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Yes, indeed, Obamacare is a disaster.
Link?
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/how-america-reduced-health-care-spending-by-2-trillion/390771/
of course Obamacare has helped tremendously. It was the right thing to do and future Dems should run on it. Though some of them will be too stupid to see the sense of that.
But, though R’s have lost that argument and several others lately, it’s not going to change their rhetoric on the guvmint, “takers” like you and me, and who should benefit from and how we maintain this capitalist democracy.
And the fact that Obamacare is “working” is beside the point for our Modern Day Republican Tea Party Cons. Republican “thinkers” now regularly express the idea that almost any government income is a “taking” that is depriving someone of their hard-earned and sacrosanct wealth. (Social Security taxes don’t count, because they all pay them too. But, that’s also another target for elimination by R’s. See below.)
And almost any government outlay is an illegal redistribution of that ill-gotten income. So, even though it might be “working”, Obamacare, and S-CHIP, and Medicare and Medicaid are also in this group of government programs that should be eliminated. Of course, tax credits that go to large corporations, tax laws that shield their overseas profits, accounting tricks that count millions of dollars in stock options going to CEOs as a business cost are all super-duper OK with these same Republicans.
Not to mention privatization, giving war contracts to the company you just left, and shifting pension funds into private and friendly hands.
And the last of the big, bad government programs that redistributes wealth from the hard-working job creators to the lazy takers is Social Security, which Republicans have lied about since before it was enacted up until this very day. (Randi Rhodes used to say this all the time, and if she’s still on she’s still saying it.) Even though this program has saved and prolonged countless lives, brought the elderly out of poverty, and paid for children who would’ve been left destitute, it’s wrong philosophically, it should not be a government function (the churches will handle it, right?), and therefore it should be eliminated.
And therefore Republican Tea Party Cons will lie about until the end of time:
Exactly. But FDR knew his adversaries, and seemingly could also see into the future:
Rule of Law. But that’s a concept that Republicans only support when they’re trying to do something else.
Social Security works as intended and marked the beginning of America’s rise to world class leadership and to the rise of the Middle Class as a millennial force of society. Republicans want to eliminate it.
Obamacare works. Republicans want to eliminate it.
S-CHIP works. Republicans want to eliminate it. And on and on.
And the worst thing is that when Dems agree with Republicans on these key arguments about the most critical and basic of government functions they make the survival of these important, life-saving, common-sense programs much more difficult than they should be.
That’s no lie.
Republican House attempting to execute that very plan based on their current operating principles
and the “I’ve Got Mine” coalition who helps elected R’s like Boehner and McConell with their stated goal of removing the ACA root and branch:
Leonhart is stepping down…
Excellent!
The Post is reporting that there’s an arrest warrant out for Mr. TABOR in connection w/ his assaulting that woman while leaving court during his probation revocation hearing earlier this month.
More good news!
Wonder if we could get rid of TABOR on the grounds that it’s just too humiliating to have this guy immortalized in our state constitution?