Wednesday, September 23, 2009

ERIC CANTOR vies for MOST HATEFUL MAN in America... PIMPING Insurance Industry PROFITS, OVER the LIVES of his Constituents...

IS Republican House Whip ERIC CANTOR vying for the title of "THE MOST HATEFUL MAN IN AMERICA" ??
In this video, he tells one of his constituents, in so many words, "IF your friend doesn't have PREMIUM  health insurance,  they should BEG FOR CHARITY... or GO AHEAD and DIE, if they have a life-threatening medical condition that needs expensive treatment."


Congressman Cantor is CERTAINLY TAKING UP where Senator Joe Lieberman has left off, as THE MOST BLATANTLY LIKUDNIK (Israel first, last & always) member of Congress, and (with the so-called "switch" of Jewish Republican Senator Arlen Specter to the Democrats, and with the loss of Republican Congressman Norm Coleman to Al Franken in the long election re-count of 2009), Cantor is now THE SOLE Jewish congressman or senator in the Republican Party.

Here, below, "ISRAEL FIRST!" Congressman ERIC CANTOR's advice to a woman who has STOMACH TUMORS KILLING HER, in a state where multi-million dollar hospitals perform cosmetic surgey by the hour, to obtain the surgery & treatment she needs to STAY ALIVE.
"[Get] An Existing Government Program Or Find Charity"
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/22/cantor-uninsured-option/
Meanwhile, as if being a 'LET THEM EAT CAKE' (or 'GO AHEAD AND DIE!') Republican Right-Wing ghoul wasn't quite DESPICABLE ENOUGH, another item in today's "Eric Cantor" "news" search reveals this gem.... CANTOR's TRUE PRIORITY, NOT the LIFE-AND-DEATH medical needs of HIS OWN American chump CONSTITUENTS, ostensibly the people that he has been elected to the US Congress to represent... NO, the DESPICABLE, GHOULISH ERIC CANTOR's REAL concern is.... ISRAEL !!

HOORAY! And Congratulations to the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN/Time/WARNER (of Hollywood movie mogul titans WARNER BROS. fame) and all the other VERY NEO-CON "ISRAEL FIRST!" Jewish-owned members of the American business and media community: CONGRATULATIONS on YOUR NEW CHAMPION! Someone who, unlike Senator Lieberman, Senator Arlen Specter, and other Neo-Con Congressmen or Senators, ISN'T AFRAID TO come out and say, outright, that US DEFERENCE to ALL THINGS ISRAEL, is FAR MORE IMPORTANT to him, than the HEALTH and lives of HIS OWN CONSTITUENTS and their family members!!!
From JTA.org , "Jewish & Israel news"
Virginia Republican Congressman Eric Cantor: Obama Not ‘true friend’ of Israel
September 23, 2009
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/09/23/1008083/cantor-obama-doesnt-seem-to-be-true-friend-of-israel

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The only Jewish Republican in Congress said President Obama does not seem to be a "true friend" of Israel.

In an interview with Politico, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said he was opposed to Obama's "disproportionate focus" on a settlement freeze instead of dealing with the "existential threat" to Israel from Iran.

"If you look at the policy that this White House has followed, it certainly does not seem as if we are dealing with a true friend" of Israel, Cantor said in the interview.

Politico reported that White House spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to respond to Cantor's remarks, but said that achieving a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians is "how you can be a true friend to Israel."

Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) called on Cantor to apologize....
While we're at it, Here's Mr. Cantor's comments about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's CONCERN... that REPUBLICANS and THEIR MEDIA ALLIES are WHIPPING UP A CLIMATE OF HATE, that CONTRIBUTES to VIOLENCE, and even the THREAT OF GUNMEN and ASSASSINATIONS, Speaker Pelosi recalling her PERSONAL REMEMBRANCES of San Francisco politicians George Moscone and Harvey Milk, "murdered out of politically motivated hatred"
HERE is what the ghoulish Mr. Cantor said about the politically experienced survivor and Congress's current Speaker of the House RECALLING two prominent political figures in her own home town MURDERED in a CLIMATE OF HATE:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27461.html
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor thinks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “IS IN ANOTHER WORLD" if she believes raucous anti-health-reform demonstrations could lead to violence — and he says he hasn’t personally witnessed racist comments [through] a summer of passionate town hall demonstrations."
Since Mr. Cantor LIVES IN A BUBBLE where he has not seen the 'OBAMA AS MASS-MURDEROUS HITLER" posters, or the GUNMEN STALKING Congressional-constituent Town Hall health-care reform meetings, , or the pushing, shoving, and shouting at other town hall meetings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX4F_cb9AXk
or the TWO MURDEROUSLY VIOLENT Right-Wing GUNMEN, ALREADY this year... and since the JEWISH OWNED New York Times, Washington Post, CNN/Time/Warner, (and Murdoch owned FOX 'news' and other Right-Wing papers like the Mooney Times and Scaife papers) REFUSE to INFORM Mr. Cantor of the REAL HATE circulating and fomenting in America today, allow us to PUT TOGETHER the list of the FOUR MURDEROUS RIGHT-WING GUNMEN of the past dozen+ months:

#1. One enraged Right-Wing gunman sought out Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman BILL GWATNEY's office in Little Rock, where the gunman pretended to want to volunteer, before barging in to Chairman Gwatney's office and shooting Mr. Gwatney to death. http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2008/08/capitol_ave_crime_scene.aspx
#2. Another murderous Right-Wing gunman stomped in to a Knoxville, Tennessee CHURCH one Sunday morning in July of 2008 - loaded with a SHOTGUN and handguns, with the INTENTION of KILLING EVERY man, woman AND CHILD at that "liberal" Unitarian Church, before one courageous victim took a full blast of the shotgun, allowing other churchgoers to wrestle the gunman down and disarm him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville_Unitarian_Universalist_church_shooting
#3. The HOLOCAUST MUSEUM SHOOTING - in the very town where Mr. Cantor (ostensibly) earns his paycheck! http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/10/museum.shooting/index.html
#4. ANOTHER Reproductive Health doctor SHOT & KILLED - Dr.George Tiller ASSASSINATED in his Kansas Church. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/us/01tiller.html

NOTE how the Jewish NY Times (and Fox and other 'news' outlets as well) find it important to HEADLINE the story "ABORTION DOCTOR SHOT," DEHUMANIZING the victim.

IS IT POSSIBLE that the JEWISH OWNED "news" organizations, including the NY Times, Washington Post, Time/Warner/CNN, the Chicago Tribune and LA Times (etc.) which have spent THE PAST SIX DECADES reminding Americans and the world of the bloody, bullying, murder, brutality, intimidation, and APPLIED TERRORISM of the NAZI Party's rise to power in German in the 1930s, CAN'T QUITE CONNECT THE DOTS, between FOUR MURDEROUS RIGHT-WING GUNMEN of the past 14 months, and the CURRENT CLIMATE of HATE and PARANOIA being WHIPPED UP by GLENN BECK, FOX "news," Rush Limbaugh, MICHAEL SAVAGE, Bernard Goldber (the last 2 of whom are Jewish) and other Right-Wing morality-mongering, HATE-MONGERING radio, TV, and press DEMAGOGUES?

