So, my Brilliant, what's YOUR solution?

Re: Masako;...Why expect miracles??? Her hair is brilliant, out of a bottle marked: better living through chemistry... Just like manufactured cheese products, the color is too unusual to be real...So do not think he hair reflects on the quality of her brain... She has nothing to say on the subject.... The two highest costs for business are health insurance, and labor... They are the same cost... Primitives had to pay for their health care when it was a herb garden and a witch doctor -with their own labor...You cannot hear anything about health without hearing of early detection, and regular checkups...It is hard enough to find the time, let alone the money for treatment and detection... The poor die young, and the rich like it that way... Sure, they spell most of their lives of futility, trying to warp their opinion of a reality they cannot change; but whose fault is that???. Rich and poor are all trying to escape a reality that leaves them without meaning; and whose fault is that??? This society -that thinks it is doing so well because Wall Street is doing well, is going to figure out that all those people deprived of their ability to support themselves still need support...They may make lousy consumers, but of the essentials of life they will be all the more concerned...When all they have is their life, their lives will want to be preserved... Let's see how this society does it... What is the trend??? Capital uses technology to replace people, and as it does so feels more and more pressure to cut costs to compensate for shrinking profits...That is our history to date, and a general expansion of markets, and easy resources have covered the general trend...But even in the South, where livin is easy, people still need a living wage, and if we all had it we could all afford insurance... We cannot survive in many cases even while going without insurance...If Capital continues with the freedom it demands, it will load up all its excess labor onto the support of the state...Just as some employers advised their employees to get on food stamps a few years back, even while resisting the taxes to pay for them... Ultimately, the health care issue has nothing to do with health, and everything to do with taxes... Those who can afford to pay more refuse to pay, and so they attack the issue... The fact is, that we cannot support any in this land who will not lend their support to the whole nation...Privatize all wealth, and the people must be supported still... Slave owners in Rome had to be prevented from freeing their old slaves and throwing them on the support of the state...Only twenty percent of the people are engaged in productive employment, but all the economy must be supported by their labor, and they are the first to go... They get cut, their wages get cut, their benefits get cut, and the promises of many generation are cut...Fewer and fewer people, making less and less of profit per man must support the whole of society...What keeps it alive??? The rich are willing to bring down the government on the costs of all those left out of their system... Those within are no more happy, healthy, and sure of their futures than the poor outside... The government is insolvent, and the rich, who are supported by the government, will not support the government...This is not a bridge to any kind of future; but just a bunch of termites holding hands...Can anyone imagine the system as we have it recovering and being in good shape in twenty or even fifty years??? The thing has run its course... But what is keeping it alive but the expecation of the people that it should work??? And they are wrong...But sometimes people give their lives to making failed marriages work too... The behavior is not strange, but only that it is happening on a vast scale as the masses decide what they can live without so that republican capital can live on...Thanks...Sweeney

Re: James A, Sweeney: Well, I wasn't talking about her hair, but I acknowledge you fell in love with her and same a long time ago...I remember you writing about her crazy eyes too... My point really was, she purports to have a brain and be above the base politics, so why in the world doesn't she come out of the closet and support a single-payer approach to healthcare? That's a radical concept ONLY here in the land where the right wing has such gridlock domination over the media and politics, the land where we still subject scientists trying to save us from superstition to well-financed challenges to the theory of evolution. And the rest of the civilized world leaves us in the dust... We've been left in the dust also when it comes to things like bullet trains, cars that get decent mileage, basic education, and of course, healthcare, and on and on. Maybe if I'm a millionaire I can get the most recent, state-of-the-art heart disease therapy to save me from my extravagant lifestyle, but if I'm a normal person and I need a competent physical exam, God help me. But by the sweet Jesus, we have the best battleships on the planet, and we can whip anybody with the high-priced military technology financed by sweetheart contracts paid for by our tax dollars. When are we Americans going to wake up to how much we are being ripped off by charlatans who tell us we have it better than any one else in the world? We've got great battleships, but how the hell does that help me and my kids? Ms. Specialize In In-Your-Face-Commentary, one Debra Saunders, is copping out here big time. That's because she's basically a phony whose primary objective is sales. Sales of solution-free, easy-fling chatter that really really sounds like something somebody needs to read.