He – and Congress – needs to remember that those 23 million people will vote. (If they haven’t died first. Hmp. Maybe that’s what they’re counting on.)
A clever twist on the saying “two birds with one stone”.. here we get rid of those free loading scum and.. give a decent tax break to the deserving rich.
The difference between Democratic and Republican administrations. The lefties try and help the poor, the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions. The righties see them as income sources to be sucked dry and left for dead.
Also, as expressed by REPUBLICAN Senator Daniel J.Morrell of Pennsylvania in the 1860s; In his first speech in Congress Mr. Morrell uttered the following plea for labor: “The American workingman must live in a house, not a hut; he must wear decent clothes and eat wholesome and nourishing food. He is an integral part of the municipality, the State, and the Nation; subject to no fetters of class or caste; neither pauper, nor peasant, nor serf, but a free American citizen. He has the ballot, and if it were possible it would be dangerous to degrade him. The country stands pledged to give him education, political power, and a higher form of life than foreign nations accord their laborers, and he must be sustained by higher rates of wages than those of Europe. Our industries operated by American citizens must be freed from foreign interference and organized into a distinct American system, which will exact some temporary sacrifices but result in general prosperity and true national independence. In maintaining diversified industries we utilize every talent, provide a field for every capacity, and bind together the whole people in mutual dependence and support, assuring the strength and security of our Republic.” THIS is the reality of “Then”! Sadly, we shall NEVER see it again.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was flawed from the outset as it was taken from a blueprint produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation and was a Republican plan designed to aid the Insurance Industry and only incidentally help the public. Used, initially, By Willard Mitt Romney while governor of Massachusetts, it was modified to fit a national population and was passed (barely) by Congress and signed into law by President Obama, like ALL massive pieces of legislation, it needed tweaks and fixes but the Republican Congress REFUSED to fix the plan, rather they have continually attempted to destroy the healthcare it provided to millions of Americans; always maintaining that it was “fatally flawed” (which it never was!) and attempted over 60 times to defund or eliminate it in the House. Donnie has attempted his own “Destruction by Executive Order” on the plan, thereby turning the ACA from “Obamacare” into “Trumpcare” and it STILL won’t die because the Republican "replacement is nothing more than a gigantic tax windfall for the richest Americans while destroying healthcare for over 20,000,000 Americans!
Teddy Roosevelt: “We stand for a living wage…enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living – a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit a reasonable saving for our old age.”
.Eisenhower: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
Masterskrain Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Drumpf is living in his own reality…or is that his own UNreality?
Dani Rice almost 7 years ago
He – and Congress – needs to remember that those 23 million people will vote. (If they haven’t died first. Hmp. Maybe that’s what they’re counting on.)
Radish the wordsmith almost 7 years ago
Republicans do not care about the well being of the American people, they only serve business, billionaires and the military.
Alberta Oil Premium Member almost 7 years ago
A clever twist on the saying “two birds with one stone”.. here we get rid of those free loading scum and.. give a decent tax break to the deserving rich.
Mr. Blawt almost 7 years ago
The difference between Democratic and Republican administrations. The lefties try and help the poor, the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions. The righties see them as income sources to be sucked dry and left for dead.
Masterskrain Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Also, as expressed by REPUBLICAN Senator Daniel J.Morrell of Pennsylvania in the 1860s; In his first speech in Congress Mr. Morrell uttered the following plea for labor: “The American workingman must live in a house, not a hut; he must wear decent clothes and eat wholesome and nourishing food. He is an integral part of the municipality, the State, and the Nation; subject to no fetters of class or caste; neither pauper, nor peasant, nor serf, but a free American citizen. He has the ballot, and if it were possible it would be dangerous to degrade him. The country stands pledged to give him education, political power, and a higher form of life than foreign nations accord their laborers, and he must be sustained by higher rates of wages than those of Europe. Our industries operated by American citizens must be freed from foreign interference and organized into a distinct American system, which will exact some temporary sacrifices but result in general prosperity and true national independence. In maintaining diversified industries we utilize every talent, provide a field for every capacity, and bind together the whole people in mutual dependence and support, assuring the strength and security of our Republic.” THIS is the reality of “Then”! Sadly, we shall NEVER see it again.
wellis1947 Premium Member almost 7 years ago
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was flawed from the outset as it was taken from a blueprint produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation and was a Republican plan designed to aid the Insurance Industry and only incidentally help the public. Used, initially, By Willard Mitt Romney while governor of Massachusetts, it was modified to fit a national population and was passed (barely) by Congress and signed into law by President Obama, like ALL massive pieces of legislation, it needed tweaks and fixes but the Republican Congress REFUSED to fix the plan, rather they have continually attempted to destroy the healthcare it provided to millions of Americans; always maintaining that it was “fatally flawed” (which it never was!) and attempted over 60 times to defund or eliminate it in the House. Donnie has attempted his own “Destruction by Executive Order” on the plan, thereby turning the ACA from “Obamacare” into “Trumpcare” and it STILL won’t die because the Republican "replacement is nothing more than a gigantic tax windfall for the richest Americans while destroying healthcare for over 20,000,000 Americans!
Nantucket Premium Member almost 7 years ago
Teddy Roosevelt: “We stand for a living wage…enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living – a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit a reasonable saving for our old age.”
.Eisenhower: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”