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All of you keep telling me, what I don't know. The Heritage Foundation disowns its baby | MSNBC
Gov. Dukakis of Mass. never issued any new taxes, or increased taxes. According to him, he only enhanced the ones that were already there. If you want to play with the English language, go right ahead. If you didn't have health insurance in Mass, you got fined. Money came out of your pocket. Do you think people care, if it was called a tax or a fine?
What actual programs makes up the 500 billion in Medicare cuts?
The 500 billion in tax increases sounds like a made up number, or again are we playing with numbers? Is this an increase over a ten year period?
What I do know, is Republicans have no idea how to deal with the number of uninsured people in the US, nor do they care about these people, most of which live in states that they control. |
First, this from MICHAEL MOORE...
"What we now call Obamacare was conceived at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and birthed in Massachusetts by Mitt Romney, then the governor. The president took Romneycare, a program designed to keep the private insurance industry intact, and just improved some of its provisions. In effect, the president was simply trying to put lipstick on the dog in the carrier on top of Mitt Romney’s car. And we knew it."
Now that is what
you are professing. Not surprised you would pick up on a Michael Moore thought.
This quote comes from THE AMERICAN PROSPECT.
Who is AMERICAN PROSPECT...
"The American Prospect is a bi-monthly American political magazine dedicated to American liberalism"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Prospect
THE VERY same liberal website in the same article where Moore is Quoted says this...this is from the
same liberal author on the
same liberal website
"When I actually took the time to read the Heritage plan, what I found was a proposal that was radically dissimilar to the Affordable Care Act. Had Obama proposed anything like the Heritage Plan, Moore would have been leading daily marches against it in front of the White House—and I would have been right there with him.
This is not an article intended to make the Republican party look good but he refers to your premise as you stated it as...
"dishonest spin..."
He also debunks the notion of Mass being a model and of course as a good liberal bashes both Romney and the Republicans.
THUS.....a good discussion on health care is needed, since our President decided against that route, skipped the discussion and went the route of manipulating the Senate rules, making closed door deals with the insurance industry and finally because he still didn'