If so, we include this paragraph from the Wiki link for the MURDEROUS Right-Wing TENNESSEE CHURCH GUNMAN last July at the Knoxville Unitarian Church
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville_Unitarian_Universalist_church_shooting
Adkisson's manifesto[10] also cited the inability to find a job, and that his food stamps were being cut. His manifesto stated that he intended to keep shooting until police arrived and expected to be killed by police. Adkisson had a waist satchel with more ammunition, totaling 76 shells of #4 shot.

The following books were found in Adkisson's home during a police search:[8]

Liberalism is a Mental Disorder by radio talk show host Michael Savage
Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism by talk show host Sean Hannity
The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly
In his manifesto, Adkisson also included the Democratic members of the House and Senate, [10] and the 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America [10] of Bernard Goldberg in his list of wished-for targets.
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Postscript:   SKUNK at the Garden Party

As DESPICABLE as Eric Cantor's "LET AMERICAN family members DIE if they don't have premium health insurance.... ISRAEL FIRST!" agenda is, and as blatant as it is, and as much as it WHIPS UP HATRED  and  HOSTILITY for President Obama...

....the astounding, amazing, tragic  irony is that the agenda of ERIC CANTOR _IS_ the agenda of so-called  "Democratic" President Obama!

Right-Wing America's anti-Obama sentiments may seem to be based ON RACE, and against Obama's alleged "SOCIALISM!" tendencies, but the REAL CAUSE of angst in America is the HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT, and the overpowering role that DEBT has taken up in the American economy: not just an individual's debt, which he or she can control by not assuming credit card or mortgage debt, but, as Thom Hartmann explained on his radio show yesterday, the "LEVEREGED BUY-OUT DEBT  that allows FINANCIAL PREDATORS, to use NOT _their own_,  _personal_ assets to secure  "LEVEREGED BUY OUT LOANS" to take over a company,  but the LBO specialists and bankers CAN USE a target COMPANY's ASSETS  as COLLATERAL to take over that  target company, and, having consumated the deal, and having loaded the company UP WITH DEBT to the point that THE COMPANY is now LIABLE for the LBO syndicate's incurring BILLIONS of dollars of  debt,  the syndicate executives RAID THE COMPANY to PAY OFF that debt; including FIRING  WORKERS, and RAIDING THEIR PENSION FUNDS!
    This was EXACTLY the  financial predation illustrated in the  Oliver Stone  movie "Wall Street," with Michael Douglas playing  Wall St. trader Gordon  Gecko, the infamous "GREED IS GOOD"  LBO specialist who targets  "Blue Star airline," with the intention of raiding the target company's "overfunded pension plan" as billion-dollar chips in his takeover bid.
  (note: corporate America, and especially Hollywood's, STRANGLEHOLD on American culture is SO STRONG, that 20th Century Fox can CRUSH even a two second, "Greed is good" soundbite,  on a website dedicated to important elements of American rhetoric -
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechwallstreet.html
- over 2 decades after a movie came out! FOR SHAME, Mr. Stone!)

   In real life, not only did Wall Street's Blue-Star Airlines (movie)  LBO takeover MIMIC  Frank Lorenzo's  HIGHLY LEVEREGED BUY OUT of EASTERN AIRLINES (which Lorenzo proceeded to bleed to death, right, straight in to bankruptcy, knocking South Florida's resiliant real estate industry into the same S&L crisis  real estate BUST that had wiped out  defense-contracts dependent states like California and Massachusetts, following  Bush-1 Defense Secretaries DICK CHENEY and DON RUMSFELD _BOTCHING_ the end-of-Cold-War  "Peace Dividend" base closings and defense spending cutbacks),   but the LBO tactics were repeated nearly verbatim in ZELL MILLER's highly levereged $8.2 billion buy-out of the Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Orlando & Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinels, and other papers, in 2007... driving THOSE news papers RIGHT, STRAIGHT INTO  __LEVEREGED DEBT BANKRUPTCY_ as well! 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tribune
On April 2, 2007, the Tribune Company announced a buy-out plan led by Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell worth $8.2 billion, associated with a stock buyback at $34 per share, and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. The deal closed on December 20, 2007, with Zell as the company's new chairman. As part of the deal, the Chicago Cubs and their park, Wrigley Field, will be sold, as well as the Tribune Company's share of Comcast SportsNet Chicago.[5] Less than a year after the deal closed, the Tribune Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on December 8, 2008. 
This agenda  of LEVEREGED BUYOUTS and BANK SYNDICATES using THE POWER OF DEBT to RAID  every potentially profitable asset in America and the world - INCLUDING  workers' PENSION FUNDSIS THE AGENDA of  President Obama:
     His ENTIRE  White House "Economics team" members are EXCLUSIVELY   LBO  loan-sharks and Goldman Sachs bankers.
     Obama's Chief of Staff, RAHM EMANUEL,  traded his  "polical fixer" connections as a Senior Aid in the Clinton White House in 1998, (like rats leaving a sinking ship,  Emanuel cleared out of the Clinton White House  immediately before the Tom DeLay lame-duck Congress orchestrated the IMPEACHMENT of President Clinton over the Lewinsky affair in 1998)  for a job as a WASSERSTEIN-PERELLA  'INVESTMENT BANKER'  (a trade that previously Emanuel had NO experience in);  Emanuel  almost certainly  shoe-horned  into that lucrative position by the then extremely powerful  Treasury Secretary ROBERT RUBIN, who of course had been a  co-CHAIRMAN of   GOLDMAN-SACHS before becoming  President Clinton's Treasury Secretary in 1995.  
   While Rubin (and his proteges at Treasury during those Clinton years, future Treasury Secretaries LAWRENCE SUMMERS  (under Clinton) and TIMMY GEITHNER  (under Obama)  were considered  "financial GENIUSES" for helping the Clinton administration drag America OUT of the BUSH-1 RECESSION,   the irony is that as bankers, the  Rubin-Summers-Geithner Clinton economics team LOOKED FAVORABLY ON DEBT -  LOANS are what power any bank's PROFITS -  it was FOLLOWING the "SLASH DEFICITS and REDUCE DEBT"  advice of 1992 Independent Party presidential candidate ROSS PEROT,  and especially his famous "DEFICIT CHARTS,"


  that the Clinton economics  team dragged America OUT of the Bush-1 Recession! 
  But - (and this is the critical point of this whole postcript)  the Clinton econ team did NOT completely drag America OUT of the Bush-1  "DEFICITS and DEREGULATION" Recession, before  TIMMY McVEIGH took his rage from DEBT and UNEMPLOYMENT out on the staff and workers in the Oklahoma City US federal Govt. building,  the infamous Timmy McVeigh OKC  domestic terrorism bombing, for which McVeigh was later executed. 


 
 Today, President Obama is following PRECISELY the  ECONOMIC POLICIES of DEBT, LAX OVERSIGHT OF BANKS,  PREDATORY LENDING, unrestrained FORECLOSURES, and MASSIVE TAXPAYER FUNDED "BAILOUTS"  of FAILED S&Ls (today, huge HEDGE FUNDS  & "investment banks" like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan-Chase, Citibank Group, Mellon Bank,  and Bank of America group)  that CREATED the BUSH-1 RECESSION, following the DEREGULATION of the S&L industry! 

