So you are feel­ing real­ly sick, hor­ri­ble stom­ach cramps, you final­ly decide to take the advice of those who care about you and go see a med­ical Doctor.
After a bat­tery of tests the Doctor and his team explain that you have can­cer, at this point it is not ter­mi­nal but it could be real soon if a treat­ment reg­i­men is not embarked on immediately.
You are in shock , can­cer how could you end up with can­cer , sure you have been sick but can­cer? How could you poten­tial­ly be ter­mi­nal­ly ill , this kind of thing only hap­pen to oth­er people.
So in a daze you sat there as the Doctor explained the steps which must be tak­en imme­di­ate­ly if you are to have a chance of sur­vival, but you hard­ly heard a thing he said . Still in a daze you leave the Doctor’s office with­out agree­ing to any­thing the Doctor said or mak­ing appoint­ments to return for pro­fes­sion­al treatment.
Still in ter­ri­ble pain you go to the neigh­bor­hood cor­ner store, you pur­chase some over the counter pain killers you take a cou­ple with a drink of white-rum, all the time telling the shop­keep­er what you were just told and ask­ing her advice as you scoff at your Doctor’s sci­en­tif­ic findings.

She tells you to go get some cerasee tea and even­tu­al­ly gets you to pur­chase some she just con­ve­nient­ly has on hand. Doped up on the con­tents of the over the counter drugs and the poten­tial­ly dead­ly alco­hol com­bi­na­tion you feel some relief so you leave the cor­ner store and go to your neigh­bor’s house where you relate what you heard from your Doctor.
He laughs and tells you the doc­tor is an idiot , they don’t know what they are talk­ing about and he pro­ceed­ed to tell you about some­thing much bet­ter than any­thing the doc­tor could ever do for you.
He brings out a green con­coc­tion he has hid­den some­where in his house. He brags that it con­tains Ganga , White Rum and a whole slew of oth­er weeds and herbs. He pours you a small glass and you drink it down swift­ly all the time winc­ing at the hor­rif­ic taste.
Pretty soon the calm­ing effect of the drug and the addi­tion­al alco­hol tell your brain that it is work­ing on what­ev­er ails you. Unfortunately for you what is hap­pen­ing is that between the alco­hol the cannabis and the over the counter drug your brain con­vinced your body that the pain has sub­sided. When in fact you are only being lulled into a false sense of relief as the dan­ger­ous com­bi­na­tion is mere­ly cre­at­ing a calm­ing effect, but it is actu­al­ly still there.

You feel so great on the Ganga white Rum and pills that you ask your neigh­bor for the ingre­di­ents which he will­ing­ly and proud­ly gave to you . You went ahead and cre­at­ed your own witch’s brew which you con­tin­ue to take to calm the stom­ach cramps.
You do this for months and you feel some­what bet­ter but the pain nev­er real­ly goes away.
More or less it tends to sub­side when you take the con­coc­tion, how­ev­er you find that you have to drink more and more each time to achieve the same result.

One morn­ing you are unable to get out of bed the pain has become excru­ci­at­ing­ly unbear­able, you are unable to stand.
Your fam­i­ly rush­es you to the hos­pi­tal where you are admit­ted in crit­i­cal con­di­tion. Quick tests reveal that you do have can­cer. You tell the Medical team you want them to oper­ate , just do any­thing to rid you of the pain.
The team looks at you with a strange look on their faces, you won­der why it is that no one is say­ing any­thing . You can almost hear your own heartbeat.
After what seemed like an eter­ni­ty the lead Doctor breaks his silence.
There is no point in operating .
The can­cer has tak­en over your body.
You have only weeks to live.
He tells you he will have his team make you as com­fort­able as pos­si­ble, they silent­ly streamed out of the room… Unable to put your thoughts into a cohe­sive pat­tern you despair as you try to con­tem­plate what you will fell like dead.
If only you had act­ed when your fam­i­ly Doctor told you you had cancer.….….….….….….….….

AS YOU MAY HAVE IMAGINED.….

As you may have imag­ined ‚none of this hap­pened I con­jured it all up .
Why? Because this hypo­thet­i­cal exact­ly describes Jamaica’s crime crisis.
Sure Professionals have diag­nosed the prob­lem in a time­ly fashion.
Sure Professionals have giv­en their views on what needs to be done in order to save the coun­try. But in typ­i­cal Jamaican fash­ion they chose to get Law ‑enforce­ment advice from, butch­ers, bar­bers, farm­ers, vil­lage lawyers and every­one in between , instead of lis­ten­ing to the peo­ple who actu­al­ly know what the hell they are talk­ing about.

