President Obama said when campaigning to keep congress' feet to the fire
One of the first things he did was give the unions the nod, that they would be treated better during his administration.
Now the Unions are heeding the call of eternal vigilance, by pledging to sit this one out.
We'll look at every one of their votes," Richard Trumka secretary-treasurer and likely next president of the AFL-CIO, said after his speech at the Netroots Nation convention.
"We are going to continue to mobilize and counter the lies and the myths that they're trying to create to defeat this," he told the Huffington Post. "The special interests, the pharmaceutical industry, the health care industry are so vested in the current system they'll so anything to keep it this way and we have a job to do there.
"We're also going to keep politicians strong so that they don't listen to the moneymen and continue to erode away or negotiate away a program [so much that it] ultimately becomes useless. Right now, without a public option [reform] becomes useless. It won't change the current system." ...
I won't speak to the "public option" because I don't know the technical details, just the vague generalities I've seen lately in the online press but reform, some kind of transparency, going after graft, that's become the thing.
Whether that's politicians, industry or unions, one of the things we can have in these enlightened days, is droves of volunteer number crunchers. The F.B.I. gets most of their big cases by using folks who might as well be employed by the I.R.S. If this is is the day and age of investigative bean counters, then sure, let's go about following the money.
Just as the "media circus" has always done best with investigative journalism, I think the "modern hero; every man model" is going to be the those who can actually crunch the numbers, finding the phantoms in the machine. The good news with something like this, is that like astronomy, the amateurs, once given the tools and a criteria can go about making the scouring process plausible.
The nice thing about large corruption, going after it, scales nicely.
Now the Unions are heeding the call of eternal vigilance, by pledging to sit this one out.
We'll look at every one of their votes," Richard Trumka secretary-treasurer and likely next president of the AFL-CIO, said after his speech at the Netroots Nation convention.
"We are going to continue to mobilize and counter the lies and the myths that they're trying to create to defeat this," he told the Huffington Post. "The special interests, the pharmaceutical industry, the health care industry are so vested in the current system they'll so anything to keep it this way and we have a job to do there.
"We're also going to keep politicians strong so that they don't listen to the moneymen and continue to erode away or negotiate away a program [so much that it] ultimately becomes useless. Right now, without a public option [reform] becomes useless. It won't change the current system." ...
I won't speak to the "public option" because I don't know the technical details, just the vague generalities I've seen lately in the online press but reform, some kind of transparency, going after graft, that's become the thing.
Whether that's politicians, industry or unions, one of the things we can have in these enlightened days, is droves of volunteer number crunchers. The F.B.I. gets most of their big cases by using folks who might as well be employed by the I.R.S. If this is is the day and age of investigative bean counters, then sure, let's go about following the money.
Just as the "media circus" has always done best with investigative journalism, I think the "modern hero; every man model" is going to be the those who can actually crunch the numbers, finding the phantoms in the machine. The good news with something like this, is that like astronomy, the amateurs, once given the tools and a criteria can go about making the scouring process plausible.
The nice thing about large corruption, going after it, scales nicely.