  The BEST thing that a critic can say about President Obama's  incestuous dependence on his Goldman-Sachs & Rahm Emanuel  "economics crew" is that he is a WEAK PRESIDENT,  who doesn't understand the role that  DEBT (and especially PREDATORY lenders and finacial fraud) have had in WRECKING the US economy.
  The WORST thing that critics can say about President Obama is that he is not only insanely corrupt - handing BILLIONS  upon TRILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to his predatory banker buds, IN EXCHANGE for a few (tens of)   lousy million dollars worth of  CAMPAIGN DONATIONS to his (and Dem. Party) campaign coffers -   but that the so-called "Democratic" president is SO ARROGANT and ALOOF, that he has ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA, much less CONCERN FOR, the IMPACT  that PREDATORY DEBT  has on the lives of millions of VICTIMIZED American workers, consumers, and citizen-taxpayers.

   In short,   for all the  fury and agnst of Obama's  stated "OPPOSITION" to the RADICAL RIGHT-WING AGENDA so perfectly articulated by uber-Neo-Cons  JOE LIEBERMAN and  ERIC CANTOR,  President Obama is ACTUALLY  FOLLOWING that Right-Wing "DEREGULATION, DEFICITS, FORECLOSURES, and OUTSOURCE AMERICAN JOBS" agenda of Lieberman, Cantor, and the Republicans to a "t"!! 

  For ALL THE ANGST expressed in Israel and in the (very Neo-Con controlled)  US media that "Obama is no friend of Israel," (see our own link top of this article about Eric Cantor!),  Obama has done NOTHING to RESTRAIN Israel "settlers" CONSTRUCTION of 'settlements' in occupied Palestinian territory,   and (just to rub salt in), Obama REFUSES to see ENGLAND's PRIME MINISTER  Gordon Brown!!
     This  "England is a distant third-fiddle to Israel"  Obama "foreign policy" has another HILLARIOUS aspect to it:    for it  was the LIKUDNIK ("Israel first!")  Neo-Cons like Wolfowitz,  (then VP Cheney Chief Of Staff  Lewis) Libby,  UN Ambassador designee John Bolton, and Bush Chief of Staff  Josh Bolten  who POWERED and ENABLED the the Cheney-Bush administration  GETTING COZY with Libyan Dictator Muammar Qaddafi,  (normalizing relations in 2006), today the American Neo-Cons get all huffy, and criticize Gordon Brown and England, for  Scotland releasing the convicted Lockerbie bomber (in alleged terminal stages of illness) to "die in  freedom"  back in Libya!!!    What a hoot!  The Eric Cantors and Joe Liebermans  and William Safires and Washington Post and NY Times  would GO BESERK if a "Democratic" President tried to normalize relations with the dictator widely regarded as commissioning the bomb that blew up Pan Am flight 107 that blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland,  but when the Cheney-Bush-Wolfowitz cabal normalize relations with that dictator,  it's OK, it's  all about "strengthening America's NATIONAL SECURITY,"  Praise Be!

   (Not to overlook,  ISRAEL's "settlements" are BLATANTLY SOCIALIST, and UNDERWRITTEN by US TAPXAYER SUBSIDIES to Israel - but the Eric Cantors and Joe Liebermans and  William Safire/NY Times crew all DESPISE "socialism"  in America, and will help FOX NEWS and Michael Savage WHIP UP the TIMMY McVEIGH RESENTMENT of   ANY "socialism" that actually helps AMERICAN families!   - Like the pre-school, after-school, and health-insurance for children programs that then Texas Governor George W. Bush SLASHED, in favor of treasury-gutting TAX CUTS FOR RICH, in Texas all through the late 1990s.) (The late, great Molly Ivins had the down-and-dirty details in her book, "Shrub:  The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush")

   The mention of BUSH's TAX CUTS FOR RICH in TEXAS illustrates:  the Neo-Con Bankers STRANGLEHOLD on American life,  they  RELIABLY CREATE HUGE DEFICIT & DEBT CRISIS  EVERY TEN YEARS,   first the Bush-1 deficits-and-S&L-DEREGULATION crisis (BAILED OUT by taxpayer chumps) in the late 1980s, then again  the Bush TAX CUTS FOR RICH in Texas in mid 1990s, _immediately_  following economic recovery from the Bush-1 Recession,  followed by the Bush-Obama BAILOUTS FOR BANKRUPT BANKERS  in the late 2008-2010 decade -  THERE IS NOTHING the American people have YET been able to do about this HOSTILE TAKEOVER of  BOTH PARTIES, to the DEBT, DEREGULATION, and DEFICITS  bankers! 
  (note:  Lloyd Bentsen was President Clinton's first Treasury Secretary in 1993.  While we are reluctant to criticize a political icon who survived 35 hazardous combat missions over some of the deadliest targets in German occupied Europe during WWII,  including the horrendously deadly Ploesti oil refineries,  we would be remiss not to point out that the book, "The Mafia, the CIA, and George Bush" by Pete Brewton,  Bush (Sr.)  allowing the DEREGULATION of  Savings & Loans, which, as Mr. Brewton says, "was an OPEN INVITATION to criminal investments"   (including the CIA, following other shady investors, BORROWING MONEY for front companies from S&Ls to run off-the-books operations, then declaring bankruptcy - LEAVING US TAXPAYERS LIABLE to make good the S&L's losses for ordinary passbook holders whose funds had been lost in those shady deals.   In the introduction to his book, author Brewton writes,  "Had the Dukakis-Bentson campaign won the election of  1988, this book would be titled "The Mafia, the CIA, and Lloyd Benstson" - for at the TOP TIERS of Texas, Congress, and national banking,  the POWERFUL FINANCIAL OPERATORS swirling around Republicans like Bush (Sr.), and "Democrats" like Lloyd Bentson, WERE INDISTINGUISHABLE.
 
  There you have it.  The AMERICAN CONSTITUTION  created an INHERENTLY UNEQUAL system of representative government,  not only did the Constitution recognize SLAVERY (but NO rights for slaves),  but the Constitution gave IMMENSE power, to SMALL, RURAL STATES, with highly UNEQUAL representation in the US Senate.    Ideally,  this would allow a relatively small population of small, rural states like Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and South Dakota to ACT IN THEIR OWN ECONOMIC SELF-INTEREST and have a terrific RESTRAINING influence on the concentration of wealth & power in states with large, urban cities.    But, perhaps ironically,  it is the large, economically powerful urban cities and states which are "LIBERAL,"  and small, rural states - ALMOST ALL OF WHOM are NET federal Tax-dollar RECIPIENTS (i.e.  "socialism sucking" "WELFARE QUEENS") - that are the most INTENSELY "CONSERVATIVE,"  mainly because LARGE CORPORATIONS can EASILY OVERWHELM the  info sources -  'news' media - in small states, and PROPAGANDIZE those small populations to VOTE AGAINST THEIR OWN SELF INTEREST,  the "What's The Matter With Kansas?"  syndrome.      For a specific example of this "What's the Matter With Kansas?" syndrome in action,   not even 10 years after the Democrats (following the Ross Perot "REDUCE THE DEFICITS" plan)   DRAGGED America out of the Bush-1  "DEREGULATION & DEFICITS"  Recession,   ENRON company WENT BANKRUPT under  the weight of MASSIVELY FRAUDULENT ACCOUNTING... but the Enron massive bankruptcy, billions of dollars of market 'valuation' vanishing in to thin air, was merely a PRELUDE to the   EVEN LARGER  system-wide Financial Collapse of 2008!
    Working stiff Americans are SO DEPENDENT ON JOBS, that they simply DO NOT INSIST on DECENT REGULATION of the financial markets... and ESPECIALLY oversight over  PREDATORY LENDING, and massive financial debt, because they are easily SEDUCED by the "boom" side of a  "boom & bust" economy,  or the "pump" side of a "pump & dump" market-cornering bullish stock.

