Honestly, I'm not a prophet. The title of this article was thought up for the singular purpose of drawing your attention. However there have been some instances in which I voiced my opoinion in the past ten years on some very important subjects and they have already come true or they are in the process of becoming true. Let's take a look at a few of them. The first was when Antonin Scalia was appointed to the SCOTUS. There was an incident that happened not so long after he was appointed. He went hunting with executives of the oil industry then ruled in favor of the oil companies in a case that was before the court. He refused to recuse himself. No one has ever been able to call him into account for it.
It was then that I saw something it seemed nobody else was paying attention to. Everybody thought the court was becoming a "conservative court", but in actuality it was becoming a "corporate court", put in place for the purpose of ruling in favor of corporate interests. Conservatives believe it is a conservative court, but conservatism is only a side issue. The recent court rulings support this line of thinking. First the court ruled that money is speech, then it ruled that corprations are people and then it ruled that corporations can give as much money as they want to those we elect to govern us. You can already guess that whoever contributes the most money to their election campaigns will be heard above the rest. And when the amount of money is in the hundreds of millions and billions of dollars, all other voices will be drowned out. This is what is happening in the US even as I write.
Another instance has been the steady erosion of our personal freedoms in this country.. After the attacks on 9/11, all of America became so afraid and paranoid, and it was at that point that the so-called "patroit act" was passed by the fully republican controlled government and the Homeland Security Department came into being . This was the party of supposedly "less government" but now they have created not one but two whole other branches of government. Supposedly "in the interest of national security" they passed a series of laws that either restricted or took away some our rights as citizens "for our own good", or "our own protection", or "for the good of the country". THE TAKING OF OUR RIGHTS IS NEVER GOOD FOR US. It is only for the good of "CORPORATE RULE"!
Look at the recent laws that have been passed concerning the rights of citizens to assemble and to petition government. At the Supreme Court, citizens can't demonstrate on the steps of the court. They have to be a full block away, supposedly so that the court "won't be swayed by politics", but the court has become political anyway, and not in favor of the citizens of this country either! As in the case of Occupy Wall Street, Many cities are in the process of passing laws to disrupt their ability to assemble and to protest events that are of concern to "we the people". They don't want to hear from us, but they will listen to the corporate contributors! And even in the social media, such as Facebook and Twitter they are trying to control the content and monitor what we do and say.
And now the SCOTUS is hearing about the supposed constitutionality of the healthcare law passed by the Congress of the United States. The SCOTUS does NOT have the right to overrule the congress. Congress has the authority to say what the court can and can't do.
The full case is only a smokescreen for the true purpose, which is profit for insurance the insurance companies. The dems and repubs are both complicit in this. THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE IS THE ONE TRUE ISSUE! WE ARE DEMONSTRATING FOR THE RIGHT TO BE FORCED TO PAY FOR INSURANCE. That DOES NOT make sense to me. WE HAVE BEEN SOLD A BILL OF GOODS by a democratic president! This is NOT GOOD! There are many GREAT THINGS about the AHCA, but the INDIVIDUAL MANDATE IS A POISON PILL for "we the people"!
Make no mistake about it, the court will rule that the individual mandate is constitutional. Once that happens the floodgates will be open. What will happen next is that congrees will refuse to regulate the insurance companies and claim that the markets will drive down policies. But just the opposite will happen. No regulation equals unlimited profits. And the same thing that is happening now will happen again, ON STEROIDS! Those who are able, will pay more. Those who can only afford to pay basic premiums will only recieve basic healthcare, only less for more. And the rates will continously escalate. The only change will be that the insurance companies will be raking in the profits. The corporation will win AGAIN, as they have every case that has come before the Court. THEY HAVE NOT LOST EVEN ONE!
Mark my words. A democratic president proposed it and "we the people" are supporting it just like we did when then democratic pesident Bill Clinton and a democratic congress passed the NAFTA trade agreement. That definitely did not turn out well for the working people of this country, and neither has any other trade agreement since then. The term "free trade" has had a negative effect on the American worker. Nothing has been said or done about "fair trade". Just because a democratic president saya it doesn't mean that his position is the correct one. We the people have to think for ourselves. The indididual mandate will NOT be good for us. Universal healthcre should be a right for citizens of this country. And that is the correct position that a democratic president should take. But even a good public option would have been preferable to what has been put forth, and by a democratic president, no less. And "we the people" demonstrate in it's favor like it will be something good for us. I seriuosly doubt it will. Remember, You heard it from me.
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