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About the monetary system: Interest rates should be reversed with the rich paying more and the poor paying less.

March 4, 2012 in Banks, Corporate Greed, Insurance Rackets, Wall Street

It is set up to perpetuate the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. This will never end until we remove most members of Congress who continue to support this system because it works for them. That is fact. Overall, this means stop voting for Democrats or Republicans. Realize that they are merely two heads of the same counterfeit coin.

Most of us know by now that the way money is created is by extending credit. The government and banks are the ones endowed with the power to create money. The rich don’t need credit. They can afford to pay for whatever they want. It’s the poor who need credit/money. However, you can only get credit if you have assets to post as collateral. But you only have assets if you are rich. Therefore, the rich get cheap money (loans at low interest rates) while the poor, when they can obtain a loan, often pay in interest many times the value of the loan. In other words, those who can least afford it pay the most. It would make much more business sense, not only for the poor, but for all of us, if the wealthy paid higher interest rates for their loans and the poor paid lower rates.

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More on the Monetary System in the USA

Many Americans knew what was coming down the pike with the creation of the Federal Reserve and they didn’t like it.  The cartoon below was created a year or so before the signing of the Federal Reserve Act. The Plan originally called for the establishment of a National Reserve Association with 15 regional district branches and 46 geographically dispersed directors primarily from the banking profession. The Reserve Association would make emergency loans to member banks, print money, and act as the fiscal agent for the U.S. government. State and nationally chartered banks would have the option of subscribing to specified stock in their local association branch. The plan was proposed by a Republican by the name of Aldrich. Since the Aldrich Plan essentially gave full control of this system to private bankers, there was strong opposition to it from rural and western states because of fears that it would become a tool of certain rich and powerful financiers in New York City, referred to as the “Money Trust”.

Typical with their hand-in-glove side show, the Democrats stepped in and worked out a compromise to the Republican proposal (private sector take all) and proposed a compromise.  The Glass-Owen bill was created by two Democrat Senators.  However, unlike the Aldrich plan, which gave controlling interest to private bankers with only a small public presence, the new plan gave an important role to a public entity, the Federal Reserve Board, while establishing a substantial measure of autonomy for the (regional) Reserve Banks which, at that time, were allowed to set their own discount rates. Also, instead of the proposed currency being an obligation of the private banks, the new Federal Reserve note was to be an obligation of the U.S.

If you haven’t noticed, that’s how the Democrat and Republican leaderships for the rich have been working for over a hundred years.  First the Republican propose an outrageous scheme that is so one-sided for the rich that public outrage arises from the people.  Then the Democrat leadership steps in and proposes a “compromise”.  And we feel better because “it could be so much worse.”    In the end, the majority of the people get the shaft–only instead of the full shaft, we only get 2/3′s of it.  A recent example of this is the Obama Administration’s compromise for health care.  A few Americans, as long as they can afford to pay the premiums, get a few breaks on coverage.  However, the bill did nothing to bring down the over all cost for insurance premiums that Americans must pay AND it mandated that all Americans currently without insurance purchase it in 2016 from the very crooks who are currently ripping them off–50 million new customers for the crooks who are already ripping us off.  This is a solution?  You bet it is–for Wall Street and for the members of Congress–most of who own stock in these health insurance companies.

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    Who is buying Sam Johnson’s lunch today, Oct 28, 2010?

    October 28, 2010 in Campaigning, Insurance Rackets

    PRESS RELEASE FROM
    THE JOHN LINGENFELDER FOR CONGRESS CAMPAIGN

    Thursday, October 28, 2010
    LINGENFELDER BANNER

    Who’s Buying Sam Johnson’s Lunch Today?

    Health Insurance and Mega Corporations: Buying Sam Johnson’s Vote in Congress

    When our President was listening to the majority of Americans about the debilitating costs of healthcare, Sam Johnson was out to lunch picking up his checks from the largest life insurer in the U.S., Metlife.  But they weren’t alone; joining Metlife was the largest health care company in the world, the McKesson Corporation.

    Corporations are buying Sam Johnson’s Congressional seat yet again – of the nearly $1M that Sam Johnson has raised this election cycle, over 52% has come from PAC’s and Special Interests, and Mega Corporations in Health and Insurance.
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    A sobering reality is that in 2009 alone, around 1,750 organizations and businesses spent over $1.2 Billion to buy votes in Congress, and Sam Johnson sold out.  This year alone, Sam has taken money from Aetna Inc., Humana Inc., Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, Metlife Inc., and the McKesson Corporation.