  So, ULTIMATELY the RAGE and RESENTMENT felt by Americans in this economy IS THEIR OWN FAULT - there is PLENTY of information out there to explain to "LOW INFORMATION CONTENT" Americans that the VERY SOCIALIZED  Social Security system is likely to be THEIR BEST FRIEND in their retirement years;   that MEDICARE is THE SOLE source of health care for many nervous seniors, MANY of whom DERIDE "SOCIALIZED" health care!   And that,  reams of Right-Wing demagogue HATE RHETORIC to the contrary (including the oh-so-establishment NY Times and Washignton Post),  the "Red state,"  rural, "heartland,"  "fly-over" "conservative" states are NET federal TAX DOLLAR RECIPIENTS - THEY,  uber-conservative states like WYOMING and IDAHO,  and Mississippi,  are "SOCIALIZED welfare states,"  sucking money OUT of  hard-working urban  "Blue states"!

 But even if American voters are ultimately responsible for their own economic torture,   the "DEMOCRATIC" Party, especially,  is PARTY TO this REPEATED  financial "PUMP & DUMP,"  boom-and-bust,  BAIL small S&L's and  LARGE BANKS OUT at TAXPAYER EXPENSE, for the very DEREGULATION POLICIES that "Democrats," at the behest of their banking & financial lobbyists and "economic leaders," REPEATEDLY shove down American throats,    the current total for the Bush Jr./Obama "BAILOUTS"  is CLOSE TO $20 trillion,    TWENTY+ TRILLION taxpayer dollars,     these TRILLIONS of dollars of "Bailouts" have OBAMA's STAMP OF APPROVAL all over them,  yet, today, President Obama, at the behest of his  Emanuel/Rubin/Geithner/Summers  "economics crew," REFUSES to give the American public  even a GENERAL OUTLINE of the BAILOUTS totals - much less, heavens forbid, TOP-TO-BOTTOM AUDITS of banks with PREDATORY lending and FORECLOSURE tactics,  much less, heavens forbid,  CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS for fraud, for any more than a few token perps like Bernie Madoff. 

   In a radio interview  defending her priorities as TARP Oversight Committee Chairwoman,  with NPR   "oh so moderate"  host  Adam Davidson,    Commitee Chair Elizabeth Warren had to raise her voice against her Davidson, defnding not only the "defend middle class assets" philosophy she brought to her job as Oversight Chair,  but Ms. Warren had to specifically defend her role as "SKUNK AT THE GARDEN PARTY,"    the Big Finance Boys like to present themselves as Financial Geniuses,  but at core they were selling JUNK "assets" and stocks, at VASTLY OVERRATED values,  with NO oversight, and, upon wrecking those deals complex deals (and taking billions of investor dollars down to nothing), those same "Genius Financial operators"   were FIRST IN LINE, with outstretched hands,  DEMANDING from Congress the   very SOCIALIZED  taxpayer funded "BAILOUTS,"   thirteen decades of lecturing the public on the "merits of MORAL HAZARD," and the EVILS of "socialism and transfering of wealth from one group to another"  notwithstanding!
  (Note: at 18:10 into the interview, NPR's so-called "liberal" host Adam Davidson, reserves his scorn and wrath - NOT for the BANKSTERS who LANDED AMERICA IN THIS ECONOMIC CRISIS of a decades' making,  but at  NANCY PELOSI and HARRY REID, who have only been in control of Congress for slightly over 24 months, and for most of the unfolding of  the Economic Crisis of 2008, DEFERRED TO the Bush White House economic crisis  'leadership'  of  Bush Treasury Secretary and FORMER GOLDMAN-SACHS Chairman Hank Paulson!)   BLAMING DEMOCRATS for the Economic crisis is of course a TEXT-BOOK Right-Wing talking point.  Unfortunately - IN DEFERRING to the GOLDMAN-SACHS  banking  and Wall Street financial titans   (including the Health Insurnace industry, whose ghoulish "unemployument = NO health care"  policies started this blog entry)  "economics" crew, the OBAMA/PELOSI/Reid  "Democrats" DESERVE the condemnation! 

  THIS - TRANSFERING  Bailout TRILLIONS $$  _FROM_ American taxpayers, TO  Wall Street LBO, loan-sharking, predatory bankers -  is EXACTLY the agenda of PRESIDENT OBAMA.
  It is EXACTLY the agenda of  the Administration's current most outspoken Republican Congressional critic,   ERIC CANTOR. 

  President Obama, in REFUSING to REIGN IN the out-of-control,  bailouts-for-bonuses bankers, is ENABLING HIS ENEMIES,   and EMPOWERING the "HATE SOCIALISM"  radical right.
 
The S&L Crisis of the late 1980s was brought on by the TWIN DEMONS of DEREGULATION and Republican TAX-CUTS FOR WEALTHY treasury DEFICITS - MADE WORSE by the 3rd demon, BAILOUTS for BLATANTLY CORRUPT & FRAUDULENT BANKERS, which ECONOMIC CRISIS created vast UNEMPLOYMENT, which TRIGGERED Timmy McVeigh to BOMB the OKC Murrah federal building. 

IMMEDIATELY upon helping to drag the American economy OUT of the Bush-1 Recession, by 1995-1997  the Clinton "Economic team" of   (FORMER GOLDMAN SACHS CHAIRMAN) Robert Rubin & his proteges LAWRENCE SUMMERS and TIMMY GEITHNER,  were back to their old bankers "DEBT IS GOOD"   ("Debt = LOANS = PROFITS FOR BANKS")  agenda,  HELPING  uber-right-wing Republicans PHIL GRAMM, Jim LEACH,  Thomas BLILEY, DICK ARMEY,  Tom DeLAY,   "ENRON Ken" Lay,  Dick Cheney,  and other Republicans PUSH THROUGH the  Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act  (GLBA, or "Credit 'Modernization Act' of  1999) which STRUCK DOWN the  "banks must be sane, boring, and reliable" Glass-Steagall Act - enacted in 1933  _specifically to protect banks and savings accounts_ from IRRESPONSIBLE LENDING practices. 

   The Rubin/Summers/Geithner/Clinton and House & Senate "Democrats" DOUBLED DOWN on their DEREGULATION FOLLY in 2000, when President Clinton, at the behest of his former Goldman-Sachs/Wall Street crew, signed the  Phil Gramm written  "Commdity Futures 'Modernization' Act'  which specifially created the "ENRON LOOPHOLE," allowing corporations to BYPASS DECADES worth of Insurance regulations,  by writing insurance contracts as "stock derivative options,"  or "Credit Default Swaps."   CDS and related derivatives trades allow a company to write HUGE  insurance contracts, based not on the value or loss of an underlying asset, but on the STOCK PRICE of a company which owns that (or many other) assets.    IF there was EVER a need to REGULATE INSURANCE, to keep investors and the insured from being harmed by failure to pay claims,  the Big Boy Bankers were now DOUBLING or TRIPLING the potential risk - with dozens of new factors going into a stock price, from management salaries to other stock or asset purchases - while ELIMINATING oversight! 
 
