KA here:

This started as my status on my personal facebook page but then it got too long and it is true that most of my facebook friends can't really handle me.  If I say too much I get defriended and blocked.  For the most part in real life world I only surround myself with the strong honest awake types, so there are no limits or boxes put on what can or can not be said.  Facebook world is much different for me.  Most of my strong honest awake type friends want nothing to do with facebook so I only have about 7 of the same people who like or comment on my status updates.  While someone can say something like they are going to take a nap and they get 24 likes and 16 comments.  I can almost feel some people shaking their heads and making faces of how dare she, when I do a new status update.   I just can't help that in the face of bullshit I must speak up.  I know, I know, silence is golden, so instead I decided to share this here with you all genius, beautiful, open minded, honestly opinionated, conscious, strong beings. 

So anyway...

I find it ironic to read on yahoo about "helicopters racing to Vermont to get food and water to the people in cut off towns" and to read this at exactly the 6 year anniversary of Katina.  I mean for real, was it not yesterday 6 years ago that the levees broke and flooded the city?  Where was the aid to the people of New Orleans?  How many days went by before anyone showed up to help them?  How many people died from Katrina?  Like over 1800?  Oh but race that aid to people who have had a week plus to plan and prepare and I mean for Gods sake they shut down New York City over the warnings of this massive storm coming through!   No way I would just go on with life like normal and not have totally stocked up on like weeks of stuff if I lived in the area.  But the next day and they are racing aid to these people and it just kind of pisses me off.   Is it because of their majority RACE that they are racing?  Because what is the difference here?  This is Vermont and that was New Orleans.  Right?  Right?  Bullshit.  Isn't it only fair that these people of Vermont should have to do as they did in New Orleans like the ones stuck at the stadium that reeked of urine and feces from no place to let it go and going nuts day after day in the sweltering heat with no water and no aid and no food and wondering what the fuck was going on with no help coming to take care of them...day after day after day? 

Okay thank you for listening to me vent. I made my point and don't need to go on.  Which makes me think  I should probably add a blog page called the Vent Page.  It can be a place where you can go to feel at home to really say it as it is. 

KA here:

I am so thankful that this came out and is making its way to the publics attention!!  I recently heard someone make a comment that the people who go to war are "dieing doing what they love", so it is all good ... and it made my body reel with disgust at such a fucked up/moronic/uninformed/disconnected to the heart/unrealistic/assbackwards statement.  I am not saying any of those things about the person who spoke them, just about the words spoken.  I mean, who loves going into another country and murdering men, women and children?  For real?  Who joins the army because they LOVE the scene?  I mean yes A LOT joined after 9/11 from the emotional charge of wanting to protect their country, but had they known before hand that it was all a ploy to get high numbers in troops to be able to create another war, I wonder how many would have still joined.  And how many truthfully only joined for the $40,000 they promise you, or for the payoff of the school loans?  How many would have joined if the money wasn't offered?  And decades ago, how many joined for the discipline and training they thought it would bring into their lives?  But I know most people before this war was created thought the concept of war was gone and not something we did anymore.  I thought war was so old school and not consciously acceptable anymore.  When 2003 hit and talks of war were on the horizon, I thought no way will this really play out because America does not do war anymore.  And look at us now.  And look at the economy now, all due to this war and all written out and explained to Bush before this war was created, that THIS would be the results if war was chosen.  We are EXACTLY where the report of the results of going to war said we would be.  Bush agreed to the war, knowing the economy would collapse over it.  Where we are now with the economy, with the mass suicide rate from our troops coming home and not being able to deal with what they had to do and see,  with the depression, with the alcoholism, with the drug dependency was ALL PREDICTED as this is what will happen IF we decide to go into war.  But, did WE decide?  More like, THEY decided for us.  I would never choose this that we have on our plate now.  Would anyone really if they really knew what the results would be?

KA  here:

Oh my.  So I started watching the TV series called Intervention where all these people with addictions are shown in the core of their addiction, and then offered help to get clean from their addiction.  I have been amazed at how many of the people in the show have been addicted to pharmaceutical drugs and how they just have to do more and more and every day are on the streets trying to figure out how to get more money to get more pills.  They all have this dead lifeless look coming out of their eyes and they are kind of like zombie and showing very few emotions.   They become so brainwashed for the pills that they let everything else in their life fall away.  And the thing is that because they get these pills prescribed from a Medical Doctor, they think it is not the same as doing heroin or crack or meth, which come illegally off the street.  But they are exactly the same; they completely go hand in hand.