The truth of the mat­ter is that the peo­ple nev­er tru­ly respect­ed or cared about law-enforce­ment or it’s offi­cers. This is true from Jamaica House to grass-yard. The epi­dem­ic of crime , crim­i­nal tol­er­ance and mur­der is a cul­tur­al one and not one which can be erad­i­cat­ed quick­ly. It may require gen­er­a­tional change to ful­ly remove the crime cul­ture from the Island.
They nev­er respect­ed the police so they do not lis­ten to the police on polic­ing they go to every talk­ing head they find and ask how do you fix this crime prob­lem, because God for­bid they con­sult seri­ous­ly with Police about policing. …

Well the can­cer has set­tled in ‚no amount of bush doc­tor , jonkanoo, witch dak­ta or belief that Divine hands placed them in posi­tions to fix crime will change a damn thing. The fact is that if you don’t know what the hell you are doing you sim­ply don’t know.
No amount of wannabe police is going to fix our crime sit­u­a­tion,. Just days ago Doctors in the United States sep­a­rat­ed twin boys joined at the head . After over twen­ty hours of surgery they man­aged to sep­a­rate the boys successfully .
It was­n’t easy , it was­n’t quick but the par­ents damn sure did not ask the guys who worked in main­te­nance, impor­tant though they are, to per­form the oper­a­tion on their sons.
They chose the real pros.
No amount of white rum and gan­ja, or pon­tif­i­cat­ing jok­ers with expan­sive and lengthy argu­ments  is going to fix this prob­lem. They are part of the prob­lem, they have jobs because of crime . They have no inter­est in see­ing the back of crime.

In 2010 heav­i­ly armed mer­ce­nar­ies who rule the streets demon­strat­ed in no uncer­tain terms that they were pre­pared and capa­ble of defend­ing their turf. The burned Police sta­tions and mur­dered mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces.
In the end the Government held hear­ings on the advice of the nation­al secu­ri­ty sew­er work­ers, butch­ers, and farm­ers, hig­glers, doc­tors, jour­nal­ists and all in all bull­shit­ters [sic] on what the actu­al secu­ri­ty experts did wrong as the fought valiant­ly to annex one com­mu­ni­ty to the rest of the country.
In the end they ruled that those who burned police sta­tions , killed mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces should be com­pen­sat­ed mon­e­tar­i­ly and the coun­try should apol­o­gize to them as well.

The idea that the polit­i­cal forces on the Island in both polit­i­cal par­ties want to see the end of crime is the biggest bull­shit . Everyone has a stake in crime one way or the other.

Last Sunday an entire family of five were slaughtered and their home along March Pen Road in Spanish Town, burned to the ground. According to the Police for the last three consecutive weekends there have been acts of arson along March Pen Road.

According to the US, State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council [Crime through­out Jamaica maybe as a result of sev­er­al fac­tors: pover­ty, ret­ri­bu­tion, drugs, gangs and politics. 
Additionally, Organized crime and oth­er crim­i­nal ele­ments are preva­lent and extreme­ly active. Most crim­i­nal activ­i­ty is gang-relat­ed. The police are only able to resolve (make arrests) in 45 per­cent of homi­cides annu­al­ly, and they only con­vict per­pe­tra­tors in sev­en per­cent of the homi­cide cas­es. This leads both the pub­lic and police to doubt the effec­tive­ness of the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem lead­ing to vig­i­lan­tism, which only exac­er­bates the cycle of vio­lence. Based on their past expe­ri­ences, most civil­ians fear that at best, the author­i­ties can­not pro­tect them from orga­nized crim­i­nal ele­ments, and at worst, are col­lud­ing with crim­i­nals, lead­ing cit­i­zens to avoid giv­ing evi­dence or wit­ness testimonies.]

Having seen it first hand and fought it for a decade, I would say to the US State Department , “you hit the nail on the head but there is no maybe about the fac­tors which have cre­at­ed this dan­ger­ous Serengeti of violence”.
This assess­ment is a damn­ing indict­ment, not on our coun­try but on the Administrations which have han­dled the Island’s affairs since it was let go by Britain.
When a team screws up you don’t fire the team. Sure you may make a change here and there ‚but the prob­lem is always with­in the remit of the coach­ing staff.

Jamaica’s polit­i­cal lead­ers after Independence have been indis­tin­guish­able from lit­tle banana repub­lic strong­men. The kind every­one points to in Latin America, Africa and parts of Asia.
They have pret­ty much inter­pret­ed the pow­er giv­en to them to serve as author­i­ty to rule.
Both polit­i­cal par­ties have placed guns into the hands of crim­i­nals and insu­lat­ed them­selves from crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion by effec­tive­ly dis­man­tling the rule of law.

There are sev­er­al rea­sons why cas­es gets stalled in the system.
Incomplete pros­e­cu­tion case files ◊Missing wit­ness­es ◊ Overburdened Infrastructure ◊Defense coun­sels not being paid◊Accused crim­i­nals abscond­ing the juris­dic­tion, among others.
When we con­flate the afore­men­tioned and jux­ta­pose them with the lim­it­ed time that the high court sits in the abbre­vi­at­ed ses­sions, we have a bet­ter idea why there is such a huge back­log. One begins to get a bet­ter idea why such small num­bers of cas­es gets heard much less decided.
It gives us a bet­ter view of why even mur­der cas­es do not get heard as they should with the degree of dis­patch they deserve.
Did I also men­tion poor pri­or­i­ti­za­tion on the part of author­i­ties giv­en the exist­ing chal­lenges? Well that is also a part of the equation.