    In turn, Sam Johnson voted just as these big corporations wanted him to vote. Sam voted AGAINST H.R.3962 – Affordable Health Care for America Act legislation that lowers the cost of healthcare by making the system more efficient, promotes preventative care to keep our workforce strong and healthy, and allows companies to spend less on the health of their employees so that they can focus their efforts on productivity, research and development.

    Sam Johnson and the largest corporations in the world have shown their opposition to your health care.  This election is about people standing against crooked corporate special interests that are trying to buy our elections.  It’s time to clean house in Washington by throwing out cronies like Sam Johnson – tell Sam it’s time to go!

    Visit www.RetireSam.com today.

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      Looks like Blue Cross graduated from Karen Ignagni’s Shoot in Foot 101 Seminar

      October 29, 2009 in 2011 Republican Pasture, Corporate Greed, Health, Healthcare, Insurance Rackets

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      BLUE CROSS, who control 53% of the market in North Carolina, mailed its customers an announcement of an 11% increase hike in their rate.   In addition to their greedy gouge, they also included in the envelope some propaganda against a strong public option.

      ARE THESE PEOPLE STUPID? or are they so confident that they have people like Evan Bayh, Joe Lieberman, Chuck Grassley, Ben Nelson, Eric Cantor and others in their pockets, not to mention a cheerleader like Rahm Emanuel,  that they don’t even bother at a pretense?

      Be sure to read the complete story on this by Jason Rosenbaum in FireDogLake.  “Oops! Blue Cross mails customers about 11% rate increase , opposition to public option”

      Citizens of North Carolina are outraged and are writing to Senator Hagan (D).  LOL.  I guess they figure that it is a lost cause to write to Senator Richard Burr.  First of all he voted for corporations to have the right to hold their own kangaroo courts instead of having rapists tried by a real court of law.  Then just a few days later, he informs us that violence against women is a pre-existing condition.

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      IT WOULD SEEM, by their behavior,  THAT THE DINOSAURS WE CALL “PRIVATIZED HEALTH INSURANCE” ARE ASKING FOR US TO SHOW THEM THE WAY TO THE TAR PIT.

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        THE 2013 FUTURE UNDER THE BAUCUS BILL AS IT IS WRITTEN TODAY

        October 23, 2009 in Health, Healthcare, Insurance Rackets

        PART I:  Cadillac Plan

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        PART II: Model T Plan

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        PART III:  Broken Bicycle Plan

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          PART III: The Broken Bicycle Plan

          October 23, 2009 in Health, Healthcare, Insurance Rackets

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          THE BROKEN BICYCLE PLAN IS SO NAMED BECAUSE, LIKE A BROKEN BICYCLE, THIS HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN IS ALSO VIRTUALLY USELESS–EXCEPT OF COURSE FOR THE PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANY WHO COLLECTS THE PREMIUMS. FOR THEM IT IS VERY USEFUL FOR THEIR BOTTOM LINE.

          One of the mainstays of the Baucus Bill is that it forces millions of Americans to purchase health care insurance from private health care insurance companies.  Now, we all know that many of the millions of Americans who don’t have health insurance today don’t have it because they cannot afford it.  Now this does not mean that they cannot afford the average annual $4,000 fee for a customer with no pre-existing conditions, It means that they cannot afford even half that amount.  For them, this plan is perfect!

          For a nominal fee of $150 a month,  a citizen can  purchase the Broken Bicycle Private Plan. This plan has a $125,000 deductible, an 85% co-pay and may only be used on the third Thursday of every other month.

          It’s a bargain when one considers the $750 fine that one must pay if they are caught without paying their monthly dues to some private corporate health insurance company.

          And this is all called “democracy.”

          44,000  people continue to needlessly die, but they and their families have the peace of mind that comes with knowing that they have insurance.

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            Health Insurers have now added rape as a “Pre-existing” condition

            October 21, 2009 in Health, Healthcare, Insurance Rackets

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            If left unregulated, by the time the Wall Street sponsored health care industry crooks arrive at their final logical conclusion, the only customers they will be accepting will be white males between the ages of 30 and 35 who have no history of genetically transmitted diseases such as diabetes.

            The Huffington Post recently posted a story about a Florida woman who was denied access to health care insurance because he had been a rape victim.

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            QUEEN’S ADDENDUM

            One thing that I’ve yet to understand about the business model of the health care industry.  It would seem that if they keep enlarging the profile description for people that they refuse to cover, won’t they eventually end  up with an absurd (and unprofitable) situation whereby their customer base is far too small to render it profitable?

