[CitizensTruth] "Were They Drunk?"

[Brian Good]

   Connie, you have long been a courageous advocate for truth.  I admire you
and I wish I could share your optimism.

   On his third day in office, Obama sent drones to launch missiles that killed
14 Pakistani civilians in violation of the Nuremberg Principles, the UN Charter,
and thus Article 6 of the US Constitution.  Maybe this was "making his bones" 
and maybe it was a head-fake to protect his admirable intentions.  Time will
tell.

   Joseph Cannon at Cannonfire.blogspot.com has run a series of articles 
suggesting that Obama has been CIA since he was ten years old.


http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2009/08/names-obama-barack-obama.html

   I don't need any seasoning or garnishes to eat my words.  I would LOVE
to be shown wrong, so I could have my life back.  I see  Obama unwilling to 
yield any  of the neofascistic powers put in place by the Bush regime. These 
powers will remain in the presidential toolbox when president Rice or president 
Rumsfeld or president Cheney takes power in 2012.






From: dimension04 at sbcglobal.net
To: aroyboy44 at hotmail.com; snug.bug at hotmail.com; geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com
CC: citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net
Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] "Were They Drunk?"
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:30:54 -0500










 
 
I still think it might turn out that Obama is using 
them instead of the other way around -- a smarter man, all the way 
around.
 
Not to mention it's still less 
than his first year in office!
 
All this criticism!  It's all so contrary to 
his lifetime personal history.  Mainly for that reason, I guess 
I'd rather be wrong on his side rather than right on that side.  

 
Just send me some salt and pepper if I have to eat 
these words!
 
 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  andrew 
  ritter 
  To: snug.bug at hotmail.com ; dimension04 at sbcglobal.net ; Geri Perry 
  Cc: truth seekers 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:12 
  AM
  Subject: RE: [CitizensTruth] "Were They 
  Drunk?"
  
The "Prize" is more proof that the propaganda machine is a 
  global operation.  Put him up on a global peace pedestal and people will 
  ignore his actions.  Orwell continues to be right.  War = Peace in 
  today's society.  Lets look at some of Barack's peaceful 
  accomplishments:

- Continue to wage a never-ending war for oil and land 
  and contracts and resources in Iraq while calling it a 'withdrawal'. 
- 
  Step up the troop level and killing of civilians and "terrorists" in 
  Afghanistan while taking control of as much of the opium trade as 
  possible
- Order tons of illegal drone strikes in Pakistan
- Quietly 
  order and carry out a coup of the leadership in Honduras.  Ignore that 
  the citizens of that country are living in a nightmare scenario of martial 
  law  
- Continue torturing prisoners abroad and suppress photographs 
  that show abuse and make sure no one involved in torture in the past ever gets 
  held accountable
- Help your Big pharma buddies to make a killing off the 
  swine flu while helping to spread the disease further through the already 
  proven to be dangerous nasal vaccines.
- Make constant threats to Iran 
  while carrying out military drills that prepare your troops for a possible war 
  there
- Refuse to meet with the Dali Lama because you don't want to upset 
  China
-  Quietly conduct military operations in Somalia
- Bail out 
  the rich cause they need it while the unemployment rate goes up and up and 
  up

I have to disagree about hope.  Hope is a paralyzing and 
  passive emotion.  They want you to sit on your but and "hope" while they 
  continue to steal and murder.  My advice is to ditch all of your hope and 
  instead do something about whatever you are "hoping" on.  Because hope is 
  completely disempowering.  You are letting go of your ability to affect 
  the world in a real and active way and putting all your "hopes" in the hands 
  of the ruling elite who do not give 2 sticks of butter about you except to the 
  extent that they can use and abuse you.  

Actions speak louder 
  then words and peace prizes. 


  

  
  From: snug.bug at hotmail.com
To: dimension04 at sbcglobal.net; 
  geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:52:50 -0700
CC: 
  citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net
Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] "Were They 
  Drunk?"


  
  
   Obama lost me when he voted for the telecom wiretap immunity 
  bill 
after promising that he would filibuster to oppose it.  He never 
  explained 
why he voted for it.  He was a constitutional scholar and 
  he understood 
the issues, and he was a lawyer who understood that the bill 
  would stop
the 50 pending lawsuits' discovery process that would have 
  revealed the 
depth and breadth of the wiretap violations.