Nevertheless , none of the rea­sons which con­tribute to the back­log sin­gu­lar­ly or com­bined is enough to jus­ti­fy toss­ing a case as seri­ous as mur­der from the roster.
Look, I too believe that clear­ing the dock­et of all cas­es would give all con­cerned a fresh start . But as tempt­ing as that prospect is , it would only offer the polit­i­cal direc­torate and those who got the sys­tem bogged down in the morass in the first place a sec­ond chance at lethar­gy ‚lazi­ness, and corruption.

No amount of zeal and desire for a fresh start could ever jus­ti­fy toss­ing a mur­der case from the court dock­et sim­ply because we crave a fresh start , or worse that some bureau­crat desires to over­step his bounds .
There are sev­er­al ways that court dock­ets can be cleared with greater alacrity with­out deny­ing jus­tice to those whom have had their loved ones tak­en away from them.
First , get rid of the sil­ly Michaelmas , Hillary and Easter ses­sions and have Judges sit in courts on week­days in oth­er countries.
If nec­es­sary appoint more judges and sus­pend for a time the use of court­rooms used for res­i­dent mag­is­trate mat­ters . This can be done by effec­tive­ly using the plea-bar­gain tool, giv­ing low lev­el offend­ers the oppor­tu­ni­ty to accept a plea , pay a fine and move on with­out clog­ging the sys­tem. Doing so would effec­tive­ly free up court­room space and release the bot­tle­neck chock­ing off the dis­pen­sa­tion of justice.

The idea of throw­ing out cas­es in order to gain a fresh start is exact­ly the oppo­site of what the coun­try should be doing . It will encour­age cor­rup­tion. It will encour­age crim­i­nal offend­ers to stall their cas­es know­ing they will even­tu­al­ly be tossed.
Shockingly that is what the Island jus­tice Minister is advo­cat­ing. Which leads me to ask , ?whose inter­est does Delroy Chuck represent.
Delroy Chuck is not igno­rant to these facts, there­fore it must rea­son­ably be con­strued that his push is to absolve dan­ger­ous mur­der­ers using the office of the Minister of Justice to do it will not stand.
We can­not allow Delroy Chuck to use the peo­ple’s office to help Jamaica’s dan­ger­ous mur­der­ers to evade jus­tice . Chuck belongs in the hall of shame, in a coun­try of law this guy would be boot­ed from office for dar­ing to sug­gest what he has.,
This pub­li­ca­tion is call­ing on Prime Minister Andrew Holness to repu­di­ate the posi­tion of Delroy Chuck. And replace him with a pub­lic ser­vant who has the inter­est of Jamaica’s law abid­ing cit­i­zens at heart.

The coun­try does not need a jus­tice min­is­ter who advo­cates for crim­i­nals over decent law abid­ing citizens.

President Obama hit Republicans right between the eyes by explain­ing how birtherism and the GOP’s pol­i­tics of hate cre­at­ed Donald Trump.

I’ve actu­al­ly heard this argu­ment a num­ber of times. I have been blamed by Republicans for a lot of things, but being blamed for their pri­maries and who they’re select­ing for their par­ty is novel.

Look, I’ve said — I said it at the State of the Union that one of my regrets is the degree to which polar­iza­tion and the nasty tone of our pol­i­tics has accel­er­at­ed rather than waned over the course of the last sev­en and a half years. And I do all kinds of soul-search­ing in terms of are there things I can do bet­ter to make sure that we’re uni­fy­ing the coun­try. But I also have to say, Margaret, that, objec­tive­ly, it’s fair to say that the Republican polit­i­cal elites and many of the infor­ma­tion out­lets — social media, news out­lets, talk radio, tele­vi­sion sta­tions — have been feed­ing the Republican base for the last sev­en years a notion that every­thing I do is to be opposed; that coöper­a­tion or com­pro­mise some­how is a betray­al; that max­i­mal­ist, abso­lutist posi­tions on issues are polit­i­cal­ly advan­ta­geous; that there is a “them” out there and an “us,” and “them” are the folks who are caus­ing what­ev­er prob­lems you’re experiencing.

And the tone of that pol­i­tics — which I cer­tain­ly have not con­tributed to — I don’t think that I was the one to prompt ques­tions about my birth cer­tifi­cate, for exam­ple. I don’t remem­ber say­ing, hey, why don’t you ask me about that. Or why don’t you ques­tion whether I’m American, or whether I’m loy­al, or whether I have America’s best inter­ests at heart — those aren’t things that were prompt­ed by any actions of mine.

And so what you’re see­ing with­in the Republican Party is, to some degree, all those efforts over a course of time cre­at­ing an envi­ron­ment where some­body like a Donald Trump can thrive. He’s just doing more of what has been done for the last sev­en and a half years.

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So I am more than hap­py to own the respon­si­bil­i­ty as President, as the only office hold­er who was elect­ed by all the American peo­ple, to con­tin­ue to make efforts to bridge divides and help us find com­mon ground. As I’ve said before, I think that com­mon ground exists all across the coun­try. You see it every day in how peo­ple work togeth­er and live togeth­er and play togeth­er and raise their kids togeth­er. But what I’m not going to do is to val­i­date some notion that the Republican crack-up that’s been tak­ing place is a con­se­quence of actions that I’ve taken.

