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Showing posts with label national. Show all posts

I support an OPTIONAL Medicare For All Plan. If you want to buy health insurance from the government - do it. If you want to pay more for Corporate Corporate Plans - Do that!

I saw a "Stop Medicare For All" advertisement on TV and it's message was that you get faster service with the corporate controlled Healthcare System that we have now than a single payer system like Canada has. What is the REBUTTAL to that argument? I want to blog a reply but, they might be right!

Yes, they wait a longer time in Canada...

One unexpected consequence of a National Health Service would be that Healthcare Insurance Corporations would go out of business. Massive Layoffs... Big loss in the stock market...  Currently those Private insurance companies squeeze vast profits out of patients... SO... Those people that are getting rich will be fighting for their life. Frankly speaking, I would divest from any healthcare company because their stock value will go to zero if Medicare for All becomes Reality. I feel that most of the actual workers would get hired at government jobs because the quantity of service needed would increase... but the senior management positions would be eliminated... those guys would be in Deep DOO-DOO... after ripping off Patients for Decades they would have to go get a REAL JOB!

Critics are more skeptical of the government’s ability to administer coverage on such a large scale, pointing to longer wait times for certain care in some countries with single-payer systems. 

Americans spend far more on health care per person than other developed nations and supporters of a single-payer plan argue it could hold down costs by negotiating or requiring lower payments to doctors, hospitals and drug companies, while eliminating overhead associated with private insurance.

As a result, even though the government would spend much more on health care under Medicare for All than it does now, supporters argue that a single-payer system might reduce total national health spending by some estimates and that money currently going to premiums would help offset the new taxes on individuals and families.

Similarly wealthy countries tend to have both universal coverage (though not always a pure single-payer system) and healthier populations than the U.S., suggesting there’s a workable path to guaranteeing health care.  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/what-medicare-all-how-would-it-work-n1014256

Free Coloring Book Art - Medicare For All - Sanders Institute - print image and color with felt pens, pencils, crayons or Potatoshop
Free Coloring Book Art - Medicare For All
 Sanders Institute - print image and color with felt pens, pencils, crayons or Potatoshop
Free Coloring Book Art - Sanders Institute - print image and color with felt pens, pencils, crayons or Potatoshop
Connect the Dots at the Sanders Institute:
Free Coloring Book ART: Link to MORE, More More!
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/12/bernie-sanders-has-built-sanders.html

TRADE WAR WITH INDIA. Since Trump's Last Trade War Was Such a Failure, He Says: "Let's Do It Again!"

"Trump Shows a complete lack of understanding of Business... He's a Doofus!" says an Anonymous Wall Street Investor...

India imposing increased, retaliatory tariffs on US exports including apples, almonds... https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/06/16/trade-war-india-hits-u-s-more-tariffs/1471140001/

Why do American Laws Apply to Julian Assange at all? Wikileaks started in ICELAND and has Offices in Sweden... SO... How do USA Laws Apply? FREE JULIAN ASSANGE... FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IS IMPORTANT.

WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes news leaks,[5] and classified media provided by anonymous sources.[6] Its website, initiated in 2006 in Iceland by the organisation Sunshine Press,[7] claimed in 2016 to have released online 10 million documents in its first 10 years.[8] Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder and director.[9] Since September 2018, Kristinn Hrafnsson has served as its editor-in-chief.[10][11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks

The Similarity of Trump, Jim Jones and Marshall Applewhite is Creepy... They ALL Tell Lies that are Totally Believed by Brainwashed Followers... How can we Rescue and De-Program TrumpNiks Before it's Too Late?

CNN and MSNBC Often point out FALSE CLAIMS MADE BY TRUMP. Obvious Lies... However, True Believers of Our Glorious Leader Never Watch those TV Channels... Nor do they Read Newspapers Like The Washington Post, The New York Times or ANYONE telling the Truth... 

TrumpNiks Live in an Artificial World Constructed by Rupert Murdoch where they receive Programming Instructions via Fox News... and The National Enquirer... and Rush Limbaugh... 

and then there is Facebook and other Social Media Platforms... Anyone can write Totally False Stories and Post the as if they were true... Recently I've "Liked" many Republican posts and Groups too see what they Post on Facebook... Yes, My Newsfeed is Packed with Bizarre Lies and Fake Conspiracy Theories... It's astounding that ANYONE COULD POSSIBLY BELIEVE THESE INSANE RANTS...  

In case you don't know the Name Marshall Applewhite... He lead a UFO/Suicide Cult... They Earned their Living as Webpage Designers...
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Applewhite

Trump is facing a Republican Revolt over his Fake National Emergency to Fund The Wall... Rand Paul announces He will vote against Trump...

Headline: President Trump is facing a potential revolt among Senate Republicans over his decision to declare a national emergency to construct the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

HOWEVER, Rand Paul often pretends to be the last needed vote and then he wimps out... 

tRUMP "Shoots Himself in the Foot" with his FAKE National Emergency that the VAST Majority of Americans Do Not Want... NO WALL...

