Gen. Colin Powell calls for universal (single payer) health care in the U.S.

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17. My Dearest General/Secretary Powell: The reason the U.S. can't do what Europe is doing,

what Canada is doing, what Korea is doing, what all these other places are doing is Republicans in Congress and those they do the bidding for do not want universal health care and, for good measure, do not want a living minimum wage, do not want required employee annual and sick leave and do not want any of the employee benefits typically mandated in most other advanced countries. But Republican do want to cut social security and Medicare benefits rather than to sequester funds for an obscenely (44% of world total with 5% of the population) bloated MIC. You see, my dear General/Secretary, Republicans don't want anything that promotes the general welfare: rather, Republicans solely want only what promotes the interests of large corporations and the uber-wealthy.