The Angry MOB of 2009

The Angry MOB of 2009
NickLaudani@gmail.com
(answer to Paul Krugman Aug 2009 NYTimes )

The Angry MOB of 2009, or the Town Hall Mob, Paul Krugman suggests a contrived right wing, corporate, Republican, or, Blue Dog Dem, Southern bigoted, healthcare insurance, special interest, Second Amendment, pro-lifer, 10 % unemployed, Fox Network, tea party, superficial fake Astro-Turf( is an understatement). Just look at how many different groups I just mentioned and hopefully logic will guide you to the possibility that there are too many disenfranchised groups to simply explain away as irrelevant, backward, or contrived
The Angry Mob of 2009 is real. I don’t carry a bible, I don’t carry a gun, I am not a pro-lifer but do recognize certain rights of life in addition to a woman’s right to choose. Another words, I am not an absolute North East extremist anymore than an extremist pro lifer. This, potential Angry Citizen of 2009 is a white middle aged man. But yet I live in a racially integrated African-American section of Boston. No-one in my family or friends would ever ponder for a second that I am a bigot. I am not rich. I am also a Consumer Advocate, but yet a free–market guy. Another way I factually break the media stereo type of a contrived angry mob. Specifically regarding health insurance is that I actually have a chronic life threatening illness, so I do have real empathy for a real need for true Health- Care reform. Massachusetts claims to exclusively own empathy regarding folks like me. Well most people who have an opinion on Health Insurance come from a different place than me. One of the Federal models of health Care reform in certain but not complete exact duplicate is modeled after the Mass Health Care model. Well after 3 years it now has proved to fail. Read the Boston Globe for details printed in the first week of Aug.2009.
Now I risk speaking for the angry mob of 2009. Many of the folks that have shown up protesting public Health Care admit to having Medicare. Medicare seems to work until you factor in costs. Medicare, while from hip to hip replacement does succeed to provide the hip. But the fact is that Medicare financially is bankrupt, as well as Social Security. Both are Public programs. Now of course Nancy Polosi congress types fix this problem like each of the Trillion dollar counterfeit printing in the last 6-8 months, by just passing 1000 page bills that certain congressional reps admit to not have read.
Now for me it was the TARP program that started me off into an abyss of physiologically measurable frustration. While the media is picking up on the Angry Mob of 2009 regarding Health care is missing the real point. The American public including me was willing to go for the experiment of trillion dollar stimuli’s. But I dually despise with valid arguments but for now not discussed regarding Cap and Trade. TARP, and this welfare short sighted Cars and/or Cash for clunkers. I only bring these programs as potentiometers that pile up with absurd even science fiction like trillion dollar surreal creation of chronic trillion dollar oasis’s of Debt.
Rather I mention these actions in summary to bring me to the point of what has finally culminated in a serious nation wide outrage. I am no genius nor prophet of the future, but I ‘d bet that Obamas crashing numbers below 50 percent regarding health care wouldn’t exist if he and Polosi and Frank did not spend trillions of dollars of American goodwill on going along with previous trillion dollar programs.
Let’s keep it simple. Forget the details of what this health care reform offers. This is partly the problem for folks like me. It doesn’t matter anymore what Obama claims. It does not matter anymore what page 998 of the bill says or what it means. My basic gut feeling cannot be denied. We all have experienced preponderance if not even pathological; fast talking; sign the deal, or risk the end of the world. In this six months its been a fast talking series of not understood multi trillion dollar sign up and just have faith deal making. That is enough for me. I once was a fast talking salesman myself and live in the fastest walking, talking, and driving culture in the country. I feel in my gut perhaps what many of us seem to repel against.
Simply when the salesman pushes you to sign now or you will loose out is the fact that most of us answer,”Hey leave the paper work with me and I’ll get back to you.” By the way Obama promised as President he would post in advance every bill for a full five days in advance on the web any bills before he signed them so that we could review the Bill. Guess what? You should have never signed your name on the ballot to vote him as president if you now feel tricked. Because a least in the review of bills regarding numbers more than six zeroes, w didn’t get that chance, either did congress… There is a lot more for my reason to be part of the Angry Mob of 2009. But let’s keep it simple. The angry Mob is not as demonized by the Executive branch, the congress, and the major networks. The Angry Mob is actually a brewing third party and is so much, much deeper than the mainstream wishes to be.
Obama was voted in for Change. Clearly Change is on the minds of a majority of Americans. That change however is still not clear to me. At the very least I see the emergence of a third party. Or if I could rudely stretch I would say that America is in the midst of a transformation. Further that the Democratic and Republican parties are actually one party called the Demuplicans.
There might be a complete different party that emerges. A third party that represents people like me. People that understand or at least feel repressed by an almost foreign empirical entity called the Federal Government. The constitution actually allows some states to opt out of federally imposed laws regarding Healthcare, Marijuana, guns, abortion, etc. The States- believe it or not, also have separate sovereign rights checking and balancing Federal rights. If the Feds push to far you can bet some folks will push further for there own rights. Watch out folks, this Angry Mob of 2009 is not a fabricated special interest group contrived by Corporations. This Angry mob makes me curious about the Constitution
     Or even better; read the arguments of the founding fathers regarding deep concerns about the allocation of too much centralized power depriving the rights of local citizens. Don’t kid your self. This movement you are seeing is not limited to a bunch of Birthers, or paranoid conspiracy theory Moon landing folks. This movement is far beyond just the USA. The globe entirely is experiencing a new re surge of local citizens. Congress might want to just pretend to listen. That way the damage will be limited to 20-30 congressional seats. Otherwise things get much more extreme! I am not saying violence, but I am saying that there already is a subliminal vibe of confederacy verses foreign unaccountable taxation without representation,
.Perhaps it’s simply high unemployment, a complete destruction of wealth, and a gasping ghost of a production based economy. Also is as an ever growing disenchantment with big government. Let us not forget a nagging diminishing value of our dollar. But we are protected. I think the best use of our constitutional rights is the 10th amendment. I bet not a one of my friends living in the N.E. Kingdom have read it. But I believe in conciliation. And yet, I feel that there is a real and present danger of possible re-tests of States rights as best exampled in the 10th Amendment. I really cant seem to find a compelling logical forceful assertion that would put to rest my concerns that we are seeing some kind of a peaceful re-test of Confederacy type local frustration. So NYC and Washington at least for one minute please put your pig headed Miracle ears from your ivory towers to the ground, and listen.


Sincerely,
NickLaudani@gmail.com Boston, Ma. 02119