PORTLAND, Maine — OccupyMaine is planning a rally backed by labor groups in Portland to call for a better health care system.
Occupy’s rally in Monument Square is to show support for health care as a human right.
Workers’ groups also sponsoring Thursday’s rally include the Maine AFL-CIO, the Southern Maine Workers Center and the Maine Labor Group on Health.
So we’ll try this again? OWS immediately started losing support when the unions tried to coopt it, so we’ll trot the Occupy name out and attach it to health care?
Held on a Thursday, and not a single attendee will miss work.
I’m sure no union member will miss work to attend this. Their union makes sure they are hard at work, since each of their positions is vital to the operation.
News flash for Occupy Maine- The top 1% do not care if you get sick and die, there are plenty of people standing in line to take your $7.50 an hour, part time job. You had better figure out a way to convince them to get a conscience, or your efforts will be futile.
That sums it up quite nicely. Thank you.
Your welcome. I think we could help give them a good start on acquiring a conscience by instituting a constitutional amendment placing a personal wealth cap of $1 billion. Anyone who says that they need more than that has a monkey on their back and it’s name is greed. I would even include them by allowing them to make $2 billion or more, if they could do it at a 90% tax rate. Fair and square up to the first billion, then make the second one an uphill climb. We have anti trust laws in this country that prevent one company from gaining a monopoly. Why don’t we have any laws that prevent a handful of people from ending up with all the money? Everyone knows what happens when one person ends up with all the money in a game of Monopoly. Game over. I do not know about the rest of you, but I would like to keep playing. When we were kids my brother, my sister, my mother, and I would love to play Monopoly. If it looked like one person was going to bankrupt everyone, we would start doing loans or a lower rents on the high end stuff and raise them on the lower end stuff. It made the game fun for everyone. A fact lost on people with no conscience, or that only care about themselves.
You just have to be the most naive person in the State of Maine.You are well intended though. I wish the world could be the way you picture it, I really do, but it isn’t- and never will be. Find this book at the library and read it.It will give you some insight on capitalsim and how it works. It’s THE HOUSE OF MORGAN, An American Dynasty by Ron Chernow. He’s also written a new book on George Washington. Real life is not a Monopoly game.
Is it a human right to have healthcare provided for free? I do not believe so. People who work and pay for their insurance are showing responsibility for themselves and their families. They are not asking for handouts. The “free” insurance under the so-called Affordable Heathcare Act, will not be free at all to those who work and pay for their own–now they will be paying for everyone else.
You already do that… pay for everyone else. Do you get back the money you do not use? I do not. I pay a premium and use 25% of it for my annual physical… well, less that as there is that deductible and the co-pay. The rest I am not using is used by someone else or goes into the profit-pocket.
O.K. KayakMomma, that will be enough of the facts things. You know it is like Syrup of Ipecac to a conservative.
I used to feel the way you do about insurance. I paid for 30 years without taking too much back. Three years ago my wife had breast cancer. Beleive me, it can even out real fast.
Gimme, gimme, gimme.
Earth to the Occupy Crowd. There is a difference between universal health insurance and universal health care.
Which one is a right? And where is it enumerated in the Constitution?
Freedom of speech is a right, healthcare is a service performed by people who get paid by someone who works.