Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America's

[NicholeW.]

Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America's Dirty Work
By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. Posted August 10, 2009.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/141860/inside_story_on_town_hall_riots%3A_right-wing_shock_troops_do_corporate_america%27s_dirty_work/


The recent spate of town hall dustups may look like an overnight sensation, but they've been years, even decades, in the making.

Since the days in the late 1970s, when the New Right began its takeover of the Republican Party, it has cultivated a militia of white people armed with a grudge against those who brought forth the social changes of the '60s.

These malcontents have been promised their day of retribution, a day for which they are more than ready. Few seem to understand that they are merely dupes for a corporate agenda that will only worsen the conditions in which they live.

[GinaDouglas]

I love the way Limbaugh compares Democratic Healthcare Reform to Nazism, when the tactics the opponants are using are actually quite similar to the way the Nazis undermined the German Republic.

This kind of disruption was a big plus for the Republicans during the Bush-Gore Florida recounts.  It's no surprise that they are using it again.

Their big argument is that they don't want a government bureaucrat determining their healthcare options.  They don't seem to realize that currently their employer and insurance company bureaucrats determine their options.  At least government officials are answerable to the democratic process.

Sarah Palin, who seems to have resigned her governorship to take on the Goebbels role as chief propagandist for the Right Wing, recently said, "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care." 

But people are dying every day because their level of productivity in society has not been sufficient for them to have enough money to pay for the treatment they need.  Apparantly Palin prefers an objective standard of how much money you have to determine if you are worthy of health care, and considers this to be the American Way.

[lisagurl]

Having everyone covered for health care is on the surface a good idea. But below the surface there are many problems that need to be fixed first. Like why has the use of antidepressants doubled in the last 5 years to 27 million just as the use of statins by people that do not need them. Pharmacies are selling our prescription information to marketing groups, greed? Then there is the states problem with putting juveniles in prison because they can not afford mental health care.

Health care reform is different than just providing coverage for all. The cost of providing coverage for all without being checked will end our country as we know it.

The abuse of citizens by AMA, Big Pharma, lawyers, Insurance companies and the government leave very little freedom left for the individual. Either tax or inflation will fill the pockets of the greedy without a positive impact on the public.

Our health care system is broke the bigger picture involves morals, ethics, the law, capitalism, socialism, freedom, liberty, the very core of our society.

The problems need to be approached one at a time with recognition of its effect on the others.

We know what works poorly but we do not know the solutions. To take problems that are so intertwined for more than a century and think it will be fixed in a summer is not facing the problems. It seems to be just a media event, without anyone one willing to admit it.