For some reason I have never bought into the concept of popping a pill to feel better. I mean I don't even take Ibuprofen when I get a headache!   Maybe a toke off a joint, from the green the grows naturally, but a pill, never.  I remember years ago hearing from guy friends that all the girls they were meeting turned out to be addicted to pills, like for social anxiety.  So as they would tell me, the girls they were meeting seemed so exciting and alive and personable but then they would find out it was was just a pill and an addiction and not the real person inside.  I kept hearing it voiced like,"I'm totally into this new girl, but I hope she's not into pills and she's really just doped up".  I heard it too many times to not get suspicious that something really fucked up was going on with the youth. 

Then this movie fell into my hands.  Wow.  This is what is going on.  It is so easy to escape through these drugs and to think it is all good, but this is synthetic happiness and not authentic happiness.  But once you start taking the drugs, you get addicted and think you need the drugs to function.  And ultimately down the line, you get found out, and the people closest to you will be saying, "I want the real you back".   But then comes the journey to finding that original person again.

I think by message to the pill abuses is:

1.  it is okay to be depressed as that is a natural wave of human emotions we experience.  It is natural!  Yes, it sucks and feels so hopeless, but once you move through it, you find happiness.  Every time.  It is only like  a growth cycle that is awakening you to something you need to find deep within yourself.

2.  if you are shy, be okay with that!  So many people want to be something they are not and because of the internet and all the super star shows, people think they need to be the life of the party to be accepted or even really to accept themselves.  They want attention and think the best way is by being showy.  Let me just tell you my opinion and I LOVE shy people.  I love shy guys.  I like the guy who is kind of awkward and stands back and looks a bit uncomfortable.  The one who is all HHEEEYYY and wanting the attention of the entire room turns me off every time.  Think James Dean.  And it is the same with girls.  The shy girl, the one who is just keeping it real and being herself is the one that the guys really want as a permanent partner.  The girls who are all showy and thinking they need to be standing out to get all the attention tend to be the loneliest people when the lights go out and the show ends.  But this is really just about accepting who ever the fuck you are.  If you are overweight, you are still perfect.  If you are kind of awkward and geeky, you are still perfect.  If you are not as "attractive" as the men or women in print in the magazines, you are still perfect.  If you are shy and bashful and find it difficult to meet people. you are still perfect.  You are perfect if you are being real and being yourself.  It doesn't matter what other people think about you as long as you are just being true to who you really are.  And to take a pill to try to be someone else is just like putting your inner growth on pause and walking up an escalator that is going down.  

Please watch this important movie and for Gods sake LOVE YOURSELF, knowing there is a plan to all your experiences and growth opportunies,  no matter how dorky, goofy, plain janey, depressed or lonely you feel.  Feelings change and shift over time.  I used to be the girl that had to get all the attention and be the life of the party and now I am the shy, plain janey girl and at first I was uncomfortable with it but now I love it!  Just love it no matter what it is. 

KA here:

If you want the truth, here it is.  If you can't handle the truth, run.  This is heartbreaking.  This is our future, our kids future, their kids future, and on.  And this is not something we can just bury and forget about.  There is  a lot on Chernobyl here, in this video, and 25 years later, kids are still getting cancer at young ages and the site is still highly radiated and dangerous. 

I also encourage you to watch the video on our Sovereign Beings Movie List page.  Atomic Wounds. This is the story of how things were manipulated to allow Nuclear Plants as a staple in this world.  Had the truth come out then, they would not be in our world.  But since the truth was buried and manipulated we are all facing Fukushima radiation in our bodies as we speak.  There is no place to hide from this.  All we can do is supplement our bodies with things that fight radiation, and hopefully a discovery will be made in our future that

KA here:

This little short video touched me.  Personally I love the elderly and I love to hear their stories and how they always remind you to not worry and things work out and don't forget to tell your people you love them and how to not sweat the small stuff like arguments or breakups with lovers.  And you know like I know that one day we will be the elderly.  Do you want this to happen to you or someone you love?