Hatred for Latinos does not sell with Most People... He can Scream "Danger Danger" but WE THE PEOPLE are not fooled... Actual Arrests of People coming over the Border with Mexico are at a 20 YEAR LOW... More Latino People are Moving from the USA to Mexico than are Coming in...

There IS NO NATIONAL EMERGENCY... It's all just Racism...

WALLS ALWAYS FAIL...

The Great Wall of China FAILED to keep the Chinese Out. Look at a Map. The wall is in the middle of the country... Chinese People Live On Both Sides!

The Berlin Wall, FAILED To keep the East Germans In... As President Reagan said: "Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall."

Hadrian's Wall FAILED to keep the Scottish People out of England. The Romans built that wall and then they ran back home to Italy.

The Only WALL that was Successful was Pink Floyd's...

tRUMP'S Wall is about 260 years too late... Mexicans Colonized California starting in 1760... Father Junipero Serra built Missions starting in San Diego (Saint Douglas) all the Way to San Francisco (Saint Francis of Assisi)... all the Towns have Mexican Names... Los Angeles (The Angels), Sacramento (The Sacrament), San Jose (Saint Joseph), Los Gatos (The Cats).... White People didn't move to California until 1849 when Gold was Discovered and then the USA stole All the Land from Mexico... Originally Mexicans Owned Colorado, Texas, Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, Nevada...

We have been living with Mexicans for Hundreds of Years... Peacefully... This SPANISH PANIC of tRUMP's is ABSURD...

Ever hear the Song SPANISH PANIC from the Musical "Once Upon a Mattress"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBic-Acy6LE




Sign the petition: Support National Popular Vote Now. END THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. Hillary Got MORE VOTES but we got Trump. Al Gore Got MORE VOTES but we got Bush Jr.

Clearly The Electoral College is a BAD system that Allowed The Two Worst Presidents Ever to be Elected! Write to Your Elected Representative and SIGN THIS PETITION...

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-support-national-popular-vote-now

It's time to ensure the candidate with popular support is actually elected. How? With the National Popular Vote Compact.

What's required? States just pass a law awarding their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote. Once states that add up to 270 electoral votes join, then we guarantee that the popular vote winner always becomes president!

We're already 60 percent of the way there. Let's up the pressure.

Sign the petition to all 50 state governments: Join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact so that in the United States we can finally elect our presidents by national popular vote.

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. 

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/fix-the-broken-electoral-college-pass-national-popular-vote?source=website

Fix the broken Electoral College - pass National Popular Vote - another Online Petition...


The Electoral College was Intentionally Designed to keep the Masses from Selecting the President... The Founding Fathers wanted to Keep Power in their Own Hands... No Votes for Blacks or Women... only rich white men vote...

Federal Deficit Jumps 17 Percent As Tax Cuts Eat Into Government Revenue. Global Economic Collapse Predicted by Oracle at Delphi, SoothSayers, Clairvoyants.

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/16/657790901/federal-deficit-jumps-17-percent-as-tax-cuts-eat-into-government-revenue
The federal deficit ballooned to $779 billion in the just-ended fiscal year — a remarkable tide of red ink for a country not mired in recession or war.
The government is expected to borrow more than a trillion dollars in the coming year, in part to make up for tax receipts that have been slashed by GOP tax cuts.
Corporate tax collections fell by 31 percent in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, despite robust corporate profits. That's hardly surprising after lawmakers cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21.
Income taxes withheld from individuals grew by 1 percent. Overall tax receipts were flat. As a share of the economy, tax receipts shrank to 16.5 percent of GDP, from 17.2 percent the previous year.
"The president is very much aware of the realities presented by our national debt," said White House budget director Mick Mulvaney.

Echelon Keyword Data: income tax, debt, national, bankrupt, USA, Gong Show, Quack Quack, Bubbles, Boom, Bust, Stock Market, Meltdown, Global, Economic, Collapse

The Needs of The Many Outweigh The Needs of The Few or The Stockholders. 
The main quest of the corporate world is: "How can we increase profits for stockholders?"

Decisions in boardrooms often sacrifice the health of the majority of people, animals and plants in order to create additional wealth for the owners of corporations. For Example: Offshore oil drilling will increase profits for oil companies but cause oil spills that harm the environment. The owners of oil companies often live in Conneticut or downtown Manhattan NYC and it makes no difference at all to them if the beaches in Los Angeles have black goo on them. The laws about automobile air pollution protect the lungs of people that breathe air but corporate greed freaks often live in air-conditioned offices and homes that have filtered air that removes the pollution... They believe that the solution to global warming is to turn up the air conditioner so that their offices always remain at 72 degrees... If it's 110 degrees in Harlem or Queens it's simply not important to people that make decisions on Wall Street. 

