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If United States health care is “already the finest… in the world,” why then do we have 30 million still uninsured, why is ours the most expensive, and why are the outcomes worse than those in many other countries?
The answer is simple–our health care system clearly needs reform. Instead of facing the truth, conservatives like Senator Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner are attempting to put the brakes on progress without offering a viable alternative.
From The Huffington Post
It seems insider trading isn’t just for corporate fat cats — our Congressional lawmakers have been getting in on the action too. This Washington Post story of 34 members of Congress who changed their financial portfolios a total of 166 times immediately before key economic legislation in 2008 is simply nauseating.
The STOCK Act bandaid won’t stem wide-spread corruption as voters’ “deficit of trust” continues to grow.
Following Obama’s press conference last week, Senator Mitch McConnell gave a quick lesson on cognitive dissonance. Even though he admitted Bush-era tax cuts were not reinvested in the US economy and did not create jobs, he still called for MORE tax cuts!
Repeat after me, “Ideology is the science of idiots.”
From The Huffington Post
"Ideology is the science of idiots."
- President John Adams
© 2011 Catherine Crier
