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September 7th, 2009
06:25 AM ET
What’s on Tap – Monday September 7th, 2009
Here are the big stories on the agenda today:
- We're heading toward a final showdown on health care reform. After months of passionate debate, the president is about to say something we haven't heard before. Exactly what he wants to see in health care reform. What you will hear in his speech this Wednesday night in Prime Time.
- How many added airline charges are you willing to take? In the first three months of the year, U.S. airlines took in a half billion dollars by making you pay for checking your bags. And now there's another way to make you pay… think of a fast pass at the amusement park.
- And what would a Labor Day show be without a trip to the beach? Our Rob Marciano is taking his road show to Cocoa Beach, Florida. Where the surf's up and the pros are hangin' 10.
- No sun and fun off the coast of Cape Cod. Several great white sharks spotted off the beach, tagged for the first time in the Atlantic Ocean. And we're not reading from the script of "Jaws." Why the beaches could be quiet this Labor Day in New England.
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Happy Labor Day. And in honor of Labor Day, I feel it appropriate to point out that America's labor force is the only segment of our population without access to affordable medical care. Our children, out elderly, our indigent, our disabled, our military (past and present), and of course our legislators all have access to government run medical care, a circumstance that has as yet not resulted in the ruination of either our democracy or our free market system. It is not a question of whether or not we want socialized medicine. We already have it and have had it for 50 years – for everyone but the workers. Those who can afford to can still obviously purchase their own better care.
So my question is, why are those who are actually paying for the subsidized health care of everyone else, themselves being denied access to that same subsidized medical care that everyone else gets? And what is going to happen when the labor force is decimated by death and disability from preventable illnesses such as glaucoma, diabetes, heart disease, vascular disease, stroke and early stage cancer because they can't afford to get regular checkups or fill their prescription? Who's going to do the work then? I don't think you'll see the health insurance CEO's rushing out en masse to say, pick tomatoes in the hot sun for minimum wage. It seems to me that the ones doing the work should be getting the best health care of all, simply because it is essential to everyone's health to keep our labor force healthy. Instead, millions of workers get none. Just something to think about on Labor Day.
In remembrance of all of the uninsured workers and breadwinners who worked themselves to support subsidized medicine for everyone else, but themselves died or had to go on disability for lack of medical care themselves, I would like to invite Congress today to give up its own health care coverage until they come up with a plan to extend medical care to every one of their constituents! WHEN LAWMAKERS GO BARE, THEN THEY'LL CARE!
John Roberts did a pathetic job of refereeing the "discussion" about Obama's Green Jobs czar and his resignation. I would really have appreciate hearing both sides of the issue, but the participants were talking over each other so you couldn't understand either of them.
It's John's job to call both of them on their behavior. Make your point and then shut up. If your argument is the better argument it will win. Keeping the other from making his point is juvenile.
I expect better from CNN. If I wanted to watch that crap, I would trun to Fox or MSNBC. If John can't do the job, replace him.
David Sirota as well as CNN and there complete lack of just looking at the facts is to blame for such things as Vann Jones.. To call this goof ball a national hero is a inside look at blind factless faith. If there were more journalist best doing there job and checking the backround of the people and calling them out on it, this crap would never happen. David Sirota taking the liberal way out, when you get caught call everyone racist. Google Vann Jones and push play, everything he was accused of came from his MOUTH...
While I look forward to President Obama's speech on Wednesday night, I have come to the conclusion that he, along with the Democratic majority, have already lost the ability to pass any legislation that will have meaningful health care reform. The conservative/republican machine has proven, once again, that regardless of the will of the people, they will use absolutely any tactic to protect the interests of of their corporate masters. Threats of violence(gun toting whack jobs at town hall/tea party meetings), outrageous lies(death panels/fox news), racially motivated media lynchings(resignation yesterday of the green jobs co-ordinator), all show that our nation has become nothing more than a body being bled dry by corporate greed, brainwashed by religious fanatics, and led by either cowardly Democrats or complicit republicans. The Dream is DEAD.
Hello, the airlines are adding charges because the government does not tax those charges. Almost half of the cost of a ticket is taxes, adding fees allows the airlines a revenue stream free from government taxes.....for now.