Let's Steal Social Security and Medicare

Margaret Flowers, MD, who served as Congressional Fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program and is on the board of Healthcare-Now, has an excellent article about how a group of 80 powerful CEOs calling themselves "Fix the Debt" plan to convince people in the US to support cuts to vital social programmes.  Here's the link:  http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/201312215581386760.html

I'm sure you must be in the same position as I am: finding every day there's some new piddling (or enormous) attempt to steal money from you, by one of our mighty, "efficient", "job-creating" Corporations.  Yesterday it was the Credit Card Company trying to get out of refunding money that had been fraudulently taken from my card.  The day before it was a Medical Lab billing me again for services I paid for last year, on the grounds that Blue Cross/Blue Shield had refused to reimburse them.  And so it goes on.  And on....

There's a cool Documentary about Corporations, their history and how they came to rule our lives.  You can find it on Netflix:  http://dvd.netflix.com/Search?oq=&ac_posn=&v1=Corporations&search_submit=.

What more can one say - they're the biggest problem in the world today, with their Military-Industrial Complex, their child labor, their corruption of Democracy, environmental destruction, and now their rapid destruction of the middle class in the developed world.