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Monday, January 31, 2005

Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis

In its place, they want to erect a system in which workers — instead of looking to employers for health insurance — would take personal responsibility for protecting themselves and their families: They would buy high-deductible "catastrophic" insurance policies to cover major medical needs, then pay routine costs with money set aside in tax-sheltered health savings accounts.

well well well. they are getting down to their business of destroying the fabric of life in the US. Forcing not only the mass of the general public to suffer disasterous health issues including increasing deaths and pandemics, but also significantly reducing the employment in the healthcare industry. Routine costs?? As if there is any such thing as routine costs in health care especially in the US. Their goal is to reduce US population, increase the redistribution of wealth to fewer and fewer wealthy monopolists, and create a massive military police state that separates out the zealous christian evangelicals from all the rest...

It's easier to figure out what the iraqi election doesn't mean.

It doesn't mean that the water that has been off for 8 straight days in Baghdad will come on anytime soon. Nor does it mean that the sputtering electrical grid will work for more than 4 hours a day, or that anyone is going to clean up the raw sewage that's coursing through the streets in downtown Baghdad. And it certainly doesn't mean that the newly "elected" officials will have any real influence over borders, air space, oil extraction, economic policy, deployment of troops or any of the other powers we normally associate with sovereign leaders. (Even the ridiculously named Iraqi National Bank is completely owned by foreign investors) Those will still be in the hands of their US overlords.
In fact all of the corporate activity in Iraq will be privately owned by non-iraqis who will not pay any taxes whatsoever on their profits, and will be allowed to take all of the money out of iraq. Indeed it is the US neo-feudal lords of capital who know that iraq will remain an international sacrifice zone, permanently damaged from depleted uranium and other toxins. All they want is the resources to take out and sell. The sooner the iraqis kill one another the better it will be for US