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… and I am the cause… You are also perpetrators to the demise of our nation… To what am I referring you may wonder?
I reference the health care debate. Only a few diehards are sounding the alarm, and to paraphrase Linkin Park, nobody’s listening… Preoccupied with other things… we are.
What’s at stake is our nation’s financial future… and to be honest, everyone’s argument even if diametrically opposed, is right. That means Delaware Libertarian is right, David Anderson’s Delaware Politics is right, and the team at Delaware Liberal is dead right on as well. ACORN is right… The Chamber of Commerce is right as well.
In fact so many people are right that it separates Delaware’s Senator Tom Carper into a category all by himself. He is not basing his argument on principals, but off who is the highest bidder…..
In fact, that is what makes this issue so complicated. Parts of every argument have merit, and all have grave consequences to his nation. We need unlimited healthcare. Everyone of us wishes we could just walk into a free clinic and get treatment without paying out of pocket…. But the cost is soooooo astronomical. We simply can’t afford health care….
So, as I pointed out in the kavipsian economic plan which was published this past March 6, the solution is to cut and paste the advantages of each approach into a conglomerate, (which I did) and then delete those proposals that don’t work.
Easy huh?
Except such an idea was not pre-approved by the insurance conglomerates nor the big interests of medicine, hospital consortums, and/ or other moneyed interests who have each legislator’s personal financial welfare as their core concern. My idea just helps America regain it’s solvency, and just helps average Americans live healthier without giving up as much of their paychecks…
Who needs that shit….
Obviously… we all do… And if you have done nothing to push the agenda forward, and left the big cone of silence for insurance companies to fill with crap, then you are also part of the problem and your inaction will lead to the lack of a proper solution…
For as was unveiled on March 6th, we can have free out of pocket health care, that makes money for doctors, as provides the best health for members of this nation.. And we can have it for 1/3 oF the cost our government pays for Medicare/Medicaid today. Right now, we pay $600 billion a year on those entitlements. We can have totally free health care with no out of pocket expenses, as do most civilized nations on this planet today, for just $200 billion. NET SAVINGS: $400 BILLION DOLLARS.
Of course adding the two together, yields $800 billion in cost per year. Not good. So obviously swapping the new plan for the old, is beneficial to both this nation’s financial balance sheet, and to each and every American who worries about their health.
The details are here. They need to be read to all who still don’t see the vision of having cheap health-care at our disposal. The only ones hurt by my proposal, are those who rob from Americans only to stuff their own pockets. Yes, Insurance companies. I mean you. You survived quite well under the regulations imposed after the Great Depression until the Bush years of 2000 +. Since those long term regulations were loosened, you have charged more and paid less out in claims… and many long term insurance companies around through our entire lives, are dead or dying….
So the argument that we need more private health care, does not stand up, unless of course your income comes from taking in more money from private Americans and paying out less… But surely even they can see the writing on the wall; that it is unfair for you to prosper at the pain and suffering of so many individual Americans. My plan won’t kill you. It will just bring you back to where you should have never left… You did fine then. You will do fine under my plan as well..
Likewise those pushing for total governmental health care can see the problems that may one day arise. A ballooning entitlement 5 times as large as our Social Security crises we stared down 3 years ago. There just is not enough money to keep us all alive at what ever expense is necessary.
There just isn’t.
That is why we need to realign our commitment to America. We do not have the right to live unlimited lives, at other taxpayers expense. We do have the right to receive preventative health care at other taxpayers expense because over time, IT SAVES US ALL MONEY. It saves each and everyone of us money if we provide government health care as a nation to each of our citizens. That money saved, is sorely needed to bolster our economy right now…. That money saved, does go to creating new jobs.
Sorry you didn’t make it to the sequel…
Down With Absolutes is gone. Burris and RSmitty are out. Libertarians are on the sideline. Tom Ross’s Republican Party is pathetic. The Daniello Democrats are not much more vibrant.
Among all the goodbyes, lurks some despondent griping about blogging.
I can see why.
When I started in 2006 there was a battle taking place between God and the devil over the very soul of this nation. God won. The devil is still around, stopping by $500,000 fundraisers occasionally as the main speaker, but for all intents in purposes, the war is over. Good won.
