The Hillary Hypocrisy - What Iowa Voters need to Know! - A Caucus Primer

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I am a native Iowan, a Hayseed and proud of it.  Born and raised in Iowa City, one of the most vibrant college towns in America, my family moved to Ottumwa in the mid 1950's.  Being born in 1946, I was a first year Baby Boomer.

Where Iowa City was young, vibrant, stimulating, and full of opportunity, Ottumwa was the other end of the spectrum.  In the late 1800's it was a booming coal capital, followed by a meatpacking capital in the early 20th century, and manufacturing (John Deere) center in the middle of the 20th century.

The Coal Palace

In each of the three periods in Ottumwa's history, the coal, meatpacking, and farm equipment manufacturing eras, that industry dominated the employment base and each period came to a crashing end.

Abandoned Morrell Plant

More than 22,000 people lived in Ottumwa in 1910 and population peaked with 33,631 in 1950 and 33,871 in 1960.  Like many Midwestern towns, the population has dropped to 24,682 in 2014, leaving the city today with the fewest people since 1920.

Ottumwa Downtown

To show the sharp contrast between towns in Iowa, my hometown Iowa City did not catch up with the Ottumwa population until 1960, but where Ottumwa has lost nearly 30% of the population since 1960, Iowa City has more than doubled in population during the same period to 73,415.

Iowa City

Hawkeye Stadium

Iowa is a state of diversity in people, prospects, and possibilities.  It also is unique in terms of the political caucus process and their standing as the first actual vote for president every four years in America.  Political pundits and media really do not like the fact Iowa is the first national test of our political system.  They like the unique caucus system even less because no other state uses it.  Too bad!

However, I did want to make sure the Iowa voters have all the facts before they caucus next Monday and begin the long grind to the presidency and the replacement for Barack Obama.  It was eight years ago Barack Obama pulled off the first of many upsets when he won 38% of the Iowa delegates while Hillary Clinton finished third with 27%.

So what about this year, Bernie Sanders came out of nowhere to challenge the Democrat front-runner and consensus favorite, Hillary Clinton, wife of popular Democrat President Bill Clinton.  To date Sanders, an Independent Socialist running for president as a Democrat, has driven the Democrat establishment crazy and is in a dead heat going into the final lap.

However, the Democrat establishment including DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and President Barack Obama are doing everything in their power to tilt the contest to Hillary and the big question is why?

The answer may be simpler than you think.

Two words mark the difference between the Clinton and Sanders campaigns.  They might be Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Big Banks, Dirty Money, Puppet Masters, Corporate Corruption, or any and all of the above.

Here is an overview of the history.  Way back, when Bill Clinton was president and being impeached for excessive womanizing, to put it mildly, Goldman Sachs came to his rescue helping to raise millions of dollars to silence some of his victims and to pay off Clinton's Seven Million Dollar legal fees.

When Clinton left office, he became the poster boy for Goldman Sachs as the Clinton regulatory initiatives passed his last two years in office opened the floodgates to corporate corruption and led to the economic collapse of our nation in 2008.  The Goldman Sachs team raised tens of millions of dollars for Bill and his Foundation.

One of the chief appointees and fundraisers for President Clinton was Rahm Emanuel, a director for Goldman Sachs and who would soon be a Congressman.  It was Emanuel, who got Goldman Sachs to back an unknown Chicago politician Barack Obama when he ran for US Senate, and amid very suspicious circumstances won election and took office in 2006.

After Emanuel helped Obama become the largest recipient of Wall Street campaign contributions in history as he won the 2008 presidency, Rahm became Obama's chief of staff while dozens of Goldman employees took key economic positions in the Obama administration.

Now Emanuel, embattled Mayor of Chicago, is tied to Hillary and the Democratic establishment having hosted major fundraisers for her.  His Clinton connection from the mid 1990s and his ability to get both Hillary and Bill as the poster family for Goldman Sachs speak volumes.

Two Bill Clinton legacies generally forgotten by the Democrats and media, first more Americans were jailed during Bill Clinton's presidency than George Bush and Ronald Reagan combined, and second his regulatory revisions his last year in office allowed the thieves on Wall Street to destroy the American economy.

However, that is only the beginning.

Consider the following facts.  First Hillary pledges to be the advocate for low income, financially starved citizens.  In this respect, she says the top one percent wage earners who make most of the money in America, along with their Wall Street banks and brokerages, are the enemy.

