppliers :
we fight Black and white and they make billions every time :

Indiana City Fires Insurance Company Whose Exec Sent Out Sickening Obama Images

Action Alert

NYT Slams Single-Payer
Fails to include advocates among ‘diverse’ experts

9/22/09

The New York Times devoted some rare space on September 20 to discussing single-payer (or Medicare-for-all) health reform. The result? A one-sided account of why such a system couldn’t work.

With a headline like “Medicare for All? ‘Crazy,’ ‘Socialized’ and Unlikely,” readers probably had a sense of what the Times had in mind with the piece, which was the latest in a series titled “Prescriptions: Making Sense of the Healthcare Debate.” Reporter Katharine Seelye wrote: “Extending Medicare to all has seemed like a good idea to many–except to those who call it ’socialized medicine.’ Or crazy.”

The Times seemed to want to express single-payer opposition in more gentle tones, explaining that the idea is, from the start, politically impractical: “Beyond a liberal base in the House, there is little support for expanding Medicare.” And outside of Congress, wise minds seem to agree: “But even experts of diverse ideological views say expanding Medicare would be far more complicated and politically difficult than it might appear.”

That led to the first claim: “For one thing, they say, Medicare reimburses doctors and hospitals at much lower rates than private insurance companies do. So, in general, healthcare providers oppose extending Medicare because they fear being driven out of business.” It’s not clear how serious this fear might be, since most doctors participate in the Medicare system without going bankrupt. Any attempts to reduce the skyrocketing costs of the healthcare system involve cuts of one form or another; most single-payer proposals discuss how to do this without shortchanging physicians. (U.S. doctors make, on average, almost three times the median physician salary in other wealthy industrial countries–Ezra Klein, 4/19/06.)

It’s worth noting that thousands of doctors have voiced support for a single-payer system (see, for example, Physicians for a National Health Program’s letter to Barack Obama), in part because they believe they spend too much on the administrative costs associated with private insurance companies. A survey of physicians published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (4/1/08) found that 59 percent supported government-sponsored national health insurance.

Seelye also wrote that Medicare for all “would almost certainly mean a big tax increase on the middle class,” before noting in parentheses: “Supporters argue that a tax increase would be somewhat neutralized by the elimination of premiums that people pay now to insurance companies.” Actually, single-payer advocates argue that a payroll tax on businesses (many of which currently pay for private insurance for their employees) and a small income tax increase that would likely amount to less than what most citizens currently pay out of pocket could fund a single-payer program. By calling a “big tax increase” a near-certainty and treating the savings on insurance premiums as a claim made by advocates, the Times told readers which side it was on.

Seelye cited Stuart Altman–identified as “a Brandeis economist who specializes in health care and who advised Barack Obama in his presidential campaign,” but not as a director of a managed-care company that offers health insurance plans (WhoRunsGov.com)–to make a similar point about potential tax increases, and then went to “the other end of the political spectrum” to quote Robert Moffit of the conservative Heritage Foundation: “I don’t see popular support for it beyond liberals…. It’s a philosophical question: Do you want to give the government that kind of power?”

Of course, one might point out that public polling for years has demonstrated that support for single-payer is much broader than merely a liberal sliver of the population (FAIR Action Alert, 3/12/09); a July 2009 tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation found 58 percent support for Medicare for all. But a piece detailing the deficiencies of a “crazy” single-payer system is an unlikely venue for that.

Seelye quoted Moffit saying that single-payer “would not save taxpayers money,” while another academic suggested it would “require a tripling in payroll taxes just to pay hospitals alone.” These are stark claims that are at odds with the research of single-payer advocates and experts. Physicians for a National Health Program, for example, calculate the annual savings on administrative paperwork under a single-payer system at more than $350 billion. International surveys of health systems generally show that nations that have adopted public plans spend far less than the U.S., and achieve better results (BMJ, 5/26/07).

So why couldn’t the Times quote sources who would take issue with these claims? From the looks of it, balance wasn’t the point here. The Times collected a litany of criticisms of single-payer healthcare–in effect rebutting claims that the paper rarely allows its advocates to make in the first place.

ACTION:
Ask New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt why the Times ran a piece devoted to undermining the case for single-payer healthcare without allowing advocates to make the case in support of Medicare for all.

CONTACT:
New York Times
Clark Hoyt, Public Editor
public@nytimes.com
Phone: 212-556-7652

Andy Williams Thinks Obama Is A Marxist

this dude , has lost his Mind !!!

After Bus Beating, March For White Civil Rights

onece again we got the Anti-American -Rush Limbaugh insistING RACIAL HATRED IN America;
lets just forget we are at War AND ARE FACING A conflict with Iran AND ChinA AND WE HAVE 56-73 MILLION PEOPLE OUT OF WORK and others in Ga. with no homes or homelessness all over America……Before Obama TOOK OFFICE …BUT IN ORDER TO SAVE the Billionnairs and Media giants WHO ARE NOT ALL AMERICANS…..this Boot-licking -lackey wants to start a War here in the USA;
why doesn’t the FCC take his licience????

