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Consumer Retorts: Rants and Raves on the Business of Self- and Home-Improvement

Saturday, February 26, 2005

read this!

This is a genealogy of United Seniors Association/ USA Next, and offers an instructive lesson about how the Right 'funds' reaction against the alleged liberal establishment. Initially, the United Seniors Association offered itself up as an alternative to the too far to the Left AARP. But it was never a 'popular' alternative. It was well-funded, shameless publicity machine for conservative interests. Blogpac reveals that it is actually well funded by Big Pharma and energy companies (including Enron) depending upon the political issue at hand. Read it here -- at .

Now there is real intelligence in its dastardly modus operandi -- , a reptilian intelligence perhaps, but relentlessly predatory and uncompromising in its desire to exploit the fears of the misinformed in favor of the top of the food chain. They have exhibited a ruthless opportunism and deep desire to deceive Americans, distort public discourse in order to further the interests of Big Business -- either Pfizer's or Enron's.

As a moving targets, its has eluded public criticism, and was remarkably successful at scuttling Clinton's plans for National Helath Care-- remember that there were fears of "rationing" medical care? It was USA who branded the word "ration" in the hearts of average Americans when the issue came up: if healthcare were nationalized, Americans thought they would be offered proctological examinations by Soviet-style Nurse Ratchits, but only at the brink of death. Instead, most of us have had to use grotesquely bureaucratized HMO's whose CEO's have cashed in on the fact that Americans are paying more out of their paycheck for less healthcare. That is what is known as "management" in the business world -- less service for more pay. The family physician in private practice has gone the way of the dodo bird: instead, we find ourselves getting the "personalized' care offered by paper work afflicted doctors who barely remain long enough in a managed health care practice to remember how to pronounce our names.

The Right has been salivating over the chunk of change that is Social Security, forged out of the Progressive Era's sense of collective responsibility for the elderly, the orphaned, the disabled.

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