Selling Obamacare

Large and secretive efforts to buy the congress and the presidency must be stopped regardless of their party affiliations. The Bush appointed conservative SCOTUS with their Citizens United ruling allows even foreign governments to buy representatives and senators in our government.
I abhor all of this regardless of ideology, but unless and until Congress acts, (unlikely); I will take Soros’ support of:

“Soros is a well-known supporter of progressive-liberal political causes.[10] Between 1979 and 2011, Soros gave away over $8 billion to causes related to human rights, public health, and education. He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Hungary (1984–89)[8] and provided one of Europe’s largest higher education endowments to Central European University in Budapest.[11] Soros is also the chairman of the Open Society Foundations.”

Before I will ever end my opposition to this Koch brothers agenda:

Chrystia Freeland, author of Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else says that the present trend towards plutocracy may not be a deliberate power grab:[21]

You don’t do this in a kind of chortling, smoking your cigar, conspiratorial thinking way. You do it by persuading yourself that what is in your own personal self-interest is in the interests of everybody else. So you persuade yourself that, actually, government services, things like spending on education, which is what created that social mobility in the first place, need to be cut so that the deficit will shrink, so that your tax bill doesn’t go up. And what I really worry about is, there is so much money and so much power at the very top, and the gap between those people at the very top and everybody else is so great, that we are going to see social mobility choked off and society transformed.

When the Nobel-Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz wrote the 2011 Vanity Fair magazine article entitled “Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%”, the title as well as the content pointed to evidence that the United States is increasingly ruled by the wealthiest 1%. In it he states,[22]

Of all the costs imposed on our society by the top 1 percent, perhaps the greatest is this: the erosion of our sense of identity, in which fair play, equality of opportunity, and a sense of community are so important. America has long prided itself on being a fair society, where everyone has an equal chance of getting ahead, but the statistics suggest otherwise: the chances of a poor citizen, or even a middle-class citizen, making it to the top in America are smaller than in many countries of Europe. The cards are stacked against them. It is this sense of an unjust system without opportunity that has given rise to the conflagrations in the Middle East: rising food prices and growing and persistent youth unemployment simply served as kindling. With youth unemployment in America at around 20 percent (and in some locations, and among some socio-demographic groups, at twice that); with one out of six Americans desiring a full-time job not able to get one; with one out of seven Americans on food stamps (and about the same number suffering from “food insecurity”)—given all this, there is ample evidence that something has blocked the vaunted “trickling down” from the top 1 percent to everyone else. All of this is having the predictable effect of creating alienation—voter turnout among those in their 20s in the last election stood at 21 percent, comparable to the unemployment rate.”

I believe in this:

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”

That is not the creed of the Koch brothers et al., it is not the creed of the Tea Party, it is not the creed of most Republicans in Congress, it is not the creed of “the 1%”, it is not the creed of Mitt Romney, it is not the creed of our current Supreme Court, it is not the creed of Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Chris Christi, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker or any other right-wing-nut.

I have read enough of Quinn to know that you really do understand that the agenda of the Republicans is to obstruct any Obama attempt to resurrect our struggling economy through the rest of 2014 so they can run against it in November to try and keep the House and perhaps win the Senate. You know it and you understand it, so just admit it for all of your readers.

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