Health Care Town Hall...The Band - King Harvest 1970 - Huffpost - Lieberman Wins: Medicare Compromise On Chopping Block

Dan Lungren (R) Health Care Town Hall Citrus Heights California August 2009 C-Span

Dan Lungren

December 2009

Huffpost - Lieberman Wins: Medicare Compromise On Chopping Block

"Carolab"
Gee, Joe, Israel has superb subsidized public health care!!!

"Lion24 "
As a protest, millions of Americans apply for political asylum in Canada.

"Gebbeth "
This is all so depressing. It's like all the energy that existed last Nov has just washed away in disappointment after disappointment. How on Earth is one to expect anything more from this Congress, this President if this HCR bill has been so utterly destroyed. How is the financial reform bill going to have any chance to pass in this Senate?

"renatam"
Very cunning of our President. Give up single payer out the gate. Then trade down to Medicare last week...and give it away today.

Equally cunning to select Rahm Emanuel to be Chief of Staff when he didn't even support this President during the Campaign. Ditto, Hillary Clinton.

Throw those who did support this President for CHANGE...under the bus...w/out flinching.

Escalation in Afghanistan costing TRILLIONS.
Trillion dollar giveaways to Wall Street w/out string.
Trillion dollar giveaways to insurance cartel w/out any meaning changes

Very cunning. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the REAL President Obama...as our Republican foes always told us. No worries. One term. At least with Republicans we KNOW what we are getting.

"founders"
The insurance companies got everything they wanted. For fairness sake , the senate should let the little people have the choice to buy or not to buy insurance. The mandate to buy will definitely be an infrigement on people right to choose in this situation..Connecticut thanks for this scourge.

"glomtt"
This is what happens when the people don't rise up. We have the majority in the polls for the public option and we have the majority in the number of people who want the public option and we the people elected officials and gave the majority in the house and the senate to the dems. We should be rising up and doing everything we can to make the people that we elected to work for us work for us "the people". How dare they live off of our hard earned money and work for corporations and Wall Street. How dare any of them. Rise up People, Rise Up!!!

"Beachchick"
Amen, glomott. Nothing will change without a social movement.

"dissanayake"
To think that one little man, will affect millions of middle class, Doubt that millions have the option of dual citizenship with Israel, unlike Lierberman. Oy

"Bronxdude"
As a result of collusive, exclusionary and illegal practices that make a mockery of the Sherman Antitrust Act, predatory insurers like UnitedHealthcare and Aetna funnel millions to crooked republicans in exchange for favorable legislation designed to crush competition, increase profits and solidify their monopolistic advantage through deliberate manipulation of the insurance market. There is no “free market” or real choice when subscribers are forced to select doctors from a list complied and approved by for-profit, degenerate insurance industry bean-counters. Doctors selected by UnitedHealthcare as “approved providers” are not done so because of their demonstrated level of peer reviewed expertise, exceptional competence and professional commitment; instead, they are chosen because of their willingness to accept extremely low reimbursement fees. In essence, with UnitedHealthCare, the notion of true choice and quality care is a farce because the subscriber is steered toward low-bid doctors willing to accept very low reimbursement. Pick a non-approved doctor, and, similar to Pavlov’s dog, the subscriber is punished to deter any future occurrence of such treasonous and ungrateful behavior. Physicians who agree to accept such low reimbursement are not “honor grads,” nor are they respected and accomplished among their peers. They are singularly motivated by greed, not a desire to practice medicine adeptly. The public option would offer real choice and allow Americans to select from the most competent practitioners, not just the low-bidders forced on subscribers by greed-driven, parasitic insurers.


King Harvest (Has Surely Come)

Thanks for the vid Nalencer


The Band - King Harvest 1970 - Long Black Veil 1970

thanks for the vid danieldesler

Reasons to Rock - Herb Bowie

"The lyrics of the song work on many levels. At one level, as Robertson says in the liner notes to the remastered CD of The Band, it is a song about the labor unions, “the quiet revolution when people went from being separated to something making them feel that they were all part of something in their livelihood.” (Bowman 2000, The Band) At this level, the words reflect one of The Band’s central themes, that of liberation from personal identity into a broader consciousness.

The lyrics work at another level, though. Let’s focus for a moment on what might be called the chorus, the three lines that begin and end the song and, with some variation, separate the verses. There are some unusual elements here...."

Corn in the fields.
Listen to the rice when the wind blows ‘cross the water...
King Harvest has surely come.

I work for the union,
‘Cause she’s so good to me;
And I’m bound to come out on top,
That’s where she said I should be.
I will hear every word the boss may say,
For he’s the one who hands me down my pay.
Looks like this time I’m gonna get to stay,
I’m a union man, now, all the way.

The smell of the leaves,
From the magnolia trees in the meadow...
King Harvest has surely come.

Dry summer, then comes fall,
Which I depend on most of all.
Hey, rainmaker, can you hear the call?
Please let these crops grow tall.
Long enough I’ve been up on Skid Row;
And it’s plain to see, I’ve nothing to show.
I’m glad to pay those union dues,
Just don’t judge me by my shoes.

Scarecrow and a yellow moon,
Pretty soon a carnival on the edge of town...
King Harvest has surely come.

Last year this time, wasn’t no joke,
My whole barn went up in smoke.
Our horse Jethro, well he went mad,
And I can’t ever remember things being that bad.
Then here comes a man with a paper and a pen,
Telling us our hard times are about to end.
And then, if they don’t give us what we like,
He said, “Men, that’s when you gotta go on strike.”

Corn in the fields.
Listen to the rice when the wind blows ‘cross the water...
King Harvest has surely come.