I started this post as an answer to yet another set of diatribes by the entity centerfielddj in response to my recent post The Democratic Party Is Rapidly Moving to the Left. NeoLibs Will Be Left Behind. (http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2019/2/9/141033/4679) Go there and read them if you can stand the bloviation.
The fact that this entity quotes the mass murderer Lyndon Johnson…and quite likely witting conspirator (before or after the fact) in the JFK murder/coup…as a source to back up its false points is proof enough of the coming demise of the neoliberal/neoconservative wing of the Democratic Party.
Read on.
“Medicare”…wholly owned by the corporate Big Pharma/Big Insurance/Big Med system…is a gigantic lie. It’s the “care” part that is missing. U.S. healthcare ranks 37th in the world in overall performance according to the World Health Organization, and 72nd in level of health. In fact, the only metric where the U.S. is #1 is in health expenditure per capita. (Surprise surprise!!!)
It’s a sick joke.
A sickness joke!!!
AOC ran down the reason for this…and the many other failures of the U.S. government to take care of its citizens…recently.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls out America’s `fundamentally broken’ campaign finance laws
Did you somehow miss this?
Maybe you had a doctor’s appointment.
A friend of mine had one recently. She has pierced ears…a mistake in itself as far as i am concerned, but she did it when she was young and foolish…and one of her earlobes somehow sliced open a little. No pain, a little blood. No emergency.
She’s “covered” by Medicare. The bill? $975 (plus whatever else the clinic would manage to tack on, of course), of which she would have to pay…oh, I don’t know. Whatever. She refused on principle and walked out.
“It’ll heal” she said.
And it will.
How do I know?
Because she teaches piano to some Hindu immigrants…successful plastic surgeons, husband and wife…and when she told them about this they said that:
#1-The price was outrageous for whatever procedure of that sort.
and
#2-“It will heal by itself.”
There’s your vaunted Medicare system, hard at work for the .01%
Multiply that by however many millions of U.S. citizens who are enrolled in Medicare, and what do you get?
72nd in level of health worldwide…behind such “underdeveloped” countries as Jamaica (#8), Morocco (#17), the Solomon Islands (#20), Chile (#23), Costa Rica (#25), Venezuela (!!!#29), Belize (#34)…and we’re only halfway down the list to where the U.S. resides!!!
Multiply that by all of the many other boondoggles being fed through a largely bought-and-sold Congress…many of which now threaten the very survival of life on earth if they are not stopped…and you have a national emergency.
A world-wide emergency, really.
You and the other party hack types who continue to try to paint me as some sort of right wing troll here are either fools and/or tools of a vast criminal enterprise that took over this country during the assassination years, and that enterprise…like all criminal systems…is reaching its final days. It’s simply gotten too blatant to be ignored.
People are finally getting wise to the game. We have Trump to thank for that, actually. Trump, HRC and the Scylla and Charybdis electoral farce that took place…in plain sight of the social media-driven internet…in 2016.
It’s a new day acomin’, centristfield, and people like you aren’t going to be part of it.
An American Spring
Watch.
`Cuz that’s all you’re going to be able to do.
Watch.
And nastily kibitz, I suppose. Which is really all you’re doing now.
Let us pray it comes soon enough to save us all.
Even you.
AG
P.S. Assiduous readers may notice…in all of the snarky comments below from arguebonita and centristfielddj, not a one references my several points in this post.
Not a one.
Just continuing mockery and snark.
Sad.
But…typical McCarthyist tactics.
So it goes in the jive political wars of the day.
Lie after lie from both sides, and when someone actually tries to deal with the truths of the matter?
Both “sides” go on the attack.
Sad…but true.
Ask Bernie Sanders.
Or the various whistleblowers/truth tellers who have been hounded from both sides of the (non-existent) political “aisle” for pointing out he criminality of the U.S. system as it now stands.
Wait’ll they get a load of what Elizabeth Warren had to say as she opened her campaign!!!
Go get ’em, Liz!!!