WHAT THE TOP 1% MAKE IN AMERICA

Household income is at least $521,411 to join the top 1% in 2014!

For a fee of $275,000, Hillary agreed to appear before the clients of GoldenTree Asset Management, the capstone of a lucrative speech making sprint through Wall Street that would earn her more than $2 million in less than seven months.

Goldman Sachs paid Hillary $675,000 for three speeches.

Hillary made $16 million in five years from Wall Street while holding a government job during part of the time.

Bill and Hillary Clinton made $30 million in the last 16 months from Goldman and Wall Street not counting millions more given to the Clinton Foundation.

Since Bill left office in 2001, Bill and Hillary made $125 million.

Bill Clinton got paid $500,000 for one speech.

Hillary got paid $350,000 for a single speech.

The Hillary and Bill couple made $25 million in speaking fees in just the last year.

During this time including when Hillary was Secretary of State, hundreds of millions of dollars went to the Clinton family Foundation.

The real facts sound like she is a defender and benefactor of Wall Street rather than an enemy.  Ever since both Clintons left public office, they were full fledged members of the 1% thanks to the largess of Goldman Sachs and Wall Street.

Hillary the defender of Children for five decades!

This is the most recent ad placed by the Clinton campaign tracing her interest in protecting children over the years.  Of course, she is also the defender of Planned Parenthood and the Right to Choice for women.

That means for the past four decades she has defended the Roe versus Wade decision, which also means she is a supporter of the 58 million abortions that have taken place in America since the passage of Roe versus Wade in 1973.

Of that amount, 34.4% are African American though they make up only 12.6% of the US population.  Hispanics have 25% of abortions versus 16.3% of the population.  What does that mean?  Tragically, it means the abortion of twenty million African American children, fourteen and a half million Hispanic children, and twenty-three and a half million White children.

That is another side of the Hillary hypocrisy.

Perhaps Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said it best when it comes to abortion.

"The Negro cannot win as long as he is willing to sacrifice the lives of his children for comfort and safety.” How can the “Dream” survive if we murder the children? Every aborted baby is like a slave in the womb of his or her mother. The mother decides his or her fate."

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Health Care Reform - When does it start? When does the hemorrhaging end?

Here in the United States we already pay far more per capita for health care than any other country in the world yet our health care system ranks far down the list in terms of quality of care.  Doesn't that seem odd to you?

For the past six years our political system has ground to a halt because of the partisan bickering between political parties over Obamacare.

And the many candidates running for the House and Senate in this year's midterm elections are all over the place in terms of whether they support Obamacare, want to fix Obamacare or want to dump Obamacare.

Obamacare is really called the Affordable Care Act and there is nothing affordable about it.  In terms of the health care industry, the cost of nothing has gone down but the premiums, profits, bonuses and kickbacks have sure gone up.

If we were really interested in hearing the truth the story would be a whole lot different. You see, Obamacare did nothing to fix the health care system, it only extended an already broken system to the millions of Americans who are uninsured.

The truth is far more brutal than worrying about the consequences of Obamacare.  The truth consists of the following:

Nothing is being done in Washington to improve the quality of health care service.

Nothing is being done in Washington to reduce the criminally high cost of health care.

Nothing is being done in Washington to stop the unnecessary and excessive amount of patient testing to determine the cause of health problems, many of which are never confirmed.

Nothing is being done in Washington to stop the millions of dollars in kickbacks to doctors for prescribing their drugs for patient treatment.

Nothing is being done in Washington to stop the corrupt influence of hundreds of millions of dollars being spent by the current health care system to legally bribe our politicians through campaign contributions.

Nothing is being done in Washington to stop the insurance companies from denying coverage for many types of health care treatment that could drastically lower the cost through alternative health techniques.

Nothing is being done in Washington to stop the FDA, our federal regulatory agency, from favoring applications for New Drug Approval from super rich pharmaceutical companies over a host of low cost and time proven techniques to improve health that are being kept off the American market.

Nothing is being done to stop the runaway cost of court litigation relating to medical malpractice and class action health cases.

In the meantime billions of dollars are being wasted every year paying for the nonsense we call health care.  If we need more proof of the incompetence of our health care providers and corrupt nature of our health care system just look at the Veterans Administration scandal that is just beginning to unfold.

