Luckily we live in a world where it’s possible to invest in multiple things simultaneously. The US already spends more on healthcare than the rest of the world. If it was allocated better this wouldn’t be a problem. Don’t vote Republican, support single payer.
Isolationism isn’t a realistic policy in a world that is more connected than ever.
The Democrats had the chance to pass single payer. Obama had a supermajority for seven months of his presidency. They opted to make it more expensive instead.
Luckily we live in a world where it’s possible to invest in multiple things simultaneously.
No, they were always one vote short of a super-majority. Joe fucking Lieberman insisted on the ACA without a public option. The shitbag had sold out to the insurance companies, jumped ship and torpedoed the one chance Democrats had at real healthcare reform. Want to blame someone for the fucked up version of the ACA we got, instead of what was possible? Blame Joe fucking Lieberman.
He was one, and chose to leave the party in 2006 and become an independent. He did continue to caucus with with Democrats. However, he also endorsed John McCain in 2008.
Yes, Democrats were within a dick hair of getting a public option but fell one vote short. Mind you, the super majority vote was only necessary because of the GOP filibustering the entire ACA, even the watered down version. We would have had better health care in this country, if the GOP wasn’t hell bent of preventing it. Could Democrats do better? Yes, but the lack of a public option is very much the fault of the GOP and Joe fucking Lieberman.
We heard similar excuses about Iraq (multiple times) and Afghanistan. We’re “helping them stand up so we can stand down” or “make war there so we don’t have to here”. It wasn’t that long ago that Hamid Karzai was giving speeches in Congress, and then later we found out he was a crook. In 1983 we were shaking hands with Saddam Hussein, because we were paying him to fight our enemies for us.
And yet, we still lost 20 trillion dollars in those wars, because no one in this country learns from history.
This is not our war. We should not be paying for it, not while people here can’t see a doctor.
At the end of the day, you chickenhawks just do not care about the extent to which we neglect our own people in order to enrich warmongers.
What’s moronic is how we already spend a trillion on war each year anyway, and now we’ve dumped 200 billion more into a war that isn’t even ours, and took it away from the IRS.
So not only are we losing money that should be serving the American people in Ukraine, future losses are compounded because the IRS is underfunded too.
What’s moronic is how you support this when the US is already making war in seven countries at once, with military bases in nearly every country in the world, and it’s still not enough for you even as you can see the vulgar extent to which our own people’s needs are neglected in order to serve it.
The US always “finds” money for more war.
Doesn’t even matter if the war is ours anymore. We’ll fund it if it makes the Democrats’ and Republicans’ golf buddies super-rich.
At least the cause is deserving this time. Fuck Russia’s naked power grab
Far less deserving than an American who needs to see a doctor but has to decide between treatment or bankruptcy.
Luckily we live in a world where it’s possible to invest in multiple things simultaneously. The US already spends more on healthcare than the rest of the world. If it was allocated better this wouldn’t be a problem. Don’t vote Republican, support single payer.
Isolationism isn’t a realistic policy in a world that is more connected than ever.
The Democrats had the chance to pass single payer. Obama had a supermajority for seven months of his presidency. They opted to make it more expensive instead.
Yeah, but they don’t.
No, they were always one vote short of a super-majority. Joe fucking Lieberman insisted on the ACA without a public option. The shitbag had sold out to the insurance companies, jumped ship and torpedoed the one chance Democrats had at real healthcare reform. Want to blame someone for the fucked up version of the ACA we got, instead of what was possible? Blame Joe fucking Lieberman.
Joe Lieberman was a Democrat.
And no, I’ll blame Democrats. Their one chance to do the right thing and they sold out, as they always do.
It’s a shame the people can’t eat excuses.
He was one, and chose to leave the party in 2006 and become an independent. He did continue to caucus with with Democrats. However, he also endorsed John McCain in 2008.
Yes, Democrats were within a dick hair of getting a public option but fell one vote short. Mind you, the super majority vote was only necessary because of the GOP filibustering the entire ACA, even the watered down version. We would have had better health care in this country, if the GOP wasn’t hell bent of preventing it. Could Democrats do better? Yes, but the lack of a public option is very much the fault of the GOP and Joe fucking Lieberman.
And Democrats.
And, no, they didn’t come withing a dick hair of anything.
They rule as conservatives and have for 40 years. This is the shit they pull.
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We heard similar excuses about Iraq (multiple times) and Afghanistan. We’re “helping them stand up so we can stand down” or “make war there so we don’t have to here”. It wasn’t that long ago that Hamid Karzai was giving speeches in Congress, and then later we found out he was a crook. In 1983 we were shaking hands with Saddam Hussein, because we were paying him to fight our enemies for us.
And yet, we still lost 20 trillion dollars in those wars, because no one in this country learns from history.
This is not our war. We should not be paying for it, not while people here can’t see a doctor.
At the end of the day, you chickenhawks just do not care about the extent to which we neglect our own people in order to enrich warmongers.
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What’s moronic is how we already spend a trillion on war each year anyway, and now we’ve dumped 200 billion more into a war that isn’t even ours, and took it away from the IRS.
So not only are we losing money that should be serving the American people in Ukraine, future losses are compounded because the IRS is underfunded too.
What’s moronic is how you support this when the US is already making war in seven countries at once, with military bases in nearly every country in the world, and it’s still not enough for you even as you can see the vulgar extent to which our own people’s needs are neglected in order to serve it.
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