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How are we supposed to get anything done with health care reform with ridiculous attitudes like this? (Think Progress):
During a townhall in Waukon, IA Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was asked by a constituent of his: “Why is your insurance so much cheaper than my insurance and so better than my insurance?” When Grassley struggled to explain the details of his own health care plan, the elderly man followed up, “Okay, so how come I can’t have the same thing you have?” Grassley said, “You can. Just go work for the federal government.”
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Let them eat cake!!
I thought these were the peoplewho worshipped the glory of the private sector.
As long …… as we allow the anti-health-care-reform-lobby to purposefully confuse ‘solidarity’ with ‘socialism’, nothing will change. The word ‘socialism’ seems to switch off any logical thinking in the majority’s brains and make them instinctively check for their guns.
Socialism is fine for Republican insidersbut not those that they serve….
Lol – no, that’s not socialism …… that’s just a fair reward for the valuable services they provide to their constituents and the country as such
I hope Senator Grassley’s enjoying his last termComments like that are gifts to any opponent with a competent campaign staff.
I hate to say itbut I don’t want Grassley to go. He seems to be the only one steadfastly targeting my industry (pharma) for its transgression and without him I see pharma getting away with so much more.
Oh myThis needs to become a TV advertisement for a public option.
Go work for the fedsBut of course you won’t be able to cover your ss partner of any legal status because the federal government doesn’t recognize their IS a legal relationship…So thanks but no thanks Senator.
I used to.They unceremoniously dumped me after I spent a day and a half in ICU for what they say is cause, and I still maintain is discrimination.
We need socialized medicine for everyone, not just Congress, the Supremes and the White House.But we’re not going to get it anytime soon. Or guarantees of nutrition for seniors and children. Or housing for the homeless. Or repeal of DOMA and DADT. Or an end to the oil wars.
All that becomes less and less likely as the US economy careens closer to depression. The looter class was unleashed by Clintons deregulation, began looting in earnest under Bush’s sympathetic gaze and was rewarded by Obama with trillions to make good their self-inflicted financial wounds.
The Wall Street Journal warned that as soon Clinton signed the 1999 deregulation bill taht
What working people acquired is looking a lot like a depression.
Unemployment is growing at about 500,000 to 750,000 per month and now stands at 9.5%. A measure of how close the Clinton-Bush-Obama recession is to becoming a depression is the ‘real’ rate, measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ “Alternative measures of labor underutilization”, at 16.5%. That figure is still undercounted because it doesn’t include immigrant and imported workers. By way of comparison in 1931, well into the Great Depression, the GNP was falling steadily, down 8.5% from 1930 and unemployment rose to 15.9%.
The economic tidal wave is overrunning the abilities of many states to operate. Seven can’t even pass budgets because of unprecedented deficits; California (budget deficit-$24 billion), Illinois ($9.2 billion), Pennsylvania ($4.8 billion), North Carolina ($4.6 billion), Connecticut ($4.1 billion), Ohio ($3.3 billion) and Mississippi ($480 million).
Welfare and social services aren’t increasing and are even being slashed in response to the deepening economic crisis.
A new depression combined with a bevy of unwinnable wars will be the political graveyard of the twin parties of the looting class.