Health care is our basic human right.
Now is the time to stand up and fight.
Put our money and our vote up on the line.
Get up on our feet and walk a picket line.

Dial a phone or write a letter,
Do it so every one will feel better.
Why should only the rich have medical care?
And the poor just die but republicans don’t care?

Get out of your chair and in to the street.
It is time for us all to vote with our feet.
Show and tell politicians, turn up the heat.
If we all fight together we can not be beat.

The Iraqis get universal health care,
The rules of war require that its there.
Prisoners in Git-mo get medical care.
But not all Americans that’s just not fair?

What about the hard working poor?
They need medical care for sure?
The system is broken it profits the greedy.
Let us fix the system to serve the needy.

While we are at it Health care for profit must go.
Single payer health care for all is the way to go.
Overhead and profit is just another poison pill.
We have had enough we have taken our fill.

Skyrocketing premiums, deductibles and co-pay,
Caused by advertising, profit and big CEO pay.
It must be stopped now and here is the fix.
There is a bill in the congress HR six seven six.

When you have two major parties with the same agenda, it really doesn’t matter a whole lot which one is in office, does it?

We need to be active in our unions, supportive of our brothers and sisters when they are under fire, and help the unorganized to get what we cherish—good paying jobs, affordable health care,retirement without poverty, and a strong middle class to build on. We need to rebuild a foundation that gives our children something besides a mountain of debt when they come out of school—jobs,jobs,jobs.

The more important question that must be asked now is this:

” The Working Class Has Spoken. Will President Trumka Listen?”

President Trumka has refused to listen to the delegates to the AFL-CIO
in Pittsburgh in September that unanimously voted to support “single-payer” health care legislation. He also refused to listen to the 500 plus union locals that voted for “single payer” Medicare-for-All. Mr. Trumka continues to support Obama’s “Health Care Reform”, with all it’s obvious faults, often posted on this blog.

There are powerful steps that Mr. Trumka, the AFL-CIO leadership, and the leadership of organized labor could easily take, if they would just listen to the explicit demands of union members. Organized labor must listen to the painful outcries and demands of millions of un-organized working, including many “middle-class” workers, as they and their families are being impoverished and destroyed the Obama and the Democratic Party.

This is the “listen” but more importantly to act! Organized labor leadership must now SPEAK OUT NOW and to ORGANIZE NOW to promote the economic interests of all working people. In the process, the organized trade union movement membership will undoubtedly increase and trade unions will become the powerful instrument of working class power.

Here are ACTIONS that the trade unions need to make, after listening and understanding, based on the needs of the working class today:

1. Announce that the AFL-CIO no longer supports Obama’s “Health Care Reform” in any form, and is supporting the legislation for “Medicare for All”
single payer health care.

2. Announce that the AFL-CIO no longer supports either Republican or Democratic Parties, as both are consumed with corrupt corporate money and interests. Neither party represents the economic interests of working people, organized or unorganized. Both corporate controlled parties have betrayed the vital economic needs of all working people, organized and unorganized.

3. The AFL-CIO realizes now that simple trade unionism and the struggle for a contract with an employer is now an inadequate strategy to meeting the needs of organized workers.

4. The struggle for economic betterment of organized working people must now be greatly expanded into a political struggle. Sociali Security, Medicare, minimum wages, OSHA safety conditions, section 8 housing support, pensions, unfair working conditions, etc. are all now protected and secured
from government legislation at federal, state and local levels of government.

5. Therefore, the AFL-CIO, along with other union organizations, under these dire economic and political conditions, is announcing a call for a founding convention of a new political party dedicated to promoting the economic and social interests of all working people, organized and unorganized. The new party, refusing all corporate money and agendas, will involve millions of working people in democratic political struggle to secure the vital needs of the people.

6. The the economic and social needs of working people never find a voice or expression in the corporate owned mass media or even the corporate controlled public media such as NPR and PBS. Thus a new effort to secure a democratic media, with daily programing on weekdays and weekends, will be undertaken. Working people desperately need easily accessed information and education to overcome the complete corporate suppression of working class perspectives on current affairs.

7. These steps above will ultimately result in an upsurge in the organization and power of the existing trade union movement.

But they sat on their Asses in Mass. and, after endorsing John McCain’s Tax on employee benefits, lost the Kenedy seat and any hope for Healthcare reform.

Next I expect we will hear from the DNC and AFL-CIO how we desperately need 101 votes in the Senate and 501 votes in the House to do anything for working men and women. And even then, the Democrats will still “screw it up”.

I am sick that I spent six weeks in Denver in 2008 General election, walking precincts for the “Yellow, Blue and Unworthy Dog” likes of a Udall. And in other states, where Labor helped the other “egg-sucking dog” Democrats who have so quickly abandon working men and women.

Guess what? We don’t need a “Filibuster Proof” Senate. Let the SOB’s stand in the Well of the Senate and read the phonebook. When the American public sees what they are doing there will be a real revolt. Rosevelt didn’t need 60 votes to pass the New Deal programs. Why does Harry Reid? Thank God, Nancy Pelosi is not bringing the Senate package before the Congress. No bill is better than the CRAP we are facing.

Senate Democrats SUCK EGGS !