The following is an excerpt from transcript of KahrlZero’s NeoCon AM Radio Talk Show, “Zero Hour,” episode 46: ”Fiduciary Controls and how they are a cover for the Leftist takeover of Real America.”
Segment guest: Cash Money
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Kahrl Zero: …and that’s how fiduciary controls are a cover for the Leftist takeover of Real America.
Cash Money: Wow, I hadn’t really thought about it that way before. Personally, I have recently found myself obsessed with Avril Lavigne. Not her music or even her so much as her career.
KZ: How so? Because I know fuck-all.
CM: Well, you know her brand of music. Vacuous, if upbeat. Marketed as “The AntiBrittany,” though she really is the same thing with a different coat of paint and a different time signature.
KZ: (ugh) And more eyeliner.
CM: Right. Which is fine. Or was. She has, at time of recording, three albumns on the market with a fourth set to drop this summer. However, she is now 25. And has an impending albumn. The question is, when does society demand something more from her.
THE SEA – A cry for a brief moment of political awareness from the uncharacteristically landlocked Andrewvius tonight.
Today was a big day for American politics whether I wanted to be aware of it or not. A bipartisan summit about Health Bill 2: Electric Boogaloo. The networks and the stations on my XM radio were hyping the event with choice sound clips of Obama (“Show me what you got!”) trying to make it out like a DMX song:
“BARACK GONNA GIVE IT TO YA (what) GONNA GIVE IT TO YA (word) UHN! [dog barks]“
Health Bill 2: Electric Boogaloo may be the one instance during my lifetime that I can recall the government actually trying to help The Citizens of America rather than help itself, so, naturally I am skeptical. I have a tendency to view it askance, aloof, and from afar – that’s Triple A Apathy, son. Trust no crooks. Follow the money. Exterminate the brutes. All that. But. Andrewvius tells me I no longer have the luxury of pessimism and has yet to release his vice grip on my lapels.
“But I don’t wanna,” I tell him.
“You have no choice now,” he tells me, his eyes wild. “It is this or the void.”
“Well, you know my dislike for the void,” I say. “All that howling and such.”
“Oh, it’s a bitch,” he says, quickly adding, “But it can be avoided, Cash. All it will take is just a little attention. Just so little attention for such a short, short period of time, Cash. We must be wonks. Just this once and just for now, be wonks. Then we can all go back to our American Idols and our Pokemon and whatever the hell it is that you claim to do, Cash-”
And I start to defend how I spend my days but he snags me by the ears and pulls us nose to nose and I can smell that he is serious when he continues, “-and I can go back to The Sea – WITH AT LEAST SOME FUCKING CATASTROPHIC HEALTH INSURANCE!”
And so, without further bullshitting, our man on the scene, Andrewvius the floor is yours.
“Well, the summit was really a remarkable event.
There was, a tremendous amount of agreement on issues between the parties. In fact, though the Republicans repeatedly referenced polls showing 55% of Americans opposing the Senate version of the bill, those same polls show support from the majority of Americans on each separate policy. This disparity is a result of an effective campaign of talking points by the GOP and conservative media characterizing the overhaul as “a government takeover.”
So, when you ask someone if they want the bill, they say, “no,” even though they like all the ideas. So, if the people like the policies, and the two parties agree on the majority of the policies, what are the differences discussed today?
Republicans want to reform the system through cost-control measures. They see frivolous malpractice lawsuits as the biggest driver of health care costs and they want to cap settlements to reduce the cost of malpractice insurance. Besides this idea, they have a ton of good ideas on reducing the costs in the system by fighting fraud and trimming administrative costs. They want to accomplish all this through a series of small bills passed over time, rather than through a big ol’ bill. They project their reforms would allow around %10 of the uninsured to get insurance.
Democrats want the big ol’ bill. This is because their vision of reform is as a sweeping overhaul. They have a big cause-and-effect circle in their plan that can’t be accomplished in little pieces. It must hang together. This circle is designed to get everyone in the country into the health insurance system. The circle goes like this:
1. Everyone in the country buys health insurance 2. The whole insurance industry is regulated to protect customers 3. Due to the huge pool of customers and the profit restrictions on insurance companies, the price of policies go down 4. The law says you must buy health insurance 5. Everyone in the country buys health insurance 6. Rinse and repeat.
There’s much more to it than that, but this chestnut is the reason that piecemeal reform isn’t at all acceptable to the Democrats. This is what makes it an overhaul. It’s big and scary. It’s nationwide. They will include all the Republican ideas for cost-cutting and interstate exchanges, but Dems won’t give up the heart of reform. That is the belief that we must provide affordable health insurance for all Americans with no exceptions.
I support the Democrats here.
I can’t cover the 6 hour summit I just watched, nor can I cover our President’s proposal. I encourage each and every person to pursue this information on their own.
