Obama Will Seek To Scale Back Drug War In Second Term: Report
Friday, August 17, 2012
Obama takes solutions that work for the People, the vast majority of Americans, off the table. Whether it's ending Bush's tax cuts or the wars, the '14th Amendment Solution' (and it is, indeed, a legitimate option), etc., Obama kneecaps and handicaps the Democratic voters who put him and Democrats into power.
That's Obama's style, taking solutions that work for the People off the table and out of consideration when we're discussing how we want to proceed. That's what he did during the healthcare debate -- He took single payer off the table before negotiations ever began. Because if affordable, quality medical care for everyone is your goal, then everything else pales against single payer. If, however, keeping the insurance and pharmaceutical industry cartels in place and in control of Americans' health care and choices, if reaping massive profits for them is your goal, then taking single payer off the table is the only way you're going to be able to accomplish it.
Here's journalist Richard Wolffe, out plugging his latest book written from his special access to the Obama White House, talking to a caller on CSpan a few months ago. The caller asked him if we're ever going to get a public option to keep healthcare costs down. Wolffe made it clear that Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats never had any intention of going with a public option or expanding public healthcare in any way.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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