So now the fun is gone…
But the evil hasn’t. A Democrat, Mr. Pam Scott, is poised to ruin New Castle County forever, by overbuilding us into the Harlem of the Mid Atlantic. Sussex County, is likewise, at the prodding of the Rich Collins and Mark Baker contingency, about to destroy the specially quality that makes living below the canal so special. As we speak, Health Care reform is under attack from billionaires concerned only with keeping as much of our money as possible, and giving us out little in return. And it’s a democrat, Tom Carper, who is listening to them….
The option of cheap energy, a concept that makes so much sense to all, is under attack by moneyed interests, more concerned with keeping our higher prices propped up artificially on a dwindling supply of sources than on making us competitive on a world market because we have extremely low energy costs.
For me, blogging as gotten more exciting.
As I read the parting diatribes of yesterday’s local heroes, I found myself asking why I was different. The response from within was rapid. It was this: I feel my work makes a big difference. I may be a fool, but that is a distinction only time can offer. Contemporary peers who have uttered such, often find themselves in that category (of fools) as time marches past their quickly offered aphorisms.
I really feel I do make a big difference.
Not personally, but what I do offers a viable opportunity for others to see a different perspective from the one being force-fed them by their “bought out” sources. Those in power have to contend with that…
Facts are inconsequential, only if they are kept silent. Silence is what I don’t do well.
So here is my proposition.
With so much talent circulating statewide at this moment, why don’t we of bloggerdom, all of which see things through mostly the same eyes.. (it’s called midstream)…. start a new, vibrant political party, one that can actually offer voters a difference from the status quo? Being a fresh party, we can create ourselves from scratch; evolve from the pieces scattered by our predecessors, and mold ourselves, sort of as did our founding fathers, when the opportunity to invent the United States of America presented itself to them.
We won’t always agree. But, we could survive, and thereby make a difference.
Even if we don’t win at first, by running, by being there, by being exciting, by being vibrant, by being more interesting than our opponents, we can force perusal of those issues that need to be said. Just by being there, we can prevent the usual sweeping of what’s beneficial to us, under the rug to appease those who have run this state wrong for so long.
Third parties have come and gone. Usually that is because the media is bribed against covering them as if they had any importance. But today, the media is trusted less than those running themselves. Talk about a turn of events. If the opportunity were ever to exist in our lifetimes, giving us a chance to make the choice that changes the future for our children, it is in today’s political climate.
Who is with me on exploring this idea further?
Those of you listening to yesterday’s (July 14th) WDEL Rick Jensen hour hosted by Delaware Libertarian Tyler Nixon, heard an incoming call from a caller who tried to poo poo global warming.
There are also some out there who think the world was created in six times twenty-four hours.
Obviously the only people foolish enough to call in on a talk show to publicly argue that global warming is a non occurrence, even citing Mar’s ice cap reversal as evidence, are paid lobbyists for the carbon fuel industry. In that regards, the probable caller was either:
Steven Baccino………………………………………….Delmarva Power a PHI Company
P.O. Box 9239………………………………………………………………..P.O. Box 9239
Newark , DE 19714…………………………………………………….Newark , DE 19714
Robert L. Byrd ………………………………………………..PSEG Services Corporation
The Byrd Group LLC …………………………………………………………80 Park Plaza
Wilmington Trust Center,……………………………………………………………..T-4C
1100 North Market St., .Suite 1000…………………………………Newark , NJ 07102
Wilmington , DE 19801-1254
Gerard Esposito…………………………………………………….TIDEWATER UTILITIES
1100 S. Little Creek Rd……………………………………………1100 S. Little Creek Rd.
Dover , DE 19901 ………………………………………………………. Dover , DE 19901
Edward J. Hazzouri ……………………………………………………………..Sunoco, Inc.
Cozen O’Connor Government Affairs, LLC……………………………………8 Hunt Circle
1900 Market Street …………………………………………………Middletown, DE 19709
Philadelphia , PA 19103
Michael Houghton, Esq………………………………………………………..NRG Energy Inc.
Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP……………………………….167 Stonepost Road
P.O. Box 1347………………………………………………………….Glastonbury , CT 06033
Wilmington , DE 198991347
Cristofer Scott Kidner …………………………………….. Delmarva Power & Light Co.