KA here:

The Peaceful Protests begin in Washington.

KA here:

This is such an inspiring story of what has already happened in Iceland and what we in America can look forward to as they have sort of written the handbook/walked the talk of what happens when the system goes bust.  And "goes bust"  is what is on the horizon for all systems that do not operate with integrity and FOR the people. 

...At the end of the year Iceland declared bankruptcy. Contrary to what could be expected, the crisis resulted in Icelanders recovering their sovereign rights, through a process of direct participatory democracy that eventually led to a new Constitution.  But only after much pain....

To write the new constitution, the people of Iceland elected twenty-five citizens from among 522 adults not belonging to any political party but recommended by at least thirty citizens. This document was not the work of a handful of politicians, but was written on the internet. The constituent’s meetings are streamed on-line, and citizens can send their comments and suggestions, witnessing the document as it takes shape. The constitution that eventually emerges from this participatory democratic process will be submitted to parliament for approval after the next elections.

Some readers will remember that Iceland’s ninth century agrarian collapse was featured in Jared Diamond’s book by the same name. Today, that country is recovering from its financial collapse in ways just the opposite of those generally considered unavoidable, as confirmed yesterday by the new head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde to Fareed Zakaria. The people of Greece have been told that the privatization of their public sector is the only solution.  And those of Italy, Spain and Portugal are facing the same threat.

They should look to Iceland. Refusing to bow to foreign interests, that small country stated loud and clear that the people are sovereign.     

That’s why it is not in the news anymore.


Read the full article here

Tara here:

Because I think not approving the proposed Tar Sands Pipeline is really essential if we hope to reverse the effects of climate change (whether human-caused or not; I really don't care where you stand on this issue at the moment!) and leave a world in which our children can live, I'm hoping to get actual people to send actual letters to the White House.  I hope this will help President Obama (and others) realize that this is an issue about which people care and that we're paying attention to, and that we can and will hold him accountable for his actions.

(Although I think emailed letters are much better than nothing at all, I definitely think that phone calls and physical, hard-copy letters show a deeper level of commitment and are given more importance in the grand "tallying of what our constituents think" that we'd all like to hope actually matters to our elected representatives.)

Here's one of the many, many explanations why approving the pipeline would be a very, very bad idea: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/09/1000427/-President-Obama:-Just-Say-No-Tar-Sands-Pipeline-Rip-Off

Here's the website for Tar Sands Action, people who will be risking arrest to protest the permit in front of the White House: http://www.tarsandsaction.org/

I'll even send you a replacement stamp for the one you used, or paypal you the money to pay for a stamp, if that'd make the process less onerous.

I know writing a letter can be time-consuming, and I'm including some pre-written paragraphs that you can include in your letter if it would help.  Or write your own -- that's even better; I'm just trying to make the process as easy as possible in the hopes that a few people will take action.  PLEASE do so.

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openers:

I’m writing to encourage you to deny the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.  The project is not only incredibly risky for the environment, it is also entirely unnecessary.

I'm writing to ask you to please deny the permit for the dangerous, unnecessary Keystone XL pipeline.

Please refuse the permit for the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline.

The Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline is dangerous, unnecessary, and has the potential to be absolutely devastating to the environment.  Please deny the permit request.

points:

The pipeline crosses under more than 1,000 bodies of water.  They include the Oglala Aquifer, which is responsible for the drinking water of more than 2,000,000 Americans and enables more than 20% of the nation’s agricultural production.  A spill there would be beyond devastating, yet it wouldn’t actually be at all surprising: though TransCanada predicts only eleven spills over the first 50 years of operation, they’ve already had twelve spills in less than a year on the existing pipeline.  Clearly their predictions can’t be trusted, and we simply can’t afford to further endanger our diminishing water supplies. 

The pipeline would pass under the Missouri, Platte, and Yellowstone rivers, and as you know the Yellowstone River was already the site of a recent spill.  The Keystone XL pipeline would be 20 times larger than Exxon’s Silvertip pipeline that, damaged by erosion, gushed “only” 1,000 barrels into the river on July 1.  Don’t let so much of the nation’s water supply and our valuable wild areas and agricultural land be put at risk. 

