You Know What's Really Scary?

[Joanne98]

It's not the movies at the theater, the ghost stories you've heard from family and friends, or the little trick-o-treaters at the door. It's evil, and its presence in the world. It sends a reminder to me what we have is precious, and can't be taken for granted. There are all these stories in the world, about women suffering in Congo at the hands of army soldiers, people dying of hunger and without access to water, and little stories here at home in our county about families being driven out of their homes due to foreclosure and bankruptcy.

Evil just doesn't reside in the human heart, it also resides in what corporations decide to do with their resources based on their quarterly goals. It resides in the hands of an insurance company clerk that works with a team to find any "tell" that a patient policyholder isn't telling the truth so they can deny her or his claim, and drop that policyholder off their rolls. And that insurance company clerk and his team get bonuses as a result of denying access to medical care for that patient.

slinkerwink's diary :: :: That's evil when insurance companies use their profits based off the premiums we pay them to lobby against what we want--a robust public option to compete with them. They want to stifle, choke, and smother the competition in the form of a robust public option, so they send their lobbyists to Capitol Hill to gladhand the politicians like Senator Lieberman, Senator Blanche Lincoln, Senator Snowe, who all know that their constituents want a robust public option but remain opposed to that public option.

Evil is when these politicians, who were elected into office by us, and we worked hard to earn a majority for these politicians, decide to stand by and do nothing in support of what their constituents want. For every week they delay real health care reform, Americans lose their insurance and go into bankruptcy. It's unconscionable when one of these politicians, Senator Lieberman, says he'll filibuster health care reform by joining with the Republicans against the cloture vote.

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/31/799275/-You-Know-Whats-Really-Scary-

[tinkerbell41]

1. Fucking Right.

We voted these fucks in. It's about time they started doing what we want. Or maybe we could just run elections to whomever raises the most money wins, and then does the bidding of whoever gave the most to their campaign. That's how it really works, right??? There will be a backlash, I don't know what it will take, or when it will happen. There is a storm brewing and they are gonna be fucking sorry when all hell breaks loose.

[grasswire]

2. can't say this too many times:

THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.