  Wiki is no "perfect source" on any of this, but in a nation where  those from states who complain loudest that "WELFARE SOCIALISM QUEENS"  are themselves  NET FEDERAL TAX DOLLAR RECIPIENTS,   in a nation where SENIORS who are ON MEDICARE SHOUT that they  DESPISE "socialized health care"! -   these below Wiki links give a VERY GOOD OUTLINE on the   Clinton AND OBAMA  "economic team"  ACTING LIKE RIGHT-WING  "DEREGULATION and LOOT-the-TREASURY"  Republicans!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm-Leach-Bliley_Act
commodity futures modernization 2000
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_default_swap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Gramm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_loophole
Wendy Gramm - Phil Gramm's wife, and Bush-1 Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission,  1998 to 1993, immediately departed the CTFC to become... a DIRECTOR on the ENRON board, AND Audit Committee - in they years immediately preceding Enron's COLLAPSE from BLATANTLY FRAUDULENT accounting...
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rubin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Geithner
Rahm Emanuel - Wasserstein-Perella Chicago "mini-Goldman-Sachs" "investment banker"
Rahm Emanuel - PAID DIRECTOR of Freddie Mac, during the Freddie Mac "misreported profits by billions of dollars in order to deceive investors" scandal. 
 Eric Cantor - ISRAEL UBER ALLES - OVER and  ABOVE  the  health and LIVES and FAMILIES of his  Virginia Constituents, TEXT-BOOK Joe Lieberman NEO-CON  Congressman: 
  #1.  http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/22/cantor-uninsured-option/ 
 #2.  http://jta.org/news/article/2009/09/23/1008083/cantor-obama-doesnt-seem-to-be-true-friend-of-israel
 #3.   Speaker Pelosi "Is in another world"  if she thinks that Right-Wing talking points, and CORPORATE & banker funded HATE RADIO,  contributes to the threat of violence against Americans - http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27461.html

Monday, September 21, 2009

Obama WHORING for the Insurance & Banking Industries, AGAIN.... and MONSANTO too!

The president who ran on a campaign of "CHANGE!" in 2008, and implied to MILLIONS of American voters that HE was "an outsider," continues his BLATANTLY CORRUPT INSIDER WAYS, with no sense of awareness, no sense of irony, and, indeed, absolutely NO sense of empathy for his millions of financially strapped American voters.

In today's Paul Krugman (NY Times) op-ed, Krugman explains that Pres. Obama, in an interview with Bloomberg news last week, tried to make the FALSE EQUIVALENCY argument that since NFL football stars and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have 'NO SALARY CAPS,' so why should bankers? As Mr. Krugman (the sole genuine "liberal" at the ENTIRE NY Times) points out, Obama's argument is falacious on three different counts:
#1. NFL players DO, effectively, have salary caps; and
#2. more importantly, tech startups and Silicon Valley companies DON'T TANK the ENTIRE economy when they crash, as "too big to fail" banks did in 2008; and,
#3. Dot.com and Tech companies that CRASH, do NOT get TRILLION-dollar TAXPAYER BAILOUTS.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/opinion/21krugman.html
< That’s an astonishing remark — and not just because the National Football League does, in fact, have pay caps. Tech firms don’t crash the whole world’s operating system when they go bankrupt; quarterbacks who make too many risky passes don’t have to be rescued with hundred-billion-dollar bailouts. Banking is a special case — and the president is surely smart enough to know that. >
Over in America's HEALTH CARE CRISIS, Pres. Obama is NOW PIMPING the MAX BAUCUS "health care 'reform' plan" - the plan that EVERY competent observer understands WAS WRITTEN BY INSURANCE, Big Pharma, hospital, & medical supply industry LOBBYISTS, who have BLATANTLY BRIBED Senate Finance Committee Chairman MAX BAUCUS to be their arrogant, entitled, 'DINO' (Republican corporate hit-man posing as a Democrat), corrupt, lying Front Man.

All of this is "OLD NEWS" to DemNationUSA readers, of course - the Emanuel/obama White House has done NOTHING to ACKNOWLEDGE, much less, heavens forbid, STAND UP FOR, the SINGLE-PAYER activist doctors - men and women WHO PUT THEIR CAREERS ON THE LINE, to be ARRESTED out of Max Baucus's INSANELY CORRUPT committee, for PROTESTING Senator Baucus' industry-bribed CENSORSHIP of EVEN DISCUSSION of Single-payer as a health care reform option.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwrudYlwxqE

That's right, America: Pres. Obama is in THE CENSORSHIP, DISTORTION, and BRIBERY business, his GOLDMAN-SACHS and INSURANCE INDUSTRY MINIONS - White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Senate Finance Chair Max Baucus - DON'T CARE if AMERICANS ARE ARRESTED PROTESTING the current EXTORTIONATE health care system, and Obama and his minions DON'T CARE if AMERICAN FAMILIES ARE DRIVEN IN TO BANKRUPTCY by medical procedure costs that INSURANCE COMPANIES have DENIED coverage for, the insanely arrogant and corrupt Obama DOESN'T EVEN CARE that the BIG BANKS are USING taxpayer BAILOUT BILLIONS as a cushion to FORCE FORECLOSURES on homeowners who could, with minimum loan modification, continue to stay in their homes, because the bankers are now looting the bailout funds wholesale!

Just to prove that Mr. Obama has GONE COMPLETELY OVER TO THE DARK SIDE, this little article notes that Mr. Obama has placed... a Senior (former) MONSANTO Corp. Vice President, lawyer, and lobbyist - as SENIOR ADVISOR to the nation's food industry watchdog, the FDA !!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/8/751167/-Obama-White-House-Appoints-Former-Monsanto-Lobbyist-to-FDA

MONSANTO CORP. is PURE DISTILLED EVIL, their executives have MADE A CAREER out of SICKING the Corporation's LEGAL SHARKS, on America's FAMILY FARMERS, and have made MILLIONS selling GENETICALLY MODIFIED SEEDS to poor Indian farmers - seeds which have FAILED by the million acres, literally driving destitute India farmers to impoverishment, FAMINE, and SUICIDE.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vandana-shiva/from-seeds-of-suicide-to_b_192419.html

FOR SHAME! Mr. Obama has, in the first nine months of his administration, taken ALL THE BAD POLICY CHOICES of the 8 years of the Clinton administration - NAFTA, GATT, signing the GRAMM-LEACH-BLILEY and the so-called "Enron Loophole" "Commodity Futures 'Reform' Act of 2000" Right-Wing Republican FINANCIAL DEREGULATION ACTS which LED DIRECTLY to the economic crisis of 2008 - Obama has RAMMED those ATROCIOUS policies down MILLIONS of Democratic voters' throats, using DECEPTION and CENSORSHIP as his bully-boy... just as KARL ROVE, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney did for the 8 years 2000 to 2008!

