How important is Saturday's Senate vote on health care reform, given that a "yes" would simply mean that debate starts nine days later, and that "no" would mean health care fails its first test and Reid is probably forced to change parts of his bill?
UPDATE: The procedural motion passed, 60-39.
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Nov 21 2009, 8:30 am by Chris Good
Question Of The Weekend: How Important Is The Vote?
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It's important to build victories. The entire process takes something like 60 yes votes - any no vote could have derailed HCR. Approaching the finish line now, the pressure builds.
"As money has in the past ministered to personal and family need, so in the future it must minister to group and world need. The time has now come when money must be re-valued and its usefulness channelled into new directions. The voice of the people must prevail, but it must be a people educated in the true values, in the significance of a right culture, and in the need for right human relations. It is therefore essentially a question of right education and correct training in world citizenship – a thing that has not yet been undertaken." [Money, The Medium of Loving Distribution, A Compilation from the books of Alice A Bailey ]
It makes no good sense for anyone to oppose healthcare reform. It seems some are more worried about Insurance Companies being crowded out due to competition and lower costs than the Health of the people, some who will surely die. Some are more concerned for the bottomline of the Insurance Companies than the small businesses (who they Pretend to care about) who have to pay high premiums for their employees, some to offer no health insurance, or forcing some out of business and/or some to set up shop elsewhere other than the United States! There is another lie circulating that small businesses will be forced to offer health insurance for their employees, this is not true, but employees will have the option to buy their own affordable healthcare from a public option! It is a fact that all other Industrial Countries have universal healthcare for their citizens and at the same time much lower healthcare expenses.
It is too bad that we have a certain group -- the Party of No and Fear -- who are Advocates of Can't, Won't, Shouldn't, Distortion, Fear, Hatred and Divisiveness. They are a dark group, a bitter group, concerned only for Corporate Greed and corporate Profit, who do not believe that government can work because they do not want it to work! For too long we have been spoon-fed a bunch of lies and fears by these powers who want to immobilize us, paralyze us and confuse us and to keep us circling the Yellow Brick Road!
It is a sad fact that the Afghanistan War is also a false war and a false choice. These terrorists do not stay in one place or in one country, they are all over. We are not at war with any one country, this is a fallacy. WE are in a "struggle" with an ideology, yes or evil, yes, but we are not at war with any country. Since, we have terrorists in our own country who are not Muslims, does this make us at war with the United States? And why do we have so many crises in this country that go unsolved?
OH, if we only had a Brain....., Courage....., Heart/LOVE!
Being adjured to take this tepid foolishness as a sign of progress is evidence that our government has actually succumbed to entropy.