Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) ... "WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU ALL MAKE, WHAT YOU ALL DO, AND HOW YOU DO IT"

Politico:

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has sent letters to dozens of major health insurance companies demanding extensive financial data for an examination of 'executive compensation and other business practices in the health insurance industry.'

By Sept. 4, the firms are supposed to supply detailed compensation data for board members and top executives, as well as a 'table listing all conferences, retreats, or other events held outside company facilities from January 1, 2007, to the present that were paid for, reimbursed, or subsidized in whole or in part by your company.' For employees or officers making $500,000 or more, the committee wants information on salary, bonus, options and pension.

And by Sept. 14, the firms are supposed to provide copies of reports from compensation consultants, plus board drafts of compensation plans, and information about market share.

Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Bark Stupak (D-Mich.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, signed the three-page letters, dated Monday, and obtained by POLITICO's Carrie Budoff Brown.

And you, at home reading this .. when they ring your doorbell, and you did nothing because you imagined the insurance executives were some fat cat cretins, EVEN IF THEY ARE, when they ask you what you make so all your neighbors know all your life, and what you do to celebrate, or plan .. who will you see abou that or look to for help?

Who will have the temerity to object then?

OBJECT NOW !

The democratic majority wants power
over our daily lives, when they deem
it their business.

They have lost hold of the rope

2010

2010

13 comments:

midnight rider said...

They won't have to ask, Epa, if Obamacare goes through. I believe one of the provisions is that they will have direct access to your bank accounts etc. The banks will have to provide them that info.

And if the banks don't then they will just get it from their thug in arms -- The IRS

RESIST MUCH. OBEY LITTLE.

Pastorius said...

First they came for the Insurance Executives, and I did nothing because I was not an Insurance Executive ...


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IF NOT ME, THEN WHO?

...

Fuck this. If the Insurance companies comply with this, the people need to take matters into their own hands.

This is, perhaps, the most malevolent abuse of power yet.

Absolutely insane.

Epaminondas said...

They will say...it's nothing out of the ordinary, it's nothing that hasn't been done before, medicare money is paying for part of those salaries ...they will try to shush us like petulant children or those who need 'help'.

These people are truly dangerous extremists.

Massive public resistance is coming the likes of which hasn't been seen since the 70's ..and it's going to be very average people out there

midnight rider said...

I think this resistance may be worse than the 70's.

Anonymous said...

It will be much easier for the gov't to pilfer individual taxpayers since it already has access to personal bank accounts to withdraw payment for single payer health care coverage thru a 'convenience' provided by taxpayers when filing electronically with direct deposit of annual returns, social security checks, military pensions, etc. The One hath giveth - and likely WILL taketh away.

Pastorius said...

Epa,
Yes, I believe you are right.

And, as I wrote yesterday, this is a Centrist uprising (not based on amoral "Moderation" which is merely splitting the difference between the polar extremes of the day) based on Constitutionalism.

Members of both Parties are finding themselves left out. We are in the middle of two idiots, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

The American people have had enough. I'm saying it now. It will, as you say, manifest itself in the future. But, it won't be long.

This is, to quote John Wayne, "Re-god-damn-diculous."

Epaminondas said...

Anonymous, I think you just described a market for PRIVATE, non electronic banks, with numbered accounts, passwords and face to face only interactions

midnight rider said...

Ahem -- about those banks

"USB to Divulge More Than 4,000 Account Names"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32474087/ns/business-world_business

Epaminondas said...

The swiss are pussies

What makes you think such banks do not exist now?

HERE

For those who wish to ... avoid ..govt entanglements of any sort

Pastorius said...

HERE

Where?

:)

Epaminondas said...

I HOID TINGS

ZZMike said...

I keep forgetting - what form of government is is that deccides how much a company may pay its employees?

Pastorius said...

ZZMike,
I don't remember either. Maybe you should ask that Karl Marx guy.