If special interest corporations are as powerful as we have been led to believe; is there any reason to doubt they designed and paid for the Federal Campaign Reform Act and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act:
Free Speech Needs Jerry Maguire
By Ryan Sager Published 03/18/2005 - http://amendment10.tripod.com/jerrymaguire.htm
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That's because campaign-finance reform is not a "movement" as its proponents have claimed, it is a lobby -- funded and orchestrated by eight very liberal foundations which fooled Congress and the American people into believing that the front groups they set up were grassroots organizations.
Senator McConnell Smelled the Pew in 2001
Senator McConnell exposed the charitable trusts behind BCRA in the Congressional Record of Arpil 2, 2001.
The following is excerpted from three pages of the Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 107th Congress, First Session, Washington, Monday, April 2, 2001, Vol. 147, No. 46:
http://amendment10.tripod.com/mcpew.htm
BIPARTISAN CAMPAIGN REFORM
ACT OF 2001— Resumed
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore.
The Senator from Kentucky.
Mr. MCCONNELL.
Who wins?
As I said the other day, who wins are people such as Jerome Kohlberg. This is the billionaire who has decided this is going to be his legacy. This is the full page ad he ran in the Washington Post the other day on behalf of this legislation. I suspect a lot of the lobbyists out in the hall right off the Senate floor are either on his payroll directly or indirectly. People such as Jerome Kohlberg and the big charitable foundations are underwriting the reform movement, hand in hand with the editorial pages of the Washington Post and the New York Times, which have editorialized on this subject an average of once every 6 days over the last 27 months.
At least in the Senate, they are going to get their way shortly, but this new world won’t take a penny out of politics, not a penny. It will all be spent. It just won’t be spent by the parties. It will be spent by the Jerome Kohlbergs of the world and all of the interest groups out there. As everyone knows, the restrictions on those interest groups will be struck down in court, if we get that far.
Welcome to the brave new world where the voices of parties are quieted, the voices of billionaires are enhanced, the voices of newspapers are enhanced, and the one entity out there in America, the core of the two-party system, that influence is dramatically reduced. I strongly urge our colleagues to vote against this legislation. It clearly moves in the wrong direction.
The article is meaningless. Out of the 12-15 thousand *calls* how many actually turned out to be something other than hysterical mothers? It represents the authors attempt to allude to a problem that may or may not actually exist. But since she's chosen to go with the "lie of omission" approach it isn't possible to tell if she's actually said anything or not. Btw, half truth = whole lie. So as someone who has spent time in the trenches of toxicology I find this article to be specious BS. As Wolfgang Pauli once said "that isn't even wrong".
I admire the way you express yourself through writing. Your post is such a refreshing one to read. This is such an interesting and informative article to share with others. Keep up the good work and more power. Thanks! Dean Spasser
Republicans and Tea Party types must be pretty hardcore when ALEC can get away with sanctioning the poisoning of children. Supposedly, those without conscience in a population number only 15%, but the Tea Party rosters and ALEC membership stats suggest the number is much higher. In that matter, director George A. Romero got it right way back in 1968: civilization isn't at war with barbarians, it's at war with zombies without souls. The cadavers still roam the countryside, they're just wearing business suits.
I agree that reimbursements are abysmally low as a consequence of managed care. Insurance profits have subsidized growth of the insurance bureaucracy rather than trickling back to the doctor to promote higher quality healthcare. "Procedure-based" medicine is a problem when the doctor has to continually search for higher reimbursing procedures to maintain his/her business. We need "outcome-based" medicine! If doctors were paid by the hour at a set rate, without managed care reduction, therapeutic outcome would be the first order of business. Currently the doctor has to work under contract limitations, perpetual bill collections and utilizing the highest reimbursing procedures.
The current system is headed for efficient daily drug delivery, diagnosis by internet cloud database and minimal intervention. Healthcare based on achieving the optimal therapeutic outcome is completely different than the typical polypharmacy drug stacking that masquerades as healthcare in America.
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