            I don’t get it.

            Perhaps thousands of years into the future, one of the huge monolithic buildings constructed by an insurance company like UnitedHealth or CIGNA will be preserved and people will be taken on guided tours through it:

            ” 65 million to 245 million years ago, when the people-eating CIGNAatops and flesh-eating Tyranablueccrossarus rex roamed freely about the USA; when the scaly Aetnaichthyosaur raised its dolphin-like head from the murky waters of a still-forming democratic society. . .”

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              Read between the lines and chalk up another death in Texas to no health insurance

              October 19, 2009 in Health, Healthcare, Insurance Rackets

              I just read a story in the Houston Chronicle that Irving Neil Range, 58, of Corpus Christi died in the emergency room of Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial on Friday of a swine-flu related illness, confirmed Annette Rodriguez, interim director of Corpus Christi-Nueces County Public Health District.

              Opal Range told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times that her son went to the emergency room Oct. 1, but laid on the floor because he felt too sick to sit a chair while waiting to see a doctor. She said a security guard asked him to leave so he went home. Her son returned to the emergency room the next day and died.

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              READING BETWEEN THE LINES FOR THE WHOLE TRUTH:

              Irving Neil Range did not have health care insurance.  Oct 1 was a Thursday.  People with health insurance do not go to the emergency room for treatment on a Thursday.  They go to their doctor instead.

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              BINGO!

              Further research on this story:

              58-year-old Irving Neil Range, a homeless man who died in the Emergency Room at Christus Spohn Memorial Medical Center on Thursday was staying at the Good Samaritan Rescue Mission.

              Although Irving Range did not have a permanent address, Rescue Mission workers say he had plenty of friends and has left behind a lasting impression on those who knew him.

              “I’ve had a couple of people distraught and have had a couple people say is there something I can do to help? Can you pass condolences on to his family and it’s not like lives weren’t touched by his presence and passing as well,” Martin said.

              Shelter workers say he came back to the Rescue Mission after waiting for hours in the Emergency Room at Christus Spohn Hospital Friday evening.

              “He said while he was waiting to be seen, he was sitting in the chair , having trouble breathing. He decided to lay down on the ground, and the only thing that would help him breathe well. He wasn’t laying there long, when a security guard came and told him he had to move along and he said he didn’t want to argue with the guy and he’d already been there so long, he just decided to come back here,” said Mark Martin, the Front Desk Manager at the Mission.

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              IS THIS WHAT A DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE?

              It more resembles my idea of the world that Charles Dickens described.

              God bless us all!  We’ll need it apparently with jackasses in Congress dithering on real health care reform with a strong public option effective immediately.

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                Insurance industry report so twisted even its author disowns it

                October 14, 2009 in Health, Healthcare, Insurance Rackets

                [and the Senate multimillionaires want to continue to bend over for these crooks?
                They better not if they want to be re-elected
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                by Mike Hall, Oct 14, 2009

                Turns out the “report” on health care reform, released by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), is being denounced by the very company that prepared it.

                PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) admits that at the request of AHIP, it cooked up the scariest scenario possible about the cost of health care reform and ignored factors that show health care reform could actually save money.

                According to the Politico’s Live Pulse column, PwC released a statement

                basically saying, “Hey, we weren’t paid to evaluate the effects of the entire bill, but rather a small slice of it.” The statement only seems to reinforce critics’ view that the report is skewed precisely because it doesn’t take into account the totality of reform.

                The last, and key, line from the statement: “If other provisions in health care reform are successful in lowering costs over the long term, those improvements would offset some of the impacts we have estimated.”

                In other words, PwC is saying if reform’s cost containment measures work, their estimate could be wrong.

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                  Regarding Goldman Sachs and their “success”

                  October 13, 2009 in Bailout, Banks, Health, Healthcare, Insurance Rackets, Wall Street

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                  If you can only hold one thought, hold this one:  Goldman Sachs did not merely get $10 billion dollars directly from the American taxpayer.  They got $30 billion. $10 billion of which they repaid and made a big arrogant show about.  $20 billion of which they will NEVER repay.  That $20 billion is their “success” that they brag about today–taxpayer money.

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                  I just read an article in The New York Times titled Don’t Fail or Reward Success. It was in regard to the people’s anger toward Goldman Sachs.  I don’t know if the author Andres Ross Sorkin is ignorant or if he is just another corporate shill for Wall Street.  It’s difficult to separate the two any more. I will assume that he is another corporate shill since he works for the New York Times and can’t be THAT stupid.

