America has got some real estate deals that will probably never be this, historically, good again but we’ve also got … well …we’ve got trouble right here in America and that rhymes with C and that stands for Capitalism.

Our medical insurance system, known throughout the entire civilized world, except for pockets within its own (obviously uncivilized) self, as an absolute sham for the profit-generating insurance companies, is obviously, even to many within its own ranks, acknowledged as broken—and broken beyond any form of creditable repair.

Now, as a former tradesman for the better part of 20 years—I was a carpenter—whenever anything was obviously irretrievably broken beyond repair, we simply replaced it and we always tried to replace it with a better product, so that we wouldn’t have to come back and keep replacing it.
This should be, obviously, the answer to our health-care system, which fails over and over and over again. Now, the problem is that when you have a broken doorknob it’s a nuisance but usually not a life-threatening nuisance, whereas whenever our broken health-care system fails it usually returns to us a dead body, instead of a dead door handle.
Now, as we have all seen—and are continuing to see—it is not only the health-care system that is broken beyond repair but it is the very system of government that controls not only our health-care but our monetary system, our banking and employment system and for many citizens, the very paycheck that they depend upon to survive.

The system upon which we are putting all our hopes on—and in which it has been reported that as many as anywhere from 18,000 to 45,000 human beings die annually because they lack health insurance—is also a system that allows for one gutless, spineless, miserable excuse for a human being—I am referring to Senator Joe Lieberman here, just in case you haven’t guessed—to be the (direct or indirect) cause of so many people losing their very lives for lack of one thing; money, money to either pay to see a doctor or money to buy health insurance—which, if they are already sick, will deny them coverage anyway, calling it a “pre-existing condition” or will charge them an inordinate amount of money—thereby not having to pay out any of their huge profits; which, in a system based on profit and profit alone—to the absolute indifference to anything else—pays the people who own and control these corporations masquerading as health-care systems (google United Health Group or its CEO Stephen Hemsley) immense, unbalanced and absolutely nonsensical salaries and bonuses.

Lieberman, a vice-presidential candidate with Al Gore in the 2000 presidential race, as a Democrat, declared on national television to Dick Cheney that he, Lieberman, wished he could make as much money as Cheney did in civilian life and Cheney—seeing the opening the straight-man Lieberman had provided him—said he’d do all he could to help Lieberman “get that chance,” which Lieberman then went about doing for himself and Gore by opening his mouth at every chance and sticking his foot inside it, just as he had done with Cheney, showing everyone his lack of character, backbone or any strong position on each and every issue. How Al Gore could have chosen this guy Lieberman for his vice-presidential candidate stretches even the old saying that: “politics makes for strange bed-fellows,” especially considering that Lieberman, already a Democrat, then declared himself an Independent, and recently stated in an interview with CNN, that he wouldn’t rule out running as a Republican. And then, he states that his decision on health-care reform was based on his principle; yeah, and that principle was, and is, money.

Lieberman is a shill for the insurance companies—period! He has no backbone, no principles, no morals, no heart and his soul is in danger of departing his body. I see absolutely no character in this man and I cannot look upon him as I do a human being, for a human being distinguishes himself from the animal kingdom by one thing—intelligence—a brain and, from what I’ve seen and heard from Joe Lieberman it is my contention that if his I.Q. was a point higher he’d be a baloney sandwich.

Lieberman can do these things because of Capitalism and it infectious tentacles, which reach us all, including myself, with that age-old disease called greed; we all want more and more “things,” be those things a home, a car, a boat or another home, car or boat, but, I believe, there must come a time when we, just as Human Beings, must say that “enough is enough.” It is fundamentally wrong for the CEO of a health-care system, or any system—Wall Street might fit in that space—to make an unimaginable fortune when that fortune comes from the denial and suffering—including death—of other human beings.
And, it appears to me now, that that time has come; that time is now.

Ben Bernanke is Time’s Man of the Year and Tiger Woods is the Associated Presses Athlete of the Decade—uh-er-um-ah no—comment!

I think I’ll go look for that historically good real estate deal.

May our friends respect us, trouble neglect us, angels protect us and heaven accept us.