Give us a Public Option, Or the Status Que. No More and no Less

Today the finance committee in the senate voted down the public option amendment. This bill coming out of that committee will not contain the Public Option. Some of the senators had smirks on their faces and appeared cavalier with a Country Club aired about them. While saying resoundingly clear, No to any competition to the health insurance industry. which is exactly the intention of the Public Option. I wonder if some of the senators equate the  word “Public”with the Projects, or Welfare, or some other negative connotation, therefore a “Public Option” to the Health Care Bill, must be bad?

Back to the country club, smirking U.S. Senators. We can’t allow them to deny us the right to competition,
And then still give a gift of 30 to 40 million new customers to to the Health Care Insurers. After all they will still be in control as they are today. They will have no competition as they have none today. The health care cost curb will continue going North.

So Senators of the U.S. Senate, The insurance companies may have helped you get elected, by contributing to your campaigns, But know this, It is us, We the People, who turn out in the sun, rain, cold, and snow to pull that lever.

Beyond the issue of removing those Senators who don’t serve us, The next issue before we let them go, is to make sure that without a public option, We demand these Senators pass no Health Care Reform at all.   And leave us with the status Que until such time that we elect officials who will give us True Health Care Reform. The last thing we should be doing is rewarding big insurance by giving them a Windfall if Health Care Reform passes without a Public Option.  That would just be business an usual, in government.  Quid Pro Que.   We cannot let that happen people.

Acorn, Singled Out, Unjustly

The Nationally known community organization Acorn, has been under intense scrutiny after Fox News aired secretly taped video of Acorn employees allegedly engaging in questionable behavior. These employees were “Jack Asses” if the allegations are valid. Be that, as it may be, I must say, that Acorn, the organization, apart from the two or three people caught up in the Fox News entrapment., Or was it really the witnessing of the Fox actors being: “Rocked to Sleep” by the street savvy workers? After all, I think the young lady, acting like a woman of the night, was only 18 or 19 yrs old. The Acorn people work directly with ” People of the Street” and I think they may have just played along. They didn’t realized they were being secretly recorded for the Fox News Network. That is Fox’s crime to answer for unless they are “Above The Law? Acorn has filed a suit and rightfully so. The question is whether it is legal for Acorn’s contractors both public or private to arbitrarily cancel their contracts with Acorn based on tapes from a right wing entertainer on Fox News? It seems to me that Acorn’s due process rights are in violation. Is Acorn the new template, on how the government will handle all contractors who are embroiled in a scandal? Even if the employees involved were tiny people in the organization. Should we shut down the government the next time we catch a Senator or Representative involved in shenanigans? Fox News was not removed from the air when Glynn Beck called President Obama a “Racist”? We didn’t demand it. And he still has his job. Acorn accomplished the registering of two million new voters in 2008, Two million new voters can decide elections, The Tea Party Protesters have eclipsed the W.E.B. Du Bois’ term: “Sleeping Giant” for themselves. W.E.B. Du Bois, in a book entitled: “The Souls of Black Folk” published in 1903. In this book W.E.B. DuBois was examining the African-American experience some 40 years after the Civil War. He referred to those African-Americans as the original “Sleeping Giant”. At that time the powers that were in charge knew who the real sleeping giant was and they were the oppressed African-Americans. The Tea Party Protesters have been the ones in control from the foundation of America, and their past generations, Not mine. Now, they are suppose to be the Sleeping Giant?. I think they better wake up! How ironic…it is. The Tea Party Protesters and their generations were never sleep. Nor are they sleep now and they never were the sleeping Giant. Acorn is waking up the real Sleeping Giant, I think that would be about two to four million new voters. While it appears that the Republicans figure if they can get rid of Acorn, they will also get rid of two to four million new voters in future elections. . Acorn should be treated fairly. And where they are not let the Courts decide the issue