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In reply to the discussion: If Pres. Obama is a tool of PNAC and the MIC, why did they try so hard to keep him out of office... [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)level of influence and volume of "speech", the volume is determined of course by the amount, for "speech" as we all know, to the ears of modern politicians (and as recognized by SCOTUS) IS money and not sound. There are often collaborations that join their cash voices in a chorus that sings the harmony of the bills their lobbyists or think tanks like the Heritage Foundation write for them, their employees simply sanctify and then sign what their cash bosses have prepared for them.
A good example of how this works was put forward by you, the ACA was a piece of work done for a chorus mostly comprised of Insurance Companies and Pharmaceutical giants and written by the Heritage Foundation.
He did that work for them, forcing all of us to buy a defective product designed by the insurance companies to deter people from seeking/getting care using cost to the consumer at point of service (co=pays many can not fit in a budget) among other methods that include outright refusal to pay. Yet they still recieve a handsome premium regularly regardless of whether they allow you past their gate and into the doctors office or not.
Of course pharma got their money's worth by ensuring that there will be no negotiations aimed towards a fair price for their products, but rather coded into their law the highest figure they decree should be paid, usually hundreds of times and often thousands of times their cost to produce their product.
Had he worked toward Health CARE similar to say what Canada has, he would have been working for the people, by working towards the Heritage Foundations insurance scam instead, he was doing that work for corporations, which contrary to the opinion of conservatives like Obama, are not people, no sir, no heart and no blood equals not a person, no matter the spin.
So you see, the idea he works for the people is not very accurate and Santa Claus does not actually stuff your stockings at Christmas time, your mommy does.