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hey Dave --- wow -- this is such a loaded question for me. I'm American by birth, and Australian by choice. When I read stories about teachers in the USA packing food and putting it in students' backpacks (so they have something to eat after school), when I read that there were 17,000 foreclosures in Cook County, IL, when I read about the number of people sick and dying unable to afford healthcare, yeah, I wonder the same thing.
Are Americans in denial? Minimal corruption? What do you call what happens in Wall Street in connection to 'K' street in Washington? What are all those people in Occupy talking about?
Minimal corruption? What about the relationship between pharmaceutical companies and major hospital corporations? Insurance companies and doctor's groups?
I live in a country where health care is considered a human right, not the right of only the affluent.
How about the cozy relationships among promoters, record companies, agents, and lawyers in an industry based primarily in the USA?
I'll stop now. But food for thought.
Mel, who's re-listening to Give 'Em Enough Rope for a reason
