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Glenn Mesaros

golden valley, MN
Commenter for
4 years 10 weeks

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Posted on 07/16/09 at 08:26 am in response to Mary Brainerd: 'the ultimate aim: better health and more accessible, affordable health care'

If there is to be real health-care reform, in this country, HMOs must be banned and the nation returned to the 1946 Hill-Burton standards of provision of medical infrastructure for every part of the country. This afternoon, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), during a markup session of the Kennedy health-reform bill, provided what amounts to a bill of indictment against the private insurance business, in the context of an amendment relative to a discussion on single-payer health care. Using data...

Posted on 07/14/09 at 01:05 pm in response to Exchanges may play key role in an overhauled health system

This is a transcript of the 1971 conversation between President Richard Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman that led to the HMO act of 1973. If you had any doubt, that this HMO policy is a carbon copy of the Nazi "useless eater" dogma, just read this exchange:

John D. Ehrlichman: On the, on the health business.

President Nixon: Yeah.

Ehrlichman: We have now narrowed down the vice president's problems on this thing to one issue, and that is whether we should include these...

Posted on 07/12/09 at 12:42 pm in response to Doc's documentary takes hard look at costs of health care

Look at Bill Moyer's recent interview with former Cigna executive Wendall Potter for the greatest expose ever of HMO's.

In 1973, the HMO-enabling act against the Hill-Burton system was signed into law by President Richard Nixon, as the Health Maintenance Organization and Resources Development Act. This Federal policy shift allowed private financial interests to interpose themselves between citizens and their providers of health care. In the guise of being care "managers," these...

Posted on 07/10/09 at 08:22 am in response to Climate negotiations stagnate at G8

It is just nonsensical for policymakers in either the U. S. Congress or the Group of 8 to be talking about global warming and not about the very real prospect of 20 to 30 years of global cooling that will cause major food shortages and add more challenges in the face of the onrushing global economic breakdown crisis.

Congressman Tim Walz and Colin Peterson voted to send the United States back to 1910 standards of living with the Cap and Tax bill. Hold them accountable every day...

Posted on 07/10/09 at 06:29 am in response to Logging, mining, manufacturing take big hits; most farmers faring better

Colin Peterson and Tim Walz voted to shut down our industrial economy with their trillion dollar Cap and Tax bill. They must be held accountable and defeated in 2010, starting right now.

The global average temperature for the Earth has been decreasing over the past 8 to 10 years. The cooling that was shown by the satellite temperature data for May 2008 negated the
entire globaly averaged temperature increase of 0.6 degrees Celsius for the past 150 years, which Al Gore says...

Posted on 07/08/09 at 05:17 pm in response to Southern, Central regions show a patchwork of distress

If you think your driving costs are too high now, get ready to really pay through the nose. Plans are under way to charge you by the mile driven, a scheme which necessarily involves tracking your every move. This plan is where the green agenda of the behaviorist fascists meets Big Brother, in an orgy of social control. Like all such schemes, it was developed in the bowels of the British Empire, tested in England, and is now being imposed upon the United States.

The details are laid...

Posted on 07/07/09 at 03:23 pm in response to The big question for economic recovery: Which stresses are merely cyclical and which indicate a cold, new reality?

So, what is needed is a global system of cooperation, among credit systems, in which we recognize what the world needs, in terms of physical levels of production, physical improvements in conditions of life. It must be sovereign, it must be done by sovereign nation-states. But there must be also a system of international credit-sharing, in support of long-term projects, and we're talking about essentially a 50-year perspective. Which means, you have to design, which can be done very quickly...

Posted on 07/07/09 at 08:38 am in response to The big question for economic recovery: Which stresses are merely cyclical and which indicate a cold, new reality?

As for the unemployment, there are fewer jobs in the U.S. economy now than there were nine years ago; 3 million jobs have been lost, net, while Obama has been President. The number of official unemployed, 14.7 million, is the highest in U.S. history, with another 9 million forced to work part-time and 6 million too discouraged to look for work. The average length of time without a job for the 14.7 million officially unemployed, 24.5 weeks, is the highest ever. The official unemployment rate...

Posted on 07/03/09 at 02:32 pm in response to Minnesota business conditions improve a bit but still slow

Both of President Barack Obama's big "behavioral economics" experiments were launched at the same time: the Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009—known as "the stimulus bill" signed on Feb. 17; and the mortgage foreclosure relief program announced by Obama on Feb. 19. Both incompetent policies have already flopped; along with Obama's policy of starving the state governments of any protection, they are bankrupting the U.S. economy.

With the announcement of June jobs figures by the...

Posted on 07/02/09 at 02:29 pm in response to Minnesota business conditions improve a bit but still slow

Obama now owns the Economy.

FDR wouldn't recognize it. Since President Barack Obama's and Nancy Pelosi's great "stimulus"—the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009—was signed by Obama on Feb. 19, total investment in public works construction in the United States has gone down! Seems Obama and the White House are so focussed on declaring the "Recovery" part, they've skipped the "Reinvestment."

Spending on public construction — bridges, airports, roads, transit, dams...