Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Just Plain Crazy, Politics As Usual on Jul 4th, 2009
Mary from Pacific Views with another post spelling out exactly what Goldman Sachs did to crash the economy.
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jul 4th, 2009
Remember that Rolling Stone piece about Goldman Sachs I mentioned the other day? Here’s another post from Matt Taibbi that should raise serious concerns about the stranglehold the company has on the economic markets:
“In a move set to infuriate and send many Zero Hedge readers over the top, the NYSE has taken action to make [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jul 3rd, 2009
Rolling Stone finally linked to the Matt Taibbi story. Go read all about how Goldman Sachs rules our world.
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual, Recession Depression on Jul 2nd, 2009
Via Lambert, this from Naked Capitalism: Is the new government program to aid underwater homeowners really predatory lending? Sure looks like it:
Why would you trade a non-recourse loan from which you can walk away for a recourse loan that guarantees you’ll end up as bad as some poor slob at Tappahannock? It doesn’t seem like [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jul 1st, 2009
From Coalition of the Obvious, via Avedon, this useful “compare and contrast” on national health care systems. It especially means something to me because a few years back, after my unemployment ran out and I was working an hourly job, I developed pneumonia and couldn’t afford to pay for a chest x-ray. (I don’t remember [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jun 30th, 2009
Matt Taibbi on Goldman Sach’s response to his recent Rolling Stone piece. Go read it all, but this is priceless:
After my Rolling Stone piece about Goldman, Sachs hit the newsstands last week (unfortunately the piece is not yet up on the magazine’s web site, so I can’t link to it yet — but it is [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual on Jun 28th, 2009
Great article in Esquire.
Posted in Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 27th, 2009
9.2 Million people are already insured by a single payer system in this country.
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual, Recession Depression, Republicans Are Good With Money on Jun 26th, 2009
I wish I’d been paying closer attention to this, because now I have a whole lot of questions that weren’t there before I read Matt Taibbi’s latest story for Rolling Stone: “How Goldman Sachs took over Washington by engineering every major market manipulation since the Great Depression.”
But first, the “good” news:
WASHINGTON — Landmark legislation to [...]
Posted in Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual on Jun 25th, 2009
Jim Hightower:
Like a Fourth of July crescendo of fireworks, our gasoline prices are rising higher and higher. While this is tough on consumers, we’re assured by a covey of tongue-clucking industry analysts that nothing can be done about it, for it’s simply the law of supply and demand in action — so suck it up, [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 24th, 2009
Former CIGNA PR rep Wendell Potter is testifying before a Senate committee this afternoon. Coincidentally, my friend D. sent a link to this recent interview in the Columbia Journalism Review, and you should read the whole thing. And after you read it, you should bookmark it. Whenever you see an erroneous story about healthcare reform, [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 24th, 2009
Looks like someone wants to make restitution:
The much-maligned health insurance industry is braced for another black eye today as the Senate hears testimony from a former insurance company executive.
Wendell Potter, who worked in public relations for Cigna and Humana Inc., for more than 20 years before retiring in 2008, is scheduled to testify this afternoon [...]
Posted in Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jun 23rd, 2009
I once did a three-hour interview with a prominent Republican state legislator, famous for being the leader of the state’s pro-life movement. (He confided to me that nothing he did for the movement was ever enough, that they might even be, yes, a tad wacky.)
Despite our many political differences, we did hit it off and [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 23rd, 2009
Lambert:
The public option is not some sort of compromise. It is not some kind of gentle glidepath to single payer, since the legislation will be designed to make the transition to single payer FAIL, as Kathleen Sibelius admits. And as the public option FAIL takes 10 years or so to play out, it will suck [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 23rd, 2009
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 22nd, 2009
And in other “news”:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans are struggling to pay for healthcare in the ongoing economic recession, with a quarter saying they have had trouble in the past 12 months, according to a survey released on Monday.
Baby boomers — the generation born between 1946 and 1964 — had the most trouble and were the [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 22nd, 2009
Krugman on the congressional fight for healthcare reform:
I’m not that worried about the issue of costs. Yes, the Congressional Budget Office’s preliminary cost estimates for Senate plans were higher than expected, and caused considerable consternation last week. But the fundamental fact is that we can afford universal health insurance — even those high estimates were [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Just Plain Crazy, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 21st, 2009
Digby on rationing healthcare.
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 20th, 2009
About Tom Daschle’s comments on health care reform. Bernie Sanders joins him:
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor on Jun 20th, 2009
This is the thing no one seems to want to face: people with no money and no place to go. I suppose if they were stockbrokers, we’d be throwing money at them!
Despite billions of federal dollars being poured into Michigan’s unemployment benefits program, the safety net for jobless workers doesn’t stretch far or wide enough [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 19th, 2009
Co-ops, individual mandates, and no employee mandate. This seems less like an honest proposal and more like a way to kill health care reform and blame liberals for not supporting a compromise bill.
- Comment from Ezra Klein’s column at the Washington Post. Go read them all.
Let me put it this way: If the result [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 19th, 2009
Am I the only one who sees how funny this is?
Support for a government option is especially strong among younger Iowans, said J. Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Company, the firm that conducted the Des Moines Register survey in late April. Only in the 65-and-over age group does opposition outweigh support for a public [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 19th, 2009
Forbes is a magazine so bad, I once cancelled a FREE subscription. So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that they have articles attacking what they call “ObamaCare.”
I especially like this one, “ObamaCare Can Punish You for Being Healthy.” Now, you would think of the audience that reads Forbes, they would agree - but the [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 18th, 2009
Oh, I’m sorry. Did I just say that out loud?
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 18th, 2009
As if we didn’t know! Ezra Klein:
Health reform is, I think it fair to say, in danger right now. The news out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee was bad. The Congressional Budget Office had scored a partial bill and the result was a total fiasco. But the news out of the [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fuck the Poor, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 18th, 2009
Bill Moyers:
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, Recession Depression, Republicans Are Good With Money, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 18th, 2009
It’s just horrible, the bipartisan rape healthcare plan offered by Howard Baker, Bob Dole, Tom Daschel and George Mitchell.
As you might expect, it reflects the constant mindset of the Beltway elites. They make a fetish of reaching the lowest common political denominator, rather than advocating for something which actually solves the problem.
But hey, it’s “centrist”!
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual on Jun 18th, 2009
This “centrist” president continues to do the politically expedient things rather than those that are actually needed. But the important thing is, Michelle has an organic garden!
Three quarters of a century ago, President Franklin Roosevelt earned the undying enmity of Wall Street when he used his enormous popularity to push through a series of radical [...]
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, Recession Depression, Republicans Are Good With Money on Jun 18th, 2009
Is that it proves (as George Soros says) untrammeled capitalism doesn’t work.
Posted in Class War, Communism for the Rich, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The Best Healthcare in the World on Jun 17th, 2009
Jane Hamsher tells us who’s holding up the public option:
Healthcare reform advocates have been watching the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee and wondering why no public option component has been forthcoming — despite assurances that it would appear by Tuesday.
According to a source with direct knowledge of what is happening on the [...]
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