Robber Barons of Congress: Whores to the Lobbyists

The Republicans are already speaking of repealing the Health Care Bill in 2010. Why don't they be honest and clearly state what is really in their heart. They want to maintain a greater level of less educated poor, without insurance or alternatives to increase profit for the drug and insurance industry.

If they could create a class of serfs and peasant, they would. They have been out to destroy anything resembling an "institution". They need poverty. Poverty depresses people to lethargy; where they feel their vote is useless and they don't vote, they accept the status quo and view life as hopeless.

It would be good to know specifically what institutions we speak of. The term "Social Institution" is ambiguous. There are religious, health care, educational, economic, and governmental institutions. Currently we have major corporations on the "dole" as well as people.

There are manipulators throughout society who take advantage of "institutions as much as they can of whatever they can get out of them. Then there is the argument when an entitlement becomes a subsidy; corporate welfare vs. social welfare. I don't believe the institutions can cause anything.

People participating in those institutions can choose do use it for what it was designed or abuse it. The practicality of getting away from the "institutions" is the bigger question. Does a single mom get away from the institutions for long finding a low-wage job across town; having to pay childcare and travel or does she stay where she knows she is secure? Is the training they report getting applicable to available work in their area to get them off and keep them system?

Too often rare success stories are displayed as an example that anyone else can do ignoring all the other factors that made it possible for that one to succeed. Many of the detractors of these institutions were users themselves but their ideology overrides good sense.

They condemn the lot because of the abuse of the few. Today many people are falling to or below the poverty level and found themselves in need of these "institutions." Many I'm sure, when they were more self-sufficient, were ideologically, racially, or culturally biased against what they now need.

The loss of income and jobs has a way of replacing pride with humility. While poverty can be perpetuated by too much emphasis on institutions by those who have no desire to get away from them; their numbers are minuscule compared to those who need that foundation to grow from. Overall, institutions have at least put a bottom where most people can fall to reducing a poverty rate that could be much higher.