pauljpoposky
20th May 2009, 20:58
linked in to my blog on this topic at:
http://www.unionbook.org/pg/blog/PaulJosephPoposky/read/14193/single-payer-advocates-finally-in-the-news
single payer is being blocked by the congressional dems & obama-ites whose campaigns were financed (not funded), in part, on massive donations from the for-profit insurance and drug industries. the Dems also got their usual huge donations from the union leaders. well we can all see now where the Dems' real interests lie, as the bill from their corporate benefactors comes due and they block single payer and quietly drop EFCA. They've got a 60-40 majority in congress now with Specter and can pass just about anything they want, they are CHOOSING not to pursue single payer or even allow it into the discussion because single payer is not compatible with the market system of capitalism, which the liberal Dems champion, and because single payer abolishes for-profit medicine and insurance.
what we need is for the unions to split with the Dems and form its own mass Labor Party, in order to raise and WIN demands like single payer or EFCA. we in the rank and file need to take back our unions from the corrupt, sold-out leadership and fundamentally alter our unions' structures and bylaws so that these corrupt bureaucrats cannot come to power again. we need rank and file democracy and immediately-recallable, 100% accountable (to the rank and file) elected leadership and we need a party of our own based upon that sort of rank-and-file, democratic structure.
I support H.R. 676 and EFCA as reforms that would strengthen and embolden the working class, but I don't believe we can win real victories unless we have a party of our own, completely independent of the Dems and, in fact, opposed to the Dem Party. To win workers need a Labor Party. The Dems wont give us what we want so we need to go get it ourselves.
http://www.unionbook.org/pg/blog/PaulJosephPoposky/read/14193/single-payer-advocates-finally-in-the-news
single payer is being blocked by the congressional dems & obama-ites whose campaigns were financed (not funded), in part, on massive donations from the for-profit insurance and drug industries. the Dems also got their usual huge donations from the union leaders. well we can all see now where the Dems' real interests lie, as the bill from their corporate benefactors comes due and they block single payer and quietly drop EFCA. They've got a 60-40 majority in congress now with Specter and can pass just about anything they want, they are CHOOSING not to pursue single payer or even allow it into the discussion because single payer is not compatible with the market system of capitalism, which the liberal Dems champion, and because single payer abolishes for-profit medicine and insurance.
what we need is for the unions to split with the Dems and form its own mass Labor Party, in order to raise and WIN demands like single payer or EFCA. we in the rank and file need to take back our unions from the corrupt, sold-out leadership and fundamentally alter our unions' structures and bylaws so that these corrupt bureaucrats cannot come to power again. we need rank and file democracy and immediately-recallable, 100% accountable (to the rank and file) elected leadership and we need a party of our own based upon that sort of rank-and-file, democratic structure.
I support H.R. 676 and EFCA as reforms that would strengthen and embolden the working class, but I don't believe we can win real victories unless we have a party of our own, completely independent of the Dems and, in fact, opposed to the Dem Party. To win workers need a Labor Party. The Dems wont give us what we want so we need to go get it ourselves.