  I 
  would like to believe that he's a good guy who will at some dramatic
point 
  whip off his Bush-lite mask and show us who he really is, but I
already 
  went through that process with Kerry.  Through the whole
Ohio recount 
  process in 2004 I kept telling everybody--"You just watch,
the Democrats 
  know what they're doing.  This is a trap for Bush."  I 
  was
wrong.

  From 2006 to 2008 the Dems told us "We must 
  appease and concentrate 
on winning the next election."  So now that 
  it's won, we must keep on
appeasing?  On his third day in office Obama 
  declared his contempt for 
international law, the Nuremberg Principles, the 
  UN, and simple human
decency by ordering drone missile attacks on Pakistan 
  that killed 14
civilians.  He's a war 
  criminal.







  



> From: 

  dimension04 at sbcglobal.net

> To: geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com

> 

  Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:11:47 -0500

> CC: 

  citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net

> Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] "Were They 

  Drunk?"

> 

> 

> 

> Good and well-informed points, as 

  always, Geri.

> 

> Re, the "hope" thing. A LITTLE more to it than 

  that is my surprise that 

> given a potential 4-8 years in office, 

  there's so much conviction, it seems, 

> that in less than one year he's 

  a Failure, or worse. Could all this be 

> "premature 

  speculation"?

> 

> I think his rise to power is founded on his 

  natural abilities -- BUT, I 

> understand that like Kucinich, all the 

  natural abilities in the world can't 

> "get you there" if you don't 

  have the backing of the powers-that-be.

> 

> I still wonder 

  whether They are using Barack -- or given time, it will turn 

> out that 

  he has used Them. That it's been his strategy all along to use 

> them 

  to get to where, well actually -- to where he CAME FROM and bless the 

> 

  world with it -- and that would be his mom's and grandma's life-long 

> 

  grooming to truly love and help humanity.

> 

> The ptb, or mom and 

  gram. Hmmmmm...which will it turn out to be...

> 

> ?

> 

  

> 

> 

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Geri 

  Perry" <geri at thetwofacesofmoney.com>

> To: "Connie Smith" 

  <dimension04 at sbcglobal.net>

> Cc: "Chuck Minne" 

  <mincam2 at yahoo.com>; <citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net>

> 

  Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 6:24 PM

> Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] 

  "Were They Drunk?"

> 

> 

> > And there is yet another 

  perspective . . .

> >

> > This one holds that Obama, like so 

  many before him, is little more than a 

> > puppet.

> 

  >

> > How else can we explain his meteoric rise from total 

  obscurity to become- 

> > in one giant leap - president of the Unite 

  States, and tainted no less by 

> > the same Rezco scandal that so 

  heavily damaged the Blago image?

> >

> > We can guess who 

  pulls the strings, but following the money is a good 

> > 

  start.

> >

> > Amazingly poor timing was evident when Obama 

  convened his war council for 

> > crucial talks on Afghan strategy 

  within hours after being named Nobel 

> > Peace Laureate. This may be 

  due to the fact that, as Chalmers Johnson 

> > posits in Sorrows of 

  Empire, CentCom pulls the shots on foreign policy, 

> > not the pres. 

  (Or maybe now its NATO?)

> >

> > I'm no fan of Michael Moore 

  but there is something to be said for those 

> > who at least HOPE 

  the president will do right by the people and not the 

> > money 

  power. Wishful thinking in the face of current facts, but WAY better 

> 

  > than actually "hoping he will fail" as Rush Limbaugh has publicly AND 
  

> > wrongly asserted.

> >

> > Geri P

> 

  >

> > Connie Smith wrote:

> >> Or...we could consider 

  another point of view:

> >>

> >> *Get Off Obama's Back 

  ...second thoughts from Michael Moore*

> >>

> >> 

  Saturday, October 10th, 2009

> >>

> >> 

  Friends,

> >>

> >> ...I went back and re-read what I 

  had written. And _I listened for far 

> >> too long yesterday to 

  the right wing hate machine who did what they could 

> >> to crap 

  all over Barack's big day. Did I -- and others on the left -- do 

> 

  >> the same? _

> >>

> >> We are weary, weary of 

  war. The trillions that will have gone to these 

> >> two wars 

  have helped to bankrupt us as a nation -- financially and 

> >> 

  morally. To think of all the good we could have done with all that money! 
  