President Obama pinned the rise of Donald Trump square­ly on the Republican Party. Republicans decid­ed that they were going to embrace birtherism, obstruc­tion and hate as a polit­i­cal strat­e­gy. The soil that grew Donald Trump was fer­til­ized by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and every sin­gle elect­ed Republican who fol­lowed the lead of con­ser­v­a­tive media by embrac­ing Obama hate.

The bill has come due for sev­en years of Republican racial­ly divi­sive pol­i­tics. Donald Trump is doing noth­ing more than run­ning on all of the same posi­tions that Republican politi­cians used to win House and Senate elec­tions in 2010 and 2014. Donald Trump isn’t hijack­ing the Republican Party. He is a byprod­uct of the Republican Party.

Obama didn’t cre­ate Trump. The Republican reac­tion to the suc­cess of Obama’s pres­i­den­cy cre­at­ed Trump. Republicans blame Obama for every­thing, but they only have them­selves to blame for the rise of Donald Trump.

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Obama Leaves Republicans Reeling By Explaining How GOP Birtherism And Hate Built Trump

DOES THIS MAN LOOK LIKE A PRESIDENT TO YOU?

That this man has been allowed to be a representative of a major political party for the Presidency of the United States is beyond shocking , not just to many Americans but to people across the Globe who look on in utter horror. That such a hateful narcissist, misogynistic, Racist could emerge as the standard bearer of the Republican Party should however come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.

The Media Made This F**king Monster: How Phony Objectivity Helped Create Donald Trump

When the total­i­ty of Donald Trump’s char­ac­ter is summed up, by his own words and actions, it becomes clear­er each day that Hillary Clinton’s deplorable char­ac­ter­i­za­tion describes Trump quite appropriately,.
Who would argue that big­ot­ed Racists , and Misogynists are deplorable?

Who would argue against the fact that Donald Trump for President has been and always was a huge laugh­ing mat­ter for peo­ple all across the world.
Elements with­in the British Parliament wants Trump banned from enter­ing their country.
Imagine that with­in the con­text that England is America’s clos­est ally.

Republicans Cannot Now Deny The Monster They Created..

Benjamin Netanyahu Israel’s Prime Minister asked Trump not to vis­it that Country, albeit it was at a crit­i­cal time, when his pres­ence may have inflamed pas­sions and cre­at­ed violence.
Consider how­ev­er that a poten­tial American pres­i­den­t’s pres­ence could been seen to be that poten­tial­ly com­bustible has to account for something.
Israel may very well be America’s sec­ond clos­est ally.

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Consider that the peo­ple of America’s clos­est neigh­bor on it’s south­ern bor­der total­ly hates Donald Trump . Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto invit­ed Trump to his coun­try and was imme­di­ate­ly shocked by the vis­cer­al and angry response he received from the Mexican people.
Enrique Peña Nieto did not have the char­ac­ter to resign,. Nevertheless finance Minister Luis Videgaray, who alleged­ly arranged the vis­it stepped down as a result of the uproar Trump’s vis­it elicited.

Blacks Have Everything To Lose Under A Trump Presidency As Does Most Everyone Else.….

let’s look at Donald Trump’s racist 1989 cam­paign against the so-called Central Park five . Trump spent over a hun­dred thou­sand dol­lars on full page Ads in the city’s news­pa­pers call­ing for the death penal­ty of the lit­tle boys who were wrong­ly arrest­ed, and coerced into an unlaw­ful and ille­gal con­fes­sion with­out the ben­e­fit of lawyers or their par­ents present.
The old­est boy at the time was a devel­op­men­tal­ly chal­lenged 16 year old. The oth­er four were 15 and 14 years respectively.
Even after the boys had been con­vict­ed and served out their full sen­tences and were found to have been wrong­ly con­vict­ed he showed absolute­ly no com­pas­sion for his racist cam­paign against them .
It should also be not­ed that Trump called for the death penalty/​lynching of the boys even though the cen­tral Park vic­tim had not died . To this day Donald Trump refus­es to admit he was wrong.

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With respect to con­tin­ued police killings of unarmed Black men across America, Donald Trump called for tougher polic­ing tac­tics, includ­ing the use of the uncon­sti­tu­tion­al stop and frisk policy.
He labels Black People hope­less. Labels Mexicans Rapists and mur­der­ers. He wants to ban all Muslims from enter­ing America, sole­ly on the basis of their Muslim faith.
He berates and ridicules a gold-star fam­i­ly who sac­ri­ficed their only son who lost his life serv­ing in the nation’s armed forces./
He sur­rounds him­self with peo­ple like Rudolph Giuliani, and Newt Gingrich., Between him­self Giuliani and Gingrich they have nine mar­riages. That says some­thing about their so-called Christian val­ues or more appro­pri­ate­ly their lack thereof.

