Obama’s health insurance legislation…

I don’t know who this is from or who said it; but, besides being hilarious it is sickeningly true:

Let me get this straight.....

We're seriously considering "ramming through" a
Healthcare Plan
that will put the government in charge of our health ...
Written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it,
Passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it,
to be signed by a president who smokes cigarettes and also hasn't read it,
with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes,
to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese,
and financed by a country that's nearly broke.

What could possibly go wrong?

Note:

I find it interesting that among all these “leaders” of the unions and these other organizations (whose memberships are liberal, progressive and left) for whom these leaders anything Barack Obama and the Democrats support is alright with them, there is a certain hypocrisy that goes along with this…

First they helped to kill single-payer universal healthcare and they refused to put socialized healthcare on the table for discussion.

For instance, at the Roseau County Democratic Farmer-Labor Party convention, the little clique from the teachers’ union who has decided they have a right to manipulate and control the Democratic Party to twist it’s activities to meet their own needs while selfishly excluding the concerns of others; they had a resolution on healthcare running in exactly the opposite direction as the MNDFL Party Platform which contains in its “Action Agenda” support for single-payer universal healthcare.

Now, this same teacher’s union is out telling everyone that we should support Obama’s Wall Street/AMA/Insurance company healthcare initiative even though these arrogant teachers who also passed a resolution opposing mandatory seat-belt use, passed a resolution demanding that tax-payers provide them with a better healthcare plan than what they are helping Obama and the Democrats shove down our throats; this is the epitome of hypocrisy.

Every single day I hear concerned teachers complaining about kids coming to school hungry, not having the proper winter clothing, not getting the healthcare required--- but, how is it this little handful of teacher union “leaders” did not offer one single resolution about improving the lives of these children living in poverty while bringing forward a very selfish resolution demanding that tax-payers provide them with a better healthcare program than the rest of us will get from Obama?

 
It is just this kind of self-centered selfishness that has left the American labor movement impotent. This does not lend itself to building alliances and coalitions… this kind of selfishness will end up being self-defeating in the short and long term to those who advocate such shameful approaches to politics.

 
Then, to think that this same group of teachers who didn’t have the consideration to bring forward resolutions dealing with poverty or war would actually support a resolution calling for an end to mandatory use of seat belts because it is “government interference in our lives!” What kind of message does this send to the youth and the community? Not to mention the huge increases in healthcare expenses that would result.

I would think that anyone who is trying to shove this outrageously regressive an d reactionary health insurance legislation designed to make the insurance companies richer, the doctors and pharmaceutical companies wealthier and designed to insure that Democrats receive the bulk of campaign contributions from this obscene healthcare complex which operates for no other reason than for maximum profits, should be willing to accept this for themselves, too.

The time has come for working people to let the Democrats know that a bunch of labor leaders whose incomes put them more in league with the bosses at their country clubs than with the needs of workers should go to hell.

Kill this legislation and the for-profit healthcare industry--- we need socialized healthcare; free for all.

This is what the American people want--- Jobs created in a healthcare system providing people with the free healthcare they are entitled to, paid for with the money saved from fighting these dirty wars:

Peace = Socialized healthcare + Jobs

These dirty wars are killing people and the real healthcare reform and the jobs people are entitled to in this country.

Here is the reality, this legislation brought forward by Barack Obama and the Democrats should be named the:

 
"Health Insurance Industry Bailout and Profit Maximization Act of 2010"
To top it all off, Brian Melendez, the Chair of the MNDFL, is trying to head off grassroots support for a resolution calling for Minnesota to divest from its support for the Israeli killing machine… when it comes to real healthcare reform the problem becomes one of “fiscal responsibility” and “affordability;” for the war machines and merchants of death and destruction there is no problem when it comes to money.

Yours in struggle and solidarity,

Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council

And

Alternate Delegate, Roseau County, MNDFL State Convention

58891 County Road 13
Warroad, Minnesota 56763
Phone: 218-386-2432
Cell Phone: 651-587-5541
E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net

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