Barack Obama

Blah blah blah… So, I guess we’re never gonna hear, “Let’s string up the corporate bastards and greedy Wall Street weasels who got us into this mess,” huh?

I was away from the computer all day yesterday, which I wasn’t quite expecting to happen, and so none of my usual Saturday stuff got posted. I’ll catch up today. If I were really on the ball I could have prepared most of those posts in advance and scheduled them to post while I was … more…

At least there’s mention finally of no longer allowing the health insurance companies to get away with their bullshit about preexisting conditions and denying coverage just when you need it. We’ll see whether any of it actually comes to pass…

I wonder what John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would think of the current U.S. government, which is of, by, and for extralegal global corporations. I mean, the “health care reform” that Obama is saying “must happen this year” has, so far, been geared toward making sure the for-profit insurance companies are allowed to keep doing … more…

Clean energy! I’ll believe it when I see it.

Do we really need another oversight agency? Why don’t we just tighten up the laws that regulate the credit card companies and banks? It wasn’t the lack of an oversight agency that let the financial industry get away with the crap it pulled — it was the fact that financial industry lobbyists were the ones … more…

I keep waiting to hear someone in a position of power say that the problem with health care is the health insurance companies. And I’m still not hearing it. Obama is talking about treatment and care driving up costs, when it’s the drive by insurance companies to make enormous profits that’s the problem. Our health … more…