zogger's Journal: The Zombie Economy

Governments run the printing presses and bailed out the banks, now who is going to bail the governments out?

It's dead..no it's aliveeeeee! And it's coming for your branez! No..it's...reaching for your wallet! And..wait..look! Zombies are supposed to just shuffle slow towards you with their hands out! These zombies do that, but they also got guns!

One inaccuracy ...

[tomhudson]

The trillion-dollar federal health plan on which the US House of Representatives voted March 21 will effectively nationalize a sector comprising 14% of the US economy

It actually is corporate welfare for the insurance sector, guaranteeing them profits and alrger market shares. Obama has demonstrated once again that given the choice, he'll throw Main Street under a passing bus. It's no different than the "trickle-down economics" of Reagan.

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

For once I agree with Tom. Might be different had there been a true "public option", but there isn't.

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[tomhudson]

Tell me about it! I see all this "they're nationalizing health care!" when the real issue is "If you can't afford health care, we're going to sic the IRS after you!"

Now THAT is sick!

Here's what it's going to do:

1. force more people onto public assistance
2. force more people into bankruptcy
3. force more people to join the underground economy
4. force more people to live "off the grid"

All the ill effects are borne by people. This does nothing to remove the bloated overhead that the insurance companies have; in

ROFLMAO

[zogger]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Ron paul and rupaul ticket!!!! hehehehehe HAHAHAHAH!

Make up some bumper stickers R2P2 in 2012! hehehehehehe

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[mcgrew]

History is repeating itself. A generation ago, there was an unpopular war, a democratic president (Johnson), and despite him introducing Medicare, Medicaid, and civil rights legislation, he knew that if he ran for a second term, he'd lose.

You forgot food stamps and AFDC, the entitlement that caused generational poverty (replaced with TANF in 1996). But the Vietnam War was mostly what made Johnson so unpopular, as well as folks like my mom: "I can't stand to hear him talk."

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[spun]

Butbutbut... He's a SOWSHULIST!

Hehe, yeah, but no. Not really. Hillary is more left wing than the O-man. I voted for her in the primaries.

The owning class has bought and paid for the entire political process. They give us a Magician's choice. [wikipedia.org] Meaning, it only looks like we're choosing.

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[StalinsNotDead]

It's not those who cast the votes who decide elections, but those who count the votes. - paraphrase of a quote by Joe Stalin