Lee Dunn's List: CARPETBAGGERS

• Chertoff Profits From Full Body Scanners
• As reported on NPR news, former Homeland Security Chief (and likely Obstructor-in-Chief of the investigation into Israeli "movers" busted on 9/11 "documenting" the event and cheering) Michael Chertoff is now a "consultant" who profits from sales of full body scanners and "a lot of other security measures."
• This technology, designed to force people into feelings of fear, nakedness and submission, is reminiscent of prison and concentration camp procedures.
• It is the modern equivalent of ancient Pharaonic social control techniques detailed for example in the Narmer Palette, which shows a larger than life Pharaoh beating, decapitating and otherwise dominating smaller, naked victims:

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• Obamacare - A Runaway Fascistic Train
    Terror Moles Escape Purge
• By J. Speer-Williams
    1-5-10 

   
• Obama's healthcare legislation is not more socialism,  it's fascism, pure and simple,
• with "our" government fronting  for the private International Monetary/Banking Cartel's insurance corporations,  at great expense to all taxpaying Americans, who will be receiving far  less health care than ever before.
• Socialist congressman from Ohio, Dennis Kucinich, who  along with Texas Libertarian Congressman Ron Paul, who make up part of  a handful of those in congress not owned by the Monetary Cartel, has shed  some light on Obama's new healthcare bill,
• which will ensure US health  care will become progressively worse, at great expense to all of us who  still pay income taxes:
• "We have been led to believe that we must make our  health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory for-profit  insurance system, which makes money not providing health care," wrote  Congressman Kucinich.
• "We cannot fault the insurance companies for being  what they are. But we can fault legislation in which the government incentivizes  the perpetuation, indeed, the strengthening of the for-profit health insurance  industry, the very source of the problem.
• When health insurance companies  deny care or raise premiums, co-pays and deductibles they are simply trying  to make a profit. That is our system.
• "Clearly, the insurance companies are the problem,  not the solution. They are driving up the cost of health care.
• "Because their massive bureaucracy avoids paying  bills so effectively, they force hospitals and doctors to hire their own  bureaucracy to fight the insurance companies to avoid getting stuck with  an unfair share of the bills.
• The result is that since 1970, the number  of physicians has increased by less than 200%, while the number of administrators  has increased by 3,000%.
• It is no wonder that 31 cents of every health  care dollar goes to administrative costs, not toward providing care.
• Even  those with insurance are at risk. The single biggest cause of bankruptcies  in the US is health insurance policies that do not cover you when you get  sick."
• Former TV/movie star Chuck Norris tells us that Obama's  2,000, or so, page health care bill has sections which allow government  agents entry into our homes to usurp parental rights over child care and  development.
• Considering the crime and corruption of the federal government,  Mr,. Obama, do you really believe your administration is better qualified  to rear our children than American parents,
• or have you gotten to those  pages during your "careful" study of the legislation you have  so vehemently supported?
• This disaster called Obamacare is a runaway fascistic  bill, that no one in the White House or congress has written or read, but  is being heralded as morally necessary for America.
• Does anyone know everything  that's in these 2,000 plus pages of badly written legalese?
• Yes, those  mysterious demons in the Cartel's "think-tanks" and tax-free  foundations, who wrote those 2,000 plus pages, know all about it, very  unlike those in congress who voted for it and a president who will sign  it.
• And for those of you who like the ever expanding growth  of the federal government, you shall be thrilled with Obamacare:
• It's estimated  that 111 new bureaucracies, boards, commissions, and programs will be spawn  from Obamacare, which will raise insurance premiums, ration care, and increase  the overall cost of health care in America, while the quality of medical  care sinks ever lower.
• Additionally, Obamacare will require Americans who shun  Western medicine in favor of alternative medicines - not covered by insurance  - to buy expensive, corporate, health insurance from the very corporations  the health conscious have long avoided, with threats of huge fines and  prison time.
• In other words, Obamacare will not cover  the purchase  of vitamins, minerals, homeopathy, acupuncture, naturopathic, or chiropractic  care, but will force health enlightened citizens to buy into the cut, burn,  and poison rackets of corporate drugs and bloody surgeries.
• Mr. President, would it not have been better to have  concentrated your health care legislation on real care, by curbing the  abuses and malpractices of the medical/pharmaceutical combine, that kills  so many of us?
• From the jury box to the ballot box to our cartridge  boxes, "our" government is stealing our justice, our democracy,  and our freedoms, while ruining our health and standard of living in the  process.
• But the dark days of the oligarchs are drawing to a close,  as people across the world awaken to the crimes of the Cartel and their  weaselly minions in government. 

