Spot on article, Debra!

Ma'am;... It is a dangerous game the right plays in its effort to kill health care reform... I love danger, and all the more so when it is some one I care little enough for who is doing the dangerous deed... But the rich should remember in trying to keep their castles of cash that they have the most to lose, and the poor and middle class have nothing left to lose... So while they demogogue this issue, and misinform, and shout down the most basic element of democracy in the ability of the rulers to communicate with the ruled, they set the rules they must themselves suffer... Why should we listen to them??? Why should we extend to them the basic courtesies of a polite society??? Here stand the rich and their fools trying to impede the working of government.... When have they not done so??? Yet, we will all find that if swine flu, or some other malady sweeps across this land that our health care system will collapse... And we have seen this with Katrina, where government would not act as governments should, and governments do, but deny to society the most basic services to avoid taxing the rich...Health care is a basic service, and a basic cost of living...The wealth of the wealthy means nothing while the poor, the young, and the old die miserable deaths for want of treatment... The voices of the many are as angry as the voices of the few, and with better cause...If the rich think government is not doing well for them, they should consider the many for whom government is an active impediment to justice... The right would do well to allow health care reform, and then gut it at some later date...Instead, they play this game of grass roots... Trust me on this... The government is all that stands between the dispossessed of this society and the rich who have owned government, and have kept it from its legitimate goals...Government is your sole defense, and government has little more moral authority than the worthless wealthy... I love danger, and I would not go for a smoke in a powder keg...Nor would I incite to riot having little sense of the depth of despair this people suffer... It is a game to the right, but they have all the chips, and for them to throw the rule book out at this stage of the game is suicide... Reigns of terror hurt whole societies... For what pittance are the rich setting free the Genies of anger and animosity among this people toward their useless government??? Sow the wind, and reap chaos... Is this what we should expect from each other, and from our society??? Should not government do the good for which it was created, and should we not condemn all who stand it the way??? For lack of a better word, you people are traitors, and it is because you have divided us so you could take what is ours, and now you want to tear down the very government which demands our peace... If you will not give peace, what peace do you deserve??? If this government cannot reform health care, it should itself be reformed, but, by Christ in Heaven, we should not inovke violence -which injures innocent and guilty alike... We should do as Western Society has always done, and seek first peace... Thanks...Sweeney

Here's another stubborn fact, Saunders: The U.S. is supposed to be the richest and most advanced country on the planet, and yet we can't provide our citizens something as basic as universal and guaranteed access to healthcare like the rest of the civilized world does. We have lots of smart bombs to dump on any country that defies us, but what our healthcare insurers think is smart is dumping any patient stupid enough to get the kind of illness that requires long-term expensive medical care.

If you had anything resembling a heart and a brain, you would be expressing outrage over how well the corporate interests are succeeding in the time-honored, decades-old tradition of blocking any true attempt to change this miserable status quo. Here you go cackling along like some kind of goose bragging to the rest of the gaggle about how folks trying to do something positive for a change are just as uncool as the ones before them who specialized in doing nothing except fighting phony wars and pissing all over our constitutional rights. Keep up the good work Saunders, the mob appreciates it.