Why don't Michigan Unions want to be put on the state run health insurance program?

Isn't this what their political party wants to do to the rest of the country? Everyone except for union workers and some federal government workers are going to get forced into the public option. If anyone is going to get forced into public insurance plans, it should be the goddamn unions who put these douchebags in office.

Fri, 08/28/2009 - 21:12 — NoGWBpolicyleft...
Here's one from our friendly neighborhood democrats in Michigan.

The Speaker of the House in Michigan (a Democrat) introduced a plan to require all public employees be put under one state run health insurance program.

Basically, another "screw the working class" proposal.

Needless to say, all of us employees who have had our wages slashed due to lack of raises over the last fifteen years are not too happy.

In that time we have had 12 raises that amounted to less than 1.2%! That means, we have really taken a pay cut. Six of those year we got zero% raise in order to keep our health insurance. Despite that, we have also taken concessions on health insurance two of the last four years to help keep our districts afloat! We opened our contracts to do that - the ultimate in good faith.

Now, this bluedog introduces this rightwing fantasy legislation that would destroy a major portion of what is left of Michigan's middle class. They have already crushed the U.A.W., and now, a DEMOCRAT introduces legislation that would basically destroy collective bargaining rights for workers, and crush the last vestige of worker opposition to the corporate fascists!

I called this little bastards office a few weeks ago, and got a very young kid who laughed at me when I asked if the Speaker really was from the party of FDR? He said laughing, "that was 50 years ago." He was totally ignorant, and the biggest dipshit I have talked to since I called Max Baucus' office a couple of years ago. Maybe it was the same guy?

So I moved on to the Speaker Pro Tem and talked to a very intelligent guy who completely understood everything at stake. His mother was a teacher, and he felt that the Speakers legislation would have to be supportive of workers and unions rights. He also was apalled when I told him of the bluedog jackass I talked to in the Speakers office and wanted his name.

In 2006, the repukes controlled our State House of representatives 58 - 52. After last year, the democrats hold a 67 - 43 majority thanks to the hundreds of thousands of public employees who campaigned and supported them.

And this is what we got in return; a big fat knife in the back!

Well, this blogger has finally had enough! I am going to start a petition demanding his resignation as Speaker, or that the House democrats strip him of his Speakership role. If they don't, they can try to win re-election next year without the 500,000 public employees, their spouses and family members support!

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Liberals' Plan for Military Snuff Film Thwarted by Right Wing Extremists

Well, maybe they wouldn't actually tape it, but with the sick bastards we've got running the show nowadays, you can never really tell for sure.

Alright bitches, it's time to strap up and defend our defenders. Our good friends in the Zero Administration have brought back the VA's "end of life planning document," "Your Life, Your Choices."

Right. An "end of life planning document," otherwise known as the "please let us put you to sleep because it's cheaper than treating you" document.

Too harsh? Too bad, because it's the truth. Check it out:

Last year, bureaucrats at the VA's National Center for Ethics in Health Care advocated a 52-page end-of-life planning document, "Your Life, Your Choices." It was first published in 1997 and later promoted as the VA's preferred living will throughout its vast network of hospitals and nursing homes. After the Bush White House took a look at how this document was treating complex health and moral issues, the VA suspended its use. Unfortunately, under President Obama, the VA has now resuscitated "Your Life, Your Choices."

"Complex health and moral issues" my ass.

A while into the article, Jim Towey gives us a few glowing examples of exactly what’s included in this friendly little document:

"Your Life, Your Choices" presents end-of-life choices in a way aimed at steering users toward predetermined conclusions, much like a political "push poll." For example, a worksheet on page 21 lists various scenarios and asks users to then decide whether their own life would be "not worth living."

The circumstances listed include ones common among the elderly and disabled: living in a nursing home, being in a wheelchair and not being able to "shake the blues." There is a section which provocatively asks, "Have you ever heard anyone say, 'If I'm a vegetable, pull the plug'?" There also are guilt-inducing scenarios such as "I can no longer contribute to my family's well being," "I am a severe financial burden on my family" and that the vet's situation "causes severe emotional burden for my family."

Fucking. HELL. People.

By the time I finished the article, I was in a white hot rage of doom. But after I calmed down a little bit, I got an AWESOME idea. We should run this idea, make it worse, and instead of forcing it on veterans apply it to the politicans and bureaucrats who pulled their heads out of each others' asses long enough to write this horrendous "Death Book!"

YES.

That way, when politicans like Arlen Specter, Dianne Feinstein, and Teddy Kennedy (it's so not too soon) have outlived their usefulness, we could just put them to sleep rather than putting up with their idiotic bullshit!

Oooh...if you're a liberal, that last dig at Kennedy probably pissed you off. Well, now you know how we feel when you attack soldiers and veterans who put their asses on the line so you can be free to behave like a damn moron.

At any rate, I don't think this is going to fly in the end. Consider...the lefties have this guy:

...But WE have THESE guys:

Anyone planning on saying no to that? I didn't think so.

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