September 30th, 2009
I wrote in a recent post that I think Rio will get the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
Today I heard a different theory from Wally Haas, our editorial page editor, who heard it from someone, I think it may have been Jim Ryan, Rockford city administrator.
This theory says that The International Olympic Committee already knows what it’s going to announce Friday — and that is why President Obama is going to Copenhagen, meaning he wouldn’t go if Chicago isn’t the pick.
In other words, in Chicago-ese, Obama’s going , so the fix is in.
Nice theory. Not so sure about it, though.
September 30th, 2009
A few years ago the Republicans gave a tremendous subsidy to the drug industry with the Medicare prescription drug benefit, paid for by borrowing money.
Now, the Democrats are set to give an even bigger subsidy to the health insurance industry by delivering to them 40 million currently uninsured people who the government will force to buy insurance. If they don’t buy it, government will fine them, even put them in jail.
Yes, the Democrats, the “party of the people,” caved to the corporate interests in the health insurance industry seem ready to embrace the Senate health bill written by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Montana. Baucus is heavily funded by the insurance industry, which was dead set against a public option.
Now, we’re about to get the worst of all worlds. No cost control. No reform. No public option. No nothing, except a whopping sop to the insurance companies who can charge as much as they want for policies while the government holds a gun to people’s heads and forces them to buy coverage.
This is awful. Dear Senate and House: Vote No. Nada. Nothin’. What we’ve got is better than what you’re selling.
If the Democrats do this, they can kiss their sweet majority goodbye for a generation, maybe more. And they’ll deserve it royally. I’m disgusted.
