Boondoggle, yes, but we can probably afford a bit of graft. Much worse is that this crushes the prosperity and creativity of the largest segment of the populace. It essentially loots the people at the lower end, creating increasing servitude of a non-represented class.
Politicos are of two types in Washington -- public servants, and mercenaries. They are mostly mercenaries now, which in wartime makes them simply profiteers, in the billions of dollars. If President Lincoln were in office today, many would go to the gallows, probably 90% of them Republican because they're in power and do most of the deceiving and dealing. Very few are public servants, and the most active like Paul Wellstone are now dead or out of office, as the calculation is forced into one of special interest money. Dean has a chance to prove himself an actual public servant, due to his grass-roots campaigning. We'll see.
Re: drug bill, instead of $400 BILLION to reduce drug costs, what happens is consumers pay more, taxpayers pay more, and $400 BILLION goes to special interests; the AARP is in the insurance business, who get large direct subsidies. The drug cos get direct subsidies. The people who own this country and pay in blood and treasure, are deceived. The money going to consumers is structured to flow directly to drug companies. And the $400 BILLION is the minimum, if corps don't keep people in their programs, the cost to taxpayers goes way up.
Meanwhile, drug cos claim US consumers subsidize the rest of the world, where drugs are 1/3 the cost. What the f*?? We should have our seniors subsidize drug costs for the rest of the world??
This isn't free enterprise. Since it's a matter of life and death, this is simply insiders extorting those least able to object, for $400 Billion.
A skein of lies from one end to the other, by vicious mercenaries in Washington. Since the usual rate of return for Washington graft is 100-to-1, if you traced the dollars it would probably amount to $4 billion in political cash one way or other over the next 10 years.
As ex-Congressman Dr. Tom Coburn said last night -- "If the American people knew what what was going on in Congress they would remove them all"
I'm anxious to get his book, "Breach of Trust -- How Washington Turns Outsiders into Insiders," |
