Chickens for Colonel Sanders
Well, the silly tax day protests are almost over, and I’m hoping that this could be a teachable moment. The phony grassroots (Astroturf) teabagging was of course promoted, funded and orchestrated by the same hard right plutocrats that brought us to this hard place.
Please; a populist movement brought to us by Koch Oil, Steve Forbes and the Coors family? The funding behind these events reads like a who’s who of billionaire think tanks, the same folks that keep Dick Armey, Newt Gingrich, and Tom DeLay flying first class.
When you see those shills on Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s Fox network, remember who they’re working for; the operable term is plutocracy, government control by the wealthy.
If Fox had devoted as much coverage to the anti-war protests of the last decade as they have to this dog and pony show, some hundred thousand service people could be home with their families by now.
CSPAN3 has been broadcasting the World Health Care Congress this week, a gathering of health care professionals, insurance executives, public officials, and CEOs all looking to improve US healthcare, which while the costliest on earth, lags other developed countries in most indices.
Last night, I saw Safeway’s Steven Burd, who urged businesses not to wait on government, telling how they reined in costs for their 200,000 people by managing care, (like the HMO’s were supposed to do) and giving incentives for healthy living, eating well, exercising, smoking cessation, weight loss, etc.
I’ve seen my tax returns and my benefits package lately and you know what? My federal income tax last year came to less than two months premiums for our family HMO coverage.
You want to hit the streets about them apples, say when; I’ll be there with you.
Please; a populist movement brought to us by Koch Oil, Steve Forbes and the Coors family? The funding behind these events reads like a who’s who of billionaire think tanks, the same folks that keep Dick Armey, Newt Gingrich, and Tom DeLay flying first class.
When you see those shills on Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s Fox network, remember who they’re working for; the operable term is plutocracy, government control by the wealthy.
If Fox had devoted as much coverage to the anti-war protests of the last decade as they have to this dog and pony show, some hundred thousand service people could be home with their families by now.
CSPAN3 has been broadcasting the World Health Care Congress this week, a gathering of health care professionals, insurance executives, public officials, and CEOs all looking to improve US healthcare, which while the costliest on earth, lags other developed countries in most indices.
Last night, I saw Safeway’s Steven Burd, who urged businesses not to wait on government, telling how they reined in costs for their 200,000 people by managing care, (like the HMO’s were supposed to do) and giving incentives for healthy living, eating well, exercising, smoking cessation, weight loss, etc.
I’ve seen my tax returns and my benefits package lately and you know what? My federal income tax last year came to less than two months premiums for our family HMO coverage.
You want to hit the streets about them apples, say when; I’ll be there with you.
posted by Julia B. @ 8:16 PM
2 Comments:
The demographics, however, are pretty clear: The GOP's "Southern Strategy" is history. According to Vanity Fair, the typical FOX News viewer, like the average dittohead, is over 65. Potential Knothead voters grow older, whiter and more powerless every year. Understandably, many feel isolated and afraid.
It's a damn shame there's so much money to be made scaring them half to death.
Gene Lyons
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
OK, I checked the math. My tax bill was equal to three months premiums, making Aetna's levy four times that of the IRS.
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