My Wife's ACA price tag...could cripple my family.

So my wife just signed up for the ACA (#Obamacare); she is now once again covered. However, we will never be able to afford for her to go see a doctor, for any kind of check-up, breast screening, pap smear, headache, hangnail, etc.   The deductible is $6,000.00. The average cost of just going in because of the flu, will keep us in the poor house,just trying to paying off this amount (Unless  the #TrickleDown will finally start to work after 40 yrs). God help us, if she were to get sick only once year...and thats 'sick' to say or have to admit.

The ACA, is NOT the way for America. We need a single payer system; for ALL AMERICANS.

All this Heritage Foundation Plan has done, is to drive more money into a Private 'FOR PROFIT' market. Shareholders are loving the 6,000,000 people who have signed up so far. Their #QuarterlyEarnings statement will be such a sweet surprise (*cough*cough*surprise*cough).

We must push for this system to change. We must elect candidates who will lead the charge on #REALProgressiveIssues. If they bed with the wolf, they must go. If they act anything like Kevin Spacey's character, in the House of Cards, or hint that they do, they must be voted out.

This "MASS" idea that #Privatization is the only MORAL and ETHICAL way for American Citizens, (makes me throw up in the back of my mouth; the fact that we, well some of us, still fall for that idea...pft, #PROPAGANDA. To be fair, I used to puke all the time when arguing against Trickle Down; well that fact that people believe that crap). Time and time again, we have seen the idea that bigger means be and that less means more. When Cable Companies merge, they justify that merger by the fact it will drive down costs. Yet the costs continues to rise and rise. Here is the same thing with this #AffordableCareAct.

I have argued over and over, that we allowed ourselves and our progressive values to be sold out. For some of us, on the LEFT, believe that "something is better then nothing." But that too, is just pure propaganda. Its meant to deflate our #Activism. Its what continues to propel this Country further to the Right, inch by inch. We shouldnt accept a middle grounds, a compromise, on something that we KNOW, WE KNOW, is vital to the Greater Good and the Economy (well at least our bank accounts). The less Americans have to fear sickness, illness, disease and the common cold, the more productive they will be. The more money they will save, and the more money they will have to buy imported technologies that were subsidized by their tax money in the first place.

MEDICINE, and the INSURANCE that one has to have in order to procure the it, should NOT be FOR PROFIT.

PROFIT creates GREED and REAL DEPENDENCY. No Corporation is going to just give away the cure for Cancer, when it drives their profits. For what For Profit Company would look forward to closing its doors; what CEO looks forward to LESS bonuses; what Shareholder wants zero return on their investment?

Its time we fight back. Its time we make this Country, truly worthy, of the title "The Greatest Nation on Earth." For we dont deserve that title, but we do deserve "The Greatest Hypocrites on Earth" award.

Its time we fight, for everything we know whats right. Accept NO COMPROMISE. DONT be BULLIED. DONT believe in their BULLSHIT. DONT accept their PROPAGANDA.

Its time to use our POWER, our REAL POWER, while we still have it. VOTE.  VOTE them ALL OUT.  Start fresh. ONE at a TIME, works, but is very slow, as the momentum of the pendulum continues towards the RIGHT. Every minute we wait, every little election we ignore, keeps that energy moving that way.

I personally want more people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, to lead our Nation. And not the WARHAWKS like Bushs or the Clintons. SO we can end our #Imperialism and focus on our own people first and foremost, and then show the world, what they can accomplish if they follow suit.

Its put up or shut time, America.


#Progressives #ACA #OBAMACARE #PresidentBarackObama Barack Obama #Democrats #Socialists #Moderates #REALChristians #Liberals #Independents #GenerationX #Millennials

The Complete Sabotage of Our Democracy is no longer just a Conspiracy Theory.

The Complete Sabotage of Our Democracy is no longer just a Conspiracy Theory. 

QUICK NOTE: I have been "silently" watching our Nation spin out of control; Silently, by filling my time commenting on News Articles on HuffPo, and blathering like a rapid idiot on Facebook. I should be more engaged, like most Americans should, I believe, trying to provide bigger and longer conversations about hot topics within our Country.  Nothing wrong with those quick little paragraphical rants on FB, or the 140 word count "did you hear this, see that..." that Twitter provides.  Facebook and Twitter offer abilities that Blogs just cant provide, but seem to lack the ability to dive deeper into the conversation on hand, just because of the expected attention span of the average reader.  I understand that there are always Trolls on these Social Media sites, as well as, the Intellectual; both of whom, like to preach on and on, for paragraphs. I fall into the later. Sometimes, it is to be expected that people will chime in this way, but by my observation, more people limit themselves to one paragraph or one or two sentences. I have no concrete evidence of that at all, just an observation. So with that said...on to the topic at hand.
  
The Complete Sabotage of Our Democracy is no longer just a Conspiracy Theory.

