Reply #14: Excellent Post, Here are the Reasons for Your List to be Spot On!

[mrdmk]

1) To screw the American Worker with a reductions in pay, benefits, and vacations. To make easier for corporations to have free entry and exit from markets without competition, if not here in the U.S.A., in the global economy.

2) All politicians have a hand in this one. The lobby money and campaign contributions are out of hand. Invest a million and get a billion back. That is one Return on Investment if I ever heard of one.

3) See number 2. Also telling government regulations agencies not to do their jobs by a) giving bad information to the general public and b) not regulating commerce.

4) Oil is also extracted from the ground here in the U.S.A. The higher the barrel of oil, more money is made by oil extraction companies. Also, a lot of the oil that is imported to the U.S.A. is refined into different products (gasoline, plastics, insecticides), and then shipped to other counties at a major mark-up.

5) The 3 culprits in this matter are: Insurance Companies, Managed Health Care and Wall Street. Managed Health Care is obvious, give watered down, hard to get health care to a patient and there are profits to be made. The Insurance Companies and Wall Street go hand in hand. Insurance Companies collect premiums from their customers then invest those premium into Wall Street and other investments. Insurance Companies are nothing more than a giant gamble that they can collect more from investments than they have to pay out. Of they regulated by the government just like the banks as to how much money they must have on hand, but once again, see number 2.

6) Ex President now dead Ronald Reagan sum it up best by saying the following, "Why should I pay for some kids education to have opposing views from mine?) Lots of powerful people have the same views as Reagan and why should they have pay for some young punk's education to attain different views from theirs. It is lot easier to bullshit people and get what you want. Bullshitting is a lot less work and lot a less people to pay that are in the know. Why be questioned by a society with critical thinking skills.

7) The Iraq invasion, threating other oil producing counties with war and meddling with other counties politics is more or less fixing the oil market (not to mention other markets.) Think Imperialism.

8) This has to with screwing the American Worker which is explained in number 1. The short sightedness of this is, who are you going to sell your product to? The short term gains are being weighed more heavily than the long term gains. Stupidity at its best.

Thus, I think this sums the Bush Jr. Administration: Stupidity at its Best.