Then you weren't paying attention, Kareval. People have been complaining about the gouging Insurance Agencies have been giving people for health insurance. Even when it's your work that pays for your health insurance, they are paying way too much, and the difference between what they pay, and a fair rate is deducted from your pay and/or other perks at work. The American Healthcare system has been broken for a long time. It's just that know, with so much unemployment, people are seeing just how much the rich bastards that own Big Health Insurance and Big Drug are sucking money out of them unfairly.

There is no competition in the health field. You get what you can, or you go without. The uppe...

Then you weren't paying attention, Kareval. People have been complaining about the gouging Insurance Agencies have been giving people for health insurance. Even when it's your work that pays for your health insurance, they are paying way too much, and the difference between what they pay, and a fair rate is deducted from your pay and/or other perks at work. The American Healthcare system has been broken for a long time. It's just that know, with so much unemployment, people are seeing just how much the rich bastards that own Big Health Insurance and Big Drug are sucking money out of them unfairly.

There is no competition in the health field. You get what you can, or you go without. The upper class owners of Insurance Agencies and Drug Companies have people's health held hostage, and that needs to change, fast. Every day that the Republican'ts hold up heath care reform is more and more people without sufficient coverage suffering, dying and/or going bankrupt.

It is a very true statement to assert that the people in government that are holding up healthcare reform are killing people right now.

Everyone is so willing to point to corporate greed, or greed of stockholders, or greed of labor unions, or Americans not buying American made cars (especially the people who claim to support UAW).

The fact is that we all have a part in the fact that America is going bankrupt. However, since we have to be able to blame someone else to deflect attention from our own failings and selfishness, we never acknowledge our roles in anything that happens.

We citizens of the US are the richest individuals in the world. People buy houses they can't afford. They have cable TV, cars, video game consoles, cell phones, tons of clothes, health damaging habits like smoking and drinking and eating fast food....

Everyone is so willing to point to corporate greed, or greed of stockholders, or greed of labor unions, or Americans not buying American made cars (especially the people who claim to support UAW).

The fact is that we all have a part in the fact that America is going bankrupt. However, since we have to be able to blame someone else to deflect attention from our own failings and selfishness, we never acknowledge our roles in anything that happens.

We citizens of the US are the richest individuals in the world. People buy houses they can't afford. They have cable TV, cars, video game consoles, cell phones, tons of clothes, health damaging habits like smoking and drinking and eating fast food. The union worker and the CEO both want to be able to waste money on these things, as do the stockholders.

Most of those things are made in China now, because stockholders want a better dividend. CEO's get better bonuses by making that dividend happen. The first place they now look at is labor costs, which have been driven up by labor unions, who want to have their chunk of the profits as well.

We blew it. We had it so good in America, but we got spoiled. We weren't responsible with our finances.

Now, if anyone is still responding to this thread, watch as the liberals blame the greedy CEOs and the CEOs blame the labor unions. No one will acknowledge their own actions, because the other guys did something first.

One problem, ajmorgs; while the common Americans are suffering, the rich CEOs and execs are NOT. They're still gouging the money out of the typical Americans. Yes, America as a whole blew it, but the rich are scavengers endlessly feeding off the corpse. They don't need to be doing that, and I will most definitely fault them for that. It was the "must have" mentality that the rich purposely bred into Americans that caused this problem, and consequentially made the rich even richer. The gap between the rich and the poor is larger than it has ever been in recorded history.

So yes, it's proper to blame the rich. It's a bipartisan issue, not a liberal one, because the rich h...

One problem, ajmorgs; while the common Americans are suffering, the rich CEOs and execs are NOT. They're still gouging the money out of the typical Americans. Yes, America as a whole blew it, but the rich are scavengers endlessly feeding off the corpse. They don't need to be doing that, and I will most definitely fault them for that. It was the "must have" mentality that the rich purposely bred into Americans that caused this problem, and consequentially made the rich even richer. The gap between the rich and the poor is larger than it has ever been in recorded history.

So yes, it's proper to blame the rich. It's a bipartisan issue, not a liberal one, because the rich have conned both sides. The left just chooses to not be ignorant or blind about it.