14-03-2017, 08:35 AM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:The GAO [U.S. Government Accounting Office], generally considered a non-partisan accounting division, announced yesterday that their calculations show [under the currently devised plan] the changes in health insurance program would cause 14.000.000 people to loose their health insurance [completely - to none] almost immediately; 24.000.000 within a few years. And, that the richest people in the nation, as a direct result of this would, on average, get a 7.000.000$ boost. [i.e. the money saved on those 24.000.000 who would then have zero health care insurance and face death, or certainly financial ruin, if they needed anything more than minor health care would be re-distributed to the ultra-rich]. That's the USA's system of trickle-up [called trickle-down in double-speak] in action. Those not in the USA should keep in mind that despite 'Obamacare' about 30 million people in the USA still do not now have any health insurance - and certainly will get none anytime soon - perhaps never; this would climb to about 54 million under the current administration [about 1/6th of the population]. Sick Nation! - devoid of humanity/compassion, which is not compatible with US-style capitalism. The largest causes now of bankruptcy, forced homelessness, and preventable death are health crises of the un- or under-insured. The under-insured covers another HUGE segment of the population; who have insurance but only up to a certain limit...exceed that limit and you have to pay or forfeit your car, home and all...certainly your health and often your life too. But we have the money to increase the already obscene budget of the military....no problemo
Hail the new neoliberal world order. Grand ain't it. Such an achievement of human ingenuity. Let's go fight some wars to preserve it.
Chris Hedges (in an article a few posts above) has it exactly right:
"The graveyard of world empiresSumerian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Mayan, Khmer, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarianfollowed the same trajectory of moral and physical collapse. Those who rule at the end of empire are psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and deviants..."
Psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and deviants. Yep.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14