This morning on my way to the gym at around 4:28 I was listening to NPR and they were discussing healthcare for folks with mental problems. A mother described an event that occurred with her daughter at an emergency room. Her daughter has manic episodes and she was kept in a closet size room in the emergency room for 24 hours. The mother was then called to pick her up. The hospital emergency room had no place to hold mental patients. The part that struck me was when the hospital administrator said that there was no money in holding mental patients in a room because the reimbursement rate was too low. That said, they found a solution in Denver. They would build rooms that may lose money because it would free up space in the emergency room for more profitable patients. After listening to this I really felt physically ill. The narrator was matter a fact in his statements of the problem. Was the immorality of his statements only obvious to me? It is immoral to leave certain human needs to the market. It is … [Read more...]

Guys, take a look at my latest hate mail. It really makes one wonder how the mind of the writer is wired. This is in fact the result of very effective Fox News, Right Wing Blogs, and Right Wing Talk Radio mis-education. If the author of the hate mail below happens to also read my blog, which I believe he/she does, rest assured the policies I along with those that are my partners in positive activism for the middle class advocate, are in your interest as well. We are not commies, free loaders, or anti-America. The Right Wing needs you to believe that so you can vote against the interest of yourself, your family, and your country. Be cognizant of the fact that inasmuch as we have had several severe downturns, the top one percent has progressively gotten richer recession or not. They have done this on your back in a deceptive manner. They have exported our jobs to exploit cheap labor for trinkets you buy even as they force your pay lower. They have created a tax system that taxes the working man at a higher … [Read more...]

On Friday Bill Maher had a striking monologue at the end of his show that I shrank down to 90 seconds showing that Right Wing talking points are diametrically opposed to reality. The article below illustrates one of the points that Bill Maher made relative to the president with the lowest spending growth in decades, including those from both Republicans and Democrats. What is interesting is that the Presidents with the slowest spending growth rates are in fact Democratic presidents. What is also interesting as well is that income growth rates have consistently been better under Democratic presidents as opposed to Republicans. Likewise job creation has consistently been better under Democratic administrations. I covered all these facts in my book “As I See It: Class Warfare The Only Resort To Right Wing Doom”. None of this is conjecture. It is verifiable fact that I cover with irrefutable sources. There are specific policy reasons why these repeatable outcomes occur. Policy matters in an economy where … [Read more...]