Why are lies tolerated from our public officials?
_"I’m very pleased that (Democratic leaders) will be talking, too, about the immoral profits being made by the insurance industry and how those profits have increased in the Bush years." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who also welcomed the attention being drawn to insurers’ "obscene profits."
_"Keeping the status quo may be what the insurance industry wants. Their premiums have more than doubled in the last decade and their profits have skyrocketed." Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, member of the Democratic leadership.
_"Health insurance companies are willing to let the bodies pile up as long as their profits are safe." A MoveOn.org ad.
THE NUMBERS:
Health insurers posted a 2.2 percent profit margin last year, placing them 35th of 53 industries on the Fortune 500 list. As is typical, other health sectors did much better — drugs and medical products and services were both in the top 10.
The railroads brought in a 12.6 percent profit margin. Leading the list: network and other communications equipment, at 20.4 percent.
HealthSpring, the best performer in the health insurance industry, posted 5.4 percent. That’s a less profitable margin than was achieved by the makers of Tupperware, Clorox bleach and Molson and Coors beers.
The star among the health insurance companies did, however, nose out Jack in the Box restaurants, which only achieved a 4 percent margin.
It is a result of the American educational system. The system has not educated the Americans as to the truth concerning American history. The two party system along with most of the politicians are complicate with the corrupt corporate US Federal Government for their own benefit at the expense of the American family. The two party system has been successful at keeping the American people divided.
November 21st, 2009 at 5:05 pm
They are and continue to be ego driven, career minded wall flowers continuing this mental Andromeda strain on our citizens. This won’t stop until we (voters) get smart and begin a deliberate process of eliminating them at the polls.
Politicians no longer represent the people, they represent their own image. Every thing we see proves this, we’re just too blind to recognize it!
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November 21st, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Because the progressives use their lies to intimidate people into following their agenda. If they told the truth, everyone would be a conservative.
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November 21st, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Lies are tolerated from our public officials until they are voted out or removed from office by Impeachment or Revolution!
Semper Fi
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November 21st, 2009 at 6:53 pm
You can’t just look at the percentages. You have to look at the real numbers too. It’s not that simple. That’s my biggest problem with conservatives – they simplify and simplify until the problem is reduced so that it’s no longer a problem. They lose the substance. It’s actually a brilliant strategy to keep the status quo.
Public officials can get away with lying because it’s a technicality. They are not technically lying. You interpret it one way but someone else interprets it another way.
If you only listen to one side of an argument then you will never understand the substance – what is really at issue.
I don’t listen to politicians. They don’t say much of substance either way. They can’t. If they told the truth then no one would vote for them and they wouldn’t raise any money.
One issue in the health care debate is how much money is being devoted to health care expenditures and that impact on the rest of the economy.
You have a pie of so much money. How much do you want to devote to health care out of the pie? What are you willing to give up? What are the moral implications?
We are #37 on the quality of life measurements in the world but we spend the most. Do you think we should work on becoming the best in the world or do something to reduce our costs so we can put that money elsewhere?
We can afford these endless wars overseas but yet we have a health crisis in this country and we can’t do anything about it. Does that make any sense at all?
If people are dying then why bother fighting in the rest of the world? You have to keep your eye on the big picture or it all falls apart.
With regards to the obesity crisis, there are so many factors that figure in here that simply blaming people for the problem will not solve the problem nor will it do any good. Then again why are we fighting overseas protecting people when they are just going to kill themselves or die anyway? If not terrorism then being too fat or not having health care…
We are so messed up.
I’m with you on the frustration at not seeming able to deal with the real problems honestly and openly. There is no excuse.
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November 21st, 2009 at 7:09 pm
It is a result of the American educational system. The system has not educated the Americans as to the truth concerning American history. The two party system along with most of the politicians are complicate with the corrupt corporate US Federal Government for their own benefit at the expense of the American family. The two party system has been successful at keeping the American people divided.
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http://www.worldreports.org
http://www.fourwinds10.com
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