HurryUp1212009's Comments (202)

“Big corporations in the US, and the hedge funds that are their biggest investors, do not care about people, the environment or the future. All they care about are maximizing earnings TODAY. They are like hungry hogs at the feed trough. What the US needs is powerful leadership at the top, and we are not getting enough of it from Obama. Can you imagine where we'd be today if Bush and Cheney, instead of invading Iraq to steal their oil, a dying resource, had invested 200,000 US jobs and $1 trillion into finding new alternative/renewable energy technologies for the future??? But again, it was all about the short term and nothing about the long term. How can you be optimistic about the future when nobody thinks beyond tomorrow??”

“Read up on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire and other "great" empires. Notice the similarities.... Then try not to get sick to your stomach.”

“Republicans, and their corporate enablers, are eprfectly willing to eat the future in order to satiate their greed in the present...”

“I have been waiting for some economist to tell me how the US economy, which is 70% consumer spending, will ever recover if consumers continue to not have any money to spend.

The growth of the US economy in the past 60 years has paralleled the expansion of the middle class in the US. The middle class was created and expanded through "escalator" careers within the same company for 30 years untl retirement.

Now "vulture capitalists" tell corporate management to cut costs at all costs, leading to massive overseas outsourcing of jobs that used to make up "escalator careers' for our kids and their kids.

If this trend is allowed to continue and not REVERSED with domestic job credits and overseas job penalties, the middle class will surely fade away in the US, and with it, the vaunted US economy. These "vulture capitalists" won't care, they will have their billions and overseas residences when our economy dries up.

It's the beginning of the end of the grand US experiment in Democracy. Tragic.”

“Please assure your husband we are already past 10% of the names on the Black Wall, and headed for 20%; all in pursuit of the same phantom named "Victory" that the previous 58,000 lives were wasted chasing.

John Keery was right - so right - when he asked "Who's going to be the last person to die over a wasted cause?"”

“Sadly, like so many aspects of the promising Obama Presidency, this situation has Rahm Emanuel's fingerprints all over it, and - like everything else Rahm Emanuel touches - this is all about getting Obama re-elected in 2012.

Obama and Emanuel KNOW that if they rejected McCrystal(sp?)'s request for up to 40,000 troops, and instead did what's best for America: start withdrawing from that quicksand known as Afghanistan, both McCrystal and Petraeus would resign, and Petraeus would run against Obama in 2012. Not that he won't resign and run anyhow, BTW.

Barring an accumulation of evidence to the contrary, Independent voters, such as myself, have to start wondering if Obama is indeed turning into a replay of the Jimmy Carter Presidency it shouldn't be, not the FDR PResidency is could have been. American needs the latter, not the former!”

“Afghanistan bankrupted the Soviet Union and Bin Laden said the same thing would happen to the US. It's happening. Obama should feel no obligation to continue wasting American lives and treasure to perpetuate Dick Cheney's invasion of Iraq for its oil and Afghanistan for that natural gas pipeline.

Waging war against two countries, to seize their natural resources, was a last desperate act of an empire in decline, relying on a finite, declining energy source.

It's horrifying to ponder where the US would be if Bush and Cheney had instead invested $1 trillion and 200,000 US jobs into finding all sorts of alternative and renewable energy sources; instead of investing those lives and that reasure into grabbing the 2nd largest oil reserves in Earth. But no, like so many politicians, they were beholden to large corporations that want to rape our economy for today, and to Heck with tomorrow.

Unless our leadership changes radically, the decline of the American experiment will continue... Maybe that's why the Book of Revelations makes no mention of a Eagle in its allegories....”

“They didn't like in him what they see in themselves when they look in the mirror: racism, xenophobia, paranoia and rage at becoming the new minority in the US. Tee hee... Bunch of LOSERS!”

“"When Facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
Sinclair Lewis

Disenfranchised, undereducated, overage whites, enraged that a minority person is occupying the White House, find a voice, a tent and a rallying epicenter in the teaparty movement, which is nothing but a disgused form of racism, xenophobia, paranoia, etc.

Ironic that they turn on a Neo-Nazi. Maybe what they don't like in him is what they see when they look in the mirror every morning..”

“Obama MUST start showing some backbone, and firing this guy would be a good first step. Firing Geitner would be a good 2nd step.”

“ORKT: You can read the whole story by going back and reading the Project For A New America Century manifesto, basically authored by Cheney (until GHWB told him to take his name off it), that says America, as the "lone remaining superpower" has the right to invade a country, like Iraq, and sieze its natural resources of those resources are deemed strategically necessary to preserve America's superpower status. At the time he wrote this, Cheney knew Iraq had the 2nd largest oil reserves in Earth, and Saddam was threatening to switch from the US Dollar to the Euro as the medium of exchange for OPEC oil. Cheney knew that invading Iraq and removing Saddam would fix both problems and give the US access to a vast supply of cheap oil. That, sir ,is why we invaded Iraq. Cheney's secret Energy Task Force consisted of Big Oil looking at the maps of Iraq and dividing up the spoils of our invasion. As for Afghanistan, there are plans for a major natural gas pipeline across that country, again masterminded by Dick Cheney.”

“Obama needs to fire this lady and Geitner..”