> >> Two months of the War in Iraq would pay for all the wells 

  that need to be 

> >> dug in the Third World for drinking water! 

  Obama is moving too slow for 

> >> most of us -- but he needs to 

  know we are with him and we stand beside 

> >> him as he attempts 

  to turn eight years of sheer madness around. Who could 

> >> do 

  that in nine months? Superman? Thor? Mitch McConnell?

> >>

> 

  >> Instead of waiting to see what the president is going to do, we all 
  need 

> >> to be pro-active and push the agenda that we want to 

  see enacted. What 

> >> keeps us from forming the same local 

  groups we put together to get out 

> >> the vote last November? 

  C'mon! We're the majority now -- the majority by 

> >> a 

  significant margin! We call the shots -- and we need to tell this wimpy 
  

> >> Congress to get busy and do what we say -- or else.

> 

  >>

> >> All I ask of those who voted for Obama is to not 

  pile on him too quickly. 

> >> Yes, make your voice heard (his 

  phone number is 202-456-1414). But don't 

> >> abandon the best 

  hope we've had in our lifetime for change. And for God's 

> >> 

  sake, don't head to bummerville if he says or does something we don't 

> 

  >> like. Do you ever see Republicans behave that way? I mean, the Right 
  had 

> >> 20 years of Republican presidents and they still 

  couldn't get prayer in 

> >> the public schools, or outlaw 

  abortion, or initiate a flat tax or put our 

> >> Social Security 

  into the stock market. They did a lot of damage, no doubt 

> >> 

  about that, but on the key issues that the Christian Right fought for, 
  

> >> they came up nearly empty handed. No wonder they've been 

  driven crazy 

> >> lately. They'll never have it as good again as 

  they've had it since 

> >> Reagan took office.

> 

  >>

> >> But -- do you ever see them looking all gloomy and 

  defeated? No! They 

> >> keep on fighting! Every day. Our side? At 

  the first sign of wavering, we 

> >> just pack up our toys and go 

  home.

> >>

> >> So, at least for this weekend, let us 

  celebrate what people elsewhere are 

> >> celebrating -- that 

  America now has a sane and smart man in the White 

> >> House, a 

  man who truly wants a world at peace for his two daughters.

> 

  >>

> >> Many, for the past couple days (yes, myself 

  included), have grumbled, 

> >> "What has he done to earn this 

  prize?" How 'bout this:

> >>

> >> The simple fact that 

  he was elected was reason enough for him to be the 

> >> recipient 

  of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

> >>

> >> Because on 

  that day the murderous actions of the Bush/Cheney years were 

> >> 

  totally and thoroughly rebuked. One man -- a man who opposed the War in 
  

> >> Iraq from the beginning -- offered to end the insanity. The 

  world has 

> >> stood by in utter horror for the past eight years 

  as they watched the 

> >> descendants of Washington, Lincoln and 

  Jefferson light the fuse of our 

> >> own self-destruction. We 

  flipped off the nations on this planet by 

> >> abandoning Kyoto 

  and then proceeded to melt eight more years worth of the 

> >> 

  polar ice caps. We invaded two nations that didn't attack us, failed to 
  

> >> find the real terrorists and, in effect, ignited our own 

  wave of terror. 

> >> People all over the world wondered if we had 

  gone mad.

> >>

> >> And if all that wasn't enough, the 

  outgoing Joker presided over the worst 

> >> global financial 

  collapse since the Great Depression.

> >>

> >> So, 

  yeah, at precisely 11:00pm ET on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama won 

> 

  >> the Nobel Peace Prize. And the 66 million people who voted for him 
  won 

> >> it, too. By the time he took the stage at midnight ET in 

  the Grant Park 

> >> Historic Hippie Battlefield in downtown 

  Chicago, billions of people 

> >> around the globe were already 

  breathing a huge sigh of relief. It was as 

> >> if, in that 

  instant, one man did bring the promise of peace to the 

> >> world 

  -- and most were ready to go wherever he wanted to go to achieve 

> 

  >> that end. Never before had the election of one man made every other 
  

> >> nation feel like they had won, too. When you've got billions 

  of people 

> >> ready, willing and able to join a cause like this, 

  well, a prize in Oslo 

> >> is the least that you deserve.

