Some liberals are actually waking up to what's coming down in this "health care" maneuvering.
Robert Reich is in fact a big Clinton/Obama/democrat supporter. He was actually Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton. He's pro universal health care... we might say he's been "in the tank" with the rest of the MSM with every liberal agenda... BUT!!!
In today's article by the same Robert Reich, he has seen what he calls an undermining of democracy in this deal brokered by the White House with the pharmacy industry... "Undermines Democracy!"
We need to read this piece very, very carefully, for one of their own has detected a great breach of public trust and a wretched collusion between the administrative branch of our government and big business... which event the constitution of the United States sought to prevent.
Robert actually calls it "extortion"... which is what is happening to the American people by our elected officials and big business.
I thought we were promised that Obama was going to clean up and do away with the influence of lobbyists over our government... now he is courting them and surrendering to them.
salon
Consider and Ponder.
XtnYoda, shalomed
Robert Reich is in fact a big Clinton/Obama/democrat supporter. He was actually Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton. He's pro universal health care... we might say he's been "in the tank" with the rest of the MSM with every liberal agenda... BUT!!!
In today's article by the same Robert Reich, he has seen what he calls an undermining of democracy in this deal brokered by the White House with the pharmacy industry... "Undermines Democracy!"
We need to read this piece very, very carefully, for one of their own has detected a great breach of public trust and a wretched collusion between the administrative branch of our government and big business... which event the constitution of the United States sought to prevent.
Robert actually calls it "extortion"... which is what is happening to the American people by our elected officials and big business.
I thought we were promised that Obama was going to clean up and do away with the influence of lobbyists over our government... now he is courting them and surrendering to them.
salon
The White House deal with Big Pharma undermines democracy
By Robert Reich
Aug. 10, 2009 | I'm a strong supporter of universal health insurance, and a fan of the Obama administration. But I'm appalled by the deal the White House has made with the pharmaceutical industry's lobbying arm to buy their support....
...Let me remind you: Any bonanza for the drug industry means higher healthcare costs for the rest of us... Otherwise, why would it have agreed?
In return, Big Pharma isn't just supporting universal healthcare. It's also spending lots of money on TV and radio advertising in support. Sunday's New York Times reports that Big Pharma has budgeted $150 million for TV ads promoting universal health insurance....
....I want universal health insurance.... But I also care about democracy, and the deal between Big Pharma and the White House frankly worries me. It's bad enough when industry lobbyists extract concessions from members of Congress, which happens all the time. But when an industry gets secret concessions out of the White House in return for a promise to lend the industry's support to a key piece of legislation, we're in big trouble. That's called extortion: An industry is using its capacity to threaten or prevent legislation as a means of altering that legislation for its own benefit. And it's doing so at the highest reaches of our government, in the office of the president.
When the industry support comes with an industry-sponsored ad campaign in favor of that legislation, the threat to democracy is even greater....
....Perhaps the White House deal with Big Pharma is a necessary step to get anything resembling universal health insurance. But if that's the case, our democracy is in terrible shape. How soon until big industries and their Washington lobbyists have become so politically powerful that secret White House-industry deals like this are prerequisites to any important legislation? When will it become standard practice that such deals come with hundreds of millions of dollars of industry-sponsored TV advertising designed to persuade the public that the legislation is in the public's interest? (Any Democrats and progressives who might be reading this should ask themselves how they'll feel when a Republican White House cuts such deals to advance its own legislative priorities.)
We're on a precarious road -- and wherever it leads, it's not toward democracy.
Consider and Ponder.
XtnYoda, shalomed
posted by XtnYoda at 12:26 PM
4 Comments:
Another clue that both parties are bought and paid for by the elite. This is fascism. We are being plunderd on our civil liberties and our wealth. It is all about control. The elite have all the money it seems, so it must be about control. They (the elite) do have a problem, it is a mind problem. They are sick in the head. They think they can play god with humanity.
Not so much that both parties are bought and paid for...because there are plenty of folks in both parties who are definately NOT paid lackeys of the "elite". But, those in Washington....oh yeah. I submit it's more a problem of most of the truly arrogant butt-monkeys among them (Pelosi, Reid, Murhta, Stabenow, Spect-or, Snow, Collins, Waxman, Rangle, Dingell..the list is endless)belong to the "political" class...something definately not envisioned as a good thing by our founding fathers. Spending one's whole life in the pursuit of political office (P-O-W-E-R) is not service to any but self. Throw 'm all out and start over.
There is such a small percentage of those who are not bought in both parties. That the ones that are not are over shadowed. Yes on the national and some what on the state levels are controled. All you have to do is find out who is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. Every Administration from the current all the way back to Roosevelt is packed with members of the CFR and also since the Carter Administration has Tri-lateral commision people in there cabinates. Bill Clinton is a member of the Tri-lateral commision, and before he announced a run for the presidency he attend the Bilderburg meeting in Germany, and Obama attended in Virgina in 2008. Bush I also attended before he ran. That is why we don't ever get true change just the letters in front of the names. Only the idiology is met. No one cares which party trashes our Constitution as long the ones is in charge is on their team.
When Bush came up with the patriot act conservatives defended him to the hilt. Dems griped and complained about the shreading of the Constitution. So now Obama is in charge did he attempt to recend those laws that Bush inacted? No, and on top of that he is persuing more shreading of our rights. Where is all those freedom loving Dems now?
They the Dems and Republicans need each other. They need each other to blame one another. They keep us divided and in the left-right paradigm.
That is the reason we need to throw them all out and start over and make sure they are not connected to Global Governance institutions mentioned above. Then and only then will we have a true goverment of the people and by the people and not of the elite (federal Reserve which is a internationaly owned bank and not part of the Federal Government)
Remember they always need a crisis to get their agenda through. All we ever see anymore from both parties is a crisis.
We've certainly our work cut out for us. The internet is now a major factor in getting out information other than the vetted MSM in lock-step with the "establishment."
A few years ago I was very leery of the net... now I'm literally thanking God for it and the opportunity of passing news from a different perspective!
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