The Senate - Where Lobbyists can guarantee anything in the national interest will die

We've just seen health care turn into the for profit health lobbyists' wet dream and now here comes the financial lobbyists (as if the House bill wasn't a bunch of swiss cheese already).






Meanwhile Detroit has a U6 umemployment rate of 50%.

Yet we cannot get anything through Congress in spite of the very obvious and dire consequences of these many corporations short sighted agendas which literally are destroying the nation.

And if all else fails, they can bank on Senators killing anything they haven't personally written regardless or what that means, even to their own demise.

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This senate will not pass anything that helps people and is best for all of the country (vs. MNCs and financial conglomerates).

This health care reform bill is a complete fiasco. Excise taxes that aren't index, weak subsidies, caps on insurance limits, mandates without opportunity for cheaper alternatives, NO cost controls. People who are defending it are trying to compare it to Dutch and Swiss models. FAR from it those models heavily regulate the insurance industry - particularly limiting the amount of profits that a company can make. Democrats screwed the pooch on this one. - Financial Information for the Rest of Us.

Oh, that's right excise tax is cost control

meaning people will be taxed to take a crappier policy with less coverage and higher deductibles.

Sorry, Robert, for talking about health care reform in this thread. But it's an example of what is to come with financial regulatory reform in Senate. - Financial Information for the Rest of Us.