THE HEALTH CARE ISSUE: VOLUME 100, ISSUE 122
PUBLIC OPTION
by Malik Isasis
Due to being in production on a documentary film, I haven't been writing as frequently, but I was moved when I discovered a friend of mine from Seattle had a brain tumor, and recently had an operation to have it removed.
Naomi Ishisaka is a journalist, and editor for Colors Magazine. I met Naomi at a film festival four years ago, for which Colors, her magazine, sponsored. In a strange twist, I discovered that her father was one of my favorite professors in my undergraduate studies at the University of Washington.
In Naomi's blog, Naomi's Noggin she writes eloquently about her emotional journey and recovery from the pheno-orbital meningioma (brain tumor) operation, from September 2009--not to mention the hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical bills.
Who have we become? What kind of people are we in America?
Corporatism and right-wing politics has transformed the American citizenry into full-time consumers, born into debt. In one generation, corporate operatives have nearly killed off unions, giving us Debt Bondage by credit card companies and banks, whereby the masses are working, only to pay back a Sisyphean loop of debt, with impossible interest rates that will never be paid off. Where I'm from this is called slavery.
So scared are the masses that they won't protest anything that threatens their financial security for fear of losing their jobs. But there is no such thing as security, and as Helen Keller once stated, security does not exist in nature nor do children of men experience it.
The Media Industrial Complex has insured the lack of critical thinking with infotainment programming (think Fox News) to keep us in a slumber. Meanwhile, the Healthcare Industrial Complex lets us die, and those with the means, have the means to live, and those who do not, die.
The Political Sickness of those who Call themselves Democrats
Now Senator Joseph Lieberman, former Democrat, now "Independent-Democrat" from Connecticut has decided to step into the healthcare debate and make it all about him (again). Three ears ago in 2006 Lieberman lost the primary race to Democratic contender Ned Lamont, unable to accept defeat, and encouraged by Republicans, he ran as an Independent and won his seat. During the 2008 Presidential Campaign, he supported Republican John McCain, and even spoke badly about Candidate Obama saying something to the effect of Obama not being safe for America.
He was still allowed in the Democratic Caucus and even given a leadership position in January of this year. Now he has come out against the Public Option in the healthcare bill, threatening to support the Republican goal of stopping a vote on the bill by filibustering.
With his straw-man-argument in tow, he stated on October 27, 2009:
"I think that a lot of people may think that the public option is free. It's not," Lieberman said. "It's going to cost the taxpayers and people that have health insurance now, and if it doesn't, it's going to add terribly to our national debt."
Yet, Lieberman supports a never-ending war, which costs billions a month to fight, and to illegally occupy two countries--surely at a cost, which adds to the National Debt. Its all a rouse.
Lieberman like many political leaders are cowards. Lieberman make political gains in the media by marketing himself as a moderate, just like John McCain markets himself as a Maverick—all sugar, no nutritional value.
Senator Joseph Lieberman is part of the sickness of our political system, where incumbent politicians feel a sense of entitlement to their office and to power. Lieberman waxes eloquently about values, and integrity but he’s a political whore, willing to sell off his services to the highest bidder (healthcare companies). Lieberman has made losing about him, rather than about the people he represents. When it becomes about the politicians, it’s not about the constituents. It is personal gain over political responsibility.
His political DNA reads neocon, and the Republican Party is where he should be. Hey Joe, on the way out, don't let the door hit 'ya where the good Lord split 'ya.
PUBLIC OPTION
by Malik Isasis
Due to being in production on a documentary film, I haven't been writing as frequently, but I was moved when I discovered a friend of mine from Seattle had a brain tumor, and recently had an operation to have it removed.
Naomi Ishisaka is a journalist, and editor for Colors Magazine. I met Naomi at a film festival four years ago, for which Colors, her magazine, sponsored. In a strange twist, I discovered that her father was one of my favorite professors in my undergraduate studies at the University of Washington.
In Naomi's blog, Naomi's Noggin she writes eloquently about her emotional journey and recovery from the pheno-orbital meningioma (brain tumor) operation, from September 2009--not to mention the hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical bills.
Who have we become? What kind of people are we in America?
Corporatism and right-wing politics has transformed the American citizenry into full-time consumers, born into debt. In one generation, corporate operatives have nearly killed off unions, giving us Debt Bondage by credit card companies and banks, whereby the masses are working, only to pay back a Sisyphean loop of debt, with impossible interest rates that will never be paid off. Where I'm from this is called slavery.
So scared are the masses that they won't protest anything that threatens their financial security for fear of losing their jobs. But there is no such thing as security, and as Helen Keller once stated, security does not exist in nature nor do children of men experience it.
The Media Industrial Complex has insured the lack of critical thinking with infotainment programming (think Fox News) to keep us in a slumber. Meanwhile, the Healthcare Industrial Complex lets us die, and those with the means, have the means to live, and those who do not, die.
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The Political Sickness of those who Call themselves Democrats
Now Senator Joseph Lieberman, former Democrat, now "Independent-Democrat" from Connecticut has decided to step into the healthcare debate and make it all about him (again). Three ears ago in 2006 Lieberman lost the primary race to Democratic contender Ned Lamont, unable to accept defeat, and encouraged by Republicans, he ran as an Independent and won his seat. During the 2008 Presidential Campaign, he supported Republican John McCain, and even spoke badly about Candidate Obama saying something to the effect of Obama not being safe for America.
He was still allowed in the Democratic Caucus and even given a leadership position in January of this year. Now he has come out against the Public Option in the healthcare bill, threatening to support the Republican goal of stopping a vote on the bill by filibustering.
With his straw-man-argument in tow, he stated on October 27, 2009:
"I think that a lot of people may think that the public option is free. It's not," Lieberman said. "It's going to cost the taxpayers and people that have health insurance now, and if it doesn't, it's going to add terribly to our national debt."
Yet, Lieberman supports a never-ending war, which costs billions a month to fight, and to illegally occupy two countries--surely at a cost, which adds to the National Debt. Its all a rouse.
Lieberman like many political leaders are cowards. Lieberman make political gains in the media by marketing himself as a moderate, just like John McCain markets himself as a Maverick—all sugar, no nutritional value.
Senator Joseph Lieberman is part of the sickness of our political system, where incumbent politicians feel a sense of entitlement to their office and to power. Lieberman waxes eloquently about values, and integrity but he’s a political whore, willing to sell off his services to the highest bidder (healthcare companies). Lieberman has made losing about him, rather than about the people he represents. When it becomes about the politicians, it’s not about the constituents. It is personal gain over political responsibility.
His political DNA reads neocon, and the Republican Party is where he should be. Hey Joe, on the way out, don't let the door hit 'ya where the good Lord split 'ya.
posted by Malik Isasis at
8:41 PM
1 Comments:
Sometimes words don't express the anger I have built up over something as simple as health care. There shouldn't be a debate over a necessity like HEALTH CARE!!..There should be a debate on how much Corporations can flash in front these greedy polictians just get their agendas across. There should be a debate on how the US invades othere countries, robs them for their resources and says we're fighting for democracy and we're doing them a favor they were already poor. We've come to a point where people will have to stand up and say the hell with this...this is my country you fuckers in DC work for me and if you don't give me what I "NEED" then theres going to a be some civil unrest goin on round here!!!.
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