Watching tonight on television the charlatans who infest Pennsylvania Avenue gaudily pronounce their saintly motives and their deity-like powers to “guarantee world-class health care for every American” (as one creep put it to a NewsChannel 8 reporter here in DC) makes me want to vomit.
These people look like serious adults; the timber of their voices make them sound like serious adults; and their titles are ones that are assumed to be reserved for serious adults. But, in fact, these people – from Obama to Pelosi to Hoyer to Reid – are nothing of the sort.
If they really believe even a quarter of the things they say, they’re imbeciles. If they aren’t imbeciles, they’re scoundrels. No third alternative is conceivable.
Either way, they’re an utterly detestable bunch.
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Medicare is broke.
The future unfunded liabilities (debt, social security, medicare) of the US are equivalent to paying on a 107 trillion dollar debt(Federal Reserve). US GDP was 14.2 trillion last year(World Bank).
Yeah, repealing Medicare would be unpopular but so is repealing farm subsidies. Farmers are the only people that benefit (and people closely associated with them) but there is zero chance of repeal. It is called the political law of concentrated benefits versus dispersed costs.
I love it when you say “real world evidence.” It means I'm about to read something that's not evidence from the real world. It's like you're setting up a joke.
You didn't disappoint me. Your “real world evidence” this time was the personal opinion of a kid who stayed at your house once, a kid who has probably experienced only his homeland's health care system, which likely has been propagandized throughout his entire childhood, & which he feels a certain patriotic loyalty to.
“Real world evidence.” Indeed.
I love it when you say “real world evidence.” It means I'm about to read something that's not evidence from the real world. It's like you're setting up a joke.
You didn't disappoint me. Your “real world evidence” this time was the personal opinion of a kid who stayed at your house once, a kid who has probably experienced only his homeland's health care system, which likely has been propagandized throughout his entire childhood, & which he feels a certain patriotic loyalty to.
“Real world evidence.” Indeed.
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