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  • Michael Moore Is Right About The Public Option

    We never thought we’d write the words “Michael Moore is right”, but the filmmaker is dead on when he echoes Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein, and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman about the true intention of President Barack Obama’s public option. Moore tells Rolling Stone in the latest issue:

    If a true public option is enacted — and Obama knows this — it will eventually bring about a single payer system, because the profit-making insurance companies won’t be able to compete with a government run plan and make the profits they want to make.

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    12 Responses to Michael Moore Is Right About The Public Option

    1. Centaur, Purcellvill says:

      Well said, Mr. Moore. :-D

    2. Kim Eggert, Memphis, says:

      Out of the mouths of idiots comes the true intention of this evil legislation.

    3. Barry, Lexington Ky says:

      Very simple yet true.

    4. Paul Kozlowski Clare says:

      Even a broken clock is correct,twice a day.

    5. Rgh, South Carolina says:

      But we all know, that is what Moore, Obama, Krugman, Frank and the like want to happen, an end to the capitalist and private enterprise system that has made this country great. It ain't perfect, but it's better than anything else out there.

    6. Paul Rinderle says:

      We all know what the private sector did to the once monopolistic Government run now virtually bankrupt mail system.

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    8. Bobbie Jay says:

      Right on Mr. Moore…this time. It also takes away freedom of many choices. One of them is government penalty if you choose no coverage. Which means you have a choice but with government intimidation and definite financial consequences by government's CHOICE. And if you lose your private insurance you are obligated to pick up a government approved insurance… In a free country, the consumer approves of what the consumer wants and needs. And should have the freedom of choice to be covered, but obligated to expenses if not covered. Like it used to be. This whole bill along with cap and trade is intended corruption to take us over. The government's ignorance makes it obvious.

    9. Roger D, Henderson, says:

      Mr. Moore starts out with a lie "If a true public option is enacted".

      We have a public option plan now which gives the people choice's, not government mandated laws.

      Over the years I have had some confusion over the word liberal. Having always believed that the word liberal, liberty and freedom were much the same.

      So I looked it up, Liberalism emphasizes individual rights, equality of opportunity (provided it is worked for), freedom of thought and speech, limitations on the power of governments, the rule of law, an individual’s right to private property and a transparent system of government.

      Todays Democratic Party in the USA are Social Democrats/Communist they are not Liberal Democrats there for they should cease calling themselves Liberals, because individual rights (freedom) are not the what they stand for.

    10. Union, NJ says:

      Without the Public Option” we have protectionism which conservative have historically detested.

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