The Reason for the Anger and Intractability of the Debate Over Health Care Reform in the United States:

Written by Chris Floyd

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 12:58

One side is lying; the other side is not telling the truth.

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Or to put it another way: One side is pretending that a wildly reactionary plan to further enrich rapacious corporations is really hardcore, gutbucket socialism from the Bolshevik trenches, while the other side is pretending that its "reform" is not really a wildly reactionary plan to further enrich rapacious corporations but something that will somehow, in some way, be good for some people at some point way down the line.

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One often finds that dealing in such utter unreality makes it somewhat difficult to achieve workable solutions to real-life problems.

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love county said:

	A sick little planet Your explanation is a good one. This planet is ruled by people whose minds have been given over to evil. Death and confusion is how they maintain their stronghold. The population that have their minds closed follow along in total confusion and this is what we see playing out across the mainstream media propaganda portal, called the TV.
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D R Alexander said:

	... Garbage In-Garbage Out
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mara said:

	succinct I like the clarity. I like the succinctness. I love the upshot: "One often finds that dealing in such utter unreality makes it somewhat difficult to achieve workable solutions to real-life problems." Testify.
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Sean O'Neil said:

	brilliantly brief blunt, direct, and true
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anonymous said:

	... well said, chris, and exactly right. and the donks & the pachys know exactly what they are doing: false drama for us rubes.
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Yankee 30 said:

As the truth bites the bullet...
Leaving the nobodies, like Sgt. Jermaine Nelson, to be(perhaps) the poster boy for US WAR CRIMES COMMITTED IN IRAQ, the wheels of justice keep turning...

And... in what they describe as the first Al Qaeda-linked plot on
U.S. soil since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, they've rounded up a guy named Najibullah Zazi, and his motley crew, and his hydrogen peroxide, thus ensuring our continued safety.

And the Americans are having doubts about the black man they elected president... Well, the non-slave progeny, half-black man... who had to spend more than twice the going rate for his efforts.

So, let's see Jeremiah Wright or Louis Farrakhan run on the next ticket. Though, as Tom Engelhardt points out in a recent dispatch, "... just to be safe for 2012, you probably should consider raising somewhere in the range of one billion dollars."

The unreality is really utter.

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Michael Hureaux said:

"I have no money. Do you understand? No money. Do you understand?"
It really does boggle the mind. And it gets weirder on a personal level. As a teacher with a "residential" teaching certificate in Washington state, I'm required to do professional certification. The problem is that the tuition is probitory, and no loans are available. So I may lose my license. And I can't convey that truth to my "academic advisor", who tells me, "Do something." I tell her, "I only speak one language. I don't have any money. I have no money. I'm out. I'm broke. I've got no money. No bank or loan agency will give me a loan. I've got no money. Do you understand? Creditors take everything I earn. I've got no money. I have to replace the furnace in the house I live in this winter, and what money I have needs to go towards heating my home. I have no money. Do you understand?"

She doesn't understand. The punch line is that she has a better education then I do. It's so absurd that as scary as it is- I may end up losing everything before this is over with- I have to laugh. These people are crazier then I've ever been in my life.