Who is Running the USA?

Posted Mon, 04/16/2012 - 07:08


"It Ain't the People!"

Where to start – where to start ...

Since I was so ill for several weeks. I've become more aware than usual of the health care industry in the USA. Here are some facts:

Hospitals and drugs are the number one cause of death in the USA. Each year, 200,000 people die from prescription drugs and 100,00 die from hospital mistakes.

In California:

A family of 6 pays $1,500 per month for health insurance. For this they get a $6,500 deductible policy.

Any insurance company can raise the rates on the insured and price them out of their insurance for contracting any disease acquired after the insurance policy is acquired.

In other states, insurance companies can decline to renew the insured's policy after they receive diagnoses of ailments like cancer and M.S. So, they aren't really insured at all!

The medication for multiple sclerosis (MS) costs $2,600 per month.

Spiriva, prescribed for COPD, costs $285 per month. That's $9.50 for each tiny dose that costs pennies to manufacture.

Not everyone will have M.S. But, everyone who ever smoked very long – and many others – will have breathing problems classified as COPD.

The pharmaceutical companies, in conjunction with the insurance companies, truly are destroying the middle class. Yet, our Congress - and highest court - protect all big business! Drugs kill as certainly as disease.

Let's take a look at a couple of more facts involving big business.


Mitt Romney made 21 million dollars in 2010 and paid 13.9% in taxes.

General Electric has paid an average of 2.3% in taxes over last 10 years!


Goldman Sachs: Be sure to read this article to see how big business participates in illegal activities that will turn your stomach:

New York Times


Now, let's look at what the Supremes have just made legal:

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails, even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of contraband.

This means if you spit on a sidewalk – and it's illegal in your town – you can be strip searched at the jail:

New York Times


Do you think there's a difference in the rights of citizens and big business? Goldman Sachs (and some other huge companies such as Trimaran, an investment company in New York) are frantically trying to dump their shares in the sex trafficking company now that this has come to light. Yet Goldman Sachs actually sat on the board of that company for four years!

[The sex trafficking company is named at the above link.]

Do you think these big business folks at who have participated in a sex trafficking business will be arrested – much less strip searched?

In a pig's wazoo! Nothing will done be done to hold them accountable. Not - one - thing!

The Supreme Court's job is to use the Constitution to determine what is legal – not to endorse partisan beliefs or to support any businesses. The Supremes are operating illegally!

Just sayin' ...

Just Another Week in Paradise

Posted Mon, 02/20/2012 - 08:14


"Heads Out of Arm Pits, Please!"

I'm a bit behind on this subject so I was reading up on the “anti-bullying laws” in the USA. This is something that's been bothering me for a while.

Bothering me as in, why are these laws necessary? What the hell is going on with the parents in this country? Why the hell do they no longer control their own kids?

When I was growing up – and, even as my own children were growing up – I never heard of another child being bullied into suicide! Now, it's a common occurrence that makes me physically ill every time I hear of another case.

The very idea of the frequency is mind-boggling! Are parents simply not paying attention? Do they not care?

Apparently, not. Every time I hear of a parent defending the little darling who is bullying another right into the grave, I'd like to just slap 'em. (No, that isn't bullying – that's battery.)

Back in the Stone Age, when I went to school, the principal (and, sometimes, the teachers) had wooden paddles. Any little brat who bullied another child even to tears (never mind suicide) would be seeing the end of that paddle with the holes in it.

And, that was just the first punishment. Another one would be waiting when that kid got home and found out his parents had been called. (Yes, we had telephones.) That's called “nipping it in the bud.”

How many kids were killed by those wooden paddles? None that I know of. And, The Nitpicker reminded me when he proofread this issue that rarely did the same kid have to experience that paddle more than once. It was a swift little educator!

Are today's parents too stupid, or too lazy, to put a stop to bullying? WHY are laws necessary?

Not that I don't support the laws. I do. But, any time you involve the government in our personal business in this country, things are going to run amok.

Case in point: The Michigan law exempts anyone who is bullying from prosecution who claims they are doing it because “a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction” justifies their harassment.

WHOA, there, Nellie! More killing in the name of God! God must be very proud of his “children.”


A few weeks ago, I wrote about Apple's manufacturer in China – Foxconn. Later, I found a more in-depth article about Foxconn - and more about Apple's compliance in their dehumanizing and unacceptable behavior toward their employees.

You know, we tend to think “what is” is what will always be. In my previous paragraphs on bullying, I've just shown you how that is far from true.

Yet, we tend to ignore things that make us uncomfortable. I doubt anyone was completely surprised when this situation with Foxconn was first brought to light.

I actually saw one article that stated this is just “the cost of doing business” for Apple. Really?

Let me tell you what the ultimate cost will (from the looks of things) be ...

We could become, in fact, ARE becoming, just like China. Few jobs – low wages - our homes literally stolen out from under us – police state – and no accountability on the part of those who caused it.

We'd better get our heads out of our arm pits and pay attention! What goes around, comes around – every time!

New York Times

Just sayin' ...

Action is Needed!

Posted Mon, 01/30/2012 - 07:26


"Paying Attention is Now Critical"

How about we start with this:

"10 Reasons the USA is no Longer the Land of the Free"

Washington Post


It's my understanding that this Republican Primary for the presidential race will go on until May. And, by “go on” I mean more and more debates. THEN, it's predicted they will have an open Primary, anyway.

Personally, I'm sick of it. It isn't funny, any more. So, I plan to ignore it as much as possible. There's a reason the circus only comes to town once a year. A little bit goes a long way.


On our President's State of the Union Address, last week, I have no comment. I suggest you go to FactCheck.org and do exactly that. Check his facts.

While you're there, check the facts being tossed around in the Republican primaries. The outright and blatant lying is simply awesome!

Speaking of facts, or lack thereof, it's time (actually it's PAST time) to put broadcasters on notice:

"The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has launched a new era of big-money politics. The wealthiest 1 percent now have unchecked power to pick and choose our nation’s leaders. And they’re doing it by spending tens of millions of dollars on televised political ads that leave voters awash in misinformation.

So where’s the broadcast media in all of this? Instead of exposing this runaway spending and separating fact from fiction in an election year, they’re lining their pockets with the winnings — to the tune of more than $3 billion dollars in 2012 ad buys."

Put the largest TV conglomerates on notice. Demand that broadcasters expose the money trail and cover election-year issues properly!

Petition to Broadcasters


It's common knowledge that our government has “borrowed” nearly three trillion dollars from the Social Security fund – and never paid a dime back. This started decades ago.

Now, Congress wants to raid the pension funds of Federal employees! The full story is here:

Treasury Dips Pension Funds

Am I the only person who finds it absolutely unacceptable that, instead of raising the taxes of the 1% to match those of the 99%, they simply steal other monies belonging to that same 99%? It's mind boggling to me that we can't put a stop to this!

And yet, they do it as if they have a perfect right - and with no apology!

Just sayin' ...

Syndicate content