3 Shinnecock Road………………………………………….401 Eagle Run Road
Dover , DE 19904……………………………………………………………Newark , DE 19702
David L. Press ……………………………………………………………..Shell Oil Company
31 Belmont Dr…………………………………………………………1100 Louisiana St. Hockessin, DE, 19707…………………………………………………….Houston, TX 77002
Rhett Ruggerio ………………………………………………………NRG Energy Incorporated
Rhett Ruggerio Government Relations, LLC …………………………………P.O. Box 1001
2602 W. 19th St. …………………………………………………………….1866 River Road
Wilmington , DE 19806 ………………………………………………..Middletown, CT 06457
……………………………………………….. Valero Energy Corporation
……………………………………………………4550 Wrangle Hill Road
………………………………………………………………Delaware City
W. Laird Stabler, III……………………………………………………….Constellation Energy
Laird Stabler & Associates LLC …………………………………..810 Seventh Avenue
P.O. Box 523 ……………………………………………………………………………Suite 400
Montchanin , DE 19710 ………………………………………………….New York, NY 10019
………………….INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM CORP. OF DELAWARE
…………………………………………………..505 S. Market Street
………………………………………………… Wilmington , DE 19801
………………………………………………..NRG Energy Incorporated
……………………………………………………………..P.O. Box 1001
…………………………………………………………..1866 River Road
………………………………………………….. Middletown , CT 06457
David S. Swayze …………………………………….CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES CORPORATION
Parkowski, Guerke & Swayze ………………………………………………P.O. Box 615
800 King Street – Suite 203………………………………………………… Dover , DE 19903
Wilmington , DE 19801
William T. Wood, Jr………………..MID-ATLANTIC PROPANE DEALERS c/o Schagrin Gas
Wood & Associates, Inc…………………………………………1000 N. Broad Street
1201 Orange Street …………………………………………….. Middletown , DE 19709 Wilmington , DE 19801
Only one of these paid professionals would be silly enough to prove that maxim true, as was once uttered by Forrest Gump….
“Stupid is, as stupid does……”
I refuse to smoke it because if I did, I would never have the will to doggedly write such posts as these.
But many of my acquaintances, I suspect, do indulge in one of nature’s most amazing discoveries: Marijuana is better for you than imbibing alcohol.
As the misled generation exiting before us slowly dies off, the signs of Marijuana’s eventual legalization now begin to appear inevitable. The support for it is swelling.
People under the influence of alcohol drive always while intoxicated. Oppositely, those under the influence of marijuana, smoke another joint, crash at a friend’s house, and drive home the next morning. Wasting government dollars to counteract something less harmful than a mosquito, is just that. Waste.
Legalization and governmental control will do more to limit marijuana use, than having our government fighting it.
Since the seventies we have increased regulations on tobacco companies which are legal, and stepped up a war effort against marijuana which is illegal. Since the seventies tobacco use has plummeted drastically. Since the seventies, marijuana use as soared, and even today is growing rapidly.
That is a sign showing all: what works, and what doesn’t.
The smart option available to us would be to legalize marijuana, incorporate it’s growth and dissemination solely as a governmental monopoly, undersell the crime syndicates and black market, and use all of it’s proceeds to balance our national budget.
Even then, I still wouldn’t smoke it, … because it’s effect is counter to that which I like to do,…. but… it could sure help conservatives like Charlie Copeland and Mike Protack get through their current bouts of depression & delusions.
Here is an update (very late in coming) on the status of Dick, whose child’s operation was postponed by his insurance company (State employee plan of Delaware through Blue Cross/ Blue Shield) at or about 4:00 the day before his 8:00 operation.
The next morning it was determined that the insurance company did not receive a critical piece of paper from the Doctor. Yet the physician’s office claimed the paper had been sent weeks prior. The paper was re-retrieved by the office staff, and re-resent, and the operation went though at 3:00 causing family members to call off work for the evening.
How could that happen, just one business hour before the operation? Sinister motives?
Perhaps not. Here is the business day of one person who works in the medical insurance field.
“At 9:35 am a fax comes into my office (I work in the medical insurance field), from Hanover Hospital stating the physician had approved this specific procedure to be done. But at the top of the fax had jammed and the information of contacting had all run together. I had no idea of who the patient was, who the physician was, or which employee or private plan this incident concerned. Now we are a big insurance company with multiple offices, multiple floors in each office, and multiple cubicles on each floor. I have no idea where this approval is supposed to go.”