> 

  >>

> >> One other thought. The Peace Prize historically has 

  been given to those 

> >> who have worked to throw off the yoke of 

  racial discrimination and 

> >> segregation (Martin Luther King, 

  Jr., Desmond Tutu). I think the Nobel 

> >> committee, in awarding 

  Obama the prize, was also rewarding the fact that 

> >> something 

  profound had happened in a nation that was founded on racial 

> >> 

  genocide, built on racist slavery, and held back for a hundred-plus years 
  

> >> by vestiges of hateful bigotry (which can still be found on 

  display at 

> >> teabagger rallies and daily talk radio). The fact 

  that this one man could 

> >> cause this seismic historical event 

  to occur -- and to do so with such 

> >> grace and humility, never 

  succumbing to the bait, but still not backing 

> >> down (yes, he 

  asked to be sworn in as "Barack Hussein Obama"!) -- is more 

> >> 

  than reason enough he should be in Oslo to meet the King on December 10. 
  

> >> Maybe he could take us along with him. 'Cause I also suspect 

  the Nobel 

> >> committee was tipping its hat to all of us -- we, 

  the American people, 

> >> had conquered some of our racism and 

  did the truly unexpected. After 

> >> seeing searing images of our 

  black fellow citizens left to drown in New 

> >> Orleans -- and 

  poor whites seeing their own treated no better than the 

> >> 

  black man they had been raised to hate -- we had all seen enough. It was 
  

> >> time for change.

> >>

> >> Thank 

  you, Barack Obama, for giving us the opportunity to redeem 

> >> 

  ourselves. Now for the tasks ahead. We need you to do all that you 

> 

  >> promised to do. We need it. The world needs it.

> 

  >>

> >> My prediction for the future? You become the first 

  *two-time* winner of 

> >> the Nobel Peace Prize! Yeah!

> 

  >>

> >> Fred (that's Norwegian for "Peace"),

> 

  >> Michael Moore

> >> MMFlint at aol.com

> >> 

  MichaelMoore.com

> >>

> >>

> >> Join 

  Mike's Mailing List | Join Mike's Facebook Group | Follow Mike on 

> 

  >> Twitter | Become Mike's MySpace Friend

> >>

> 

  >> ----- Original Message -----

> >> *From:* Chuck Minne 

  <mailto:mincam2 at yahoo.com>

> >> *To:* 

  citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net

> >> 

  <mailto:citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net>

> >> *Sent:* Sunday, 

  October 11, 2009 6:47 PM

> >> *Subject:* [CitizensTruth] "Were 

  They Drunk?"

> >>

> >>

> >> Foreign 

  Newspapers on Obama’s Nobel Prize Victory

> >>

> >> 

  October 10th, 2009 | By: Michael van der Galien

> >> 

  <http://www.poligazette.com/author/michael-van-der-galien/>

> 

  >> Tags: Barack Obama 
  <http://www.poligazette.com/tag/barack-obama/>,

> >> News 

  <http://www.poligazette.com/tag/news/>, Nobel Peace Prize

> 

  >> <http://www.poligazette.com/tag/nobel-peace-prize/>, 
  PoliGazette

> >> 

  <http://www.poligazette.com/tag/poligazette/>, Politics

> >> 

  <http://www.poligazette.com/tag/politics/>

> >> Leave a 

  comment

> >> 

> >> 

  <http://www.poligazette.com/2009/10/10/foreign-newspapers-on-obamas-nobel-prize-victory/#respond>

> 

  >> | Trackback

> >> 

> >> 

  <http://www.poligazette.com/2009/10/10/foreign-newspapers-on-obamas-nobel-prize-victory/trackback/>

> 

  >>

> >> obama nobel peace prize

> >> The 

  left-wing NRC Handelsblad

> >> 

  <http://weblogs.nrc.nl/commentaar/2009/10/09/bedwelmd-door-hoop/>

> 

  >> (Netherlands): ”What got into the committee to award this prize 
  to

> >> a man who has yet to live up to the high expectations? 

