I really wanted to be proved wrong about Health Care reform

[AllentownJake]

I wasn't. There is no reform. Ever since 1985 when the DLC was formed there has been a movement by party elites to outdo Republicans in being corporate whores. The DLC writes the policy, because the DLC brings in the money. The end was known from the beginning. You don't start off bargaining with what you want, you start off with dreams and settle in the middle.

When this bill goes to reconciliation, the Public Option will have to be a non-starter, and there will be pressure on the left to take what we can get or doom us to no reform. Since there is no reform in the bills, it will be bullshit, but I expect the talking points to go out and for people on here to buy it.

Let us make this clear, the Insurance Companies are fine with the Medicare provision. They can dump their over 55 population onto the Government and milk the younger population more. Congress has essentially thrown the youth to the wolves. All those over 55 celebrating, you are dooming your children and grand children to no reform because we will experience cuts on those programs in the future when we have to pay for the debt of the past 30 years and the next 10. Shame on you.

Free Trade, Taxation, Banking Regulations, and now Health Care reform. Cap and Trade is next, and if you think that is about environmental policy, ask yourself why the concept was created with consultation by Enron and the person who invented derivatives is a key contributor. I think Al Gore is a better man than George W. Bush, but I do remember him selling NAFTA on TV in the 90s. He isn't on my side. I'm not a climate change denier but the most common sense approach of regulation and taxation of imports that violate environmental standards is immediately dismissed because it will upset a few donors.

Are the DLC better than the GOP? I don't know. The DLC moved in lock step with the Bush agenda while crying about it. They love to privatize everything. They view the people on the left with more contempt than people on the right. Are they better? They get to use the democratic brand created by FDR to do republican things. They bought our brand, and they will use that goodwill from it to enact their agenda.