Comments on: Death to Corruption

By: Al

Al — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:11:30 +0000

You tell ‘em, JDP. No art critic could surpass your description of the healthcare reform bill — it’s as ugly as they come. And the same will be true for financial reforms. Why? Because those (along with oil) are the special interests that own the congress — not the unions, which have been dumped on by congress for over 25 years. So I’m agreeing with your conclusions, but keep your villains straight.

You and Saul Alinsky are my heroes.

By: JDP

JDP — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:26:06 +0000

We’ve been down this path before. You define lobbying power exclusively in terms of dollars, while I maintain that the power of organized labor lies in a combination of dollars and human (aka thug) effort–just like Saul Alinsky says it should be in my very own well-thumbed copy of Rules for Radicals. But all of that is beside the point now that we have–voila!– a new entitlement program. Nothing changes with passage of the new health care “reform” legislative turd. Nothing. There is no reform, insurance companies will make even more money than they have in the past, tort lawyers will reap new benefits, nobody knows what health care costs really are, the deficit will balloon and a congress down the road won’t have the guts to make a half-trillion dollars in medicare cuts as promised in the new law to keep things “deficit neutral.” The special backroom deals favoring selected groups of citizens in favored states at the expense of others to get this turkey passed are particularly disgusting. Once again: real change is impossible without truly competitive insurance markets and tort reform. I maintain proposals to do so will get honest bi-partisan support and we’ll finally get turd-free change we can all believe in. This law sucks and this congress sucks.

By: Al

Al — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:07:20 +0000

Right. Let’s include them all. (To keep the post readably short, I confined my remarks to the biggest spenders; $600 million on healthcare reform). I must add, though, that the percentage of illegal aliens in the UAW would be vanishingly small — while the percentage of non-union U.S. autoworkers employed by foreign car companies in southern states would be very high. The SEIU would have some illegals, but if you look at the steeply declining number and percentage of union workers in America, you’ll have to admit that we’re rapidly replenishing our supply of huddled masses even without immigrants. Also, it’s been three decades since the lobbyists of organized labor have been able to shape legislation.

But thanks for inviting them to the party.

By: JDP

JDP — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:47:01 +0000

You forgot the orchestrations of SEIU, the NEA, UAW, assorted organizations lobbying in behalf of illegal aliens and various other supposedly altruistic organizations “to promote their own benefit rather than yours or mine.” The rest of the post is totally accurate.

By: Al

Al — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:13:08 +0000

PS: I wouldn’t deal with Microsoft, either. I noticed in writing this that the Spell Checker in Microsoft Word is a Republican, most likely a teabagger and a birther — it won’t accept Barack Obama.