Roy Sekoff: the "Baucus Bill" is a BLATANTLY INSURANCE INDUSTRY WRITTEN piece of CORRUPTION, which is exactly what the Insurance Industry expects for their THREE MILLION DOLLARS in BLATANT BRIBES to Senator Baucus:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-tv/roy-sekoff-blasts-max-bau_b_287954.html
Reacting to former insurance executive Wendell Potter, who told a House committee today that the Baucus bill is an "absolute gift" to the insurance industry, Sekoff said, "Truth be told, it's not technically a gift since the insurance and health industry actually paid for it with the over $3 million it has donated to Baucus since 2003." Sekoff also lamented that the debate over a public option is winding down to "is a watered down public option better than nothing?"
OBAMA AND HIS WHITE HOUSE are BEHIND the above CORRUPT Max Baucus INDUSTRY WRITTEN 'reform' bill...!
Baucus Bill: Health Reform That Isn't Marcia Angell, M.D.
Physician, Author, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcia-angell-md/baucus-bill-health-reform_b_293093.html
With the long-awaited release of the Baucus health plan, which is said to have Obama's approval, THE FIX IS IN. Billions of TAXPAYER DOLLARS WILL BE THROWN AT the INSURANCE and [Big Pharma] pharmaceutical industries, much of it DIVERTED FROM MEDICARE and Medicaid (despite Obama's protestations that he would not raid Medicare to shore up the private system).
Jane Hamsher: Obama is STABBING MILLIONS of Democratic voter SINGLE PAYER advocates IN THE BACK, SABOTAGING even consideration of a watered-down PUBLIC OPTION:
New DNC Obama Ad: Get "Fired Up" and "Ready To Go" About No Public Option
by Jane HamsherFounder, founder, FireDogLake.com
Posted: September 18, 2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/new-dnc-obama-ad-get-fire_b_291617.html
President Obama has been desperate to ditch the public option for weeks. Max Baucus did the job he thought he was supposed to do -- memorialize the deals that the White House cut with health care industry stakeholders. He left it to the White House to sell it, and now they have to.

But every time they [Obama!] tried to jettison the public option through surrogates like Kathleen Sebelius or "senior White House officials" speaking anonymously to media outlets, the base went haywire and Obama's poll numbers started tanking.

Well, now that Baucus has delivered his stenography, gotta get the base on board with the "goody bag" of benefits -- which basically means whatever was left over after Rahm Emanuel got done auctioning off the rest to the medical industrial complex.
So the new DNC ad fires up the "base" by trying to rally them around hatred of teabaggers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdU2dxJgNsM
Because hatred of teabaggers will, I guess, mean that nobody notices that Obama makes no mention of a public option in the ad.

It's meant to primarily signal our most ardent supporters and the base of the Democratic Party that we are with you -- and that we need you -- to get this done and accomplish the other big things this president has set out to do," DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse said.

Well, now there's the rub. Because it turns out that 44% of Democrats strongly support health care reform with a public option, but that figure drops to 12% without one. So passing the Baucus bill means stabbing the base and destroying 2010 turnout for the midterms, which is pretty much what NAFTA did in 1994 -- when there was a 54 seat swing to the Republicans.

Thank Rahm Emanuel for that one , too.
http://www.mediamouse.org/news/2008/11/obama-chief-of.php

(note: RAHM EMANUEL, uber-corporate Neo-Con strong-arm thug, was a major player in forcing President Clinton to enact the NAFTA 'free trade bill' - one of the two major issues (the other Hillary Clinton's industry written health-care 'reform' bill, aka "Hillary care") that DROVE MILLIONS of voters to ABANDON the Democrats in 1994 - RAHM EMANUEL was INSTRUMENTAL in the DC Democrats TURNING CONGRESS OVER to the NEWT GINGRICH / Tom DeLay REPUBLICANS for the FIRST TIME IN FORTY YEARS!!!

Friday, September 18, 2009

MASS-MURDER by the Insurance "health care" industry... and Emanuel/Obama TREACHERY in PRETENDING not to notice!!

Candidate Barack Obama PROMISED MILLIONS of American voters who voted for him to be president in 2008 that he would bring "CHANGE!", but led by his unholy, treacherous RASPUTIN, uber-Goldman-Sachs LIKUDNIK RAHM EMNAUEL, President Obama has not only been TRYING to INSIDIOUSLY SABOTAGE GENUINE health-care reform, but just yesterday, it was reported that President Obama selected a MONSANTO Corporation lawyer, Vice President, & Chief Lobbyist to BE THE SENIOR ADVISOR to America's food oversight watchdog agency, the FDA, the "Food & Drug Administration" is the ostensible GUARDIAN of America's food supply!

THIS IS NOT CHANGE, IT IS MORE George W. Bush PUTTING LOBBYISTS IN CHARGE of REGULATORY agencies, it is MORE of having WALL STREET SWINDLERS write their own bailouts & administration "economic" and financial oversight policies, IT IS MORE of Mr. Obama FOLLOWING George W. Bush by PUTTING THE predatory FOX IN CHARGE OF THE regulatory HEN-HOUSE!

It is well known that MONSANTO's attitude towards American (much less foreign) consumers is akin to former EXTERMINATOR & former Republican Majority Whip Tom DeLay's attitude towards Democratic voters (and especially minorities):
"LET THEM DRINK PESTICIDE!"
(cue video of the Bhopal mass-pesticide poisoning here.)

Just as GOLDDAMN-SACHS is the 800 lb. soulless gorilla of the American financial industry, so too is MONSANTO the 800 lb. MURDEROUS "CRUSH small farmers," "sell India farmers GMO seed stock which FAILS in India's conditions, LEADING TO FAMINE," and "WHITEWASH the hazardous effects of GMO, genetically-modified crops, on worldwide food consumers" 'gorilla' or 'heavy' of the world's agricultural industries ("ag-business").

But at the behest of his insidious Goldman-Sachs banking/big-finance industry cabal, President Obama HAS PUT ANOTHER industry regulation-crushing LOBBYIST, IN policy-making position of ANOTHER agency with LIFE OR DEATH CONSEQUENCES for MILLIONS of Americans!

FOR SHAME! WHAT's NEXT, President Obama... are you going to take money from the next, new JACK ABRAMOFF lobbyist, to whitewash and RUN A PROTECTTION RACKET for SLAVERY CONDITIONS in the Mariannas Islands sweatshops and prostituion parlors????

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=124&Itemid=173

IF the above logic covers too many subjects for a reader to follow, try THIS article on for size:

The American "health denial" Insurance Industry's DENIAL OF HEALTH CLAIMS & MEDICAL PROCEDURES (in a timely fashion) in America, leads to MORE PREVENTABLE DEATHS, than all MURDERS AND AUTO-ACCIDENTS in America, PUT TOGETHER!!!
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE58G6W520090917

For the PAST NINE MONTHS, the INSIDIOUSLY TREACHEROUS (if not TREASONOUS) EMANUEL/Goldman-Sachs/obama White House has been IGNORING, if not ACTIVELY WHITEWASHING, this on-going BUREAUCRATIC MASS-MURDER in America, that is TEARING AMERICAN FAMILIES APART, that is ROBBING American children of their parents, that is KILLING American children, that is DRIVING American families in to BANKRUPTCY!!

FOR SHAME, Mr. President!! This is INSIDIOUS CORRUPTION and BETRAYAL, coming from YOUR White House! Your "advisers" have the SAME ATTITUDE to the 45,000 Americans KILLED by MEDICAL DENIAL, that "good Germans" had for the victims of DEATH CAMPS outside their towns during WWII - one of WILLFUL IGNORANCE !!

