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That’s what people are using this healthcare debate as. When you see old white guys holding up signs that say ‘i want my america back.’ We all know what the fuck they’re talking about. It’s similar to other bouts of accepted racism we’ve had recently. You know. Illegal immigration. Terrorism. Let me lay it out for you. Your America is fucking gone. The 50s era of white washing everything is over. All the rest of us can vote now, most of the nation has come to understand that we’re all equals, so wtf is YOUR problem?

Oh and comparing Obama to Hitler? Since when did raising the marginal tax rate 3% make you equivalent to a dictator that tried to ethnically cleanse the jews? Stomping on the constitution? You know who did that? BUSH! You know, the patriot act? I weep for this country, because you don’t even realize that YOU are the problem.

You really need to watch this. It is an interview by the incomparable Bill Moyers with the ex PR head of Cigna.  This ex VP (Wendell Potter) lays out some of the tactics used by the healthcare industry to derail healthcare reform.  You see, the healthcare industry does not sell managed care.  They sell consumer products.

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This is the first time i’ve ever seen something like this. The winning party has now spent the entire first seven months of their rule pandering to the losing party. Democrats…. you are pathetic. FUCKING GROW A PAIR. Who gives a shit if the republicans don’t like your ideas on healthcare. Ram it down their fucking throats. A filibuster proof majority in senate, a healthy majority in the house, a president in office, and you still defer to the republicans? Act like you have a sack goddamnit.  Don’t think this is just goint to be about me making fun of the Democrats either.

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Today is tax day and apparently thousands of Americans have decided to use it to protest our egregious taxation system.  How?  Tea parties!  That’s right the tea parties which conservative news outlets would have you believe are grass roots political movements have been going on all day all over the country.  Apparently the best way to protest is to emulate the act that kicked off the revolutionary war…. how wonderful.  I seem to recall being taught in history class that the Boston Tea Party was to protest taxation without representation.  In short that the Americans (who were actually British) believed only their own elected officials could tax them.

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