Polite And Intellectually Honest People

I look forward to Friday evening because the Bill Moyers Journal comes on PBS. Last night his show was about Maggie Mahar and her book entitled Money Driven Medicine.
LINK: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2009/08/ask_maggie_mahar.html

Bill Moyers is amazing. He is so polite and civilized, and such a gentleman. At the same time he is the most intellectually honest and rigorous journalist in America. How he can keep his equanimity in the face of battling the health insurance industry, the pharmaceutical giants, and the right wing fanatics is remarkable.

Many of the racists on the right wing are going completely lunatic over the combined issues of America having a black President and potentially extending health care benefits to all poor blacks and wise Latinas.

And many of the progressives are feeling increasingly hopeless as we see Obama compromise away one critical issue after another to these greed-driven, dishonest bastards.

When you look closely at this issue and see that we are spending far more per person than in any other country on the planet, but we are getting much worse health care, it is difficult to come to other conclusions than that Americans are either stupid or comatose.
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We have shown that we are not capable of making as good a car as is made in Japan. On this health care issue Americans are demonstrating to the rest of the world that we have now totally lost any claim we may have once had to being a leader among nations in ideas or idealism. The American Dream is just about gone thanks to people like Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh.

I think that when Barack Obama’s tenure as President is over we should elect the team of Bill Moyers and Barney Frank to the job. Paul Krugman needs to be chairman of the Federal Reserve, and a good friend of mine suggests Jon Stuart for press secretary.
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