Reply #7: Billions for Banks, Zero for Public Option [View All]

We're spending, as a country, $801 billion a year on the Republican president Eisenhower warned Corporate Industrial Military Complex. For what?

1) Is that to defend our government provided national health care. NO!
We don't have single payer national health care for all American citizens. We're told we can't afford it.

2) It that to defend free college education? NO!
We don't have free college education for all American citizens that want it.

3) Is that to defend our retirement from the Wall Street looters? NO!
The fall stock market crash of 2008 and the Wall Street bailout that followed (without strings) showed what they think of OUR retirement security.

4) Is that to protect our borders in conjunction with the war on terror? NO!
Our borders to the south and the north are practically wide open, which costs us taxpayers immensely.

5) Is that to protect our rights to freedom of speech? NO!
Obama just threw Van Jones under the Glenn Beck bus instead of defending his rights to freedom of speech.


President Obama needs to understand that you don't start negotiations with the predatory corporate right from your knees. Apparently he still thinks he is in the Senate, answering to Baccus that's on his corporate knees.

Obama, in his speech to Congress last week, said the public option would not be funded by government. That is the same thing as saying that you can have a car but no gas to run it with. This is a public option in name only and a cruel hoax.

It's time for real change, including REAL health care reform of, by and for the people - not to be defined by the huge corporations and their well-known hucksters in the media that we hear cheerleading for their corporate masters every day on the "media" with their distortions and fear tactics.

Quit bailing out the rich with our tax dollars.