From: "Alan Cook" <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:22:24 GMT
Subject: [Puptcrit] Corporate greed in health care


WPA (Works Progress Administration) had Federal Theater during the Great Depression, including puppet shows. There were Museum Projects in Philadelphia & Pittsburgh making hand puppets & marionettes for use in schools and mseums (now highly collectible) Also there were Recreation Projects in which puppet-making was taught to children. I was in such a class the last year it was in  existence. It was all phased out in the name of anti-socialism by people very similar to Dick Cheney, Scalia and other political Neanderthals---their spiritual brothers now oppose any meaningful healthcare reform. If you dig an inch below the surface you usually find a selfish philosophy of "I've Go Mine so to Hell With You!"


President Herbert Hoover was supposed to have noticed that the trouble with Capitalists is some of them are too damned greedy. Teddy Roosevelt sure noticed and tried to control monopolies. Power corrupts a lot of people, and money equals power. Under Soviet communism, power equals money. The Greediest guy there was Joe Stalin. In both Russia AND the USA, theoretically "all people were equal" but in actual practice, some are more equal than others.

That's the problem.

How do we control excessive greed?

Will Rogers said the Democrats proved that poor people can be greedy too, but right now, the big problems are not eminating from greedy poor people, but from overpaid CEOs and the like.

When insurance companies are greedy, e all suffer.  


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