For PROOF of President Obmaa TRYING TO PUT LIPSTICK on this MURDEROUS INDUSTRY pig, and their BOUGHT & PAID-FOR, BRIBED Congressmen & Senators, see the video of President Obama at a Health Care rally just yesterday, trying to put a POSITIVE SPIN on the Senate Finance Chair MAX BAUCUS's ATROCIOUS 'Health Care Reform' bill -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/17/obama-crowd-cheers-public_n_290434.html
- the bill that was WRITTEN BY INDUSTRY LOBBYISTS, who have BRIBED Senator BAUCUS with over THREE MILLION DOLLARS in past dozen years; the "Reform" bill which does NOTHING TO REIGN IN SKYROCKETING health care premiums, but DOES FORCE 45 million uninsured Americans to BUY INSURANCE, or FACE GOVERNMENT PENALITIES.

The Baucus bill attempts to turn the US government into the COLLECTION ARM (or EXTORTION arm) of the already MURDEROUSLY PREDATORY US 'Health' Insurance industry, even as President Obama TRIES to spin Baucus' bill as the determined work of a determined public servant.

Fortunately, the savvy University of Maryland Health Care reform town hall audience isn't having ANY of Obama's "PUT LIPSTICK ON A MURDEROUS, CORRUPT, FAMILY-KILLING PIG" treachery - they LOUDLY BOO Obama's MENTION of Senator Baucus!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/17/obama-crowd-cheers-public_n_290434.html

Obama needs to FIRE Rahm Emanuel and his ENTIRE Goldamn-Sachs financial swindlers team YESTERDAY, but since they have succeeded in using Obama, the Bush administration, AND the DEMOCRAT Congress to award themselves TWENTY+ TRILLION DOLLARS - nearly TWO TIME THE ANNUAL US GDP - in NO OVERSIGHT, no-audits (much less, heaven forbid, NO CRIMINAL Financial investigations) BAILOUTS, The Financial FRAUDSTERS, INCLUDING the MURDEROUS "HEALTH CARE DENIAL" insurance industry, are POSITIVELY WALLOWING in their multi-billion dollars (TRILLIONS of dollars!) of TAXPAYER-EXTORTED "profits."

President Obama, THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES! GET OUT OF YOUR "Bush Bubble" (your GOLDAMN-SACHS bubble), and LISTEN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, who, after winning WWII to "make the world SAFE for DEMOCRACY," are being treated the SAME way by America's Neo-Cons & corporate powers, that the Neo-Cons' puppet DICTATOR in Georgia treats his opposition opponents - by MURDER and INCITING RACE HATRED.

Item A. on the Obama INSIDIOUS TREACHERY List:
President Obama APPOINTS MONSANTO LOBBYISTS, VP, & small-farmer crushing lawyer, to be SENIOR ADVISOR to the US FDA, Food & Drug Agency, the nation's chief watchdog & guardian of the nation's FOOD SUPPLY!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/youre-appointing-who-plea_b_243810.html
The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.

Here's the back story.
Michael Taylor.... had been MONSANTO's ATTORNEY before becoming policy chief at the FDA. Soon after, he became Monsanto's vice president and chief lobbyist.
This month Michael Taylor became the senior advisor to the commissioner of the FDA. He is now America's food safety czar. What have we done?

Item #2. on the OBAMA INSIDIOUS TREACHERY LIST:
Despite Running on CAMPAIGN PROMISES that he would MARKEDLY "REFORM" America's Health-Care "INSURANCE DOMINATED price-EXTORTION and Medical DENIAL industry," President Obama has WASTED teh PAST NINE MONTHS, ALLOWING the Insurance industry and their PAID & BRIBED HATCHET MEN, to DOMINATE the nation's discourse on the need for genuine health-care reform; including the entire Industry's #1, NUMBER-ONE BRIBED SENATOR, Senate Finance Chair Max Baucus, LAUGHING as he CALLED FOR MORE POLICE, to ARREST doctors from SinglePayerAction.org who were forced to PROTEST, in Baucus' committee hearings, the FIFTEEN-to-ZERO EXCLUSION of Single-Payer advocates, from even the most PRELIMINARY of "Health Care REFORM" senate committee hearings!!

PRESIDENT Obama has TREACHEROUSLY DONE __NOTHING__ since Baucus's cowardly, lying ARREST of single-payer activist doctors in March, to HIGHLIGHT the MURDEROUS PRACTICES, and BLATANT BRIBERY CORRUPTION, of America's abusive health insurance industry cartels... much less remember to the public and media the FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND Americans who DIE OF MEDICAL NEGLECT every year:

Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to Lack of Insurance

[AND DENIAL OF MEDICAL PROCEDURES by those who HAD "health care" insurance!]
Thu Sep 17, 2009
By Susan Heavey
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE58G6W520090917

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year -- one every 12 minutes -- in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday. [note: DENIAL of medical procedures by those who HAD insurance is not even mentioned.]
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Below video, The COWARDLY, CORRUPT, LYING "Democrat" Senator Max Baucus - elected to the senate with just a few thousands of votes in a small-population rural state (Montana),
LAUGHS as Single-Payer activists doctors are ARRESTED from his BLATANTLY CORRUPT, BLATANTLY BRIBED Senate Committee hearings -

Senator Baucus has, because of INDUSTRY BRIBES, become a VIRTUAL DICTATOR on Health Care Reform OBSTRUCTION, DENYING MILLIONS upon MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of Americans even a DISCUSSION of, much less access to, the Health Care THEY NEED for their families!

Here, uber-Neo-Con Republican multi-millionaire heir BILL KRISTOL, SNEERS,
"WHENEVER I HEAR of a HEARTLESS ASSAULT ON AMERICAN SCHOOLCHILDREN, I TEND TO THINK IT IS A GOOD IDEA"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqObdWSv5lg
- Kristol specifically discussing his goal of KILLING the government funded 'SCHP' program that provides Health Insurance for poor- and working-class American school children.


REPUBLICAN Bill Kristol, and "DEMOCRATS" MAX BAUCUS, RAHM EMANUEL, and BARACK OBAMA: ALL UNITED in their CONTEMPT for AMERICAN FAMILIES, their DETERMINATION to make HEALTH CARE the MONOPOLY DOMAIN of the HEALTH-CARE DENIAL and premium-EXTORTION insurance Industry!

NOTHING has changed since MARCH of 2009, except that PRESIDENT OBAMA and his INSIDIOUS RASPUTIN, Rahm Emanuel, have EMPOWERED RIGHT-WING GUNMEN, and INDUSTRY FUNDED RIGHT-WING CRAZIES, to DOMINATE THE 'news' cycle on our American need for genuine health care reform for the past 8 months.

