No insurance? You will be a criminal.

Cannonfire says "game over" on health care reform as the Baucus plan - the one most likely to pass - contains a provision that forces you and me to purchase heath insurance. The fines for refusing? 750 to 3800 dollars. Per year? One wonders.

Cannonfire also asks whether if it is even constitutional to coerce people into purchasing insurance.

The bill mostly likely to pass is an obscenity. Bad Max Baucus' health care plan is, best as I can tell, an attempt to turn the middle class into serfs to the health care industry. This is the first line from Marcy Wheeler's blog. Cannonfire's post will get you to all the pertinent opinions from the Left on this crock of steaming s**t.

Again , the pattern need to be pointed out.

-Everything is a crisis.
-In all crises the function of the federal government is to transfer wealth from the middle class to certain fixed elites.
- The Federal Government is in the hip pocket of large corporations and Wall Street.

The health care "reform" fits this pattern.

Iraq
Swine Flu
Banking collapse
Auto collapse
Airline bailouts
Heath care

In all cases a "crisis" has been used to legalize a massive transfer of wealth.

Looting our money and redistributing it to large corporations is now the one ongoing function of the Federal Government.

My God, the health care debacle enrages me. It was clear a while ago that the entire "debate" has been, in essence, staged. The public option was never going to be in the final bill. Obama knew it. The Senate Democrats knew it. The Republicans knew it. The only people left flat footed appear to be the House Democrats who - whether they like it or not - no one with real power cares about because, frankly, they don't matter.

I wrote in December that the Left wing of the Democratic party would be thrown under the bus by Obama. The clearest evidence we have yet of this has occurred in the last two weeks as Obama has backed away from the public option. Glenn Greenwald makes mince meat of the "liberal" journalists here, who are - let's be brutally frank - Obama's pimps. Jonathan Alter gets the prize for being the most brazenly whorish. He is an amoral scumbag who trashed Clinton through out 2008 and has openly flip flopped along with Obama on the public option. The man has no principles, no morality, and probably no soul.

The final health care bill will almost certainly be nothing more than a forced transfer of wealth from the middle class to large insurance companies. Buy their product or you are breaking the law.

Looting our money and redistributing it to large corporations is now the one ongoing function of the Federal Government.

Irony alert: The Healthcare bill without the public option is statism at its rawest. This is fascism if we define it in the traditional sense as the marriage of the state and corporations. So yes, the townhall screamers got it right for the wrong reasons. The Federal government has colluded to make it illegal for most of us to avoid buying health insurance. Further it has colluded to ensure that pharmaceuticals can set any price they like for drugs. This will be law by year's end. The hope and change Presidency is an unmitigated catastrophe for anyone who still holds the quaint notion that we, the people, matter.

Since 2001 our tax dollars have gone to:

The airline industry.
Pharmaceutical giants (Tamiflu)
Haliburton
The auto industry.
The banking sector.
AIG
Add your own - I'm sure I've missed some. The government is now a subsidiary of a few corporations. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum this fact ought to enrage you as well. Why do we pay taxes? To bailout corporations. That's why. This is not capitalism.

The perennial debate in this country - what role should the government play in our lives - is now dead. Now the only debate is which multinational corporations get to rape us.

Every "crisis" is another opportunity to transfer wealth from the middle to the richest. Under the guise of heath care "reform" we are about to see the most successful looting of the middle class yet.

Oh, and yes, you'll have no other option. Of this you can be sure.

Celente

Celente on money junkies, the real mafia, The Presidential Reality Show , the Wall Street casino, Angela Merkel, and the need for a third party - here and here.