The lastest trend is to have faith in a candidate as God has told him/her to run to fix things.  The voters will bite and feel they are doing God’s work to elect these pious people. 

For years the people have acted in their own desire by working as a team to fix the academic standards in their schools, by electing good strong people on the board of education.  If this does not work, open a private school.  Many at Hughes Aircraft after the Korean War was over, signed up with a couple of Engineers named Ramo and Woolridge who broke away and opened their own company (TRW).  Many women who found themselves financially responsible for their families, began to make things at home and sell them as a Cottage Industry.  This is how QVC operates. 

Had we done more of this kind of thing, Big Daddy would never have grown into the enormous size we find today. 

We may have reached the point where Big Daddy is so out of control that Americans will lose all the way around. 

I hope many will respond to your Rant as you hit the button here.

Sandy

Health care delivery in this country as it stands now is a better example of a financial model than a health care model.  And in that vein, it’s a fabulously successful one.  We live in a system today where we hope that actual delivered health care will remain within a rough proximity of ’acceptible’ as it flails behind the lead of the economic concerns of the insurance companies.

While we all know that effective reform would reverse that order and let health care necessity lead the economic concerns, it’s an apocalyptic sign that congress is once again allowing economic interests to head the design team of this “reform”.

$324 to have one tooth pulled, and I had two of then taken out. $648. Two extractions. $400 would have been outrageous. To get all I need done, the dentist told me I’d need to spend $26,000. I don’t have anwywhere near that and my “dental insurance” is practically worthless. It might cover $3000 at the most. It must be nice to drive a top of the line Lexus, but why should I alone have to purchase it for him?

Is that the kind of financial model versus health care model you reference?

Kent Shaw

A quote from Russel, an oil company owner who is a contestant on Survivor, “I like making people miserable.  They are easier to control that way”.

The system is broke.  It will not fix itself.  The people will have to fix it.  Boy, are we screwed.  So much for optimism.

Watergate prompted massive “reform” of campaign financing laws which resulted in the system we have today — a system where monied special interests control government and the legislation that affects our lives.

Which makes one wonder if even Watergate wasn’t orchestrated just for this end.