Blue Dog Dilemma
Our Corporate Owners
Bob Dylan sang, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.”
America’s corporations and business interests have Americans “by the balls.” George Carlin says the people that run this country want nothing more than “obedient workers” and now they want our social security money and retirement. “It’s a big club and you and I aren’t in it,” says Carlin.
“There’s a reason education sucks and will never, ever, ever be fixed. Never get any better. Read the rest of this entry →
On Single Payer Health Care
One of the tenants of capitalism is that the free market will regulate prices for a commodity. I personally don’t think that health should be a commodity, but some do, maybe even yourself.
If consumers get together in the “free market” and decide to start a health insurance cooperative and influence the price of health to the consumers’ advantage by initiating a new payment system, isn’t that capitalism in action?
And if health consumers decide that it would be to their advantage to enlist the aid of government in getting this new payment system in place and making it the law of the land, shouldn’t that be ok and within the functions of capitalism.
This is, by the way what the corporate health insurance lobby did when they wanted government help in deregulating their business. Shouldn’t we be able to do this too? Please excuse my ignorance, but shouldn’t we be allowed to implement a health care payment system that is to our advantage?
A Spiritual Copernican Revolution
I have been reading Brian Robertson’s “Christian Mystics” web site and now his blog since the early 1990s. He has been an inspiration and I urge you to visit his blog.
Jun 9th, 2009, copyright © by Brian Robertson
Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published in 1543 just before he died, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the Scientific Revolution. His heliocentric model, with the sun at the center of the universe, demonstrated that the observed motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting the Earth at rest in the center of the universe. His work stimulated further scientific investigations, becoming a landmark in the history of modern science that is now often referred to as the Copernican Revolution.
Wikipedia
What I would like to suggest is that it is time, in Christianity, for a kind of Copernican Revolution that, curiously enough, brings us closer to the spirituality of Jesus. Read the rest of this entry →
