Well…the non-partisan CBO numbers are in and they are just as ugly as they were projected to be…and they stab older people (the ones that voted for trump) more than any other cohort….but, first…24 million people will lose their health insurance under this giveaway to the rich…subsidies that make insurance affordable are being cut to the bone to give the rich a 300 billion dollar tax cut….the repubs are harping on the part of the report that states that the US will save 33 billion dollars a year by not subsidizing people and by cutting medicaid that provides insurance for the poor…but to me, putting 24 million of their fellow Americans back into financial peril by taking their insurance away defines the repub brand these days…they don’t give a damn about anyone but the rich…and they say they are providing “freedom” for people to chose their insurance..but what choice is it when 24 million people can no longer afford their insurance…and what “freedom” is it to the 20-24,000 more people who will die next year from not being able to afford healthcare? This is the modern repub party folks, they work so damn hard trying to make the country worse for everyone but the rich….dirtier water, dirtier air, and no healthcare are their goals….I wonder when the US people are going to wake up and reject this “freedom”…..impeach…
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More republican lies about the ACA…
Well…I am laughing about the typical repub spin on the new CBO report that came out in the past couple of days that says, as a result of the law, there will eventually be 2 million less full time workers…and of course the repubs say it is the result of the law, that employers will be eliminating jobs because the ACA forces them to provide healthcare to their employees…but, of course, the repubs take the headline and try to turn it to political advantage when it says no such thing…what the report really says is that with independent health insurance available that is not tied to any employer, more people will say “go to hell” to bad employers that they have been tolerating just to get health insurance…and many of those people will be able to finally retire with insurance they can afford before Medicare. So, what to do the repubs have against freedom? Oh, they are okay with freedom if is the freedom of employers to screw with their employees who couldn’t get health insurance before the ACA, but they just hate the fact that the ACA has taken away some leverage from employers to do whatever they want…to keep wages low since they had their employees over the healthcare barrel…and now, that the needle has swung just a little back to normal, ordinary people, the repubs are going crazy…under the orders of their corporate masters, of course….geez…
Here’s the indisputable proof…
Well…this one is pointed at all of you right wing idiots out there that say the OWS protesters are just a bunch of whiny losers that don’t know what they are protesting…according to a report out today done by the Congressional Budget Office…the non-partisan arm of congress that is charged with coming up with the cost of new legislation among other things…the income of the top 1% of people in this country has tripled….yep, tripled since 1979…with most of that growth coming after the Bush tax cuts in 2000 while the rest of the country’s workers income increased a paltry 80%….so, 300% to 80%…pretty easy numbers to understand even for the troglodytes on the right. How are you guys going to wave away this one? When you take into account the productivity gains over that same time period, real wages for the bottom 80% of us actually went down over the same time period….and the right wonders why the rest of us are so pissed off. It is just this kind of inequality where the top 1% takes no risks and has no risks…where they just sit back and rake in the cash through connections and rigging the system that is finally triggering a broad based revolt of the working people in this country….it’s about time…geez…
The repubs and the CBO…
Well…I am laughing out loud at a fact that I just uncovered in the news this morning, something I probably should have learned a couple of weeks or months ago with all of the news I read….I know you’ve read about the concerted effort by the repubs to discredit the Congressional Budget Office…the non-partisan part of the government that calculates (or estimates) the cost of proposed legislation, saying that the 253 billion dollar savings from the healthcare law is just their “opinion” and is based on untrue assumptions. They are going so far as is the tired old phrase ‘garbage in, garbage out” to describe the process used to come to those conclusions. Well…guess what? Guess where the repubs got the figures that put job-killing in the title of the healthcare repeal bill that was just passed in the House? Yep, you guessed it…from the very same analysis that reported a net savings from the healthcare reform bill….go on, you can laugh, too….
Can’t these guys even try anymore? Geez….