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	<title>Comments on: The Seminal Watercooler: Billionaires for Wealthcare on Maddow</title>
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		<title>By: NAVDOC3rdMAR</title>
		<link>http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8146#comment-74985</link>
		<dc:creator>NAVDOC3rdMAR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The Congress is back in session and doing the dirty work for the Medical Industrial Complex.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;mcconnell $3.3M, hatch $2.9M, baucus $2.8M, grassley $2.7M,&lt;br /&gt;lieberman $2.6M, burr $2.4M, ensign $2.4M, cornyn $2.2M, kyl $2.1M,&lt;br /&gt;conrad $2.1M, cantor $1.8M boehner $1.7M, coburn $1.2M, j wilson 800K  &lt;br /&gt;were paid by the Medical Industrial Complex to kill Health Care Reform.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Citizens for Tax Justice pointed this out. The tax legislation enacted under President George W. Bush from 2001 through 2006 will cost $2.48 trillion over the 2001-2010 period. This includes the revenue loss of $2.11 trillion that results directly from the Bush tax cuts as well as the $379 billion in additional interest payments on the national debt that we must make since the tax cuts were deficit-financed. Over the upcoming decade (2010-2019), the costs of the health care proposals approved by three committees in the U.S. House of Representatives are projected to be around $1 trillion and deficit neutral(that means they’re paid for). In 2010, when all the Bush tax cuts are finally phased in, a staggering 52.5 percent of the benefits will go to the richest 5 percent of taxpayers. The Bush tax cuts were deficit-financed, which increased the national debt and resulted in greater interest payments on that debt. They never even tried to pay for their tax-cuts. So, for the price of bush’s tax-cuts for the wealthiest 5%, we could have had Health Care for every American. Instead Americans got bupkus and cheney/bush’s republican buddies got filthy rich off of the Blood Money from No-Bid, Cost-Plus Federal Contracts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;12 Million Americans were denied Health Care Coverage by the Medical Industrial Complex because they had a Pre-Existing Medical Condition. 12K Americans lose Insurance Coverage everyday. Over 18K Americans die each day because they lack health insurance. (Source: WaPo Article 05′ by Harvard Prof. E. Warren)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Follow the Money:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://hmc-lavadogs.livejournal.com/20128.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://hmc-lavadogs.livejournal.com/20128.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Call Congress and demand, Single-Payer Health Care for All!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(House and Senate)&lt;br /&gt;1-866-338-1015_______________1-866-220-0044&lt;br /&gt;1-800-473-6711_______________1-866-311-3405&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sign Single-Payer Petition: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.singlepayeraction.org/join.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.singlepayeraction.org/join.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don’t let the Medical Industrial Complex steal your Health Care from you and your family by donating huge sums of money to Crooked Politicians in order to maintain the Status Quo. Keep up the good fight.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SEMPER FI!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Congress is back in session and doing the dirty work for the Medical Industrial Complex.</p>
<p>mcconnell $3.3M, hatch $2.9M, baucus $2.8M, grassley $2.7M,<br />lieberman $2.6M, burr $2.4M, ensign $2.4M, cornyn $2.2M, kyl $2.1M,<br />conrad $2.1M, cantor $1.8M boehner $1.7M, coburn $1.2M, j wilson 800K  <br />were paid by the Medical Industrial Complex to kill Health Care Reform.</p>
<p>Citizens for Tax Justice pointed this out. The tax legislation enacted under President George W. Bush from 2001 through 2006 will cost $2.48 trillion over the 2001-2010 period. This includes the revenue loss of $2.11 trillion that results directly from the Bush tax cuts as well as the $379 billion in additional interest payments on the national debt that we must make since the tax cuts were deficit-financed. Over the upcoming decade (2010-2019), the costs of the health care proposals approved by three committees in the U.S. House of Representatives are projected to be around $1 trillion and deficit neutral(that means they’re paid for). In 2010, when all the Bush tax cuts are finally phased in, a staggering 52.5 percent of the benefits will go to the richest 5 percent of taxpayers. The Bush tax cuts were deficit-financed, which increased the national debt and resulted in greater interest payments on that debt. They never even tried to pay for their tax-cuts. So, for the price of bush’s tax-cuts for the wealthiest 5%, we could have had Health Care for every American. Instead Americans got bupkus and cheney/bush’s republican buddies got filthy rich off of the Blood Money from No-Bid, Cost-Plus Federal Contracts.</p>
<p>12 Million Americans were denied Health Care Coverage by the Medical Industrial Complex because they had a Pre-Existing Medical Condition. 12K Americans lose Insurance Coverage everyday. Over 18K Americans die each day because they lack health insurance. (Source: WaPo Article 05′ by Harvard Prof. E. Warren)</p>
<p>Follow the Money:  <a href="http://hmc-lavadogs.livejournal.com/20128.html" rel="nofollow">http://hmc-lavadogs.livejournal.com/20128.html</a> </p>
<p>Call Congress and demand, Single-Payer Health Care for All!</p>
<p>(House and Senate)<br />1-866-338-1015_______________1-866-220-0044<br />1-800-473-6711_______________1-866-311-3405</p>
<p>Sign Single-Payer Petition: <a href="http://www.singlepayeraction.org/join.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.singlepayeraction.org/join.html</a> </p>
<p>Don’t let the Medical Industrial Complex steal your Health Care from you and your family by donating huge sums of money to Crooked Politicians in order to maintain the Status Quo. Keep up the good fight.</p>
<p>SEMPER FI!</p>
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		<title>By: taztunes</title>
		<link>http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8146#comment-74974</link>
		<dc:creator>taztunes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I wrote the lyric, arranged and produced “Battle Hymn Of The Insurance Companies” that was featured in the Maddow story. You can download an mp3 of the song at:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thebillionaires.org/Tas…..leHymn.mp3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thebillionaires.org/Tas…..leHymn.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can hear a bunch more Billionaire music (from those fabulous Bush years) at TheBillionaires.org&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to share the song. Lyric sheets, instrumental tracks and vocal parts are available so people can sing the song at their next rally. More music about Healthcare is coming soon!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;best,&lt;br /&gt;