The pipeline would pump raw tar sands oil through pipes and infrastructure that are designed to handle the comparatively better-behaved traditional, crude or processed oil. We saw how well that worked when the Keystone I Pipeline's spill at a North Dakota pump station spewed over 21,000 gallons of oil in mere minutes.  And that was because of the failure of a single, 3/4" fitting, operating under standard conditions.

Additionally, the Energy Department even says that we currently have the capacity to double our oil imports from Canada; there’s simply no need for the pipeline and all the dangers it represents.  I've even seen reputable sources say that the pipeline, straight to coastal refineries, is primarily requested to make exporting oil to other countries easier and cheaper.  Is that truly what we want to do?

Equally importantly, though, if not even more so, is the devastating long-term environmental impact, with greenhouse gas emissions from tar sands oil more than 80% greater than from the conventional crude the US currently refines.  In a world where we’re desperately trying to avert environmental catastrophe, there’s simply no justification for this. 

Climatologist Jim Hansen says that, if we have any chance of getting back to a stable climate, “the principal requirement is that coal emissions must be phased out by 2030 and unconventional fossil fuels, such as tar sands, must be left in the ground.” In other words, he added, “if the tar sands are thrown into the mix it is essentially game over.”  The Keystone pipeline is an essential part of the game.  Please don't approve it. 

conclusions:

President Obama, we elected you with such hope and determination.  I was a proud “Mama for Obama,” believing that you really would work to make the world a better place for our children they might have.  We truly thought that you would uphold your campaign promises to curb the effects of climate change and to do everything possible to save this world upon which we all live.  We’ve watched, saddened and angered, as your compromises have made everyday life harder for millions and millions of Americans, but we still hold out hope that you can and will start abiding by your previous statements and work to save our environment.  Please don’t let us down.  Please don’t let political expediency stand in the way of doing what’s right, necessary, and entirely possible.

President Obama, I'm asking you to do what's right, rather than what's politically expedient.  Please deny the permit request for the Keystone XL Pipeline.

As a father, you want the best for your children.  We all do.  Please deny the Keystone XL Pipeline.  Give Sasha and Malia, and all our children, another reason to be proud of and thankful for your actions.

President Obama, I didn't vote for you.  I haven't always agreed with the decisions you make or the reasons behind them.  But this is a situation where the right thing to do is so very obvious and so incredibly necessary that I have no doubt that we'll be on the same side.  Please deny the Keystone XL Pipeline.

As a lifelong Democrat, I have to admit that I've strongly questioned many of your recent actions.  They're enough to cause me to question my party loyalty and my enthusiasm for your presidency.  Denying the Keystone XL permit would go a long way toward restoring my faith in both our party and your ability to truly represent us.

President Obama, I'm a political Independent.  I have never felt that any one party speaks for me; in each election I base my decisions upon principles and values rather than the letter next to the candidate's name.  I voted for you because of who you are and what you stood for, and was hoping to be able to do so again in 2012.  If you approve the Keystone XL permit, though, there is absolutely no way I'll be able to vote for your ticket.

This is an issue that transcends politics, and it amazes me that it's even at question.  The right thing to do, the only thing to do, is to deny the Keystone XL permit.

I’m calling on you, counting on you to refuse permission for the Keystone XL pipeline.

closing:

Thank you,

Sincerely,

In faith and hope,

Counting on you to do what's right,

(If you, like me, have forgotten the format for a business letter, here's a quick and dirty example:

Your Name Here

Your Address

Your Address

Your email address (the White House requests an email address; go figure)

Date

President Barack Obama

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama:

Your text here.

Closing text,

 (signature once you've printed the letter out)

Your name here

So you print the letter, sign it, put it in an envelope, address it to President Obama, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, attach a stamp, and drop it in the mailbox. Then we all say "thank you," and cross our fingers, keep hoping and praying and working toward change.  And if you feel like it, the White House Comment Line is: 202-456-1111.  It's so easy to call and leave a message -- consider doing that too. :)

KA here:


It's time to take a stand against the Keystone XL pipeline, a dangerous and destructive project that would pump over one million barrels of dirty "tar sands" oil from Canada to the USA every day. The oil in the Keystone pipeline could poison drinking water, threaten the communities it runs through, and wreck the climate.

