All entitlement programs are "popular". Doesn't change the fact
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Posted by gsw_hoops on 2012-06-02 12:22:40
In Reply to: so then, what is your take on the point in the article? posted by dude on 2012-06-02 11:17:36
that they must be reformed or there won't be anything in them to hand out.
Republicans point that out and all they get in return from Democrats are statements like "they just want your grandparents to die!". How do you work with people like that? The people whose very political lives depend on keeping others depended?
There have been lots of ideas on how to deal with pre-existing conditions (high risk pools, etc). All discussed during the healthcare debates that the Dems ignored. [Healthcare law drafted behind closed doors, nobody read, fake healthcare "summit" on TV, had to bribe their own members to get it passed by one vote, taxes gonna go up, Medicare robbed, CBO says much more expensive than previously thought, yeah, that bill]--------------------------------
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." -Thomas Paine
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."
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