  *Were they

> >> drunk?”*

> >> Center-left to center 

  Volkskrant

> >> 

  <http://extra.volkskrant.nl/opinie/commentaar>

> >> 

  (Netherlands): ”It’s clear that Obama has increasingly more

> >> 

  difficulty meeting expectations. His inspiring words about peace

> 

  >> and deproliferation have yet to be supported by any concrete

> 

  >> results. What is meant to be a reward [for great 
  achievements],

> >> could very well end up being tremendous burden 

  for Obama.”

> >> The right-of-center Telegraaf

> >> 

  

> >> 

  <http://telegraaf-i.telegraaf.nl/daily/2009/10/10/TE/TE_2S_20091010_3/articles/artikel_TE_2S_20091010_3_172.php>

> 

  >> (Netherlands): “This isn’t the first mistake of the Committee, 
  but

> >> it is the biggest. The value of the Nobel Peace Prize has 

  been

> >> diminished.”

> >> Benedict Brogan, writing 

  for the British newspaper the Telegraph

> >> 

> >> 

  <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedictbrogan/100013071/nobel-prize-for-president-obama-is-a-shocker-he-should-turn-it-down/>:

> 

  >> “To reward him for a blank results sheet, to inflate him when 
  he

> >> has no achievements to his name, makes a mockery of what, 

  let’s

> >> face it, is an already fairly discredited process 

  (remember

> >> Rigoberta Menchu in 1992? Ha!). That’s not the 

  point. What this

> >> does is accelerate the elevation of 

  President Obama to a comedy

> >> confection, which he does not 

  deserve, and gives his critics yet

> >> another bat to whack him 

  with. Shame on the Swedes Norwegians*. He

> >> should turn it 

  down, even if he does look great in white tie and

> >> 

  tails.”

> >> The Times of London

> >> 

> 

  >> 
  <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6867711.ece>:

> 

  >> “Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and 
  partisan

> >> intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel 

  committee as a

> >> way of expressing European gratitude for an 

  end to the Bush

> >> Administration, approval for the election of 

  America’s first black

> >> president and hope that Washington will 

  honour its promise to

> >> re-engage with the world.

> 

  >> “Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims,

> 

  >> patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to

> 

  >> build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let

> 

  >> alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.”

> >> 

  Left-wing rag the Guardian

> >> 

> >> 

  <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/09/barack-obama-nobel-prize-why>:

> 

  >> “Indeed, the reasoning behind the awarding of the prize to

> 

  >> previous American presidents has been easier to discern. 
  Teddy

> >> Roosevelt opened the court of arbitration in the Hague 

  and helped

> >> mediate a peace treaty between Russia and Japan; 

  Woodrow Wilson

> >> was the founder of the League of Nations. 

  Jimmy Carter won his

> >> prize for his “untiring efforts to find 

  peaceful solutions to

> >> international conflicts”.

> 

  >> “Which is what makes the awarding of this year’s prize to a

> 

  >> president who has been in office for a mere nine months an 
  odd

> >> departure. It is as if the prize committee had been 

  persuaded to

> >> give the award on the future delivery of 

  promises.”

> >> The Sydney Morning Herald

> >> 

  

> >> 

  <http://www.smh.com.au/world/they-think-he-can-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize-20091009-gqwu.html>:

> 

  >> “YES, surprisingly, he could. Barack Obama, is the shock 
  choice

> >> for the Nobel Peace Prize, less than a year after his 

  election as

> >> U.S. President.”

> >> Il 

  Giornale

> >> 

> >> 

  <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/09/international-media-reactions-obama-peace-prize/>

> 

  >> (Italy): “Let me be clear: the discourse on Islam in Cairo 
  was

> >> beautiful, tall, and it opens up new horizons, but did 

  not lead to

> >> anything. And on the other matter, as pointed out 

  repeatedly in

> >> this blog, Obama has been evasive or 

  inconclusive, starting with

> >> Iran and Afghanistan. Nor can he 

  boast the merits of rapprochement

> >> with North Korea, which was 

  brought about by Bill Clinton. He kept

> >> only one real promise: 

  the gradual withdrawal from Iraq. Enough to

> >> deserve the Nobel 

  Prize?”