Limbaugh On Why Hillary Wasn't In Marines: They "Don't Have Uniforms That Fit That Big An Ass"

shameful” and “uncivilized behavior by a raciest Boot-licking-lackey Republican !!!!
will the FCC please take away his licience to broadcast????

Top US Commander In Afghanistan Calling For More Troops

looks like the other nations are beefing up their “technical support staff” on the battle field:
Iran-russia-china – and who knows who elese!!!
lets just get out of this $$$$$$ war its all over a gas/oil pipeline anyway!!!

Obama: Legalize Illegals And Get Them Health Care

NBC Slams Universal Health Care

11/12/02

On Election Day, Oregon voters rejected a ballot proposition called Measure 23 that would

have instituted universal healthcare in the state. Outspent more than 30 to 1 by a coalition of insurance companies that blanketed the airwaves with negative ads, the only hope for proponents of the measure was fair coverage in the media. Unfortunately, some of the coverage was as slanted as the insurance industry’s advertisements.

On NBC Nightly News’s election night broadcast, anchor Tom Brokaw previewed a report on Measure 23 this way: “Is universal health care a good idea? It’s on the ballot in Oregon.” Brokaw set the tone from the start, saying the plan “is called free health care. But is it?” Correspondent Roger O’Neil echoes this framing in the first line of his report: “If it sounds too good to be true, the saying goes… Oregon voters will decide if universal free healthcare is free.”

Actually, Measure 23 supporters did not promise “free” healthcare; they promoted their plan as affordable healthcare. “Eliminating the costs incurred for insurance premiums, co-payments, prescription medications, deductibles and all other health care costs, most people will spend less than they do now,” the Yes on 23 website said– never suggesting that their tax-supported plan would cost nothing.

O’Neil prefaces his criticism of Measure 23 with an odd assertion: “With insurance companies raising premiums, with co-pays for prescription drugs going up all the time, with HMOs telling doctors they can’t use the stethoscope on some people anymore and be paid for it, you’d think the industry would welcome the spotlight on universal health care. But Oregon’s big three health insurers are pouring money into the campaign against.”

Actually, the healthcare industry– with the exception of many doctors and nurses– has traditionally opposed universal healthcare plans; a key premise of such proposals is that government funding for health could lower costs– and therefore profits. The insurance industry in particular has strenuously opposed so-called “single-payer” plans for the simple reason that they would eliminate private insurance in favor of government coverage. Yet O’Neil presents predictable industry opposition to Measure 23 as a damning criticism of the proposal.

O’Neil then finds the catch: Insurance companies say “Oregon could go bankrupt, too, since the devil is in the details, spelled T-A-X-E-S. More payroll taxes on business, more taxes on personal income, as much as $25,000 for top wage earners.” Since government-funded healthcare proposals all rely on taxes for funding, it’s hard to see how this is a “detail.” Furthermore, O’Neil distorts the personal tax issue by selecting the $25,000 figure, which is a ceiling that the initiative would have placed on taxes paid by the wealthiest households; these would have to earn at least $300,000, and probably much more than that. To be fair, O’Neil could have noted that poor families would be exempt from the personal income tax.

A serious journalist would investigate whether tax-funded healthcare would be more or less expensive than a system that is largely privately funded. But O’Neil never even mentions that the current system costs money.

Another detail missing from O’Neil’s report is the disclosure that NBC is owned by General Electric, which is heavily invested in the insurance and medical industries.

O’Neil concluded his slanted presentation by dismissing the ballot measure: “This dose of medicine apparently too strong for what most agree is an ailing patient.”

ACTION: Please contact NBC about Roger O’Neil’s election night report on the Oregon universal healthcare ballot measure.

CONTACT: NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw Phone: 212-664-4971 Fax: 212-664-6045nightly@msnbc.com

Polls Show Obama Speech Big Success

this fight is with Fox news owner and the rest of – media-owned-health -insurance companies:
lets see thats ABC-CBS-NBC also their profit is your money !!!!

Obama's Dangerous Indoctrination Speech

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This is a Nation of Confusion and Mis-placed Priorites
its Divided we Stand For A Divided States OF America:
We can thank the republicans for that ever since JFK days,and thats when corporaite America took over the nation to infected this nation with Boot-licking-Lackeys offspring – like right-wing republicans : They control Insurance industry ;food ; health care; manufacturing , the media even the national-agenda,such as war and the type of cars we should drive: Do you think those clowns who shout at the meetings are inteligent enough to spear a nation-wide campane and just by chance a national Tv crew show up ??
There is a deep division in America or a pralysis of individual-thinking ,reguardless if the Republicans or the news media aggree or not….its a fact …fightig against our own best interest is stupid :we need a Public HEALTH CARE Plan now not latter: don’t let this nation become like the republicans- backwards ,dull and divisive before the Global community and to all Americans : the Republican party has breeched its trust and has failed the nation again and again , how many more good and honest people must die before the hands of ruthless corporate owned politicians and there connection with right-wing-Psychosis /Psychotic /Pyromania/Schizophrenia….who have nott comme to gripps with the facts of this election and who the people want to govern this nation do you get a little feeling of Separation Anxiety???