Bottom line, health care reform in US is necessary, just like (almost) everywhere else. Unfortunately, the current administration is likely the most corrupted and mafia like in the last 80 - 100 years of the history of USA. That means that not much good will come out of it. Just that the apparently corrupted and profiling IRS is in charge of healthcare is very disturbing.
OK, off my soap box now.
In the last 100 years...wow... you really do have a short memory.
check em out for yourself but here are some highlights from the list of the previous "occupant".
If you check out the link you may notice the very long lists for G.W. Bush and Ronald Reagen. Everyone else, even Nixon's lists, are a lot shorter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scandals_in_the_United_StatesPlame affair (2004), in which CIA agent Valerie Plame's name was leaked by Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State, to the press in retaliation for her husband's criticism of the reports used by George W. Bush to legitimize the Iraq war. A CIA operation investigating Iranian nuclear programs was outed.
Yellowcake forgery: Just before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration presented evidence to the UN that Iraq was seeking material (yellowcake uranium) in Africa for making nuclear weapons. It was later determined to be
outright false.
Lewis Libby
Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney . 'Scooter' was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the Plame Affair on March 6, 2007
Cash Payment Scandal: On June 20, 2005, the staff of the Committee on Government Reform prepared a report that revealed that $12 billion in cash had been delivered to Iraq by C-130 planes, on shrinkwrapped pallets of US $100 bills. The United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, concluded that "Many of the funds appear to have been lost to corruption and waste.... Some of the funds could have enriched both criminals and insurgents...." Henry Waxman, commented, "Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone?" A single flight to Iraq on December 12, 2003, which contained $1.5 billion in cash is said to be the largest single Federal Reserve payout in US history.
Jack Abramoff Scandal in which the prominent lobbyist with close ties to Republican administration officials and legislators offered bribes as part of his lobbying efforts. Abramoff was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
NSA warrantless wiretapping. President George W. Bush implemented a secret program by the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on domestic telephone calls by American citizens without warrants, thus by-passing the FISA court which must approve all such actions. In 2010, Federal Judge Vaughn Walker ruled this practice to be illegal.
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Lawyergate" Or the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy refers to President Bush firing, without explanation, eleven Republican federal prosecutors whom he himself had appointed. It is alleged they were fired for prosecuting Republicans instead of Democrats.
And of course the biggest lie of all that led to the deaths of tens of thousands, many of them women and children.
2003 Invasion of Iraq depended on intelligence that Saddam Hussein was developing "weapons of mass destruction" (WMDs) meaning nuclear, chemical and/or biological weapons for offensive use. But the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy."
So 70CB750, you wanna explain your previous statement.
