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In reply to the discussion: Worse Than the Mob: The Insurance Industry Is Organized Crime [View all]kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)It's getting so bad that it's hard to tell the ones who're merely out to rip everyone off from the ones that are driven to control everyone. Maximally ripping people off increasingly depends on controlling them, even to the level of what they are allowed to know and therefore what they are allowed to think. Debt is used to enslave as more and more basic requirements of life (such as education) begin to require going into long term debt. Does the government regulate banks or do banks regulate the government? Am I sending my monthly check to a telecommunications company or to an unaccountable surveillance aggregator and secret police agency? Is "healthcare", in the U.S. context, a word that means people caring for each other's lives and well being, or does it mean squeezing ever increasing profit out of the herd - or else thinning out the herd for maximum efficiency if no more profit can be wrung from an individual? Government policing functions and cradle to grave planning for corporate profit maximization are converging in what can only be described as a new totalitarianism.
ACA was most definitely not passed for your benefit.