The Policy-Speak Disaster for Health Care

Seeded on Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:42 AM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

politics, healthcare, obama, cognitive-science, methodology, framing, lakoff

In regard to supporting Obama; an open letter

Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:51 AM EDT

Dear President Obama: Whereas you support Industry and its hordes of lobbyists in control of Congress; and Whereas you outsource your policy making to said Congress under the control of Industry; and

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wall, oil, street, politics, war, healthcare, democracy, obama, bailout, big-pharma

Open letter to Obama re: healthcare

Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:43 PM EDT

Dear President Obama:

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Single Payer and Interlocking Directorates

Seeded on Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:15 AM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

insurance, health, healthcare, conflict-of-interest, single-payer

Keep shoveling that stimulus

Seeded on Fri Aug 7, 2009 3:52 PM EDT (The Globe and Mail)

Joseph Stiglitz once again shows why he should have been listened to at the outset of the Obama Administration by his incisive analysis of what has gone wrong so far in regards to the economy and the bank bailouts

economy, wall-street, politics, care, stimulus, bank-bailout, tea-baggers

A Presidential Failure of Leadership

Fri Aug 7, 2009 3:41 PM EDT

Dear Mr. President and Presidential Staff: I and others have told you to listen to Economist Joseph Stiglitz before you barreled ahead with your insufficient and ill-targeted stimulus and similarly insufficient and ill-targeted bank bailout / handout, but you wouldn't listen.

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economy, politics, healthcare, reform, bailout

Action Begets Wealth

Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:20 AM EDT

Action begets wealth. That is how Roosevelt saved the United States and increased, every year, the GDP during his tenure. It was the operative principle that allowed the United States to prevail during World War II, when at the outset we had no money for that enterprise.

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