Obama Weekly Address: President Details Changes In Health Care Legislation (VIDEO)

I'm not hearing a whole lot of what the people were told in Minnesota...or in the speech made to Congress when the drive to begin health care reform began.

Everyone will need to acquire insurance...but from who? The same leeches that were selling Americans out for generations in the first place?

And if this bill should follow the bulk of the other bills and programs that have come forth in the last year...there will be loop holes for the insurance industries, so large, they'll be able to drive a (omni)bus through them. In the wake of the multiple failed bailouts is there any reason to expect otherwise?

This was not what we were told we should expect in health care reform in view of the 36 other countries providing their citizens with more accessible health care opportunities.

Perhaps it would have been prudent to have said nothing publicly at the onset of this reformation and then perhaps people would have been happy with whatever scraps of progress they were ultimately offered.

Instead we have gone from "near perfect" to "good" to "good enough" to "not nearly enough" to "better" to "better than nothing".

It's very hard to get positively excited about "better than nothing" when so many other poorer and less endowed countries have managed to achieve more lofty goals and aspirations for providing their citizenry, health care.
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Obama Tells House Democrats He Supports Senate Tax On Cadillac Health Care Plans

There still seems to be an inordinate amount of concern for the preferences of the insurance companies rather than the people.

If the dwindling middle class must accept new legislation as it is presented to them (whether it is what was promised or is tastefully acceptable or not) then why all the finagling to find a program acceptable to the whims of the insurance industry? This country was founded on the rights of the people, not on the "rights" of industry and the interest of corporate Kings.

Had our legislators kept this foremost in mind, perhaps we could have had a single pay or public option program like countries with existing universal health care programs already do, and we wouldn't be reinventing the wheel now and making things twice as lengthy or complicated as they remain to be.

America was established to serve the people, not industry and corporate entities.

Until that ideal returns to American government, it can no longer profess to be a workable form of government for the American people.
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The anniversary of hope. What was and will never be.

It should be becoming apparent to even the stanchest believers that the office of the President no longer wields the sort of power that it may have at one time in America.
The system is far too convoluted and fractionalized with those powers being distributed between industry, banking interests and the flow of capital from these entities and into the halls of our representation in Washington to the point where America itself has become a corporation, silently controlled by the will of huge financial investors equivelant to stock holders and proxied interests.
Our Presidents, (and specifically this President) have been reduced to just one more voice in the crowd (albeit a louder one) with no more control over the processes than steering the predesignated course of this country's real but unseen navigators and occasionaly standing on the bow of this ship alerting us when either shoals or rocks or land is visible from his vantage point.
The presidency (and again this President in particualr) is not lacking, faulty or broken. The system is.
The hull of this ship called America has been breached for 100 years and it is all we as it's crew or any given president can do but to bail and pump so that we don't swamp completely. And the water rises with each decision, each bill and each term served by elected officials.

Until we as a nation recognize and accept this for the reality that it is, we can never hope to make the necessary repairations to stay afloat and perhaps once again set sail on our properly intended course because we have handed the helm over to privateers and mutineers who have as much to gain or more through our sinking as they do with our returning to a safe passage.

Interrogate this!

So, it's ok to be killed in America...just not by "some dang ferriner"?

With all the bleating of the sheep over the need for "enhanced interrogation" for Taliban and AQ... supported by the chant of "they killed 3000 Americans on 9/11"...I might remind you that since 9/11 Americans have killed more Americans on the streets of American cities per year than AQ or any real, perceieved or imaginary "terrorists" from somewhere else by tens of thousands more.

The stats for homicides just in 2008 from a few major cities clearly show that our losses of 9/11 pale by comparison our losses in any given year since.

And yet, the same sheeple with the quick fix solution for the inhumane treatment of supposed "terrorists" remain silent year after year since 9/11 and seemingly accepting of the domestic terrorism that costs far more American lives then that incident 8 years ago or in any war/invasion we have involved ourselves in since that day.

Here's what you should be bitching about if you actually had a reverence for the sanctity of life and not just an "us and them" hard on for revenge. NYC/255, Chicago/509, Baltimore/209, Detroit/340, LA/381...

These numbers only represent the blotter reports for 2008. Nowmultiply these stats times the number of US cities and then times that by 8...or the number of years since we lost 3000 Americans on 9/11, 2001.

And you're worried about "possible threats"???

More Americans were killed in Chicago in 2008 than we lost in 6 years of war in Iraq.

If I'm one of you..and sadly, I am...I'd be more irrate and reactive about the real threats for America. Americans.

So based on the clamor from the large of heart and small of mind, that it's perfectly acceptable to be killed enmass in America...as long as it ain't at the hands of "some dang ferriner!".