Felonius Ax&lt;br /&gt;
(aka Clifford J. Tasner)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wrote the lyric, arranged and produced “Battle Hymn Of The Insurance Companies” that was featured in the Maddow story. You can download an mp3 of the song at:</p>
<p><a href="http://thebillionaires.org/Tas…..leHymn.mp3" rel="nofollow">http://thebillionaires.org/Tas…..leHymn.mp3</a></p>
<p>You can hear a bunch more Billionaire music (from those fabulous Bush years) at TheBillionaires.org</p>
<p>Please feel free to share the song. Lyric sheets, instrumental tracks and vocal parts are available so people can sing the song at their next rally. More music about Healthcare is coming soon!</p>
<p>best,<br />
Felonius Ax<br />
(aka Clifford J. Tasner)</p>
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		<title>By: sbvpav</title>
		<link>http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8146#comment-74948</link>
		<dc:creator>sbvpav</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;with so much absolutely depressing and disheartening with the ugly head of now politically correct racism, this brings a bit of joy. perhaps, as rachel said last night in showing, in the face of absurdity, perhaps the only answer is satire.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>with so much absolutely depressing and disheartening with the ugly head of now politically correct racism, this brings a bit of joy. perhaps, as rachel said last night in showing, in the face of absurdity, perhaps the only answer is satire.</p>
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		<title>By: taztunes</title>
		<link>http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8146#comment-74929</link>
		<dc:creator>taztunes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I wrote the lyric, arranged and produced “Battle Hymn Of The Insurance Companies” that was featured in the Maddow story.  You can download an mp3 of the song at:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://thebillionaires.org/TasnerTunesftp/BattleHymn.mp3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://thebillionaires.org/Tas.....leHymn.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can hear a bunch more Billionaire music (from those fabulous Bush years) at TheBillionaires.org&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to share the song.  Lyric sheets, instrumental tracks and vocal parts are available so people can sing the song at their next rally.  More music about Healthcare is coming soon!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;best,&lt;br /&gt;
Felonius Ax&lt;br /&gt;
(aka Clifford J. Tasner)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wrote the lyric, arranged and produced “Battle Hymn Of The Insurance Companies” that was featured in the Maddow story.  You can download an mp3 of the song at:</p>
<p><a href="http://thebillionaires.org/TasnerTunesftp/BattleHymn.mp3" rel="nofollow">http://thebillionaires.org/Tas&#8230;..leHymn.mp3</a></p>
<p>You can hear a bunch more Billionaire music (from those fabulous Bush years) at TheBillionaires.org</p>
<p>Please feel free to share the song.  Lyric sheets, instrumental tracks and vocal parts are available so people can sing the song at their next rally.  More music about Healthcare is coming soon!</p>
<p>best,<br />
Felonius Ax<br />
(aka Clifford J. Tasner)</p>
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		<title>By: nick1936</title>
		<link>http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8146#comment-74918</link>
		<dc:creator>nick1936</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I like the part where the Tea Baggers just didn’t get the humor. Must be lonely being so dumb.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now we have Glen BECK quoting a college doing a crowd count but can’t remember which one and Fox Noise reporting it as News.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like the part where the Tea Baggers just didn’t get the humor. Must be lonely being so dumb.</p>
<p>Now we have Glen BECK quoting a college doing a crowd count but can’t remember which one and Fox Noise reporting it as News.</p>
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		<title>By: yellowsnapdragon</title>
		<link>http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8146#comment-74837</link>
		<dc:creator>yellowsnapdragon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Absolutely delightful.  Smart, delicious irony way beyond the average teabagger’s level of comprehension.  I’ll be humming this for the rest of the healthcare “debate”.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Absolutely delightful.  Smart, delicious irony way beyond the average teabagger’s level of comprehension.  I’ll be humming this for the rest of the healthcare “debate”.</p>
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		<title>By: Jason Rosenbaum</title>
		<link>http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8146#comment-74826</link>
		<dc:creator>Jason Rosenbaum</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;You know it! Singing about profits especially brings out the finest of tones.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know it! Singing about profits especially brings out the finest of tones.</p>
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		<title>By: Styve</title>
		<link>http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8146#comment-74825</link>
		<dc:creator>Styve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Reality has a liberal bent, so you got that right, Sufi!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reality has a liberal bent, so you got that right, Sufi!!</p>
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		<title>By: Sufilizard2</title>
		<link>http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8146#comment-74824</link>
		<dc:creator>Sufilizard2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;You libruls are so elitist with your faxts and lojik.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You libruls are so elitist with your faxts and lojik.</p>
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		<title>By: Jo Fish</title>
		<link>http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8146#comment-74820</link>
		<dc:creator>Jo Fish</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Lrnng is over-ratted.  Dincha know thet?  Yew Markist skum.  ;)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lrnng is over-ratted.  Dincha know thet?  Yew Markist skum.  ;)</p>
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