Truth in advertising from the Medical Industrial Complex Bob Cesca at HuffPo, in his post The Health Insurance Mafia Deserves a Good Screwing recounts his personal experience of losing his family’s medical insurance after his provider, without cause, raised their premium threefold overnight; and makes the case for a public option. Atul Gawande of The New Yorker provides a clue …
The Republican Party is rife with Zeros these days. The nine nincompoops above are just a random gaggle selected from the dozens and dozens of them pining to spend time in the GOPper boxes of national leadership-ness-ness. The assortment of war criminals, gas bags, elderly has-beens, living and dead, and a burgeoning bunch of weiner wanna-bees will continue to plague the nation until the electorate relegates them to the slag-heap of history.
Where’s our James Bond to prevent Goldman/Goldfinger from emptying the Treasury? Back in March, in my post Mad As Hell, I referred to the “Wall Street/DC Axis of Evil” and the Treasury Department as “a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs.” Have to update that today to include the Fed. Turns out that the guy who replaced Timmeh Geithner at …
With everybody on board except a few hedge fund “speculators” who bought Chrysler debt at a steep discount, President Obama just announced that, despite trying to avoid a Chapter 11 bankruptcy (including offering these greedy bastards another $250 million at the last moment to avoid it), a bankruptcy restructuring was the only way to save the company and 10,000s of …
Geithner & Summers manning the oars after Bush decided to empty the boat’s bilges by drilling a hole in its bottom Bush sinks the economic ship of state. Obama launches the life rafts, piloted by Wall Street insiders Timmeh Geithner and Larry Summers. But the sharks (hedge funds, private equity firms) are circling and there’s lots of stormy weather ahead. …
Well, shit. Eric.
You need to be voted out of Congress. You need to be sent to a suburb in one of those American cities across this country, and you need to be unemployed, with no prospects, with no health insurance, and worrying how the fuck you’re going to pay for a visit to the doctor’s office when you and yours catch the Swine Flu.
They’re called “prairie palaces” around here. The early adapters took their profits from ocean view tract homes in SoCal, and in the fields of Colorado, parlayed them into conspicuous, 4,000 square foot symbols of their success. Like so many other dreams around the country, this particular palace has fallen on hard times. Times such as these can produce bitterness at …
