by Sam Osborne

WILL THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FURTHER DISINTEGRATE, FADE TO THIRD-PARTY STATUS, AND EVENTUALLY ON INTO OBLIVION?  
 
If it does,the party that replaces it will likely be positioned to the right of the Democratic Party and still reflect a Hamiltonian-Federalist preference and trust in the power of an economically positioned minority over the concerns democratically expressed by the elected representatives of a common citizenry.
 
In the past election, a dwindling number of progressive Republicans joined with the populist sentiment within the political center and voted with Democrats and liberals.  The resultant GOP debacle struck their big tent and it may now be impossible for Abe Lincoln/Teddy Roosevelt Republicans to wrest it away from a religious right that is bent on setting it back up to hold revivals to bring the nation under control of that old-time religion.
 
CAN YOU BANK ON IT?
 
Yes, the money put into the hands of skimming capitalistic bankers is gone and they refuse to say where they are stuffing it – try looking into their Swiss bank accounts.  When it is time for the “loan” money to be repaid to WE THE PEOPLE, the bankers are going to also be long gone from the banks that will no longer have the bucks to pay us back.
 
HOW SICK IS HEALTH CARE IN THIS COUNTRY?
 
Sick enough that it is time to cut the money-skimming health insurance industry out of siphoning resources away from the provision of health care and refocus decisions back to doctors and their patients.
 
Economic royalists that have controlled the policies of the Republican Party, have done serious damage to the nation: from the economy, to the environment, to middle and working-class income earners, to energy, and to health care.
 
This nation spends more on providing health care than any other nation in the world and gets less in return than do nations that provide universal health care. It is past time for this nation to adopt universal health care for all of our citizens and thus improve service and reduce financing costs.
 
We will continue to pay more for actual health care because of medical science’s continued capacity to enable doctors to do more.  Back in Civil War days, little money was spent on aircraft carriers, reconstruction, heart transplants and reconstructive surgery.  However, at Gettysburg, grave registration costs exceeded expenditures for medivac helicopter retrievals – Lincoln ’s speech was too short to commemoratively note the savings.
 
IS THE INTENTIONAL TAKING OF ANOTHER'S LIFE A GOOD IDEA?
 
States and nations that do not have the death penalty have lower homicide rates than do states and nations that have the death penalty.

Some people like the idea of people being killed for some reason that they find acceptable, and if one person can have their reason for killing, so will another.

Violence breeds violence and it starts and continues with one who is willing to cast the first or last stone.  Currently it is not fashionable to be stoned.~