The Republican Congress currently, as we all know, is doing everything in its power to destroy or fracture whats left of Middle Class America. They completely shut down our Government because of the ADA and the fear of Tea Party Repercussion; well repercussion from the Koch Brothers for sure, and their money. They even admit to it. “We have to do this because of the Tea Party. If we don’t, these guys are going to get primaried and they are going to lose their primary.” stated Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR). Mitch McConnell is going to ask the Supreme Court to completely do away with Campaign Finance limitations.  So here, they sort of admit that Money has become the key factor of why they 'fear' to do the right thing; yet they want to unleash this beast even more. Americas Democracy has fallen, or is falling...falling to the greed and influence of the Oligarchs that are now in control of what used to be our Democracy.  At the same time the GOP is being bought out by the Koch Brothers and  the Democratic Party seems to be well on its way to be influenced by the Big Bank System here in America. Not only did we see our President, not prosecute any of the top executives that helped collapse the Global economy, but he employed some of them to sit on his Cabinet; example Obama’s chief-of-staff, is former JPMorgan Chase & Co. executive Bill Daley; who replaced Emanuel, who once worked for Goldsman Sachs.  Lets not forget to mention that Attorney General Eric Holder, has ties to some of the Big Banks through a top tier Law Firm. Now the President is working behind close doors with some of the Biggest World Corporations Lobbyists on the Trans Pacific Free Trade Agreement: 

"in a $500 a night Beverly Hills Hotel, the Obama administration’s U.S. Trade Representative is gathering in secret with negotiators from around the world for a session that could create a whole new set of international trade rules: rules that favor the wealthy 1% of corporate interests...the Trans Pacific Free Trade Agreement (TPP for short) would likely be the largest regional free trade agreement the United States has ever seen. Negotiators want new “NAFTA of the Pacific” set of rules for the global economic highway that could eventually include every Pacific Rim nation from Vietnam, Thailand, and Japan to Australia, Canada, Mexico and Russia. And instead of an open, transparent process the text is completely secret to the public while hundreds of corporate lobbyists from the biggest drug companies, job-killing corporations, major global banks, and agribusiness giants have been registered as “advisors” to the process...Bankers and traders wants to use the Trans-Pacific FTA to roll back new safeguards many nations have passed to get banks and securities firms under control and restore financial stability. They are proposing to lock in the extreme deregulation that led to the devastating financial crisis." - http://www.laprogressive.com/free-trade-agreement/http://www.laprogressive.com/free-trade-agreement/

 

These are just but a few examples of the ongoing attack against the American People and our Democracy, that we should be fully aware of.  So many of us turn blind eyes to the Parties that we believe with must be loyal too, in fear that the other guy may use whatever it is that they are trying to ignore, against them. There was a great article recently posted on the website Activistpost.com by Michael Synder titled World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World that I would recommend reading. Karen Hudes, a Yale educated Lawyer who worked for the Legal Department at the World Bank, became the next Big Whistle Blower, who has largely been ignored by Mainstream Media. This article points out exactly what we are witnessing everyday by the Oligarchy, here in America; through the Global viewpoint by the WB. Karen Hudes contends that the WB's role Globally is:

"[is too] control.  They want all of us enslaved to debt, they want all of our governments enslaved to debt, and they want all of our politicians addicted to the huge financial contributions that they funnel into their campaigns.  Since the elite also own all of the big media companies, the mainstream media never lets us in on the secret that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that our system works." 

Something I think most of us can all ready agree on. The 'Will' to dominate is a plaque and seems to be inherent in us, as a species. Greed has become the key denominator in all these equations. And we have allowed money to dominate our electoral process, our justice system, our health care system, our educational system, and we have done little to rebel strongly enough to get money out of the central core of these issues.  Take for instance our politicians on either side of the aisle, have yet to be willing to support a repeal or constitutional amendment to make Citizens United obsolete.

We must stop being so quiet about the effects of money in our Political system, if we are ever to regain control of this Democracy...and some of us need to stop ignoring that this is the major plague that is causing the desparities that we see, daily, all around us.  

The Biggest Traitors to Democracy...

In response to those that say Snowden, and Manning are the worst TRAITOR there are: I think, We, the American People, our the worst Traitors there are...For we have allowed our Democracy to be taken over by those that only serve their interest, the interest of the elite and wealthy.

America, was to be a shinning beacon of hope in a New World...yet here we are, a Country who is a bully... A Country who turns its backs on its poor and homeless and creates hostility to those less fortunate. A Country that fuels suspicion and angst towards one another. A Country that interferes with our Nations at a whim; just for our own Military Industrial complex can sell their toys. A Country that says there is religious freedoms upon its soil; as Christian Values are shoved down the throats of its people. A Country where you are supposed to be free; yet personal lives are more regulated then Wall Street, Oil Companies and Waste Management Services. A Country that believes it has the RIGHT to bomb innocent men, women and children in Sovereign Nations; just to try to kill one 'terrorist.' A Country where there are two sets of law; one for the poor and one for the Affluent. A Country that puts the wealth of the 1% above education, medical care and all those "Christian Values" they shove down OUR throats as they eat caviar as children starve. A Country that has abandoned "We the People for the People..." for an Oligarchy Reich.

SO who is actually harming America and American values and should be looked at as the worst kind of traitor? Bradly Manning? Edward Snowden? - No; it is "We the People," who should be held accountable for being the biggest TRAITORS to Democracy. We have allowed this Country to become a Tyrant to its People, and to the World.