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Dylan Ratigan Mad as Hell His Epic Network Moment We've got a real problem...this is a mathematical fact. Tens of trillions of dollars are being extracted from the United States of America.
Putting Our Money Where Our Mouth Is After 780 hours of political cable news, 6000 hours of live financial television, 45 cities, 2 national jobs tours, 277,963 signatures to amend The Constitution, 245 pages of book and a promotion tour for Greedy Bastards, I was exhausted.
Im Mad As Hell How About You Yesterday, on TV, I exploded. I spent two minutes giving a primal yell at our political system, demanding the extraction of our money and dignity end. It was my most heartfelt and emotional moment on television, ever.
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Dylan____Thanks for the illuminating the Corporate purchase of taxpayer paid public in frastructure for pennies on the dollar. Corporate proxies, be they representatives, senators, mayors, Governors, Cabinet positions, appelate, State or Supreme court judges or presidents, are engineering a corporate fascist police state. They are dug in like ticks on a hounddog. They have no conscience and the power of billions to buy influence to drown out the people's voice and buy the above proxies.
John
Finish to previous cmment on corporate proxies and buying cities
I would like to see an analysis of the circular corporate money machine. This coruppt process has appropriated and extracted printed taxpayer money exported by the fed for bailout and for the fed purchase of non-performing assetts to fill their war chest . This is the return of trillions they lost due to their corrupt ponzi schemes They are now in turn using these funds to buy taxpayer assetts through their proxies they bought and now own. They are on the cusp of stealing trilliions of tangible taxpayer assetts for pennies on the dollar with return of printed money they lost in the first place. Now that is the ultimate double or triple indemnity scam and destruction of our Constitution and Democracy. I am all in for the fight and thanks for bringing it to the attention or we the people.
John
Is it legal for a govenor to sell state infrastructures without a vote from the public? What is the law?
Dylan, I think you are wrong about this to some degree. The reason for privatization is that the cost of public employees, due to the powerful gov't unions, is unsustainable. When you have to pay one person, plus two others who got to retire in their 50's, to do one job, it doesn't work. Defined pension plans, where you guarantee someone 90% of their salary for life, plus COLA, starting in their 50's, creates this situation of three living people on the payroll for one job.
I'd like to retire too at 50 and get 90% of my salary for life, but that would only happen if I saved and invested well. There is no "guarantee", unless you are a public employee, guaranteed by the tax payers. They are greedy, worthless and evil people.
Your facts are wrong and your anger with your own situation is showing. Instead of beating up on public employees to make them as miserable as you seem to be, you should be going after the fat cats who keep you in the situation you deplore. Instead of "misery loves company," try working for a better life for all.
- Uke Man
And I respectfully think you are wrong. Workers bargain for their defined benefits and trade off higher pay for now to get something more in the future. This is suppose to benefit both sides. The state pays out less now in exchange for paying out more in the future when the value of those present day dollars are less. It's kind of like what we do with IRAs and life insurance. Unfortunately those entrusted with the funds don't always protect them. It really adds nothing to the political discourse to call people "greedy, worthless and evil." From your fellow honest American.
…the only reason why public employee jobs are looking so good lately is that private jobs, the good – paying, reliable jobs that Americans used to do have been outsourced. there are no good jobs anymore, that is why so many people try to get a public job. the job market in this country collapsed a few years ago. given the choice of working for $8.50/hr. @ TARGET store or trying to get yourself a better job in the public sector where you could earn decent money & have a secure retirement, one can understand why people now look to the public sector for their livelihood. Bring back decent private jobs & things will be balanced again in this country. THERE ARE NO GOOD JOBS HERE IN THIS COUNTRY, VERY FEW INDEED .
What about the greedy worthless and evil CEO's with incomes 300 times the American workers, made possible from ripping off the American workers, stealing their pension, cutting their pay, increasing healthcare. Selling off America to the evil rich is just wrong.
They sent our good paying jobs across the seas, corporate America maked a killing, turning this great nation in to another third world country and can't figure out why we're in the situation we're in. If we can't work, we can't pay taxes….
You are the one who is wrong to the full degree. And your anger is obvious. You might want to consider the fact that many people, including public employees, have been forced to retire thanks to the greedy agenda of the corporate world and the politicians who cozy up to it. I am one of those forced retirees who worked for a large financial institution. After working there for over a decade I was unceremoniously dismissed due to what was termed "a restructuring". The former CEO of this company has already been found partially liable for misrepresentation and reckless business practices. A stockholder suit is still pending. Since my "retirement" I have had to take temporary assignments, low paying jobs, and part time jobs. I have had the privilege of being a member of the "just in time' workforce, the "underemployed workforce" and the just plain "unemployed. This is all courtesy of the corporate world. Don't think for a minute that people who were teachers, members of law enforcement or sanitation workers haven't had to face the same scenario. Instead of applying the terms "greedy, worthless and evil to public employees, apply them to the CEO's who receive large bonuses for failure and the politicians who would rather sell our country to the fat cats.
where in the world do you get to retire at 50? I know some police officers get to, and some firemen. but you are saying public employees. wrong, I am 63, have to wait til i'm 66 to get almost 50%. Now they are going to up the ante and move up the retirement age. I don't know if I will make it to 66, I'm tired. I paid into my retirement, alot, and it was matched by the agency. There are some who started before I did, who got more, then they made a new tier, I'm in that one. Now they are going to make a third tier, so the ones behind me will get less. I did work for it, I did pay half of it. that's what the people and the workers made the deal on.