But there's good news: the Keystone XL pipeline cannot be built without a "presidential permit" from the Obama Administration. Let's turn up the pressure to make sure President Obama rejects the pipeline.

The clock is ticking: the State Department has said it will make a final decision on whether or not to issue a presidential permit deeming the pipeline in our "national interest" by the end of this year. We know more pollution and more climate change are not in any nation's interest, so we’re calling on President Obama to step up and display the kind of leadership that so many people expected when they voted him into office. If we reach our goal of 35,000 signatures, we’ll arrange a high-profile delivery in Washington DC.

Please sign on today by filling out the form on this link below!

http://act.350.org/sign/tar-sands/

If the Government Represented the Peoples Wishes the Country Would be on the Right Track
By Kevin Zeese


Elections no longer work. Lobbying no longer works. Email and telephone campaigns no longer work. Symbolic protests no longer work.  Americans need to get organized and mobilized to demand what we want.

The occupation begins on October 6, 2011 when thousands of Americans enter Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC and refuse to leave.  We are calling the occupation Stop the Machine: Create a New World.  The new world we seek is already supported by super-majorities of the American people.  A large majority of Americans consistently support the following agenda:

- Tax the rich and corporations
- End the wars, bring the troops home, cut military spending
- Protect the social safety net, strengthen Social Security and improved Medicare for all
- End corporate welfare for oil companies and other big business interests
- Transition to a clean energy economy, reverse environmental degradation
- Protect worker rights including collective bargaining, create jobs and raise wages
- Get money out of politics

The government, dominated by elite economic interests, is going in the opposite direction from what the people want.  The American people’s agenda is our agenda.

We are occupying Freedom Plaza to shift power from concentrated corporate power to the people.  October2011.org’s agenda is an evidence-based one, not based on polling.  However, polling shows the American people support transformative change. These polling results show the people know how to save the country but the government is too corrupt to do what is necessary. 

These solutions are part of transformative we begin to describe in “Fifteen Core Issues the Country Must Face.”  Each of these 15 issues will have a detailed policy description linked to it once participants discuss them on the October2011.org website.  You can join the discussion by signing up with the October2011.org movement.

Tax the rich and corporations

How government funds itself adequately to meet the needs of the people of the United States is one of the key budget questions not being adequately addressed in Washington.  Americans know there are significant disparities of wealth, between small numbers of extremely wealthy Americans and the rest of us – the 99% who do not have extreme wealth.  The 400 wealthiest Americans have wealth equal to 150 million Americans. This richest 400, whose average income was $270.5 million, paid a tax rate of 18%; yet someone who earns $60,000 finds themselves in the 25% tax bracket.  It was not always this way; in 1955 the top 400 paid 51.2% of their total income in tax. In the past there was many more tax brackets, with top incomes taxed as high as 91% in the late 1950s.

The American people support taxing wealthy Americans more than they are currently taxed.  A 2011 ABC/Washington Post survey finds 72% of the country supports increasing taxes on those earning more than 250,000. McClatchy News reports that U.S. voters by a margin of 2-to-1 support raising taxes on incomes above $250,000, with 64% in favor and 33% opposed. These are not the first polls to show a strong majority of Americans favor raising taxes on the rich. Polls have been showing that since before the 2010 election.  Here’s one from September, 2010.  Here’s one from December.  Here’s one from January. And here’s another.  

Regarding the lack of corporate taxes in the recent debt ceiling deal, 60% of U.S. voters disapproved of the fact that the deal did not include tax hikes for businesses or wealthy Americans compared to 40% who approved of that outcome. A Quinnipiac University poll indicates that two-thirds of the public say an agreement to raise the debt limit should include tax hikes for wealthy Americans and corporations.

Americans know where the money is, realize wealth has been funneled to the top because of federal policies and they want to see the wealthy taxed more heavily. No doubt if the income tax were truly progressive so those earning $1 million, $10 million or $100 million paid even more there would be even broader support.