                  In his article, Mr. Sorkin implies that Goldman Sachs has been “successful”.  The only thing that Goldman Sachs HAS been successful at is at having people like Hank Paulson, an ex-CEO of their firm as Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and now Tim Geithner to transfer the wealth of the people to Goldman Sachs.

                  “.  .   .   So should we be upset about the bonuses? Is this a problem? Viscerally, it can be infuriating to watch Goldman executives gobble up piles of money, especially when the government — an overused euphemism for taxpayers — had helped support the firm. It hasn’t been forgotten that the government gave Goldman $10 billion in bailout cash — which it has since returned and said it never needed. And don’t forget the cheap financing it now gets as a bank holding company.  .  .”

                  Yes, Mr. Sorkin, we should be upset about the bonuses.  Yes, Mr. Sorkin, it is a problem.  No Mr. Sorkin, Goldman Sach should NOT get cheap financing.

                  I don’t know if Mr. Sorkin misunderstands or if he is being purposefully obtuse, but Goldman Sachs got a helluval lot more money DIRECTLY FROM THE TAXPAYERS than their $10 billion dollar handout.  We bailed out AIG (insurance), who by the way are in trouble still, with $80 billion dollars of the taxpayers’ money.

                  Of that $80 billion, AIG “paid back” Goldman Sachs with $20 billion. Who knows how much money was owned Goldman Sachs from other banks that got taxpayer  hand outs.

                  THIS AND THIS ALONE EXPLAINS GOLDMAN SACHS “SUCCESS”–THE BACKS OF THEIR SERFS, THE TAXPAYERS.  The did not merely receive $10 billion from the taxpayers, they got at least $30 billion of which they “handsomely and arrogantly paid back the $10 billion to the American people with a fraction of the interest that they charge their own customers–keeping $20 billion of OUR MONEY FOR THEMSELVES.

                  DO YOU GET IT, MR. SORKIN, OR ARE YOU PLAYING DUMB?

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                  But their misrepresentation of the truth does not stop there.  If you think for one second that Blankfein was not putting pressure on insurance CEOs to bolt from the Baucus Agreement yesterday, I think that you are wrong.

                  WALL STREET PEOPLE ARE ALL CONNECTED AND WORK TOGETHER–THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY AND THE BANKING INDUSTRY ARE ALL PART OF THE FILM-FLAM FINANCIAL INDUSTRY THAT RULES WALL STREET AND OUR NATION.

                  THE ONLY WAY THAT WE WILL HAVE A REAL DEMOCRACY IN OUR NATION IS TO REMOVE AS MANY CORPORATE  SHILLS FROM OUR CONGRESS AS POSSIBLE.   We have a great opportunity in  2010 with the 14 Republican Senators that  I have named. There are a few blue dogs like Blanche Lincoln who can go with them too.

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                    How hilarious! The Greedy Wall Street Sponsored Health Care Industry Shoots itself in the foot with its own report.

                    October 12, 2009 in Health, Healthcare, Insurance Rackets

                    THANK GOD FOR WATCHDOGS LIKE ANTHONY WEINER, House Representative from New York who will stand up for the American people and stand up to the Wall Street Health Care Crooks.

                    Huffington Post just reported that Representative Weiner commented to MSNBC regarding the America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) report  which concluded that, under the Senate Finance Committee’s legislation, family premiums would rise more than $4,000.

                    Representative Weiner pointed out the obvious to this lobbying arm for private health care insurers.  If the Baucus Senate Finance Legislation would enable the private health care industry to raise family premiums by $4,000 then THAT is the STRONGEST ARGUMENT THAT ANY ONE HAS MADE TO PROVE THE POINT THAT THE BAUCUS BILL IS TOO WATERED DOWN.

                    AT A MINIMUM WE NEED A STRONG PUBLIC OPTION TO COMPETE HEAD ON WITH THESE GRAVE DIGGERS! and we don’t have one yet.  and an opt-out is a cop out and a “trigger” with no magazine is no weapon.

                    PLEASE CALL REPRESENTATIVE WEINER’S CAMPAIGN OFFICE TOMORROW AT 212-922-9380 TO SEE HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE MONEY TO HIS CAMPAIGN.  REGARDLESS WHAT STATE YOU ARE FROM.  WE NEED MORE PEOPLE IN CONGRESS LIKE REPRESENTATIVE WEINER.

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