“"The Decline & Fall Of The American Empire"

Deceit and Corruption, the twin towers of Congress, and Rahm Emanuel apparently.....

If this is proven true, I won't vote for Obama next time around. I'd rather vote for the people who are FLAGRANT about their corrupt practices, not another hyprcrite.”

“If not now, when? 2050? How many people die for lack of health insurance in the meantime?”

“Right before Medicare For All is passed, the final argument of the private insurance companies will be, "what do we do with all the workers we will have to lay off?" That's right before they start offering Medicare Supplement Insurance, like they do now. Hypocrites!”

“FDR knew the Republican Party was aligned against him (for their own reasons), so he ignored them and got passed the greatest policy implementations in US history, ushering in the Middle Class in America. Obama ought to follow FDR's lead. Republicans can read: They know if Obama gets health care for 47 million voters and improves health care for 100 million more, the Republican Party will be obsolete for 25 years, like it was after FDR. There's no such thing as bipartisanship anymore, its big business against the people. Basically class warfare. Why not tell it like it is??”

“Like you, I am waiting to see if Obama has a backbone, or if he's all talk and no action.

When it was obvious that Medicare was going to pass (without Republican support) suddenly Republicans jumped onboard, because they KNEW it would be a roaring success and having voted against it would prove fatal to any politician.

The situation is identical right now. As soon as Republicans see that Medicare for anyone who wants it is a winner, they will hop onboard, or become completely irrelevant for 12+ years!”

“ELOQUENT!
PERFECT!
TIMELY!
HISTORICALLY ACCURATE!

REPUBLICANS OPPOSED THE NEW DEAL
REPUBLICANS OPPOSED SOCIAL SECURITY
REPUBLICANS OPPOSED THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT
REPUBLICANS OPPOSED THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
REPUBLICANS OPPOSED MEDICARE
REPUBLICANS OPPOSED MEDICAID
REPUBLICANS OPPOSE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO

SEEMS TO ME THAT ANYTHING REPUBLICANS OPPOSE IS PROBABLY GOOD FOR THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS A "REVERSE LEADING INDICATOR"

OBAMA - IF HE FORCES THROUGH UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE - WILL INDEED GO DOWN IN US HISTORY AS ONE OF OUR TRULY GREAT PRESIDENTS. THAT POSSIBILITY GIVES ME CHILLS AND THRILLS!”

“Private insurance companies ALREADY ration health care, so they can make more money. Where do you think the $73 million retirement package for the head of CIGNA comes from? From denied treatment, stupid!
THIS VERY MORNING, A FRIEND OF OURS IS UNDERGOING LUNG CANCER SURGERY IN SAN FRANCISCO. HER DOCTOR WANTS HER TO STAY IN THE HOSPITAL FOR 3 DAYS, TO RECOVER. BUT CIGNA WILL ONLY REIMBURSE FOR ONE DAY - ONE DAY - EVEN THOUGH HER DOCTOR SAYS SHE NEEDS 3 DAYS.
That's where the CEO's $73 million retirment package comes from, suffering people like our friend who's in surgery as I write this!
Shame on you, CIGNA!!!”

“Would somebody please tell me why Barack Obama doesn't deliver the following speech:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich are LIARS and HYPOCRITES, and I am going to prove that to you. Both Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich know that there is nothing, repeat NOTHING, in the proposed health care reform legislation that even resembles "Death Panels". What they are referring to is the provision enabling reimbursement for end-of-life counseling, also known as living will instructions. They know this, but they choose to outright LIE to the American people, in hopes of de-railing what we are trying to do: bring affordable healthcare to all Americans. They are doing this because they know the Republican Party has fought these sort of advances for 75 years, from the New Deal through Medicare/Medicaid and up to the present debate. They know if we pass this legislation, the Republican Party is in deep trouble. And they are hypocrites because BOTH OF THEM previously have come out IN FAVOR of Living Wills as a way to help people with end-of-life planning. They know what this is, and yet the continue to LIE, to scare people and advance their own selfish interests."”

“All Obama needs to do is open up Medicare to ANYONE WHO WANTS TO JOIN, and charge everyone under 65 an actuarially reasonable monthly premium. No one in their right mind would keep their high cost, low service private plan of they could get Medicare. If these wingnuts want to keep their lousy plans, let them! It's as simple as that!”

“Let me guess: The guy was white and the woman was black. He should be VERY GLAD I wasn't there.....”

“Lee Atwater invented this poisonous form of politics, and I was delighted when he died of brain cancer. Seemed like a form of "payback" for his evil thoughts that we still have to live with from the likes of Karl Rove and Grover Norquist.”

“Obama (and Emanuel) were STUPID and NAIVE to hand over the crafting of health care overhaul to the banal, hypocritical and (frankly) corrupt Congress, all of whom are bought-and-paid-for by lobbyists. The result will be (a) no public option and (b) no negotiated prices on drugs by Medicare. And then, Republicans will vote against it, saying there are no cost savings in the overhaul!

It could all be so simple: Open Medicare to ANYONE who wants it, and charge an actuarially reasonable monthly premium for anyone under 65. Elimination of the employer madate would bring a lot of healthy people into the Medicare risk pool, thereby cross-funding the cost of sick people's treatment.”

“Proof once again that you have to flunk an intelligence test to gain admission to the Republican Party nowadays.”