Then I went whore blogging and found this blog http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=117736387&blogId=506484823
discussing Fascism versus Socialism, as I quote below.
"... Fascism For Dummies (Wingnutz)
• Somehow the wingnutz have decided that Barack Obama is a fascist. Beyond being absurd, this tack shows just how ill educated and totally zombified by the likes of Puss Limpballs these people are. Next they are gonna start calling cats "dogs" and claim they are right because dogs have four legs, two ears, two eyes, and a tail. No matter how hard we point out their obvious errors the wingnutz will insist that cats are really dogs, and the more we prove them wrong the louder, shriller, and more obnoxiously they will insist that cats bark! ( I don't know whether to be angry at them or pity them.)
Well, as a last try I will explain "Fascism For Dummies":First of all Fascism and socialism are NOT the same thing. No matter how hard some dildo insists a Nazi is a socialist it does not make it true. Socialists ( of the most common variety) believe in the public ownership of the means of production. In other words the gumment owns all industry and utilities and under the most extreme forms of socialism even the shops and small businesses.
Fascism on the other hand is when the powerful and well connected capitalists make a deal with thugs to run a country. The thugs get to pursue dangerous nationalism, militarize a nation, invade neighbors, and install some kind of racial or nationalist ideology that scapegoats a subgroup ( like Jews and socialists). Industry on the other hand gets a government that protects their interests by outlawing unions and strikes, feeds them very profitable contracts (most pointedly military contracts), and outlaws political parties that favor the workers ( LIKE SOCIALISTS).
Next, government collection of social insurance and dispersal of benefits is NOT socialism. Otto von Bismarck started the first social welfare programs in Germany during his governance as chancellor in the late 1800s. No one can call hard nosed Otto a "socialist". His program was a means to quiet workers demands by using "liberalism" to provide for the wants and needs of the vast majority of the population.
So to summarize: Socialism is the ownership of the means of production by the state ( this does not include the use of public money to TEMPORARILY prop up failed capitalists - THAT is fascism!). Fascism is the devil's deal between capitalists and thugs to give each what they want: profits for the capitalists and some insane ideology for the fascists. So the next time you see someone waving a poster of Obama as Hitler ask them if cats are dogs and if they bark!"
I found the subject interesting and well presented and contributed commenting as follows.
“Well, I read it in its totally and have to confess that "The Old Man......" sounds like a well versed scholar.
{Hat off}.
Now that we are, conceptually, in agreement in reference to the subject matter I will ask permission to divert your attention to the real root of this fierce opposition to any kind of reform to the health care system. MONEY
It is all about money and many of these "common people" disrupting town hall meetings and any kind of educative forum are, in one way or another, participants with the industry in a mayor scam to the Medicare-Medicaid and Food Stamp programs.
Please, allow me to illustrate my case with this report from the Miami-Herald.
It was stated on my last video.
Watch the video again!
As I said before, most of these people are participants of the above mentioned scam along with numerous Health Care, Medical and Equipment service providers.
Here you have a very effective way to defeat the one that are already defeated (Crackdown, as reported by Miami-Herald)
Breaking news:
http://www.miamiherald.com/1306
If you are too lazy to click the link or copy and paste to your browser here you have a headline of cases with an excerpt:
Convicted killer pleads guilty to Medicare fraud, faces new murder charge
Almost anyone can operate a Medicare-licensed equipment supply company -- even a convicted murderer.
Guillermo Denis Gonzalez, convicted of second-degree murder in 1992 and released from prison in 2004, bought a Medicare-licensed healthcare equipment company two years later. - 4:53 PM ET
• 2 Miami-Dade doctors convicted of Medicare fraud
• Feds: Jackson Memorial patients' records were sold in scheme
• Doctor and assistants jailed for Medicare fraud
• Medicare to cap payments amid rampant fraud
• The Anatomy of a Giveaway (Nov. 18, 2008)
• Medicare fraud investigation | Complete coverage
• MIAMI HERALD INVESTIGATION
Congress tight with Medicare anti-fraud funds
Congress for years has turned a deaf ear to requests by the Medicare agency for money to fight fraud, which a Miami Herald investigation has identified as a threat to the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
• ANTI-FRAUD EFFORTS
Medicare agency stymied in quest for 'a pound of cure'
The federal Medicare agency spends less than two-tenths of a cent of every dollar in its budget to fight abuse, waste and fraud.
• Medicare fraud fugitives evade capture
The Benitez brothers were masters of Medicare fraud, prosecutors say. They spent their Medicare millions on Mediterranean-style homes, apartments, hotels, boats, a helicopter, even a water park -- all in the resort area of Bavaro, Dominican Republic, court records show.
• MEDICARE FRAUD
A former scam artist tells how it works
Angel Castillo Jr., a convicted drug trafficker who found his calling in healthcare fraud, offered an inside look at Medicare corruption in Miami-Dade.
• MIAMI HERALD INVESTIGATION | SOUTH FLORIDA'S MEDICARE RACKET
Clinics make a mint on fake HIV treatment
Scores of Miami-Dade healthcare clinics are defrauding the U.S. government by billing for bogus HIV drug infusion treatment as part of a multibillion-dollar underground economy.
• MEDICARE FRAUD
Nurse takes down phony equipment dealers
Federal inspections of about 1,500 medical equipment businesses in South Florida found that about one-third did not exist or were closed. Those ghost providers were paid $97 million by Medicare in 2006.
• Prosecutors called their business 'All-Fraud'
Starting in their 20s, a Miami-Dade couple built what would turn out to be one of the largest Medicare fraud schemes in the country.
• South Florida medical equipment providers
There are nearly 2,100 South Florida businesses licensed by Medicare to sell medical supplies such as wheelchairs, artificial limbs and home oxygen equipment. Miami-Dade County has the most, with 931 active providers, followed by Broward County, 782, and Palm Beach County, 385.
• Medicare fraud rampant in South Florida
Whenever Alexander McCray lights up his crack pipe, U.S. taxpayers help pay for his habit. McCray has defrauded Medicare by selling his government-issued health card number to private clinics in exchange for kickbacks of $150 to $300 a visit -- as often as three times a day, three times a week over seven years, according to federal records and his own admission.
• A YEAR OF BILLS
For one couple, stress took a toll
Retired banker William Sayre tried to tell Medicare it was being cheated. But before the government finally caught up with the scam, taxpayers had lost more than $62,000.
• Medicare at a glance
Medicare is a federal program that provides health insurance to 44 million people -- about one in seven Americans. People aged 65 and older are automatically entitled to Medicare if they or their spouse are eligible for Social Security. This group accounts for about 37 million Medicare beneficiaries.
Waterloo s..t!
N E X T.......!”
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