Big Pharma Awards Pelosi For Her Loyalty & Amazon Ramps Up It's Union Busting Efforts

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was recently given an award by the healthcare industry for working tirelessly – for years – to prevent REAL healthcare reform that would provide relief to consumers from happening. Also, according to the latest data, Amazon spent $14 million dollars last year to fight labor unions, the largest amount in a single year, according to labor researchers. The anti-union industry is big business, and Amazon is their best customer. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi was recently given an award by the healthcare industry for working tirelessly for years to prevent real healthcare reform. And they wanted to give her an award for providing no relief to consumers for all the terrible things that have been done to consumers by the industry. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins joins me to talk about what's happening on this issue. There's no other way to put it. She was rewarded for being a corporate thug. I mean, she was given this award, what was it, you know, most likely to succeed, hell, I don't know. For being a corporate thug, right?

Yeah. The, it's the AHA, the American Hospital Association, which is not really an association. It's a lobbying group. It's where the high dollar hospitals put all their money to then go and whine and dine people like Nancy Pelosi and David Axelrod and Karl Rove to make sure that nothing happens. And I threw in those other names because those people also happen to be present at this wonderful little gathering that Nancy Pelosi received her prestigious award for continuing to screw over the American public. We had the numbers last time she was speaker to get Medicare For All and make it a reality, or at least bring it to the floor for a vote, and she wouldn't even do that.

Everybody you just described, especially the lizard like character Carville, they've just, they used to be progressives. And then all of a sudden, this situation, for example, it's like every situation, the hospital industry comes in with $130 million, starts spreading it around. And all they say is to Pelosi, look, we want to, here's what she did. Let's be real specific. She blocked Medicare For All. She was the one that blocked it. She had a very strong voice in it. She stopped lowering medicine, oh yeah, we're gonna lower Medicare eligibility to where we had, you know, you could get Medicare earlier. But that's bad for the hospital industry, you see, because then they can't make a claim in insurance. So it's all about money there. She stopped that. She stopped the Dems from voting on public options. Stopped that. She gave, government run insurance plan, she stopped that. And so for doing all these wonderful things that did nothing at all for consumers. Now this is our Democrat, again, you Democrats out there that get so angry when I talk about Democrats. If this is okay with you, so be it. But this woman had more to do with stopping reform in the healthcare industry than anybody I can name. And they're mostly Democrats that did it.

I know. And if you're a Democrat and you're mad that we're telling you the truth about Nancy Pelosi.

Oh, go somewhere else. Go to another site.

Well, what I was gonna say, just wait till the next time you open up that bill you get from the doctor's office or the hospital. Then tell me if you feel the same as you do right now that we're mad that we're talking about this because Pelosi is responsible. As the speaker, everything that did or did not happen in that House lands on her.

Right.

And that's what people have to understand. Just like today, it's Kevin McCarthy. What happens or doesn't happen, it's on him.

That's right.

When she was in charge, it was on her and this is on her. And that's why she got rewarded.

Yeah. And if you can't handle it, go to another site. Okay. Because we're just, this is what we do. We call balls and strikes. I'm way progressive. You're way progressive. But I'm not gonna be a cheerleader for Democrats when they do this kind of stuff.