However, Hurricane Sandy disrupted the lives of rich and poor. When the streets flooded, Limo-Man couldn't ride in his Limo. We see that already there are civil engineering plans for building dikes around lower and mid-town Manhattan to prevent rising sea levels from flooding. Good luck with THAT, masters of the universe... New Orleans has dikes too... but sometimes they fail... like during Hurricane Katrina. Maybe a better plan would be to stop burning gasoline in cars and build more solar and wind power plants to charge electric cars... 

How much wealth is enough? Can there be a balance between corporate profit and quality of life for the people? What is the point of getting another Billion Dollars once you already have One Billion? Where is the MOTIVATION?
What IF we could teach corporate greed freaks to behave differently? It's A Question of Balance...


Great Book: "How to Get Rid of a President: History's Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives" by David Priess

https://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rid-President-Executives/dp/1541788206

How To Get Rid of a President showcases the political dark arts in action: a stew of election dramas, national tragedies, and presidential departures mixed with party intrigue, political betrayal, and backroom maneuvers. This briskly paced, darkly humorous voyage proves that while the pomp and circumstance of presidential elections might draw more attention, the way that presidents are removed teaches us much more about our political order.


VOTE - It's a Better Alternative than Assassination

Proof Trump Lied: Michael Cohen secretly taped Donald Trump in 2016 about payments to Playboy Model who had an Adulterous Affair with Trump.

The Justice Department is investigating the involvement of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, in paying women to tamp down embarrassing news stories about Mr. Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. The former model, Karen McDougal, says she began a nearly yearlong affair with Mr. Trump in 2006, shortly after Mr. Trump’s wife, Melania, gave birth to their son Barron. Ms. McDougal sold her story to The National Enquirer for $150,000 during the final months of the presidential campaign, but the tabloid sat on the story, which kept it from becoming public. The practice, known as “catch and kill,” effectively silenced Ms. McDougal for the remainder of the campaign.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/us/politics/michael-cohen-trump-tape.html 


Trump's Tariffs Cause Damage to American Factory Workers, Farmers... Reducing sales of American Made and American Grown Products. Spiking National Debt...

Trump's Tariffs hurt "Red State" workers and Farmers especially hard. Dairy, Soybeans, Corn, Almonds, Cranberries... Sales are down...  Europe, Canada, China and Mexico are buying from someone else... not the USA... Causing the National Debt to go up dramatically...

Trump-A-GO-Go Economics Disaster

General Motors warns Trump's tariffs may lead to "a smaller GM" and fewer jobs

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/general-motors-warns-trumps-tariffs-may-lead-to-a-smaller-gm-and-fewer-jobs

Don't Talk with Your Mouth Full Trump

Great Movie: About protesters occupying Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. "No Man's Land"

The militia who took over the Malheur Refuge believed taking up arms against the government wasn’t an act of rebellion but instead an act of patriotism.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/no-mans-land/ 

On January 2, 2016, armed militants seized the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon, United States[25] and continued to occupy it until law enforcement made a final arrest on February 11, 2016.[26] Their leader was Ammon Bundy, who participated in the 2014 Bundy standoff at his father's Nevada ranch. Other members of the group were loosely affiliated with non-governmental militias and the sovereign citizen movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_National_Wildlife_Refuge

Sadly, The Solution for Global Warming may be Global Economic Collapse...

Since we have a Government Economic Plan that adds a trillion dollars to the National Debt every year... We may come to a time when we can't find lenders willing to buy Treasury Notes. Bankruptcy of the USA would cause a Global Economic Collapse and the only people that would survive are those who work as subsistence farmers. Imagine a barter economy where money is worth nothing... No buying gas for trucks to haul groceries to the store... Starvation of Billions of people...

However, we won't be driving cars and that will be good for air pollution. We won't be burning coal for power plants... or natural gas either... ONE Billion surviving Humans heating their homes with wood is sustainable. Candles for light at night...

A computer virus could bring down our civilization. Imagine a world where the internet does not exist. Gas stations couldn't take payment using debit cards. Grocery stores wouldn't automatically order replacement food. Banks couldn't keep track of their money... except for local banking... We had banking before computers but our current system would go thru a radical change...

However, ONE billion people surviving is enough. The real trouble would be if leaders panic and launch nuclear missiles. THAT would wipe out all life except for single celled organisms that can tolerate extreme cold. They would go into hibernation until the Nuclear Winter was over...  

And now we face Trump's Tax Cut bill. On first glance everyone should be in favor of lower taxes... Except, He intends to increase taxes on the poor while reducing taxes on the rich. Absurd.

He also proposes increased spending at the same time. This plan will cause massive increase in the National Debt. "Just Charge Everything and let our Grandchildren Pay for it." Bad Plan...

He also plans to end the Mortgage Deduction. That will increase the tax bill for millions of middle class Americans...

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I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

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During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

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