“My only option is to call the hospital, and see if they can find out who sent the fax, and from there find out which patient’s account the fax is for. So I spent most of my day tracing down this account and by 2:35, was finally able to route this information to the person responsible for that account. It was important; I felt I had to do it, even though it put my own accounts behind…”
“But I see how such a situation could happen.”
In such a scenario, both parties could be right. The Doctors office: “We sent the information weeks ago”; ….. Blue Cross/ Blue Shield: “We never received the required authorization from this persons physician“.
I’m thankful for this insight. Quick to bash the insurance company I was. Perhaps, maybe, perhaps not? Questions that could be solved by a national data pool that electronically handles all medical issues. Privacy could be jeopardized, but lives would not.
We can handle privacy issues by making the penalties for violating patient trust (such as an insurer telling a corporate entity about upcoming health issues of a certain employee), so severe, that the corporate entity would back off first, saying “don’t tell me… I don’t want to know”. Headlines like “State of Delaware Lawmaker Tony DeLuca Loses 65 million Lawsuit on Violating Insuree’s Privacy” would insure our privacy remains intact.
That is how you handle privacy issues.
And Dick extends his thanks to all who responded with support, caring, and offers of assistance. (All of which because of my slow response time, came long after the medical crises was averted.)
The question is, with what breaking entry does one return back to the fight?
The answer is this one:
The union of two separate energy stories that my generator spit out back to back. It had to be a sign….
Out of all or today’s news feed the headline that jumped out strongest, and caused me to click into the story it provided, was this one:
Students Build Hydrogen Vehicle That Gets 1,336 MPG
Far more implication for our future lives just radiates out of that title; far more than the balancing of the Supreme Court, the death of Republicanism, or the wonderous WDEL broadcast emanating out of Rick Jensen’s spot this afternoon…..
Cost, climate, family incomes, jobs all the stuff we deal with daily, are impacted by that title.
Serendipitously speaking the next headline showing underneath was this one:
Urine: The Hydrogen Fuel of the Future?
Yes, … I am officially back.
Checking updates, I have been informed that one of the key critical battles in whether or not health care will benefit us people, or health insurance companies, will take place here in Delaware between our Senator Tom Carper‘s two ears.
He is firmly lodged in bed with the insurance companies. It will take a monster truck with a 20 gauge chain to yank him out.
But such an event is being planned THIS Thursday, July 9th. TOMORROW.
Metaphorically we, Delaware’s citizens, will have to be the truck and chain. But should this event fizzle, his version of watered down version of health care will become another corporate joke.
Robust Rally for Robust Public Option
Sen. Thomas Carper‘s District Office
1 Christina Center, 301 North Walnut Street, Suite 102L-1
Wilmington, DE 19801
Thursday, 9 Jul 2009, , 12:00 PM
What is at stake is whether or not we can afford health care in the near future. This is not a personal versus business conflict. All businesses in this nation today, desperately need a break from health care costs to remain viable.
Except for the insurance companies of course….. And they are the ones who have their chains attached to Tom Carper‘s balls.
This, is our revolution. Tomorrow is our Lexington, our Concord… All eligible good men and women need to come to the aid of their country.
I chose to spend vacation away with a wonderful group of people who dedicate their spare time helping those who cannot afford to help themselves.
Our group is dedicated to the fixing of houses. My daughter has worked this for the past seven years and finally convince her parent to try it.
I think there is a lesson here for all.
One, what we accomplish is little; it is one house in a sea of broken dreams. But despite that, we provide hope, a shot in the arm, a realization that the impossible can occur… And upon reflection, that last bit provides deep insight into the nature of human psyche.
I may be criticized for helping far away when we have such need here. That may be valid for that is what I did. However, I cannot imagine the thoughts that went through that homeowner-who-we-helped”s head, who no doubt prayed many years for any miracle, only to have a team from Delaware descend onto their property and in a few short days, bring their property up to where it needed to be..
That must be a fantastic feeling.
I recommend such an outing to all. It is completely apolitical. The satisfaction upon returning I would say, is slightly better than the well being that comes from being indulged. The difference is: something good was accomplished. Small perhaps, but good was done.
I now understand that the salvation of this race of man, will not be accomplished by our inventions and technology, although I would be the last person to slight either of those… No, … whether we will survive or not as a species, will be determined more or less, by our willingness or unwillingness to help each other when our fellow humans cannot help themselves…
To that value system, our American society needs to return.
