Comments on: GOP Favors Public Option for Property, Not People

By: wedidit

wedidit — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:29:37 +0000

Just sent this article to Senator Dodd. I then called his office and the young lady that answered the phone said that she would be on the lookout for my letter with this article and give that information to Senator Dodd.

I recommend you all do the same with your Democratic Senators and do all you can to get this on the news - local, network and cable.

By: Gitcheegumee

Gitcheegumee — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:10:46 +0000

Here’s a site that has excellent,extensive info on the chronology of events and the relationships of “players” in the Abramoff affair.

(It’s really not about astonomy,btw)

Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal: Facts, Discussion Forum …Topics Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal Topic Home. The Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal is a United States political scandal …
www.absoluteastronomy.com/R.....ng_scandal - Cached - Similar

By: Gitcheegumee

Gitcheegumee — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:52:46 +0000

Mississippi already HAS the gambling casinos-Indian and non-Indian Gaming Casinos-and have had the non-Indian ones them a long,long time. Biloxi,Mississippi has been the Gulf Coast gambling mecca for many,many years.

The Indian tribes have the distinct advantage of being considered members of a sovereign nation. They are NOT under IRS or US government authority-they are literally a nation unto themselves. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is the US government liason in dealing with tribal matters.

This is important,because they are not required to report their finances and income…among other things.

In the Abramoff hearings, it was revealed that one of the Missippi tribal casinos was willingly laundering money for Abramoff and his associates.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:40:28 +0000

There is no such thing. The “public” can only work through the Government, and what you are demanding is a Government option

Yes and no. The gov’t sets it up, but it’s entirely funded by public customers premiums. It’s the public’s fall-back insurance.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:33:33 +0000

Fascinating. So, they wanted to keep the Indian casinos semi-monopoly protected to keep lobbying money rolling into their own pockets. And to achieve that they had to stop not only MS from getting gambling, but also neighboring AL where the gov just happened to be neutral to accepting of a lottery.

How many other states have/had issues similar to that?
How many other similarly motivated prosecutions may there have been?

By: upstateNYerMdwst

upstateNYerMdwst — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:12:42 +0000

WOW, just Wow. That was my reaction when I read the headline. This is yet further evidence that the GOP cares more about money than people. Unless of course you’re rich and can afford your own coverage. And why do still keep hearing them say, “Healthcare is a privilege, not a right”?

Excuse me? We’re talking about human beings here. The Constitution guarantees all of us “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. The first and third are jeopardized by the absence of good, affordable health care!!!

Okay, I know that these tea party protests/town halls are just “democracy in action”, but good grief… why the heck do people have to be so hateful?

By: Gitcheegumee

Gitcheegumee — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:50:58 +0000

…when in fact the teabaggers would be starving sharecroppers giving up the better part of their incomes to some ancestor of Trent Lott’s….OR John McCain’s whose slave-owning ancestors include: William Alexander McCain, who owned 52 slaves in Carroll County, Mississippi, in 1860.

By: constantweader

constantweader — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:10:16 +0000

Excellent post. I think the philosophical idea goes back to to the early days of the Republic, when state laws essentially put property before people; that is, only a white, propertied man could vote, for instance.

When the teabaggers outfitted in tricornes want to “get their country back,” that’s pretty much what they mean. What they fail to realize of course is that the majority of them would be the ones on the outside looking in.

The brilliance of the Republican Party is that it has been able to make these stupid, gullible saps imagine THEY would be the ones riding around their country estates with slaves humming and toiling as background music when in fact the teabaggers would be starving sharecroppers giving up the better part of their incomes to some ancestor of Trent Lott’s.

The Constant Weader at www.RealityChex.com

By: TJWV

TJWV — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:42:01 +0000

Absotively, posilutely, indubitably! The issue. Amen

By: RicLocke

RicLocke — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:40:29 +0000

I know that convention and generally respect it when I know the individual, but never saw the point beyond the age when one could reasonably pose as an ingenue. You’ve staved off the Grim Reaper for this long; you ought to be damn proud of it.

Regards,
Ric