The Obama Administration claims to have done more to reform the health care system than any president since George Washington (that is a joke), at least it wants to be given such credit, yet for six long years the very people Obama sent to war have been cheated, lied to, ignored and killed by the very same saviors of health care, the Obama administration.

What is the logic in that?  We can  reduce the cost of health care by killing off those who were sent to risk their lives fighting for our country?  America needs to wake up.  Our federal government, all of it, is under the control of the White House, not just the parts that seem to work.

If our federal government knew how to provide better health care then why did thousands of veterans get cheated for the past six years.  Thanks in large part to the health care and related industries Obama spent over $2 billion to get elected two times.

It seems to me the only health care insurance that works in America was the investment by the health care providers, big pharmaceutical corporations, Wall Street, big banks, the insurance industry, the trial lawyers and financial institutions of $2 billion in the Obama campaign because they are the only ones financially benefiting from the health care fraud and abuse sanctioned by the Obama Administration and Congress.

People have got to wake up, demand more from their elected officials, throw out those who protect the status quo and encourage those with no strings attached to find ways to make it work.  In short, people deserve a return on their investment in so called democracy and holding all those responsible for our broken system accountable is the first step.

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Health Care Reform - When does it start? When does the hemorrhaging end?

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Here in the United States we already pay far more per capita for health care than any other country in the world yet our health care system ranks far down the list in terms of quality of care.  Doesn't that seem odd to you?

For the past six years our political system has ground to a halt because of the partisan bickering between political parties over Obamacare.

And the many candidates running for the House and Senate in this year's midterm elections are all over the place in terms of whether they support Obamacare, want to fix Obamacare or want to dump Obamacare.

Obamacare is really called the Affordable Care Act and there is nothing affordable about it.  In terms of the health care industry, the cost of nothing has gone down but the premiums, profits, bonuses and kickbacks have sure gone up.

If we were really interested in hearing the truth the story would be a whole lot different. You see, Obamacare did nothing to fix the health care system, it only extended an already broken system to the millions of Americans who are uninsured.

The truth is far more brutal than worrying about the consequences of Obamacare.  The truth consists of the following:

Nothing is being done in Washington to improve the quality of health care service.

Nothing is being done in Washington to reduce the criminally high cost of health care.

Nothing is being done in Washington to stop the unnecessary and excessive amount of patient testing to determine the cause of health problems, many of which are never confirmed.

Nothing is being done in Washington to stop the millions of dollars in kickbacks to doctors for prescribing their drugs for patient treatment.

Nothing is being done in Washington to stop the corrupt influence of hundreds of millions of dollars being spent by the current health care system to legally bribe our politicians through campaign contributions.

Nothing is being done in Washington to stop the insurance companies from denying coverage for many types of health care treatment that could drastically lower the cost through alternative health techniques.

Nothing is being done in Washington to stop the FDA, our federal regulatory agency, from favoring applications for New Drug Approval from super rich pharmaceutical companies over a host of low cost and time proven techniques to improve health that are being kept off the American market.

Nothing is being done to stop the runaway cost of court litigation relating to medical malpractice and class action health cases.

In the meantime billions of dollars are being wasted every year paying for the nonsense we call health care.  If we need more proof of the incompetence of our health care providers and corrupt nature of our health care system just look at the Veterans Administration scandal that is just beginning to unfold.

The Obama Administration claims to have done more to reform the health care system than any president since George Washington (that is a joke), at least it wants to be given such credit, yet for six long years the very people Obama sent to war have been cheated, lied to, ignored and killed by the very same saviors of health care, the Obama administration.

What is the logic in that?  We can  reduce the cost of health care by killing off those who were sent to risk their lives fighting for our country?  America needs to wake up.  Our federal government, all of it, is under the control of the White House, not just the parts that seem to work.

If our federal government knew how to provide better health care then why did thousands of veterans get cheated for the past six years.  Thanks in large part to the health care and related industries Obama spent over $2 billion to get elected two times.

It seems to me the only health care insurance that works in America was the investment by the health care providers, big pharmaceutical corporations, Wall Street, big banks, the insurance industry, the trial lawyers and financial institutions of $2 billion in the Obama campaign because they are the only ones financially benefiting from the health care fraud and abuse sanctioned by the Obama Administration and Congress.

People have got to wake up, demand more from their elected officials, throw out those who protect the status quo and encourage those with no strings attached to find ways to make it work.  In short, people deserve a return on their investment in so called democracy and holding all those responsible for our broken system accountable is the first step.

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