What I want each person to do is to check this stuff out and find out what their lives will be like if the overhaul goes through. Don’t let Fox News, NPR, CNBC, CNN, Rush, Newt, or Free Speech Radio News tell you what is good for you. The real dope is right at your fingertips, you must educate yourself.
I am 28, healthy and uninsured. I make around $30,000 so I take home around $20,000. I want to emphasize that I am the type of person they are counting on to bear the financial burden of carrying a policy I don’t need in order to reduce the cost for those Americans with a pre-existing condition. Those Americans who smoke, eat fast food, and don’t exercise. The overhaul proposed by Obama and the Democrats will allow me to afford health insurance that will provide unlimited catastrophic coverage, primary care, and will include financial incentives to eat healthy food and exercise more.
Speaker Pelosi said something today that seemed directed toward me and my whole generation. I’ll close with this quote.
“But I want to talk for a moment about what it means to the economy. Imagine an economy where people could change jobs, start businesses, become self-employed, whether to pursue their artistic aspirations or be entrepreneurial and start new businesses if they were not job-locked, because they have a child who’s bipolar or a family member who’s diabetic, with a preexisting condition, and all of the other constraints that having health care or not having health care places on an entrepreneurial spirit. Think of an economy with that dynamism of people following their pursuits, taking risks — we want them to take risks and yet we lock them down, and we have an anvil around their businesses because of these increasing costs of health care. So this bill is not only about the health security of America. It’s about jobs.”
ABUJA – Adding to fears of a vacuum of power, allies of Nigeria’s ailing president, Umaru Yar’Adua, face allegations that they “forged his signature on the country’s supplementary budget last month.”
Mr. Yar’Adua has (UPDATE: allegedly) been in Saudi Arabia (UPDATE: maybe) for six weeks ,where he is being treated for a heart condition, spawning a set of litigation intent on officially turning power over to the country’s vice-president and one group of activists has even suggested the president should “be declared a missing person, and a search party should be sent out.”
UPDATE, 1/7/10, gaurdian.co.uk : …because he hasn’t been seen in FORTY-FIVE DAYS! Says Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA): “We have not heard from the president for 45 days – not one word. I don’t know where he is; your guess is as good as mine.”
Besides the supplementary budget, there are reports of a rash of the president’s signature springing up on grade school excused absence forms nationwide.
I am not even going to pretend that I understand which way is front or back.
/Sigh… Where is the only place that you can go at 2am to see someone that might just be in worse shape than you but not because they are drunk? Where else can you go at 2am and play with the bouncy balls, turn on all the nosey toys, sit down in the middle of the toy aisle to play battleships with your friends? Walmart, of course!
I spent many countless moments of my young adult life wondering the aisles in the wee hours of the AM reeking havoic with my friends. I spent many minutes people watching because in Walmart that is what you go there to do, to people watch. I saw some crazy and very unfortunate things at Walmart. It is the one place on earth that diversity is apparent. Hookers to suits, dementia to child tantrums, fashion statments to fashion mishaps, make-up, electronics, groceries, guns, video games, toys, As Seen On TV and all at a low price in a big blue and white painted warehouse where America drones and walks the earth one ground shaking moment at a time.
There is a website now dedicated to the “People of Walmart“. I never thought I would see that day but we all knew it would happen because if you have ever been to a Walmart you know, you just know.
ROCKWELL – Here in the Era of Opinion As Fact, it can sometimes be difficult to know who’s got the sharpest minds, the best sources, and the hardest talk.
So, it’s time to grow up, pour yourself a tall, gin-based beverage in a handsome glass and start to deal with news commentary like an adult. Looking at you here, Gen-X.
But don’t whine to your therapist yet, Nancy Pants. I won’t go all R. Lee Ermey on you here. With the help of my finest associate, Franklin Mint, I have assembled a McLaughlin Group primer by way of profiling its most prominent commentators to help you acclimate yourself to the only news commentary you will ever need.
RIO DE JANEIRO – I’m really looking forward to the 2016 Olympics.
I don’t really care about sports, per se, but I am going to watch the run up to the games vividly and then I’m going to laugh and laugh and laugh.
Why?
Well, besides the fact that landing at the airport is one of the most dangerous approaches in the world, I have had the good fortune to see the 2002 film, City of God (Cidade de Deus).
Better yet, not even one that relates to Apple market share, rates of alcoholism in West Virginia, or Glenn Beck (*ahem* Pig-fucker conservative commentator).
This is one I’d love to embed (with due accreditation, of course) but sadly, NYT after all. Nevertheless, hit the link below for a decent look at the calculated average unemployment rate for a variety of demographics over the last twelve months (as of Sept). Change a few of the criteria around, and a couple quick comparisons will reveal rather distinctly exactly how far this country still needs to go in the areas of gender and racial equality. I suppose the one bright spot to a few of these numbers is the long term value that higher education can provide, despite its increasing cost and therefore declining availability. Moral of the story: get in school now, before you have to mortgage your first-born, your cat, and a kidney or two just for a little job security. There’s an Economy on, after all.
