Thursday, October 30, 2014

PRIVATIZATION, SOCIALISM, BIG GOVERNMENT?

If you live under some weird illusion that the private sector is good and your government is bad.  Most likely – you have it wrong. Stop, think about how the private sector runs to the government every time they screw things up. Think about who funds the government – we do. Who bails out big banks, big insurance, big Wall Street, big private sector everything – we do. Who is getting short end of the straw?  We are.

Example:  “The Antares rocket supplied by contractor Orbital Sciences blew up moments after liftoff at NASA’s space launch facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the space agency said:
“The explosion destroyed the rocket and spacecraft and immediately raised questions about the future of NASA’s reliance on private commercial ventures to carry vital payloads into space to supply and support the orbiting space station.”

This “private launch” cost us $200.000.000! It is the third such costly failure. How much
more of this nonsense should we allow before we wake up to the fact that we are being
used. PRIVATIZATION IS NOT WHAT HAS MADE THIS COUNTRY GREAT – WHAT HAS MADE AMERICA GREAT IS SOCIAL PROGRAMS THAT HAVE WORKED TO HELP BUILD A STRONG, WORKING MIDDLE CLASS, OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, AND THE AMERICAN WORKER – ALL ARE IN JEOPARDY.

This is how the private sector works: (St. Louis Post Dispatch)  “The natural  speculation is that UnitedHealthCare is hiding behind the ACA to boost its profits. In a letter to UnitedHealthCare CEO Stephen Hemsley (2010-2013 total compensation: $212 million) last spring, Thomas L. Holloway, executive vice president of the Missouri Medical Association, suggested the company is “cherry-picking … targeting the sickest, most costly patients and summarily terminating the physicians.”


What is really sad is during the last 20 years, the United States has finally socialized risk, but
privatized profit.    Check out this link to read all about it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-feige/socializing-risk-privatiz_b_129281.html


Let’s think about ourselves on election day:
VOTE FOR AMERICA – VOTE FOR OUR CHILDREN – VOTE FOR YOURSELF – BUT VOTE
Yes, let’s take back our Government – (key words – let'”US” and “OUR”) Aren’t you tired of the few profiting from OUR tax dollars. How about taking a moment to remember when we had the “Greatest Generation” and how there was a growing and prosperous middle class. There was government and there was private sector jobs. There was socialization where it was needed. No merger wars and huge monopolies without regulations. It worked so well – shared prosperity. Mostly gone now – but still time to take it back.

STOP THE PRIVATIZATION OF OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS – REELECT TOM TORLAKSON
GET CONTROL OF YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS – YES ON PROP 45
NO ON PROP 46
REELECT DAVE JONES
-ELECT ART MOORE.

But, above all, don’t squander one of our most precious rights, get out and vote.

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