End the Wars, Bring the Troops Home, Cut Military Spending

Military spending is one of the most propagandized areas of policy in the United States.  Some media, like NBC (along with MSNBC and related outlets) are owned by a major military contractor, General Electric, and they have fired on air personalities, like Phil Donohue, because they were critical of war.  The Pentagon has a massive multi-hundred million dollar military propaganda budget that gets information into the media and does a great deal to control media coverage by having retired military officers as the primary commentators on the air. Rarely is opposition to war included in the media or before Congress.  Before every war there is a massive propaganda effort to support the war effort resulting in a spike of war support followed six months or so later with disenchantment and opposition to the war.  All of this is re-enforced by events on Veterans Day and Memorial Day that herald the U.S. military more than mourn the loss of lives in war.  Americans almost never hear discussed on the air the reality that we are the largest empire in world history – a massive empire that is a secret to most Americans.  This makes public opinion hard to measure, but even in this environment the military budget is not popular with Americans.

The Pentagon has a very effective propaganda program to protect its budget, so polls find Americans greatly underestimate how much we spend. According to a Rasmussen poll, only 25% of voters believe the United States should always spend at least three times as much on defense as any other nation. Forty percent (40%) do not think the country needs to spend this much, while 35% are not sure. Interestingly, if the government was to actually spend only three times as much as any other nation, it would result in a significant cut in military spending since in fact, the U.S. spends as much as the whole world combined on weapons and war. Earlier polling showed that just 58% recognize that the United States spends more on defense than any other nation in the world.  I could not find any corporate media outlet that asked Americans if the U.S. should spend as much as the whole world combined on the military.

TheProgram on International Policy Attitudesat theUniversity of Maryland did a detailed examination of public opinion on military spending that was published in 2005.  They provided Americans with the overall federal budget and asked them to modify it.  They report: “Defense spending received the deepest cut, being cut on average 31%—equivalent to $133.8 billion—with 65% of respondents cutting. The second largest area to be cut was the supplemental for Iraq and Afghanistan, which suffered an average cut of $29.6 billion or 35%, with two out of three respondents cutting.” Further “clear majorities favored increases (education 57%, job training 67%, medical research 57%, veteran’s benefits 63%), though only 43% of respondents favored increases for housing.”

In the recent deficit debate, polls show a majority of Americans preferred cutting military spending to reduce the federal deficit rather than taking money from public retirement and health programs.  A Reuters/Ipsos poll released in March 2011 found 51% of Americans support reducing “defense” spending, and only 28% want to cut Medicare and Medicaid health programs for the elderly and poor and only 18% back cuts in Social Security. A July 2011 Rasmussen poll found that a plurality of Americans believe the United States can make major cuts in military spending without sacrificing security and nearly 80% said the U.S. spends too much protecting allies.

A January 2011 CNN poll found that more than six in ten Americans oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan, according to a new national poll. A February 2011 USA Today/Gallup poll found Americans favored more rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan by 75% to 25%.

The majority of Americans, regardless of their political party affiliations, do not approve of the U.S. war in Libya, a CBS News poll from June 2011 shows that six out of 10 Americans believe the US should not be involved in the war on Libya.

Regarding Iraq Angus Reid Public Opinion reports in 2011 that half of Americans (52%) believe their government made a mistake in launching military action against Iraq in 2003. Large majorities of respondents in the U.S. (63%) and Britain (70%) believe that the Iraq War negatively affected the position and image of their respective countries in the world.

Protect the social safety net, strengthen Social Security, expand and improve Medicare for all

In this section we spend a lot of time on polls showing the U.S. public supports – by large majorities over many years – a single payer health care system, improved Medicare for all.  Despite this, or perhaps because of it, President Obama and the Democratic Party leadership kept single payer out of the discussion of health care reform. The corporate media, with the help of the wealth-funded Tea Party (which includes many Americans who are legitimately angry at the way the economy treats them, but which has also been manipulated by wealthy business donors), has put out the false impression that the people trust the market to handle health care when the opposite is true. Corrupted non-profits, under the name Health Care for America Now (who not coincidentally took a name very similar to the long-term single payer advocacy group, Health Care Now), supported re-enforcement of the insurance industry under ObamaCare thanks to massive funding from Democratic Party donors.  All of this added up to a major misinformation campaign to mislead the country. Over the next two years, the Democrats plan to run on the Obama health reform as if it were a real reform when in reality it is an entrenchment of the status quo, especially health insurance domination.  Polls show the people know better than the elites on the critically important issue of health care.