Blind Pursuit of Money Assassinating America's Promise?

The chasm between the wealthiest Americans and Americans who can barely catch a break is widening frighteningly and has been doing so since Ronald Reagan elevated having a fat bank balance to being a REAL AMERICAN. Practically singlehandedly, Ron made amassing a fortune equal to being somehow morally superior to everyone else. If you weren't rich, you were chewed gum on the sole of a shoe.

As this idea has borne fruit exponentially. we can examine two of the outcomes of this philosophy more closely.

1) All those bankers who used our hard earned deposits to gamble horrifically, then lost everything - well we wound up bailing those sons of bitches out. They're still up to their old tricks with greater profits than ever before in history and billions of dollars of performance bonuses for doing something Osama Bin Laudin couldn't - bringing America to her knees. And all this in the midst of the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Those keepers of our savings certainly have been busy.

2) Big Health Care executives receive millions in bonuses from boosting their company's profits by denying health insurance to someone because he or she is profundly ill. Wow! Or ... perhaps those stone-hearted insurance big wigs yanked it or even refused to make the contracted payout even though the policy owner faithfully forked up ever-leaping premiums, sometimes over decades. Some insurance companies turn down up to 39% of medical claims! A Harvard study tells us 45,000 Americans, including 2,200 US military veterans DIE each year because they can't afford or can't get health insurance. Even now, over 60% of bankruptcies in the U.S. are health emergency-related. There are folks working THREE JOBS who still can't afford health insurance. So, those executives become obscenely rich while pronouncing a death penalty on their less fortunate American brothers and sisters.

Do these situations bother anyone else out there?

The level playing field promised in our Constitution - not to mention the sacred right of the pursuit of happiness - has become one long impossible uphill battle for most Americans from cradle to grave.

No one is asking for a handout! But how about a respite from one kick in the collective stomach after another?

Is the blind pursuit of the almighty dollar morally superior to being our brothers' and sisters' keepers? Are the greedy and grasping actually just a cancer assassinating America's promise?

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Sen. Lieberman numero uno castrato?

Wankissima proudly presents a brand spanking (haha) new feature: The Castrato List!!
We observe folks who embody "no balls m'lady" and will publicize same.

Sen. Lieberman has won the distinction of being our first honoree, although it was a tough and close race.
His flip flop on health care - after his promise to reform same during his last SUCCESSFUL campaign - shows his lack of juevos in standing up to BIG HEALTH - how much DOES his wife make from them each year???? How much DO they contribute to his campaign??
According to recent polls, his CONSTITUENTS overwhelmingly favor health care reform.
They apparently don't matter.
We used to like Joe. No more. So he gets the nod -
Congratulations, Joe. You are number one in our Castrato book.

Conservatives to control every American uterus?

The most recent health care tempest centers around conservatives who appear to want to control every American woman's uterus. I feel sorry for American women if these idiots get their way.
In case these legislators haven't noticed, ABORTION is legal here in America!!!! It has been for decades. Sometimes it's a matter of life and death for a woman to have access to this always gut-wrenching choice. The way this law is written now, the women most at risk, the poorest, most defensless women, the women without a support system, without family or friends, will be the most devastated - the most adversely affected.
Why is it that American lawmakers don't trust women to make appropriate MORAL choices with their own wombs?