Other major sup­port­ers of Trump includes New Jersey’s Governor Chris Christie a major bul­ly who is alleged to have know and maybe con­spired to pun­ish a Fort Lee New Jersey Democratic Mayor who did not endorse him for re-elec­tion, by clos­ing lanes lead­ing into the George Washington Bridge.
The lane clo­sures cre­at­ed major con­ges­tion at the bridge and result­ed in much traf­fic prob­lems for Fort Lee.
One for­mer Christie loy­al­ist cur­rent­ly under indict­ment has tes­ti­fied that Christie absolute­ly knew about the lane closures .
Steve Bannon Alt Right func­tionary and for­mer­ly of the far right web­site Breitbart now co-con­trol Trump’s campaign.
Former FOX head hon­cho Roger Ailes who alleged­ly sex­u­al­ly harassed mul­ti­ple female employ­ees of the mis­in­for­ma­tion net­work , cost­ing the com­pa­ny tens of mil­lions, now also report­ed­ly advis­es Trump.
At what point does vot­ers start ask­ing them­selves whether this is the pres­i­dent they want.

Trump knows he has a sol­id block of core sup­port­ers who do not care about any­thing he ever says or does. He allud­ed to that say­ing “I could shoot some­one in the mid­dle of 5^th avenue and I would­n’t lose a sin­gle supporter” .
These are the deplorables who absolute­ly hates every­one who does not look like them or believe what they believe. These are they who blame every­one but them­selves for their lack of upward mobility.
Ultimately every ratio­nal vot­er has to deter­mine whether this vile crea­ture is a poten­tial America President.

There are a million ways one can be complimentary of something without saying outlandish things which may be construed as controversial. I have always believed that the best way to find out what people really think is to let them speak without interrupting them , by and large they will tell you who they are and what they really believe.

Former President Bill Clinton was once char­ac­ter­ized as the Explainer in chief by no oth­er than cur­rent President Barack Obama. Coming from President Barack Obama that is a glow­ing endorse­ment that Bill Clinton is incred­i­bly capa­ble of artic­u­lat­ing a point , prob­a­bly more so than many.
Nobody believe Bill Clinton has a prob­lem say­ing exact­ly what he wants to convey,hence that is the rea­son his com­ments regard­ing the Affordable Care Act legit­i­mate­ly rais­es eyebrows.

Here’s the Clinton Flint, Michigan, speech last Monday.

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[The cur­rent sys­tem works fine if you’re eli­gi­ble for Medicaid, if you’re a low­er-income work­ing per­son, if you’re already on Medicare, or if you get enough sub­si­dies on a mod­est income that you can afford your health care. But the peo­ple that are get­ting killed in this deal are small busi­ness­peo­ple and indi­vid­u­als who make just a lit­tle too much to get any of these sub­si­dies. So you’ve got this crazy sys­tem where all of a sud­den, 25 mil­lion more peo­ple have health care and then the peo­ple that are out there bust­ing it ― some­times 60 hours a week ― wind up with their pre­mi­ums dou­bled and their cov­er­age cut in half. It’s the cra­zi­est thing in the world.

Now the next thing is, we got to fig­ure out now what to do on health care. Her oppo­nent said, ‘Oh, just repeal it all. The mar­ket will take care of it.’ That didn’t work out very well for us, did it? We wound up with the most expen­sive sys­tem in the world and we insured the small­est per­cent­age of peo­ple. On the oth­er hand, the cur­rent sys­tem works fine if you’re eli­gi­ble for Medicaid, if you’re a low­er income work­ing per­son, if you’re already on Medicare, or if you get enough sub­si­dies on a mod­est income that you can afford your health care.

But the peo­ple that are get­ting killed in this deal are small busi­ness­peo­ple and indi­vid­u­als who make just a lit­tle too much to get any of these sub­si­dies. Why? Because they’re not orga­nized, they don’t have any bar­gain­ing pow­er with insur­ance com­pa­nies, and they’re get­ting whacked. So you’ve got this crazy sys­tem where all of a sud­den, 25 mil­lion more peo­ple have health care and then the peo­ple that are out there bust­ing it ― some­times 60 hours a week ― wind up with their pre­mi­ums dou­bled and their cov­er­age cut in half. It’s the cra­zi­est thing in the world so here’s the sim­plest thing ― you raise your hands, you think about it ― here’s the sim­plest thing: fig­ure out an afford­able rate and let peo­ple use that ― some­thing that won’t under­mine your qual­i­ty of life, won’t inter­fere with your abil­i­ty to make expens­es, won’t inter­fere with your abil­i­ty to save mon­ey for your kid’s col­lege edu­ca­tion. And let peo­ple buy in to Medicare or Medicaid.

Here’s why: you can let peo­ple buy in for just a lit­tle bit because unlike where you are now, if you were on the oth­er side of this, if you were an insur­er, you’d say, ‘Gosh, I only got 2,000 peo­ple in this lit­tle pool. Eighty per­cent of insur­ance costs every year come from 20 per­cent of the peo­ple. If I get unlucky in the pool, I’ll lose mon­ey.’ So they over­charge you just to make sure, and on good years, they just make a whop­ping prof­it from the peo­ple who are least able to pay it.

It doesn’t make any sense. The insur­ance mod­el doesn’t work here; it’s not like life insur­ance, it’s not like casu­al­ties, it’s not like pre­dict­ing flood­ing. It doesn’t work. So Hillary believes we should sim­ply let peo­ple who are above the line for get­ting these sub­si­dies have access to afford­able entry into the Medicare and Medicaid pro­grams. They’ll all be cov­ered, it will not hurt the pro­gram, we will not lose a lot of mon­ey. And we ought to do it.

