The StatCounter I have on ShowMeBlog is now showing over 1 million visitors to this blog. Of course there have been more than that since I have not always had that stat counter on this blog.
Yes, I know that is not 1 million different visitors. But a lot of eyes have seen this blog.
But many of those people came looking for one photo or one thing and soon as they see it they are gone in a flash. That is the way we are and the way blogging is turning out.
People seem to hang out on Facebook and of course Google is coming out with their new Google Plus. I do not like Facebook but I might use Google Plus. I like the idea of having people in a “circle” and it sounds like it is going to have a group video function that might work. I will check it out.
I do visit Facebook and have a page there because a lot of family and friends use it.
If you want to see a cute kitten video check out: Kitten cant get off the couch.
There is a lot of talk now about the cost of the two wars. Remember when President Bush and the Republicans said that the Iraq war would not cost us one cent? They said that they had lots of oil money and that they would pay for the war and there would not be any cost to us.
I said then and I still say.. that if we go to war that the American people should be taxed right on the spot to pay for the war. If Bush and his gang had to tax Americans for the war we would not have gone to war. The American people would have said “NO.”
But after 911 I would have said “YES” to us going into Afghanistan and yes to a tax for it and the American people would have said “YES” to that war.
Everyone in the United States should have medical care at no cost. Just issue everyone a Medicare card. But there should be no health insurance corporations. There should also be taxes on the profits of hospitals, doctors and the pharmaceutical industry. Now I am talking taxes on their excess profits.
You would not tax doctors unless they were making massive excess profits. Some GI doctors have patients lined up with their butts in the air and go from one patient to the next and it is all done (OK I never had one of those test) very fast and many of those GI doctors make $400K a year.
Also hospitals are going to say there are “non-profit” and many if not all make a “profit” but they get to spend it all to expand and add other costly additions that cost us all more money. Part of that profit should be used to pay into our national health insurance.
If we had one medical plan, say Medicare for all, we could control costs. With our current plans and not everyone with medical insurance we can not control the cost.
I agree that there is Medicare fraud and it is massive. We just need to spend the money to look into it and police it. I bet ever dollar that we spent on it would save us $100 or $1000 in return.
I think we should do away with health insurance corporations. If we could control them and if they became for real non-profit I would be willing to let them stay in business but as they went out of business not let any new ones start up so that one day they would not be in the health care rip off business.
Also why can we not tax banks and Wall Street? Bush, the Republican and their banker and Wall Street gangs got the nation into this mess. Why can’t we have excess taxes on them. If they make a lot of money tax that massive profit that they make.
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