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Durbin Criticizes Free Enterprise: ´Created Unfairness and Injustice´
Cybercast News Service ^ | 4/1/14 | Susan Jones

Posted on 04/01/2014 2:09:09 PM PDT by Nachum

In a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said free enterprise isn´t always best. Government must step in. "The free enterprise system is a strong system," he said, but it "created unfairness and injustice when it came to health care, which we are addressing with this Affordable Care Act." In passing that law, Durbin said Democrats "rejected the free enterprise approach to health care and said let´s have something that basically respects families." He also criticized Republicans for embracing free enterprise: "Let me tell you a free enterprise idea when it came to health care. Before

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: criticizes; dickdurbin; durbin; enterprise; free; illinois
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Your vampire government wants your blood.
1 posted on 04/01/2014 2:09:09 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

What a dumb dingleberry he is.


2 posted on 04/01/2014 2:11:19 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The PASSING LANE is for PASSING, not DAWDLING)
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To: Nachum
Everything the US feral government touches, it destroys.
3 posted on 04/01/2014 2:11:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; a man who respects it has earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If only he could have said that in the presence of Sen. Joe McCarthy! ;)


4 posted on 04/01/2014 2:13:45 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Nachum

I’m sure that crony capitalism works well for Dick.


5 posted on 04/01/2014 2:14:36 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Nachum

HMOs, PPOs, etc are price-fixing cartels, not free market health CARE.


6 posted on 04/01/2014 2:14:36 PM PDT by Ray76 (Profit from the mistakes of others, you'll never live long enough to make them all yourself.)
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To: Nachum

We WERE the most successful, free, content country on the face of the earth. The Dems have all but destroyed this once great country.


7 posted on 04/01/2014 2:16:04 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: Nachum

Given that Senator Durbin spent a few years in private law practice prior to becoming a public official and ward of the taxpayer, I have a question for Senator Durban.

What percentage of the total hours you worked while in private practice (i.e the free enterprise system) did you spend on pro bono legal work for the poor and downtrodden? Please provide time sheets detailing paid and no charge hours worked.


8 posted on 04/01/2014 2:16:28 PM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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Durbin Criticizes Free Enterprise: ´Created Unfairness and Injustice´

Demagogues typically arguing the perfection argument to the guillible. Nothing is perfect, especially coercive socialist government. A free society can have these things, but minimally, especially compared to a coercive socialist society where unfairness and injustice are very high.

"A society that puts freedom first will have a great deal of freedom and equality. A society that puts equality first will have neither" - Milton Friedman.

9 posted on 04/01/2014 2:16:54 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: Nachum

Boy the masks are coming off all over the place.


10 posted on 04/01/2014 2:17:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Today is April 1. April Fools day. The biggest FOOL just stepped forward from a large list of dem FOOLS. I’ll bet y’all could add a lot of names to the FOOL list.


11 posted on 04/01/2014 2:18:15 PM PDT by certrtwngnut (')
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Wait until November, Dickie Boy.


12 posted on 04/01/2014 2:18:32 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Nachum
Churchill- The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." 1945

That's what Durbin and the socialists (dems) want.- tom

13 posted on 04/01/2014 2:21:24 PM PDT by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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To: Nachum
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus ... The record of history is absolutely crystal clear …. that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people, that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system …. Milton Friedman
14 posted on 04/01/2014 2:23:44 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Nachum
We conservatives really need to start calling the Democrats out on their war against American liberty.

Liberals are opposed to individual liberty as defined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The only real issue they have with chattel slavery in America two hundred years ago is that the slaves were privately owned.

They are all orgasmic over the idea of slavery to the state.

Democrats never pass up on opportunity to tell us why enslavement by the state is for our own protection and our own safety, because life under the anarchy that conservatives want to impose is just too risky and dangerous. We can't have any of that inhumane"on-your-own economics" that conservatives advocate.

Thereby proving that you no longer have to be black to be an Uncle Tom.

15 posted on 04/01/2014 2:24:47 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: Nachum

No thanks to Chicago, the POS could die and still win reelection in this God forsaken Marxist hellhole.


16 posted on 04/01/2014 2:25:08 PM PDT by Marathoner (When Obama fails, freedom prevails)
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To: Nachum

Just another corrupt ignorant politician.


17 posted on 04/01/2014 2:26:43 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

18 posted on 04/01/2014 2:29:28 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Soul of the South
ah...well...mmm...er......ah....


19 posted on 04/01/2014 2:32:50 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

That’t the latest meme that the Demagogic Party is pushing, including on their shill pages on Facebook.

Thanks Nachum.


20 posted on 04/01/2014 2:40:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
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