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I think his health care bill has been a remark­able suc­cess for 25 mil­lion peo­ple, and for get­ting rid of pre-exist­ing con­di­tions, and the prob­lems with it show why the pres­i­dent was right to rec­om­mend a pub­lic option in the first place because the only real prob­lems I can see with it are small busi­ness­peo­ple and indi­vid­ual work­ing peo­ple just above the sub­sidy line are hav­ing. Why is that? Because they’re small, they’re inde­pen­dent, they do have any mar­ket pow­er vis a vis the insur­ance com­pa­nies, and that’s why Hillary said, “The change we need is not to wreck this thing and repeal it. It’s done too much good. The change we need is to cre­ate an afford­able option for the small busi­ness peo­ple and the work­ing peo­ple who are not cov­ered ― that’s what the pub­lic opin­ion is about.

Keep in mind, when the oth­er side com­plains about that, if they just pay these peo­ple some­thing they can afford, it will cov­er well over 90 per­cent of the costs of the expan­sion of Medicare or Medicaid or both. Why? Because there’s a huge pool. This is one place where his adjec­tive works. This is real­ly impor­tant ― there’s a ‘huge’ pool, and the eco­nom­ics of health care are as fol­lows: in any giv­en year, more than 80 per­cent of the costs are claimed by 20 per­cent of the peo­ple. It’s just a shift­ing 20 per­cent. That means if you have a small pool, it’s impos­si­ble to price right. It doesn’t work, it’s not like life or casu­al­ty or prop­er­ty or oth­er insur­ance, which is why there should be a pub­lic opin­ion, and it will either be avail­able to peo­ple, or the pri­vate insur­ance com­pa­nies will fig­ure out how to reor­ga­nize them­selves and put peo­ple into huge pools to compete.]

Look Bill Clinton is nobody’s fool he bad­ly wants his wife to be President . Bill Clinton will do any­thing includ­ing run­ning as a block­er for his wife’s cam­paign . Fans of the Netflix series house of cards may find some sim­i­lar­i­ties between the Clinton’s Political life and that of the fic­tion­al cou­ple the Underwoods played by Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.

Bill Clinton under­stands that the Affordable Care Act is less than per­fect. Now this is part­ly because of the Intransigence of some Republican Governors. Bill Clinton I believe under­stands his wife owns this law as much as President Obama, she also strug­gles might­i­ly with white male vot­ers , who bet­ter to speak to those white men than Bill Clinton?
I esti­mate that Bill Clinton wants to insu­late his wife from what­ev­er neg­a­tives that are out there against the ACA.
There was absolute­ly no rea­son for him to say So you’ve got this crazy sys­tem where all of a sud­den, 25 mil­lion more peo­ple have health care and then the peo­ple that are out there bust­ing it ― some­times 60 hours a week ― wind up with their pre­mi­ums dou­bled and their cov­er­age cut in half. It’s the cra­zi­est thing in the world so here’s the sim­plest thing ―

His speech was fine with­out it and he knows it, it was total­ly unnec­es­sary and most peo­ple under­stands that.
Bill Clinton’s lega­cy is some­times lost in the shuf­fle, Clinton see him­self as a great President, yet the con­ver­sa­tions on Presidents are gen­er­al­ly cen­tered between Ronald Reagan , George W Bush and Barack Obama. Somewhere in that shuf­fle Bill’s pres­i­den­cy gets lost.

It’s not the only time that Bill Clinton had to do clean up after deliv­er­ing a speech . Speaking in Spokane Washington last March clin­ton said the following .
[“Now, if you don’t believe we can all grow togeth­er again, if you don’t believe we’re ever going to grow again, if you believe it’s more impor­tant to re-lit­i­gate the past, there may be many rea­sons that you don’t want to sup­port her. But if you believe we can all rise togeth­er, if you believe we’ve final­ly come to the point where we can put the awful lega­cy of the last eight years behind us and the sev­en years before that — when we were prac­tic­ing trick­le-down eco­nom­ics and no reg­u­la­tion in Washington which is what caused the crash — then you should vote for her because she’s the only per­son who basi­cal­ly has good ideas, will tell you how she’s going to pay for them, can be com­man­der-in-chief and is a proven change-mak­er with Republicans and Democrats and inde­pen­dents alike.”]

Many saw those com­ments as an attack on the stew­ard­ship of President Barack Obama. Clinton and his peo­ple were forced to clar­i­fy that he was speak­ing to Republicans unprece­dent­ed obstruc­tion these last eight years is their lega­cy, and the American peo­ple should reject it by elect­ing Hillary Clinton to build on President Obama’s suc­cess so we can all grow and suc­ceed together.”
The fact of the mat­ter is Clinton did not say any­thing about Republican Obstruction but in fact said the awful lega­cy of the past eight years and the pre­vi­ous sev­en years. Even if by some stretch of log­ic one is able to accept that the last eight years com­ment could be assigned to Republican obstruc­tion­ism, what do you do with the sev­en years before that .
One would have to accept that Bill Clinton was say­ing that the Republican Congress was obstruct­ing the Bush Presidency , which is not sup­port­ed by nei­ther fact nor logic.
Like I said let peo­ple speak and they will tell you how they real­ly feel.

