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Corporations Win Again - This Time It's Healthcare

Kudos, Jason. You're spot on in your observations and I thank you for expressing them. It's an honest, but unpopular, position.

The US is in deep trouble with no way out. At least no way that enough Americans are willing to go. Yes, it's our system where we allow corporations, through lobbying, to shape the laws that our country runs on. But anytime a Kucinich or a Wellstone introduces legislation that would do away with lobbying the neo-conservatives and moderate Democrats prevent it from going anywhere, and they have enough conservatives on the Supreme Court to keep the status quo in our lobbyist heaven. It would require a majority of liberals on the Supreme Court or a Constitutional Amendment and the neo-conservatives, with their cries of "socialism" and "anti-Americanism" led by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck, will keep that from ever happening. Bottom line: Americans have gotten brain-soft and can't think for themselves. We allow ourselves to be led by our emotions by those who are profiting from the demise of our once free-thinking society. It's a shame.