More Republican lies about health care

Dick Armey is aptly named. This Republican corporate shill is once again attacking the idea of health care for all Americas by pulling out the same tired arguments.

And yet his argument now not only sounds tired, it sounds outright absurd, like something from a political bizarro world, where lies are truth and truth is irrelevant.

EVERYONE knows the American health care system is broken. Patients know it. Doctors know it. Employers and employees know it. The self-employed know it (they often can't get it).

EVERYONE knows that it's increasingly difficult (not to mention expensive) to get health insurance, and without it, we can either go bankrupt, or go without life saving medical care.

Everyone knows that every other industrialized country in the world has government run health care for all--care that works. My friends in Australia and Denmark simply can't believe that in the USA, the richest country in the world, our citizens are left to fend for themselves in an insanely expensive system, when they have no financial worries about health care. They need it, they get it.

So why, at a time when everybody knows this common obvious problem, does someone write an editorial, and Murdoch's WSJ print it, trying to say that a there's no problem, and a national health care system isn't an improvement.

This is a total throw-back to the ignorant and fact-deprived arguments of the past.

How long will Americans have to endure this kind of corporate pandering nonsense?

How long will some Republicans claim we can't afford health care for all Americans--when that is the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF "NATIONAL SECURITY." Why is it Republicans have no problem throwing almost a TRILLION dollars at Iraq, which has only proven you can throw away a trillion dollars and end up with less security, but they can't spend one month's budget in Iraq to protect the health of all Americans?

How can you argue against truly protecting Americans like this? The townspeople should be chasing this monster with torches.

When's the last time we needed another nuclear missile? When's the last time you got sick? Everyone gets sick. We haven't used a nuclear weapon in over 50 years (nor should we).

This argument is the very definition of insanity, and it's repulsive that the WSJ is following the sick path of neo-cons who think that just because they say something it's true, even when everybody else knows they're false.

The day when they can simply repeat the same lies over and over and over are--over.