It's almost dumbfounding to sit in my corner of this collapsed economy and watch politicians and businessmen almost salivating over the shift in power and control that the economic situation has brought on, even more so when none of them seem to get it at all. In order to have a thriving economy, you have to SELL goods. If the wares you are peddling aren't worth the money you're asking for, and people are short on money, nothing sells. Further, if my household is broke, I have to go somewhere else in order to make money, I can't just take it from my kids. Yet, I have seen not one step toward exports being promoted as a viable means to fix our economy. Not one. Why is that?
What has happened to the current industrial management mindset that it no longer thinks "sell to the masses and live with the classes?" Show me a new pickup truck that can haul a half a ton that costs seven thousand dollars to get off the lot, and I'll show you a car company that doesn't need a bailout. Who says a new carpenter or bricklayer needs a cd changer and leather seats? There used to be more tradesmen than soccer moms...now there's more unemployed dads than soccer moms, why is that?
Of, by, and for the people, that's what made America great. When it became of, by, and for the dollar, we lost everything we once knew.
Copied text from the president's Labor Day speech, as published on Yahoo:
""They should be free to make a profit. But they also have to be fair. They also have to be accountable," the president said. "That's what we're talking about — security and stability for folks who have health insurance, help for those who don't, coverage they need at a price they can afford, finally bringing costs under control — that's the reform that's needed."
Mr. President, I respectfully disagree. The reform that's needed is reform that goes way beyond the function of the system. The reform the American people need is reform at the institutional level so that health care is NOT about making a profit, but making people well when they are sick.
As long as insurance companies are 'free' to make a profit, they will; using whatever loopholes their lawyers can find in the legislation as soon as it becomes law. Let's face it, their lawyers have access to all the deliberations before hand through the freedom of information act, and they are already working hard to make sure the bottom line still provides plenty of black ink, any way it can. That's just business.
Health care is big business, and that can be seen in hospitals building parking garages. There is no return on a parking garage, even the parking fees don't come close to paying for them in their life span. But you can go to any hospital in America almost and see construction still going on (thank god). Still, one has to wonder, how is all that construction work possible in such a dead economy?
Health care is big business. That's how, and it's not only big money for hospitals, it's big money for insurers, and every one knows it. THAT is the reform we need to see happen. We need to know that when we are given a list of physicians to go see with our health concerns, we aren't being corralled into the pharmacy company's pill dispenser like so many cows being milked for the days breakfast. We need to know that we're not just contributing to the number of Mercedes Benz automobiles at the local hospital, pharmacy company, insurance company, and so forth. It's not profitable to make sick people well, it's profitable to keep them sick and give them medicine.
So I have to disagree on principle. NONE of them should be free to make a profit, that's NOT what the industry should be about. If you were to make the entire health care industry exist under 'non-profit' rules, we might all start being well again.
Just thinking out loud...
""They should be free to make a profit. But they also have to be fair. They also have to be accountable," the president said. "That's what we're talking about — security and stability for folks who have health insurance, help for those who don't, coverage they need at a price they can afford, finally bringing costs under control — that's the reform that's needed."
Mr. President, I respectfully disagree. The reform that's needed is reform that goes way beyond the function of the system. The reform the American people need is reform at the institutional level so that health care is NOT about making a profit, but making people well when they are sick.
As long as insurance companies are 'free' to make a profit, they will; using whatever loopholes their lawyers can find in the legislation as soon as it becomes law. Let's face it, their lawyers have access to all the deliberations before hand through the freedom of information act, and they are already working hard to make sure the bottom line still provides plenty of black ink, any way it can. That's just business.
Health care is big business, and that can be seen in hospitals building parking garages. There is no return on a parking garage, even the parking fees don't come close to paying for them in their life span. But you can go to any hospital in America almost and see construction still going on (thank god). Still, one has to wonder, how is all that construction work possible in such a dead economy?
Health care is big business. That's how, and it's not only big money for hospitals, it's big money for insurers, and every one knows it. THAT is the reform we need to see happen. We need to know that when we are given a list of physicians to go see with our health concerns, we aren't being corralled into the pharmacy company's pill dispenser like so many cows being milked for the days breakfast. We need to know that we're not just contributing to the number of Mercedes Benz automobiles at the local hospital, pharmacy company, insurance company, and so forth. It's not profitable to make sick people well, it's profitable to keep them sick and give them medicine.
So I have to disagree on principle. NONE of them should be free to make a profit, that's NOT what the industry should be about. If you were to make the entire health care industry exist under 'non-profit' rules, we might all start being well again.
Just thinking out loud...
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you want to hear some thing troubling man ? they shut the water off to california farm land and open the gates to the big metro cities because thats were most the tax money comes from were i live its mostly farming communities the unemployment rate is at an all time high since the dust bowel 86% no farm no workers no jobs no money no food were is all the food gonna come from ?
Mexico/china/Indonesia
thats bringing us out of the depression we import more then we produce thats making us a great country again i swear next time it is time to vote every one i know is voting for batman it would make more sense then hiring more of these idiots to run us deeper into the ground
promises promises promises i have not seen one promise he made kept yet the government has spent more money in his first week then G W BUSH ! did in his entire presidency and that is an enormous statement
Lucian"
should we hire any more Christians they seem to keep there word don't you think ? i love church going folk they are only truthful on Sunday and he hasn't made one speech on Sunday yet -
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Hmmm....I remember when he wouldn't pledge the flag, but he took the oath of office. Is he a christian now? He used to be a muslim I thought...what day is it? Oh yeah, hump day, we get to hear about health care...oh joy, it's going to be mandatory...nothing like making an undefined product mandatory...in the end I doubt it will be much healthier than cigarettes for the consumer.
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The vote, and the country, is lost at the primary, where nobody knows anything about the challenger, and the press is schmoozing the incumbents. So we're bent over yet again because we have to pick between the lesser of two evils every election cycle.
Truth is, I think they like it this way, two party system, just like the U.S.S.R. Us and them have become we, and 'we the people' have become theirs. As long as they keep us insanely angry with each other, we won't notice that they are both the same...they just come at us from different directions. In the end, it's all big money collecting more money from little people.
It's sick.
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