My dis­trust of Bill Clinton may not square with many Democrats, truth­ful­ly many peo­ple see Bill as the first Black President or a sort of hon­orary black of sorts.
I don’t.
Bill and Hillary Clinton are two incred­i­bly ambi­tious peo­ple who wants to win at all cost. I believe nei­ther of them are nec­es­sar­i­ly bad peo­ple, they are just two peo­ple who will do what they must to win.
If that include diss­ing the afford­able care act, diss­ing Obama’s pres­i­den­cy, or ditch­ing the TPP as Hillary now does then so be it.
Bill Clinton, the first Black President[sic] had no prob­lem diss­ing sis­ter soul­ja in 92.
He had no prob­lem telling Senator Ted Kennedy in 2008 that the only rea­son he was sup­port­ing Barack Obama for President was because he was black.
He had no prob­lem telling Senator Kennedy that “A few years ago, this guy would have been get­ting us cof­fee,” the for­mer pres­i­dent told the lib­er­al lion from Massachusetts, accord­ing to the cam­paign book, “Game Change.”

Yeah , I’m sor­ry but I view Bill Clinton’s com­ments with far more cyn­i­cism and skep­ti­cism than the aver­age cen­ter left per­son does and I believe with prop­er justification.
But then again I may be wrong.

When Criminals break the law they ought to know they will be pun­ished . They ought to know they will be caught, not may be caught . They ought to know it’s not a mat­ter of if , but a mat­ter of when.

That was the atti­tude I brought to law-enforce­ment back in my day , it ought to be the atti­tude of police today and going forward.
When the Commissioner of Police said that no stones will be left unturned until Duppy Film is brought to jus­tice for killing two police offi­cers he ought to have meant it.
He ought not only mean it but he should only say it if he has the means to deliv­er on his promise.
Almost a year lat­er the name Duppy Film is a dis­tant mem­o­ry . Neither the Commissioner of Police nor his band of over­weight kha­ki wear­ing paper tigers both­er to talk about this assas­sin who sum­mar­i­ly exe­cut­ed two law-enforce­ment offi­cers with­out consequence.

As for me I would not have promised what the Commissioner of Police promised. Not only because I under­stood from the get go that the Commissioner was speak­ing from the side of his mouth to appease the offi­cer’s fam­i­lies . I would most cer­tain­ly have pref­ered bring­ing jus­tice to him period.
Those who like to pon­tif­i­cate and pre­tend that Jamaica is a place in which Policing can be done as it is in Scandinavia are free to exist in that utopi­an bub­ble, I share no such belief.

I am going to haz­ard a guess that cop killers would cer­tain­ly not be on the loose dur­ing the days of Anthony Hewitt , Isiah Laing , Cornwall (big­ga) Ford, OC Hare, Altamoth (par­ra )Campbell  and the long list of valiant crime fight­ers who kept the streets safe and crim­i­nals in their place.
The self appoint­ed moral­ists can argue all they want. It does not change the fact that crime was kept to a min­i­mum and they ben­e­fit­ted from the low­er mur­der numbers.

Jamaica has got to be the only place on Earth which looks for polic­ing solu­tions and strate­gies from talk­ing heads rather than those who are actu­al­ly trained in the dis­ci­pline and have lived the experience.
It’s lit­tle won­der that they passed a law sup­pos­ed­ly to catch crim­i­nal cops , throw­ing out con­cerns from good cops and hav­ing the law increase crime expo­nen­tial­ly as a result..
If the polit­i­cal class want­ed a lid on crime as they con­tem­plat­ed a sec­ond polic­ing agency, they would cer­tain­ly have empow­ered that agency to go after all crim­i­nals , like the FBI is empowered.

As many aver­age Jamaicans have allud­ed, the laws are designed to oppress the poor­er class while ren­der­ing the upper class untouchable.
Today that upper class char­ac­ter­i­za­tion has been reduced to any two-bit lawyer or polit­i­cal thug.
If you know some­one who know some­one who know some­one in pow­er you are untouch­able. Our coun­try is no dif­fer­ent than a sub-Saharan tin-pan dictatorship.

Murder is the top­ic of dis­cus­sion once again as was in 2010 when it reached a crescen­do lead­ing up to the Tivoli Gardens annex­a­tion to Jamaica . Front and cen­ter in the con­ver­sa­tion are the same cheap hus­tlers who play both sides of the conversation.\
Hustlers like Horace Levy has long been seen as a rel­e­vant voice in the dis­cus­sion as it relates to the Island’s impov­er­ished neigh­bor­hoods , crime and gangs.
Levy once head­ed a NGO called the Peace Management Initiative.

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As head of that NGO Levy found a seat at the table on the nation­al dis­course on crime, it also gave him a pow­er­ful mega­phone much like JFJ and oth­er hus­tlers have been allowed to dom­i­nate the con­ver­sa­tion to the detri­ment of the Island.
As a con­se­quence of hav­ing that mega­phone Horace Levy joined the long line of anti-police antag­o­nists who use their perch to demo­nize the police and ele­vate criminals.
Levy has led a vis­cer­al cam­paign against the Jamaica Constabulary Force, bur­nish­ing his image as a sav­ior of sorts for the down­trod­den while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly ensur­ing his rel­e­vance with­in the con­text of what exist on the Island.
https://mikebeckles.com/looking-to-continue-eating-a-food‑2/

Horace Levy vis­cer­al­ly exco­ri­at­ed the Police’ assess­ment of what con­sti­tut­ed Gangs in many of the Island’s depressed com­mu­ni­ties back in 2013. In a delib­er­a­tive push­back Levy said much of what the police count­ed as active gangs were what he char­ac­ter­ized as Corner Crews.
In a let­ter to then Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington, Levy said the following.