    

  Just you wait Mr. Henry Higgins ... just you wait!

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• When Tobias ''Bags of Money'' Boyland went looking for a new career after serving 13 years in prison for armed robbery and drug dealing, he quickly found something that suited his sensibilities: He opened a collection agency.
• It was, in some ways, a natural move for a young man in Buffalo.
• Desperate for jobs, this chronically depressed Rust Belt city has become home to one of the biggest concentrations of debt collection businesses in the U.S.
• ''Collections is the Bethlehem Steel of Buffalo,'' said Boyland, 44, recalling the industrial giant that once employed 20,000 people in the region. ''You can make a decent living in a town where there isn't a lot of opportunity.''
• Between 5,000 and 6,000 people earning $30,000 to $40,000 a year now work at roughly 110 collection agencies in and around Buffalo, an industry created with the help of seed money from the state of New York.
• The industry has been a rare economic bright spot in Buffalo, the nation's third-poorest city of its size, a place where 30 percent of the people live in poverty.
• Buffalo, they say, has also become a center for some of the worst elements in the business.
• Yet, law enforcement and consumer groups point to a dark side:
• Debt collectors, some of them convicted felons, have illegally posed as lawyers or unlawfully browbeat people -- threatening to have them arrested or stripped of custody of their children -- to scare them into making payments.
• ''Get some clean clothes because you're not coming home any time soon,'' one debtor was told.
• As the sour economy leaves people less and less able to pay their debts, the collection abuses have become so flagrant and numerous that state and federal authorities have moved to shut down several Buffalo-area agencies where the most heartless and bullying telephone calls originated.
• At least 20 people have been sued or arrested on criminal charges.
• Boyland himself was forced out of business and jailed in June after authorities said they caught him carrying a loaded, unlicensed pistol as they investigated more than 1,000 complaints about abusive tactics at his collection business.
• The regional Better Business Bureau said that in the past three years, it has gotten 4,562 complaints about debt collection agencies in western New York.
• Of 213 agencies it has graded in the region, 104 were given an ''F.''
• And of all the complaints about debt collection received by the Better Business Bureau nationwide last year, about 1 in 10 involved a company in western New York.
• Collection agencies began sprouting in Buffalo in the mid-1990s as a spinoff of the city's then-growing back-office and financial-services sector.
• Like other businesses operating big customer-service call centers, the collection companies were drawn to Buffalo by its inexpensive office space and its willing and affordable work force.
• A state development agency has sweetened the pot since 2001 with $1.2 million in grants to four collection agencies.
• It gave an additional $400,000 in October to a collection company that plans to double its work force with 50 new hires.
• ''Almost everyone knows someone whose son or daughter has worked for a collection agency,'' said David Polino, president of the Better Business Bureau of Upstate New York.
• ''This is one of the industries that used to be Bethlehem Steel, the Chevy plant -- all the places where you used to get out of high school and find employment 35 or 40 years ago, it's now call centers.''
• Industry supporters blame many of the worst complaints on small firms operating on the fringe.
• Twenty-eight of the region's collection agencies have a grade of ''A'' from the BBB for generating few complaints while setting up repayment plans for delinquent credit card accounts, medical bills or loans.
• ''The vast majority are great businesses that benefit the local economy, do a good job, are respectful, and then you've got a few that are just wacko,'' said John Nemo, spokesman for the Association of Credit and Collection Professionals, a trade group with 3,500 members.

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