(note: compiling the above RAW EVIDENCE of President Obama's BLATANT CORRUPTION, and Rahm Emanuel's oh-so-corporate BILL KRISTOL/Joe Liebermanesque INSIDIOUS NEO-CON TREACHERY, has taken at least 5-15+ hours out of our lives. And we haven't even touched on the MURDEROUS RIGHT-WING GUNMEN EMPOWERED to HATE & MURDER, by corporate funded HATE-RADIO and demagogue Right-Wing media, of the past dozen+ months - two gunmen, each ASSASSINATING either a Democratic Party official or an "abortion doctor," nor the other two gunmen who tried to duplicate TIMMY McVEIGH's MASS-MURDER BODYCOUNT, one gunman trying to shoot up the holocaust memorial museum, another RIGHT-WING INCITED GUNMAN trying to SHOOT & KILL EVERY man, woman, AND CHILD in a Knoxville "liberal" church last year.)

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

JP Morgan-Chase (the Rockefeller Bank) FORECLOSES on Mortgage Holder... after SABOTAGING her application for new loan...

Yet again, another example of President Obama - beholden to and awed by his Big Finance bankster-gangers - FAILING to DO ANYTHING to PROTECT ECONOMIC, financial JUSTICE in America...

In this case, JPMorgan-Chase bank, historically the bank of the Rockefeller family, which has benefitted from the TRILLIONS of dollars of TAXPAYER FUNDED BAILOUTS of the big banks, plays their little came: FREED from the need to actually make decent, honest profits (by the BAILOUT TRILLIONS which prop up investors' share prices and executive bonus billions), are able to engage in their first passion: LOAN-SHARKING to their customers, and engaging in PREDATORY FINANCE, ACTIVELY SEARCHING FOR means, tactics, and paper-work techniques to FORECLOSE on mortgage-stressed homeowners.

PRESIDENT OBAMA IS - after dishing out TRILLIONS of dollars to these fraudsters & unindicted CRIMINALS, AWOL as they USE TAXPAYER BILLIONS, to RAPE taxpayers & consumers alike.
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Eligible For Help Under Obama Plan But Still Facing Foreclosure
Arthur Delaney arthur@huffingtonpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/08/a-making-home-affordable_n_276458.html

Donna Whitaker applied for a mortgage modification on April Fools' Day. The joke was on her: Her bank, JPMorgan Chase, lost her paperwork and then denied her application on May 8 because it was incomplete. She has reapplied twice and each time the bank has claimed it is missing documents that Whitaker says she sent more than once.

Now Whitaker, who provided the Huffington Post with a stack of paper backing up her story, is staring foreclosure in the face.

"I think I'll be served with some kind of papers, then there will be a note on my door saying my home has gone up for auction," Whitaker told the Huffington Post. "That's what happened to a friend of mine."

Whitaker, who is 63 and lives in Sacramento, Calif., is one of thousands of distressed homeowners who've sought help on their mortgages via the Obama administration's initiative to reduce foreclosures, the Making Home Affordable program. Only nine percent of 2.7 million eligible borrowers who'd missed two payments won modifications from the start of the program to July 29, the government reported last month. On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing to examine the effectiveness of the program, which gives borrowers $1,000 in cash for each loan modified and another $1,000 each year for three years.

According to the Treasury Department, Chase modified 117,259 mortgages -- 20 percent of those eligible and more than most banks participating in the program. Bank of America, for instance, modified loans for 4 percent of eligible borrowers.

New data for August will be released with witness testimony on Wednesday morning.

"We've made tremendous progress in helping many homeowners," said Chase spokesman Tom Kelly. "But we know that there's more work to do and we have added staff and improved our processes to do even better."

Kelly had no comment on Whitaker's case.

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Whitaker applied for a modification in April because she was running out of money and worried that she would soon be unable to make her $1,226 monthly payment. She owes $172,000 on a house most recently assessed at $131,654. She'd logged on to www.makinghomeaffordable.com and learned that she qualified for a modification because her situation met several criteria, including that her monthly mortgage payment was more than 31 percent of her gross income.

On May 28, Whitaker rounded up the required documentation a second time and filled out another application. In her hardship letter, she wrote that she's never missed a payment since she bought the house in 1992. She stopped working in May of 2007 after her youngest son committed suicide. She wrote that she was bringing in $322 in unemployment benefits on top of a monthly social security check for $1,106, and $500 a month from her older surviving son. She'd also been taking out $800 a month from her 401(k).

"I am 63 years old and love my home," she wrote. "My son that took his life spent many hours remodeling and fixing things around here. If I had to leave, it would be a great heartache. I have so many memories here."

Whitaker handed the second application to a Chase rep at a branch in Sacramento. According to Whitaker, the rep said everything appeared to be in order. Three weeks later, in June, Whitaker called the bank's 800 number and was told the file had not been reviewed. Then, in July, she was told that her application had been closed out -- but it wasn't clear whether the person on the other end of the phone line was referring to the first application or had gone ahead and closed the second one, too.

She sent an email to the employee who'd personally told her everything was in order on her second application.

"Unfortunately I am at the point where I can no longer make my payments," Whitaker wrote. She explained that her son was retiring and that her 401(k) would be depleted within two years at the current rate. "My income will realistically be around $1500.00 per month. I will be dropping my health insurance as I can no longer afford that either. I will have to pray I don't get sick until I turn 65 and get Medicare."

In response, the Chase rep said the best thing to do would be to file yet another application. So, on Aug. 1, that's what Whitaker did, by certified mail.

On Aug. 4, the Chase bureaucracy sent Whitaker a letter informing her that she was in danger of losing her home because she'd missed two monthly payments. They also sent a sympathetic note:

"You are going through tough times -- we can help," the letter said. "In fact, we believe your home loan may be eligible for a loan modification program."

Then, a few days later, Chase asked Whitaker to resubmit a statement about her current employment status. The following week, Chase asked Whitaker to resubmit a tax return. So she did. As far as Whitaker knows, her third application is still in process.

On Sept. 1, when she was officially 90 days past due, Whitaker said the debt collectors stopped calling.

"They were calling continuously several times a day," Whitaker said. She thinks it's a bad sign that the phone calls stopped. "I have a feeling I'm probably going into foreclosure now."

"I'm an honest person," she said in a phone interview on Tuesday. "I've worked all my life. I'm going to Starbucks this afternoon to follow up on a job application

Army Soldier Enlisted for hazardous Afghan War duty... to provide Health Care for his family. Now they have no father...

The NEO-CON & Neo-Confederate GOALS: of TURNING AMERICANS INTO PAUPERS, SERFS, and wage-slaves peons continues to reap dividends for the WAR-MONGERING, predatory finance, and loot-the-treasury Neo-Cons & Neo-Confeds: as their INTENTIONAL SABOTAGE of the American economy continues, with RECORD UNEMPLOYMENT, DECLINING WAGES, and SKYROCKETING "fixed" costs, including especially Health Insurance premiums, one American family mourns the death of that family's husband and father - a US soldier, killed in an ambush in Afghanistan, volunteered for duty there IN ORDER TO PROVIDE HEALTH-CARE for his family.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/08/soldier-who-re-enlisted-f_n_279776.html
- Army Spc. Gregory James Missman died in Afghanistan after suffering wounds from an improvised explosive device in July.
Missman, 36, re-enlisted in the military after being laid off from his job as a computer consultant. Missman served in the Army 11 years earlier.
According to Missman's father, HEALTH CARE IS WHAT PUSHED HIS SON BACK INTO THE SERVICE. After losing his job, Missman's young family, a wife and son were no longer insured.
He was deployed to Afghanistan June 5 and mortally wounded July 8.
Missman was awarded the Purple Heart before he died.