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“Obama’s take on healthcare an absolute moral outrage”

Published: 22 September, 2009, 11:07
Edited: 08 October, 2009, 07:01

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More and more Americans believe Barack Obama has not delivered his promises on the economy, says US author and blogger David Swanson.

Among other things, Swanson criticizes Obama’s take on healthcare reform:

“It’s an absolute moral outrage that he [President Obama] takes a stand on whether to spend money rather than whether to cover people with healthcare, when he is funding outrageous foreign occupation to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars every year – the largest military budget, beyond that in the history of the planet, bankrupt bailouts and now IMF bailouts for Eastern Europe and bankers that are putting our great grandchildren into debt.

“And he has the nerve to say that the fundamental moral question on healthcare is whether it costs any money,” Swanson told RT.

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jt October 08, 2009, 03:25
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I think this Obama hype and his," I am the savior of the world" nonsense needs to come to a stop. This man is doing nothing but driving this country into socialism.If you ask me, this man does not have a clue on how to run a country. This country is a sovereign country and we should not be led into this Obama world order.

Kischa September 23, 2009, 18:14
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Nobody trusts the us government anymore so they do not trust their health plans. These health plans include putting people in concentration camps if they do not take a vaccine. Doctors currently make a lot of money in US. They want doctors to go poor because they do not want anyone who actually cares about people's lives to be rich or powerful.

Bianca September 23, 2009, 06:52
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I am still waiting for some intelligence among American public. Have not seen much of it yet. Everyone on the right is blaming Obama, even if they do not like the weather. And whatever Rush Limbaugh says, goes, no matter how utterly stupid it is. So, the good old Americans are ready to criticize, but do not understand a thing, nor do they actually know what they are talking about. On the other hand, the progressive, educated and informed are ready to toss Obama under the bus. Yet, I do not think that they themselves understand why, o why cannot Obama do anything, and why, o why, cannot the Democratic Congress act to save its own life. Because we are not free. Not us the people, not our representatives, not Obama. We have the private bankers, that hide themselves under the deceptive name Federal Reserve. They are as Federal, as Federal Express, and there is not an R of the Reserve in what they do. How many people know which are the Banks that constitute the Fed? And who are the majority owners that actually control what those banks do? Who are the key investors? Why are these same Banks "finding" hundreds upon hundreds of billions for "AfPak", and not for anything needed at home? And why would the American public accept the fleecing by health insurance companies, that add nothing to the health care? For the privilege of paying them to actually administer a system of rules, we have turned over an enormous amount of money to the cartel that is building tall towers, as monuments to their glory and our utter stupidity? But will the Mr. Corporate, Rush Limbaugh ever say that? Will his following actually understand what they are muttering, when they reject any form of health care reform? God help us. He only can.