QUEEN’S COMMENTS:  Time to Bring out the Big Guns

I just read a piece in Huffington Post today  that announced that Palin played the Wright Card.  I guess the prospects of having to explain McCain’s character because of his involvement in the Keating Five was not enough for her.  I say it is time to get out the chains for the pitbull.

Sarah Palin Approves of Ministers who Harm Children
http://iflizwerequeen.com/?p=531

Yes, Sarah Palin, your religion is an issue and so is your witch hunting pastor
http://iflizwerequeen.com/?p=530

Palin has her African Connection–a Witch Defeater from Africa
Go here to view a video of Sarah Palin being blessed in her Wasilla Pentecostal church.
Forward the video to 6:45 if you don’t want to watch all the claptrap prior to her appearance.

http://iflizwerequeen.com/?p=508

Mr. Kashkari....was responsible for....developing and executing the Department’s response to the housing crisis, including the formation of the HOPE NOW Alliance, the development of the subprime fast-track loan modification plan, and Treasury’s initiative to kick-start a covered bond market in the United States.

 That certainly makes me feel a lot better - NOT.

QUEEN’S COMMENTS

There are two cynical and “more of the same” points to John McCain’s Republican heathcare plan.

1.  McCain would tax health benefits for the first time in the history of our nation.  Right now, if you get health benefits from your company, those benefits are not taxed.  With McCain’s plan, those benefits would be taxed.  In other words, whatever value the corporation you work for wants to attach to your health benefits, it can and will.  So, if you make $60,000 and your company says that your health benefits for you and your family are worth $12,000 (family of four), then voila!  The income that you are taxed on becomes not $60,000 but rather $72,000!

2. McCain’s plan would dismantle state-based regulations and tie the hands of people who are involved in consumer protection.

More of the same looking the other way while corporate America robs Americans blind.  If you think that the gymnastics performed by healthcare insurance companies to deny claims now are bad, then you better hang onto your St. Christopher medal if McCain is elected.  The only “rights” that consumers will have under McCain’s Republican leadership will be the right to make insurance companies richer than they already are.

That's right - Nancy Pelosi.

 I wonder what the subliminal message is ?

Go now to

http://iflizwerequeen.com/?p=620

to view the "sock it to you" video  preview of Keating Economic.com

And while you are there, be sure to read "Make Believe Maverick.

 In the 2000 and 2004 elections the Democrats were nice and look where that got us.  Well, guess what?  Not this time!  Not this year!

Barack Obama’s campaign is reminding voters of John McCain’s connections to the so-called Keating Five savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the release of a 13-minute documentary called “Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis.” See the full-length video at http://KeatingEconomics.com starting @ noon Eastern on 10/6. KEATING ECONOMICS: The story of John McCain and the making of a financial crisis.

Two days after GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin accused Obama of “palling around with terrorists” because of the Democrat’s past dealings with 1960s radical William Ayers, Obama’s campaign is emailing its supporters a link to a website.

59% of voters would like to throw them all out and start over again.

Only half (49%) believe that the current Congress is better than individuals selected at random from the phone book. Thirty-three percent (33%) believe a randomly selected group of Americans could do a better job and 19% are not sure.

.  .  .  As spoken by the Chickens to the Foxes in the Washington DC Goverment Henhouses–and furthermore, fork over the full 35% of your income tax that you are owing retroactive to 2001.  When you’ve paid up, then get your ugly, bushy red keisters out of my sight!

And no, the answer that some multinational corporation won’t be able to make money off the backs of ordinary Americans is no longer an acceptable answer. 

As Paul Krugman pointed out in an article titled “The Health Care Racket” that he wrote in 2007:  “.  .   .  But it’s a fact that insurers spend a lot of money looking for ways to reject insurance claims. And health care providers, in turn, spend billions on “denial management,” employing specialist firms — including Ingenix, a subsidiary of, yes, UnitedHealth — to fight the insurers. . . The best way for an insurer to avoid paying medical bills is to avoid selling insurance to people who really need it. An insurance company can accomplish this in two ways, through marketing that targets the healthy, and through underwriting: rejecting the sick or charging them higher premiums.

La Carpio in San Jose, Costa Rica: House in the La Carpio urban marginalized community (slum) which has an estimated population of between 20 000 - 35 000. The sign says “Me salvé” (”I have saved myself”) – photograph by Eliana Carvalho from University of Peace

Jakarta Post – Oct 1, 2008 – Homeland - Residents of Pedongkelan, a slum area in East Jakarta, search for belongings in what remains of their shanty houses that were torn down by law enforcement officers on Saturday. The property will be relinquished to its rightful owner, PT Pulomas Jaya, which offered each of the 400 families Rp 1 million in compensation and to relocate them to a low-cost flat in Marunda, North Jakarta. [Note from the Queen: The rp is currently 9,485 to one dollar. Thus, each of these 400 families were given about $100 for their homes. Since they were searching for their belongings, I take it that they were not warned of the demolition. I regret that I did not capture the photograph as I returned to the Post to get it and it is not there any more—too controversial perhaps.]

Destroying the homes of the poor is such an outrage that it can’t happen in the USA?”—Wanta bet? It already has and more than once. And what’s more, the victims, more often than not aren’t offered a penny of financial compensation.