> >> Center-left the Spiegel

> >> 

  <http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,654251,00.html>

> 

  >> (Germany): “The Nobel Peace Prize has come too early for 
  Barack

> >> Obama. The US president cannot point to any real 

  diplomatic

> >> successes to date and there are few prospects of 

  any to come.”

> >> National Post

> >> 

> 

  >> 
  <http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/10/09/jonathan-kay-giving-barack-obama-the-nobel-peace-prize-is-ridiculous.aspx>

> 

  >> (Canada): “Obama is being given his award for mere words — 
  for

> >> striking fashionable poses in favour of multilateralism, 

  for

> >> making a nice speech in Cairo, for offering “hope.” 

  Months after

> >> Americans learned to dismiss Obama’s 2008 

  presidential campaign

> >> slogans as the meaningless bromides 

  they were, Scandinavians are

> >> still drinking his 

  Kool-aid.”

> >>

> >> "*_most of those bankrupted by 

  medical problems had health

> >> insurance"_*

> >> 

  *_"Two-thirds were homeowners and three-fifths had gone to 

> >> 

  college."_*

> >> *_"Often illness led to job loss, and with it the 

  loss of health

> >> insurance."_*

> >> *Medical 

  problems contributed to nearly two-thirds (62.1 percent)

> >> of 

  all bankruptcies in 2007*, according to a study in the August

> >> 

  issue of the American Journal of Medicine that was published today

> 

  >> online. The data were collected prior to the current economic

> 

  >> downturn and hence likely understate the current burden of

> 

  >> financial suffering. Between 2001 and 2007, the proportion of 
  all

> >> bankruptcies attributable to medical problems rose by 

  49.6

> >> percent. The authors’ previous 2001 findings have been 

  widely

> >> cited by policy leaders, including President 

  Obama.

> >> *_Surprisingly, most of those bankrupted by medical 

  problems had

> >> health insurance. More than three-quarters (77.9 

  percent) were

> >> insured at the start of the bankrupting 

  illness,_* including 60.3

> >> percent who had private coverage. 

  Most of the medically bankrupt

> >> were solidly middle class 

  before financial disaster hit.

> >> *_Two-thirds were homeowners 

  and three-fifths had gone to

> >> college._* In many cases, high 

  medical bills coincided with a loss

> >> of income as illness 

  forced breadwinners to lose time from work.

> >> *_Often illness 

  led to job loss, and with it the loss of health

> >> 

  insurance._*

> >> From:

> >> 

> >> 

  http://discuss.epluribusmedia.net/content/more-medical-bankruptcy-have-insurance-go-bankrupt

> 

  >>

> >>

> >> "*_most of those bankrupted by 

  medical problems had health

> >> insurance"_*

> >> 

  *_"Two-thirds were homeowners and three-fifths had gone to 

> >> 

  college."_*

> >> *_"Often illness led to job loss, and with it the 

  loss of health

> >> insurance."_*

> >> *Medical 

  problems contributed to nearly two-thirds (62.1 percent)

> >> of 

  all bankruptcies in 2007*, according to a study in the August

> >> 

  issue of the American Journal of Medicine that was published today

> 

  >> online. The data were collected prior to the current economic

> 

  >> downturn and hence likely understate the current burden of

> 

  >> financial suffering. Between 2001 and 2007, the proportion of 
  all

> >> bankruptcies attributable to medical problems rose by 

  49.6

> >> percent. The authors’ previous 2001 findings have been 

  widely

> >> cited by policy leaders, including President 

  Obama.

> >> *_Surprisingly, most of those bankrupted by medical 

  problems had

> >> health insurance. More than three-quarters (77.9 

  percent) were

> >> insured at the start of the bankrupting 

  illness,_* including 60.3

> >> percent who had private coverage. 

  Most of the medically bankrupt

> >> were solidly middle class 

  before financial disaster hit.

> >> *_Two-thirds were homeowners 

  and three-fifths had gone to

> >> college._* In many cases, high 

  medical bills coincided with a loss

> >> of income as illness 

  forced breadwinners to lose time from work.

> >> *_Often illness 

  led to job loss, and with it the loss of health

> >> 

  insurance._*

> >> From:

> >> 

> >> 

  http://discuss.epluribusmedia.net/content/more-medical-bankruptcy-have-insurance-go-bankrupt

> 

  >>

> >>

> >>

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