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Goldman, Other Welfare Queens Tell Us Forget Social Security-Medicare Until 70

Jan 22

Posted by Michael Collins in Austerity, Big Money, Corruption, Populism, Wall St | 4 Comments

Michael Collins

(Washington, DC 1/21)  A long standing  Money Party front, the Business Roundtable, wants you to wait until you’re 70 years old before you get Social Security and Medicare benefits.  This is just a reprise of the November 2012 dictate from the king of corporate cronyism, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.  (Image: DonkeyHotey)  (Greenspan statement)

The boss announced, “So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised. But in general, entitlements have to be slowed down and contained.”  Lloyd Blankfein, CBS News, November 2012

That’s easy for Lloyd to say.  He makes tens of millions of dollars a year without so much as lifting a finger.  You can be sure that Blankfein has a deluxe health insurance and retirement plan. Read the rest of this entry »

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Screw the Supreme Court and screw Obama’s health care plan says this self-employed citizen

Mar 30

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Health, Populism | Comments off

By Michael Collins

I hadn’t paid much attention to the Supreme Court hearings on the Obama health care program until today.  Someone told me Obama’s lawyer was tanking the case, which surprised me.  Reflexively, I thought, Oh, that’s too bad.  Then it all came back to me, my revulsion at what a lousy deal Obama’s health care program was and is.

The health care law does nothing about drug costs, a huge factor in affordability.  It does nothing much about preexisting conditions, putting that off until 2014 (unless you are under 18 and how many of those folks buy their own plans?)  It should target those medical conditions that create the greatest health care costs.  It does not. Read the rest of this entry »

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Media Porn Hides Real Threats to Children

Jul 7

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money | 5 Comments

 

By Michael Collins

Who knows if Casey Anthony is guilty or innocent?  Even Casey might not know at this point.  We do know one thing, without any doubt.  As our economy and nation crumble around us, we’re being amused to death by the corporate media.  They’ve got good reason to keep the headlines on Casey.  Absent a major distraction, there might be a focused look at the misrule and looting of this country for the past decades that has created the real threats to the health of children.

“Infant mortality is an important indicator of the health of a nation, and the recent stagnation (since 2000) in the U.S. infant mortality rate has generated concern among researchers and policy makers.”  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC, November 2009

The run rate for deaths for children less than one year of age, infants, is around 30,000 per year.  Have we heard that figure from corporate media lately?  Our international ranking fell for infant mortality from 12th in 1960 to 23d in 1990 and to 29th in 2004.  The US is currently ranked at number 46 in the world in preserving the lives of its infants.

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