All socialists are useful idiots.
Gov Brewer went along with the Medicaid expansion to get the money. ‘If we don’t take it, it will go to another state who is expanding Medicaid’ (paraphrase). Never mind the money was coming from the TAXPAYERS!
Clearly it’s time for Gruber to take new look at the word stupid.
These people are worse than drug pushers.
The so called “free money” from the federal dealers is at the expense of the state losing its freedoms, and subjecting itself to whatever strings the feds want to pull.
Besides, where does all this “free money” that the fed is throwing around comes from?
First we had the World according to Garp!
Now we have the World According to Stupid!
Freegards
LEX
“Free money” ...for a limited time. It’s like a no payments until Christmas of next year plan...then your budget explodes.
Except that the federal government is taking these billions from the states in the first place, and then giving it back in federal subsidies.
If left in the states, these billions would go into the local economies in the form of pay, shopping, sales taxes, etc., by the people who earned the billions before the federal government confiscates it.
-PJ
As I recall, the Federal Government is not covering all the costs for the Medicaid expansion. There would be a State contribution at some point.
Anyone with better knowledge should post what they know.
Wrong, Stupid. The taxpayer pays for them and we've just about had enough of that kind of mentality.
"What I don't get is these STUPID governors who are turning down the Medicaid expansion," he said. "This is preposterously STUPID. First of all, your low-income people get health-insurance, and you get billions and billions of dollars of stimulus in health-care spending. For example, there are one million uninsured Floridians who are below the poverty line. The federal government is saying we'll pay to insure them, and, in addition, we're sending billions of dollars to you. And Rick Scott says no. There is no basis for turning this down except to put your political agenda ahead of the needs of your state's citizens. They say they're worried about the federal deficit? Why? They're governors, for god's sake. This is one of the criminal failures of our political system.
Seems one of Obama's executive orders, dated 1/11/2010...#13528 establishing the "Council of Governors". Did not work out as hoped...at least as far as Gruber wanted.
“What I don’t get is these STUPID governors who are turning down...”
money
we know you don’t get it - let me educate you fool
not everyone worships at the altar of government money
“This is one of the criminal failures of our political system.”
It couldn’t possibly be more clear that this guy admires the political system of the old Soviet Union far more than he cares for ours
They were also worried about their stat deficits. After some initial payments, the states were stuck with the bill for this foolishness.
This guy is going down.
The surest cure for ‘expert’ worship is actual knowledge of experts.