Let's All Stop Buying Health Insurance!

The only politician I really have any respect for is Dennis Kucinich. Both sides have done everything they can to shut him up. He decided to go along with Obama’s Health bill. I can only think he believes it can be fixed.

Obama's solution will pour billions of dollars into the pockets of the same people who caused this mess: insurance companies.

Insurance companies make their money denying claims. Their lobbyists protect regional monopolies. They raise rates faster than inflation, underpay doctors and kill people by denying claims and charging rates that are unaffordable. They pay their CEOs tens of millions a year.

We should start by shutting down the health insurance companies and nationalize the entire system. Public health should not mix with private profiteering. Obama won't do a thing to stop the insurers. For-profit healthcare will gain up to 30 million new customers.

I’m telling you, he’s a shill!

Scrap It

I hate to hear myself say it, but Obama has compromised the healthcare bill into oblivion. I honestly think it would be worse than nothing at this point. His plan does practically nothing to control costs and he knows it.

The argument that growing the pool to everyone will make it cheaper is the same kind of argument Republicans make about tort reform. We've had it in Missouri for almost 5 years and it hasn't affected prices at all. Well insurance costs did go down for doctors but that certainly wasn't passed along to the rest of us.

Focusing on the insurance companies is stupid too. They only account for about 2% of costs. It's systemic. We have to go after drug companies, doctors, hospitals and lobbyists.

I was a little suspicious of the Hope and Change slogans of Obama's campaign. I believe he's too weak for the job.

I know there are people out there that are sick and clinging to whatever insurance they can get, but in a perfect world we could fix it all by not buying health insurance. I mean all of us!

Corporate Shill?

Amerin UE aired commercials last year that gave the impression they were implementing carbon capture in their coal fired power plants today. That technology is still at least ten years down the road.

Now that Americans don’t think we can have a negative effect on our environment they don’t even bother with these kinds of ads and I bet carbon capture will never happen.

I had a delivery last week that took me to a coal fired coal plant that is under construction in Southern Illinois. I spent an hour dealing with the bureaucracy it took just to get in. In that time I got pretty chummy with some folks there. We were joking and generally having a pretty good time.

They told me the plant was going do great things for the economy of Southern Illinois. They were probably going to reopen a lot of coal mines.

Without even thinking I casually asked about carbon capture. The atmosphere totally changed. They were no longer friendly and wouldn’t even make eye contact.

When I got back to my company’s warehouse I told my dispatcher about the sudden chill. She said they probably thought I was a spy.

Obama is getting behind subsidizing Nuclear power plants to cut down on our carbon footprint. There is still no place to dispose of the spent fuel rods. These rods are beginning to pile up and Yucca Mountain is, in Obama’s words, off the table. God I hate that expression..

Nuclear power plants are ridiculously expensive and wind power is making incredible strides without subsidies.

I really am beginning to think Obama is a corporate shill. What the Hell is he thinking?

Let's Get Real

Is "It's off the table" a euphemism for "I've sold out"?

Truth

I’ve never understood why the American perception of truth is so easily manipulated by sound bites generated by big money.

I’ve been looking over the “Climategate” email scandal. Scientists have really been bullied by a misguided political agenda.

98.5% of the scientific community is convinced that climate change is exacerbated by humans. So why do 1.5% of those not persuaded make the issue controversial?

A few years ago I was at a party where a woman casually remarked that the earth was 6,000 years old as if it was undeniable fact. Involuntarily I blurted out, “Idiot!” I was asked to leave the party. I actually called everyone the next day to apologize. The fact that ice cores measuring climate change going back 740,000 years didn’t matter to them.

Another friend of mine casually said. “I don’t believe in evolution!” It doesn’t matter that 200 years of evidence just grows stronger and stronger. There’s been nothing to disprove it. Somehow science has become the enemy of religion. I guess it always has been but even religious views get modified.

When I pressed this same friend about proof of God she replied, “Why do you think they call it faith?” I remember when I had faith in Santa Claus.

I’m beginning to wonder if scientific evidence is perceived as satanic distraction.

My beliefs have bothered people. “Surely you’re agnostic, not atheist?” When I experience one shred of evidence to the contrary, I’ll become agnostic. I wonder why people can’t at least be agnostic about science. They even take pride in their ignorant convictions.

I know I come off as a jerk but I get frustrated by all the denial.