Fight corporate America? Call for HCR? You'll only hurt yourself.

[metapunditedgy]

Recently, I got swept up in a lawsuit because a (so-called) money-market fund I was in actually went under. The SEC alleges that the people who ran the fund acted fraudulently, and there are lawsuits flying left and right. The company that ran the fund, "The Reserve," could have done the right thing and returned all the available funds while waiting for the last pieces to settle.

Of course that's not what they did. They held on to the investors' own money and said, "If you sue us, we'll use your own money to pay our lawyers and our fines. Then your money will be gone. (May they rot in prison with Bernie for the rest of their lives and beyond.)

It seems like we've reached this stage with HCR. Do you want to push for real reform? Do you want to motivate your elected reps to fight for you? Well it's going to take money. Our money. Oh, yeah, voting is important too, but that's just the warm-up. Nothing really gets done until you pay for it.

But on the other side, the insurance companies are fighting to oppose HCR. Are they fighting with their own money? Of course not. They're fighting with OUR money. "It's just business." And to make sure they keep raking in our money to pay the executive bonuses, they have to raise the rates. So we pay for the bribes that oppose our own best interest, and we pay for the info-blurbs to counter those bribes.

The kleptocracies fight against us with our own resources... for the right to take more of our resources.

Feel screwed yet?

[HillbillyBob]

1. Been feelin Skrewed since RunnyRaygun

Military service ATC , outed could not get a job with FAA..
Try being gay and working construction since I could not get a job working as air traffic controller..yea I have been trying to wake people up for years.

We seriously need to do something to control corpse murka.

[Sherman A1]

2. Agreed

As much as I really dislike W. Raygun was the worst President in history.

[truedelphi]

3. You have nailed the situation for what it is.

As an anti-pesticide activist, back in the days when I was new to political struggles, I would become very enheartened whenever I heard that Representative So and So was going to push for regulation. Or that Senator So and SO was going to push for stipulations.

And usually in the end, all those efforts became merely ways for the House members or Senators to let the pesticide industries know that - Hey, Big Boys, it is time to start offering us some campaign contributions.

One name does stand out from the others - Barbara Boxer, who really took on the pesiticde and pharmaceutical industries on again and again, because she wanted what was right for people. But usually this whole thing is just a shell game.