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Brain -> RE: Ignore Lieberman to Win Real Health Care Reform AND Joe Lieberman must go (12/18/2009 5:32:04 AM)
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I don't hate corporations; that's bullshit. I hate when corporations do bad things like the woman in Texas with breast cancer; she was told her acne was a pre-existing condition so they canceled her insurance and she died. Or this:
ChevronTexaco: Ecuador's Black Plague
Chevron operated an oil concession in Ecuador's rainforest from 1964 to 1992. The company admits during this time that it dumped 18 billion gallons of toxic waste in an area that was home to six indigenous nationalities -- one of which is now extinct. For the last four decades, Chevron has treated Ecuador as an image problem to be managed rather than a humanitarian crisis that compels a compassionate and real solution. When one connects Chevron's dots in Ecuador, what emerges is a coordinated series of frauds marked by misinformation designed to deceive courts, the public, shareholders, and the financial markets. The purpose of this scheme is to avoid paying the cost of a real cleanup, and it matters not that vulnerable rainforest peoples -- among them thousands of children -- have died or suffer grievously as a result.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXeaO5skSSI&NR=1
Corporations need to be appropriately regulated. Like the Glass–Steagall Act for Wall Street (thanks for nothing Phil Graham, former Republican senator From Texas and Senior John McCain campaign advisor, for getting rid of Glass–Steagall, you fucking moron for almost causing another depression).
And health insurance companies like Blue Cross still operate in Canada and make money. They provide all the bells and whistles of healthcare insurance, private rooms and any prescription drug your doctor prescribes and so on. I’m not against companies, I supported Ronald Reagan, Brian Mulroney, and Margaret Thatcher. I used to be very conservative but the Republican party has become too extreme. There is nothing conservative about denying global warming. And what ever happened to being a fiscal conservative? George W. Bush didn’t veto one spending bill, and his very first veto was to block stem cell research.
My friend is a Conservative member of Parliament, MP, in the House of Commons in the Harper government. In fact, I still consider myself a conservative because his father was a gynaecologist and my MP friend has always been in favor of abortion. I remember him arguing about abortion with another friend who became a Catholic priest.
Ronald Regan left Lebanon. Does that mean Ronald Reagan is cut and run? I'm sorry to say this but like Andrew Sullivan and other conservatives I think the right wing has fallen off the cliff. The party better lose/manage the wing nuts or it may risk its relevancy. People are not happy with the Democratic Party but they are less happy with Republicans.
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ORIGINAL: servantforuse
Brain, I would be interested in knowing just where you invest your own 401 plan or other retirement savings ? It is evident that you hate corporations. Where do you invest ? Just curious..
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