Tweet that happened before this gaggle started, is the president concerned that surveillance is being conducted against him at being conducted against him at the white house . Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com he did make clear in that tweet that he didnt have any recordings but he raised the prospect that somebody else might have them. Again, i think that its very clear what he meant there, but as far as who else would have it . Surveillance i wouldnt know, jeff. Mike. Two questions. Fist on health care if i can. Since the president wont be weighing in specifically on any of the details of the senate bill, can you help explain what his role will be during the senate phase of the process . Will he be whipping for votes to pass the senate bill even if he doesnt necessarily agree with everything thats in it just to advance the process along. Well keep you updated as his involvement takes place. Right now, i know that hes got a large number of members of his administration that are involv
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frequency trading and the credit casino. the same thing exists in the energy markets. the same thing exists when it comes to military defense. how can any politician, democrat or republican, look america in the face and tell them we need to cut your health care when those very same politicians are doing backroom deals with drug companies, refuse to have a public option, and are perpetuating a health insurance monopoly? you know, you do that in the wrong house and the wrong country, they ll smack you. i agree with you. but to some degree, many of your colleagues in the media are buying into this by calling pawn ryan s plan, visionary and honest and adult conversation when in fact it s really a shell game. ask owl paul rine what is going to happen with all of the people who are uninsured in his plan. ask what happens when you shift costs back to states and localities, whether it s saving money or just moving it. ask what happens when you say to individual senior citizens you re on your
moving out of this country and you have a president in president obama, you have democratic leadership, republican leadership, that continue to ignore and enable a financial system that pays themselves hundreds of millions and billions of dollars while continuing to distort asset prices and instead of the democrats and republicans getting it together to address the corrupting influence there whether in the form of the banks or employer based health insurance monopoly, we send up se sending everybody to the yard to bark at each other. i have an easy fix for you. take money of politics and the democrats and republicans will have nothing to do with any of that. i don t know how bad it is to get. i don t disagree. lawrence doesn t disagree. the transparency is before us. i don t know how much suffering this country has to wield before we stop allowing money to buy off our politicians. probably a lot more.
the other interesting thing is that every one of these guys has a son ready to pass the power on to. what is that? just patriarchy. that s thousands of years old. what about the private sector power? health insurance monopolies in this country that clearly, there is a more efficient, lower cost way to provide health care. there are others doing it in ways that get better outputs that cost less money. they don t have health care tied to where your job is, don t have insurance monopolies. it s not just dictator ships although that s the most extreme expressi expression inside an employer based health insurance monopoly. trans pirnsy. where everybody gets to see the prices, the results. for example, different states have different tax policiepolic