The most spectacular failure for the right is their inability to pass any bill that does screw over the middle class, poor, minorities, gay people, abortion rights activists and, especially Hispanics. Maybe they missed the memo that the Hispanic population is growing at the fastest level and their inability to provide any sort of immigration bill is going to mean they will never win another presidential election ever.
It doesn't help that their constituents are filled with some of the dumbest mother fuckers on the planet. One 66 year old woman, when asked by reporters about her position on immigration, mirrored the same idea said by Senators from Alabama and Texas which proves our elected officials are no smarter than this woman with a third grade education. She said she didn't want to reward people here breaking the law and can't understand why we don't just round up all the illegals and deport them, showing a blatant misunderstanding of budgetary concerns. There are roughly 12 million people here illegally. Rounding them up, housing them and then deporting them would cost this country billions we don't have. These are same idiots trying to cut funding from the poor and middle class but appear to want card blanche when it comes to illegals. What part of we don't have the money do these idiots not get?
When it comes to health insurance, this country is borderline retarded. I sold insurance for six months and couldn't do it anymore due to the fact that 90% of the people I talked with had little to no understanding over how insurance works. It really saps your will to live when so called educated people cannot figure out even the basics of any insurance plan. Part of this is due to people like the Koch brothers who have recently released a new anti-Obamacare ad that spreads more half-truths and lies to and already misinformed public.
In the ad, a woman, "Julie" talks about how she has a son who has seizures and has some serious questions about the Affordable Care Act. First she questions about not being able to pick her own doctor under the new rules. Hate to break to you babe, put you can't pick your own doctor now unless you want to pay your insurance company out of network costs. This new law does nothing to change that which has already been in effect for decades.
Next, she asks: "What am I getting in exchange for higher premiums and a smaller paycheck?" Were premiums going down before Obamacare in any meaningful way? Not a chance. And while I would agree that premiums are still going up to unacceptable levels, that has little to do with Obamacare and more to do with the fact that greed is the majority factor, something Obamacare does try to fix, albeit in a mostly meaningless way. Obamacare is flawed, due to Republican instringency, and as there is little will to fix the problems, these will be exacerbated, Obamacare or not. We need to get off business offered plans and move to a single payer system like the rest of the world. I hate to break it to all the haters out there, but these systems work far better than here, is cheaper and provides better care. Yes there are horror stories involved, but are they really any worse then here? I'd rather spend less money and have the same degree of issues thank you.
Then "Julie" asks her final question, "Can I trust Washington with my health care?" This is bullshit as Obamacare continues the status quo of corporation controlling insurance and Washington has nothing to do with it. Honestly, I'd feel better if the government was controlling it as they are always better as things than corporations. How many feel that Medicare is poorly run? Not many because it is cheaper and better run than most medical plans. Every time corporations get involved services decline and prices rise faster than the government. Don't believe me. Name any organization that runs things better the government? Is UPS cheaper and better run than the USPS? Hardly. Are private prisons better than state run ones? Recent evidence shows they are twice as expensive and run really badly. The Tea Party has convinced people, erroneously, that government is incompetent and Big Business will save us. That has never been the case ever yet some parrot heads are still squawking about it.
My favorite line from the right are statements like "I don't want to pay for everyone else's health insurance." This shows how idiotic some people are because that is exactly how insurance works. Funds are placed in a risk pool where the healthy subsidize the costs of the sicker. This is why younger, healthier people need to enter the risk pool to offset the costs of those who are not as healthy. Otherwise, costs skyrocket and everyone pays more as a result.
The Koch brothers are hell bent on destroying the country so they can make even more money. Their reported wealth is around $43 billion, but I would say that number is most likely much, much higher. Not only do they want to destroy the health care system, they also want to privatize SS and Medicare, effectively destroying them, and best of all, eliminating the minimum wage to "help the middle class." Yeah because we all know that corporations and the super rich as so generous with their money (insert sarcasm here). If the minimum wage were ever to be eliminated, people would be working for even less money and under worse conditions. As Idiot America has decided that unions suck, we are falling further and further behind the rest of the world and are rapidly turning into a third world nation. And the Tea Party is all for it. What a bunch of fuckwads.
But Obama and the Democrats are hardly blameless either. A recent report, mind you from a highly questionable source, says that the Justice Department gave money for people to protest against George Zimmerman. Now Judicial Watch is the organization that released this info and they are VERY biased against democrats. When they listed Elizabeth Warren as one of the top fifteen most corrupt politicians in Congress, and only ONE republican over all, anything they write from then on is highly suspicious. According to them, Eric Holder gave thousands of dollars to various groups to organize rallies and protests against Zimmerman, and backed up supposedly by FIOA documents. They also contend that the police chief was fired because he didn't want to arrest Zimmerman but was pressured to by the city council and the Justice Department to do just that. When he balked, they demanded his resignation. While the latter is pretty much what did happen, according to the former chief himself and the documents may indeed by accurate portraying a government that wants a race war, considering the source, I am still not convinced.
Obama and Congress have managed to eviscerate an insider trading bill. Obama approved raising the radiation levels in our drinking water that would increase cancer rates from one in ten thousand to one in twenty three over the next 30 years. The democrats in Congress have had no meaningful legislation even attempting to fix middle class problems entered in years. Worst of all, despite a majority agreement in legalizing pot, and raising much needed revenue and job creation, Obama and the democrats have continued this failed policy of arresting and incarcerating smokers.
This type of stupidity has to stop. And while the right wingers are leading us to an early grave, the Democrats and Obama are silently cheerleading from the side. Wake up and demand more people or there won't be a country left to demand from.
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