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SHRED's JournalWhat is Hillary's plan on health insurance cost & coverage
The individual market for health insurance is horrendous if your income is anything over about 200% of the Federal poverty level.
We have Blue Shield PPO Silver under Covered California. We get help however we are near the 400% of FPL so we pay $650 per month for a $1,300 plan. That is high for our income.
And this plan sucks. No dental. No vision. High copays and no "out of network" coverage to speak of. Plus the deductibles only apply to total "out of pocket" in a very limited way. It's a sad joke. It's expensive.
Bernie wants a public option. A Medicare for all.
What's Hillary's plan to contain the ever rising costs?
Something is wrong
For people to think $15 minimum wage, universal-comprehensive healthcare, and tuition free college are not attainable in the wealthiest country in the world.
Who, by the way, spends trillions on war and death.
For people to consider these pipe dreams or otherwise unattainable I say they are terribly brainwashed.
Pawns and fools.
Tools of the system that oppresses them.
Break the chains.
Rebel!
Walmart for Hillary!
Amanda Girard | February 26, 2016
Newly-revealed campaign finance records show a wealthy Walmart heiress gave a donation exceeding a third of a million dollars to Hillary Clinton’s “Victory Fund.”
Alice Walton, who ranks #12 in the Forbes 400 with more than $32 billion in personal assets, gave $353,400 to the victory fund — one of the funds backing her 2016 presidential campaign. While the donation was made in December of 2015, the record of her contribution wasn’t made public until this week. Alice is one of the most controversial Walton heirs. In 2011, she was arrested for drunk driving, but ultimately got off scot-free despite having a blood alcohol level of 0.16. Walton famously told her arresting officers, “I’m Alice Walton, bitch!”
http://usuncut.com/politics/alice-walton-hillary-clinton/
The Democratic Party needs to return home
This article delves deeply into everything that is wrong with the Democratic Party.
It is why I support the restoration of a return to the ideals and actions of FDR.
It points out where we went wrong as a party and in my view why we need to heed the call of Bernie Sanders.
America hasn’t been the same since. Not least because the very deregulatory policies Clinton approved gutted the global economy in 2008. From an electoral perspective, the Democrats need only shade slightly left of the Republican insurgents to appear like even-keeled moderates and win the liberal vote. This is the platform and plan of Hillary Clinton, too. Another neoliberal corporate presidency. Obviously the Clintons think their strategy can still prevail. After all, as Bill Clinton gleefully said of disillusioned progressives he knew would eventually return to the fold, “They have nowhere else to go.”
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
The Clinton Monster That Won’t Die
by JASON HIRTHLER
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/18/the-clinton-monster-that-wont-die/
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It's about the destruction of The New Deal and who best to help restore it
I am voting for Bernie Sanders because he is NOT part of the problem and in fact is sensible in his desire to return to the principles of FDR.
Consider the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street, which drew so much public outrage in the early days of the Obama administration … or the revolving door between Washington and Silicon Valley, which has been turning briskly in recent years without much public notice at all. Or the deal the pharmaceutical companies got as a result of the Obamacare negotiations. Or the startlingly different ways in which Obama’s Treasury Department treated beleaguered bankers and underwater homeowners. Or the amazing double standard his Justice Department seems to have erected for dishonest mortgage financiers and dishonest mortgage borrowers. Or the way office-holding Democrats of nearly every rank throw money at the people they call “innovators” while telling working-class Americans that little can be done about their ruined lives.
http://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/feb/16/the-issue-is-not-hillary-clintons-wall-st-links-but-her-partys-core-dogmas
Many thanks to RiverLover for inspiring my post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1254925
When rightwingers say we should "run government like a business"
Just point them to the Flint, Michigan water crisis.
I think that is a perfect example.
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/17/flint-residents-may-have-been-drinking-pfcs-in-addition-to-lead/
"Let’s consider some of Kissinger’s achievements...
Let's not forget what Hillary's friend is all about.
Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton’s Tutor in War and Peace
http://www.thenation.com/article/henry-kissinger-hillary-clintons-tutor-in-war-and-peace/
We must try...here is why
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Instead of “Yes we can,” many Democrats have adopted a new slogan this election year: “We shouldn’t even try.”
We shouldn’t try for single-payer system, they say. We’ll be lucky if we prevent Republicans from repealing Obamacare.
We shouldn’t try for a $15 an hour minimum wage. The best we can do is $12 an hour.
We shouldn’t try to restore the Glass-Steagall Act that used to separate investment and commercial banking, or bust up the biggest banks. We’ll be lucky to stop Republicans from repealing Dodd-Frank.
CONTINUED...
http://robertreich.org/post/138894376115
A good read.
The "Big Dog" is yapping
He's attacking Bernie's disgust of corporate influence and corruption of our political system. This is right out of the Rove playbook. It's called "attack them where you are weak."
A dumb move in my opinion as it focuses more attention on the Clintons and their friends like Robert Rubin.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rubin
Please proceed Mr. President! 
Bill Clinton Accuses Bernie Sanders Of Living In A 'Hermetically Sealed Box' - http://huff.to/1Xcxqb6
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