The biggest problem is that healtlh care has become a PROFIT BUSINESS NOW, RIGHT BEFORE MY VERY EYES. WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?
It didn't used to be this way. Drs were decent, then the insurance companies came in and the doctors started selling side special services and buying equipment together, and making big money. Now they are hooked into the BIG PHARMS, AND THEY MONEY NEVER ENDS.
IT'S HURTING OUR COUNTRY, CAN'T YOU SEE? IT NEEDS TO BE STOPPED HEALTHCARE SHOULD NOT BE FOR PROFIT, NO ONE GETS WELL ANYMORE, BUT THEY DO GET BROKE. THEY DON'T HAVE TO CURE YOU, JUST KEEP YOU ON HIGH $$ MEDS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, AND LOOK AT ALL OF US ON THEM.
HARDLY ANY MORE HOPE
TERRI
I find it incredible that our country is selling our taxpayer funded assets (toll roads, etc) to private companies In our own Palm Beach area a landmark historic post office building was sold for a paltry sum to a hedgefunder who made his money betting against Americans. The post office will now rent a space from an empty shopping center across the street in a situation that makes no economic sense for the taxpayers.
On a larger scale I was just listening to an investment banking shill expounding on how great it would be to privatize all public roads and airports. This is an outrage.
My hopes are not high for America as these same people supply the uneducated public with trash TV and sideshows such as the recent Weiner incident to keep the citizenry concentrating on the banal, while those in power go about destroying the country for their own enrichment.
The only hope to counter balance this plunder lies in the wealthier European nations, especially Germany, where they do not a history of lying down and being run over by bankers. Those Goldman Sachs people who made enormous fees guiding Greece down the road to ruin might wake up one day to see that they indeed got involved in the autobahn, not by privatizing it but by becoming part of the pavement.
Good riddance.
Ratigan, thanks for finally turning to the real news and getting rid of the bull. Keep up the good work and you will be numbe one.
This is getting to the point that unless someone can outline an approach to heading off all of these outragous acts of greed. Apathy will set in and people will tune out because it is all so overwhelming.
You would be subject to the RICO Act and possibly acts of conspiracy, for tax evasion if you decided to collect $10,000.00-$25,000.00, amunsgt your Ethnic Organized Rich Physicians. And with this, head off to the State Capital, pay to be invited to a fundraiser, and find out WHO awards the MEDICAID Contracts in your State. Suddenly you get a list of 150,000-250,000 Souls.
You start a mini-HMO and because you have over 75,000 Souls you now enter into a Special Preferencial Carrier Status were the Federal Government automatically awards you between $15,000,000-$20,000,000.00/year UP-FRONT Start up money and for Preventive Medicine. Your US born,raised and trained Physicians will not accept Medicaid because it does not pay as much as the other health plans, so you hire with in your "Etnic group".
Initially, money to these fresh Doctors is not the Issue for they already have money and besides they live a simple modest life taught by their religion; it is the CITIZENSHIP that is most important.Once they are established they will contribute to YOU their Mandatory DUES, so that you can go again year after year to the State Capital Fundraiser this time invited with an open invitation and go back home with another list of 150,000-250,000 Souls with your Fedral Government $$$Blessing.
I will kind of leave it at that. And if you are wondering why after 5:00 pm you are talking to your HMO representative,nurse or substitute Dr. in INDIA or PAKISTAN, you can start seeing how it is that we are losing jobs overseas. Are we really losing jobs overseas?? well if breading of Physicians and Nurses is done in these countries/ regions (reason for the same names) with tax-payers money and they are brought to America by YOU to get their CITIZENSHIP aren't you contributing to the GROUTH of our US Economy by creating JOBS, off course in another country but you are at least contibuting to the WORLD ECONOMY.
WHY should you think of RICO/TAX EVASION. In fact you contribute millions of $$ to charity and benefits as long as your NAME is on the buildings and billboards.We could talk later of How the events AFTER 911 and Home Land Security have aggravated, This HEALTH CARE system and why these types of HMO's are Against the President's signing of yhe US Congress and Senate Health Care Bill. I think YOU get the picture.