There is no class in bullshit .. Cardenas said Democrats will be pushing the class warfare line .. well, there is no class in bullshit so where does your class warfare come from? .. Lowry said it was simple .. if Americans went back to 3 basic principles they had in the 70's ..
1. graduate from high school .. i'd guess more do now than then .. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_coi.asp 2. get a full-time job .. i'd guess more have them now .. 3. get married before having kids .. i'd guess most do ..
Lowry your comments reminded me of some of the myths around poverty which you push.
10 Poverty Myths, Busted .. higher minimum wages would help ..
No, single moms aren't the problem. And neither are absentee dads.
—By Erika Eichelberger | March/April 2014 Issue
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1. Single moms are the problem. Only 9 percent of low-income, urban moms have been single throughout their child's first five years. Thirty-five percent were married to, or in a relationship with, the child's father for that entire time.*
And OBAMACARE that terrible socialist abomination! Repeal! Repeal! Get ready to see much more of the HYPOCRISY in there piled on leading to 2016. Nothing new here.
Why Republicans Have No Business Being Upset About Obamacare
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia (left) arrives for a meeting with House Republicans in the Capitol in Washington D.C., on October 16, 2013. (Associated Press)
While Republicans plot new ways to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, it’s easy to forget that for years they’ve been arguing that any comprehensive health insurance system be designed exactly like the one that officially began October 1st, glitches and all.
For as many years Democrats tried to graft healthcare onto Social Security and Medicare and pay for it through the payroll tax. But Republicans countered that any system must be based on private insurance and paid for with a combination of subsidies for low-income purchasers and a requirement that the younger and healthier sign up.
Not surprisingly, private health insurers cheered on the Republicans while doing whatever they could to block Democrats from creating a public insurance system.
In February 1974, Republican President Richard Nixon proposed, in essence, today’s Affordable Care Act. Under Nixon’s plan all but the smallest employers would provide insurance to their workers or pay a penalty, an expanded Medicaid-type program would insure the poor and subsidies would be provided to low-income individuals and small employers. Sound familiar?
Private insurers were delighted with the Nixon plan but Democrats preferred a system based on Social Security and Medicare and the two sides failed to agree.
Thirty years later a Republican governor, Mitt Romney, made Nixon’s plan the law in Massachusetts. Private insurers couldn’t have been happier although many Democrats in the state had hoped for a public system.
When today’s Republicans rage against the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, it’s useful to recall this was their idea as well.
Insurance companies loved Butler’s plan so much it found its way into several bills introduced by Republican lawmakers in 1993. Among the supporters were Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Charles Grassley (R-IA). Both now oppose the mandate under the Affordable Care Act. Newt Gingrich, who became Speaker of the House in 1995, was also a big proponent.
Romney’s heathcare plan in Massachusetts included the same mandate to purchase private insurance. “We got the idea of an individual mandate from [Newt Gingrich] and [Newt] got it from the Heritage Foundation,” said Romney .. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/28/individual-health-care-insurance-mandate-has-long-checkered-past/ , who thought the mandate “essential for bringing the health care costs down for everyone and getting everyone the health insurance they need.”
Now that the essential Republican plan for healthcare is being implemented nationally, health insurance companies are jubilant.
So why are today’s Republicans so upset with an Act they designed and their patrons adore? Because it’s the signature achievement of the Obama administration.
There’s a deep irony to all this. Had Democrats stuck to the original Democratic vision and built comprehensive health insurance on Social Security and Medicare, it would have been cheaper, simpler and more widely accepted by the public. And Republicans would be hollering anyway. Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and was secretary of labor in the Clinton administration. Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the 20th century.
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