Some ques­tions for the police, the com­mis­sion­er of police, the min­is­ter of nation­al secu­ri­ty, and the peo­ple of Jamaica: Does every police encounter with crim­i­nals have to involve a shoot-out? Must every police encounter with crim­i­nals require the use of lethal force? Are our crim­i­nals real­ly so more vicious than crim­i­nals in oth­er coun­tries that they can only be dealt with by lethal force? How come our more vicious crim­i­nals man­age to shoot so few police? How much longer will Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington go on sup­port­ing, even encour­ag­ing, the killings car­ried out by his men? How much longer will Minister of National Security Peter Bunting go on endors­ing the behav­ior of Commissioner of Police Ellington? How much longer will our cit­i­zens go on tol­er­at­ing this kind of wan­ton killing of fel­low cit­i­zens? Is the blood of only a few of us boil­ing? If this can hap­pen in the first two weeks of the year, what will the oth­er 50 be like?

At the time Horace Levy berat­ed the Jamaican Police for bat­tling the Island’s urban killers in which he out­right said not enough cops are being killed in their encoun­ters with criminals.
These were some of the crime num­bers which exist­ed between the years 2001 to 2008, 2001 – 2008.
Reported Cases of Murder : 10, 836
Shootings : 11,229
Rape and Carnal Abuse: 9119

At the time Levy wrote that let­ter no one chal­lenged Levy on the insan­i­ty that more police offi­cers should be get­ting shot if the num­ber of armed men they were elim­i­nat­ing were actu­al­ly tru­ly engag­ing them in shoot-outs.
Without one scin­til­la of evi­dence this line of ghast­ly rea­son­ing was allowed to pre­vail with­out the prop­er lev­el of out­rage which should have been attached to it.
I can­not think of any oth­er coun­try in which this line of argu­ment would have been allowed to con­tin­ue , much less com­ing from agen­cies of Government which are tax­pay­er sup­port­ed as the Public defend­er’s office is.
No one except this hum­ble writer both­ered to chal­lenge that notion because it was the pre­vail­ing belief of lit­er­al­ly all who hat­ed police, includ­ing the head of the tax­pay­er fund­ed office of pub­lic defend­er at the time Earl Witter and the long list of peo­ple who gained rel­e­vance by say­ing they were for human rights.

Today crime is out of con­trol, the Island is awash in guns, the Police is effec­tive­ly hol­lowed out to a shell of its for­mer effec­tive­ness , and lord knows it was far from perfect.
The Island’s killers don’t both­er to hide their faces when they parade their weapons, or when they kill .Why should they ‚who is going to go get them?
There are effec­tive tax­pay­er fund­ed safe­guards against them being pur­sued , pros­e­cut­ed much less tak­en out.
The American Federal Bureau Of Investigations(FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Agency(DEA) will now be oper­at­ing sup­pos­ed­ly out of the American Embassy in Kingston.
There has been next to no dis­cus­sion on the Sovereignty issue inher­ent in this revelation .
The mut­ed whim­pers I have heard all seem to sug­gest well we’ll take any help we can get.

In Tuesday’s Edition of the Jamaica Gleaner Horace Levy’s nar­ra­tive has seem­ing­ly come full cir­cle . In a ram­bling dia­tribe titled: Containment Not Good Enough.
Levy said quote:

Minister Bobby Montague’s pre­sen­ta­tion in Parliament last week on the mea­sures tak­en to stem the vio­lence in west­ern Jamaica was detailed and com­pre­hen­sive. It seems to have sat­is­fied most peo­ple that the min­is­ter, the police, the Government are on top of the prob­lem. The real­ly sad thing is that sat­is­fac­tion. It is because the vio­lence, grim as it is, 100 mur­ders a month and climb­ing is treat­ed as intractable. It has been with us for so long that it has become a fix­ture in our envi­ron­ment, a grin-and-bear-it unease. So the counter-vio­lence pre­scrip­tions, which focus sole­ly on repres­sion and con­tain­ment, are tak­en as suf­fi­cient. It is not even noticed that con­tain­ing for a time is all they are doing.
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In brief ‚Horace Levy demand­ed to know why was­n’t the slip­pery slide into anar­chy prevented.
Ha for the free­dom to chat shit and not be held accountable .…
Horace Levy sim­ply believe that as always no one notices that he is play­ing both sides for his per­son­al ben­e­fit. In the end Horace Levy’s com­ments not only showed his polit­i­cal stripes it reveals for the coun­try the hypocrisy of these leech­es who play the sys­tem for all it’s worth for their own use and benefit .
Sorry Horace Levy not every Jamaican is igno­rant or blind to what you are doing. You can­not have it both ways.
I see you.….….….….…..