As you read this, keep in mind that Trump has repeatedly stated -- and the mainstream press hasn't called him out on it YET -- that he feels American wages are too high. Not salaries. Not minimum wages. Average wages. He's not satisfied that American wages are far lower than Germany, Canada or Japan. He's upset that they get paid more than China, Mexico or India.
How many tens of millions more Americans does Trump want to put on government-subsidized health care?
And given that married people almost never qualify for government assistance (because they're earnings are pooled), how many more millions of married couples will decide they can't afford kids, while those who are government-dependent raise their kids on your dime?
Daniel Horwitz is an idiot
“Conservative” Review is Mark Levin’s rag....
That in and of itself should tell you what to expect when/if you read this article.
Levin has lost it with me
Facts:
1) Except in the very odd/exceptional election year of 1964, the Dems haven’t cracked 50% of the whites in a Presidential election since 1932.
2) Once the ‘64 election was over, the Dems understood that they would never win another Presidential election again unless the Republicans REALLY screwed up...or unless they changed the electorate in a dramatic way.
3) The Dems, courtesy of Bobby Kennedy who wrote the law, and Teddy Kennedy who pushed it in the Senate, passed the 1965 Immigration Act. That law dramatically reduced immigration from our then-traditional large sources of immigrants - England, Ireland, Holland, Germany, etc. - and replaced them with vast numbers of Turd Worlders...whom everyone knows vote around 80% for Dems, and will continue to do so for the rest of their lives, as new immigrants have traditionally done.
4) As a result of the ‘65 Act, and due to the Dem’s outright lying in ‘86 regarding an effective (or any) fence, there are now probably 30 - 40 million illegals in this nation. Note that the (probably low-ball) figure in 2005 was 11 million...we have 2-3 million come in every year, so simple math says that the number is actually somewhere between 31 and 41 million). If any substantial portion of these people ever become citizens, then the Dems will have accomplished a complete shift of the electorate, and will be virtually invincible on the national level. Every state will become like California, both politically and economically - which is to say, overwhelming Dem and broke. But at least if you don’t like California now, you can leave for a better place without much trouble - where are you going to go if EVERY state is like that?
5) Every Republican, and every Conservative voter MUST UNDERSTAND that if such a state of affairs comes to be, NO OTHER ISSUE WILL MATTER AT ALL, because we will ALWAYS AND FOREVER lose on those issues. Immigration is THE issue of this election, and this election is as critical as the 1860 election was - and for the same reason, because it will determine whether this nation continues on as it has existed in the past, or becomes a new and unrecognizable entity that simply occupies the same geographic territory.
Please wake up, and help others to do so by sending them this post (or recommending “Adios America” to them). It really is THAT important.
He's evolved.
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For YEARS I have been pointing out a problem with our healthcare system that Republicans have outright ignored.
Let me give you some examples:
- my son. Diagnosed with T1 diabetes at age 10. Without Obamacare, he’d be off our insurance at age 18. When we looked into him purchasing his own insurance... $3000 a MONTH. That’s for an 18 year old just starting out.
- my daughter’s classmate. Turned 18 and was kicked off his parents’ insurance while he went to college. Started having fainting spells and seizures. Started bleeding from one ear. Started having fluid dripping out of that ear. His freaking BRAIN was leaking into his ear canal. Couldn’t get help. Tried to join the army to get insurance and fainted during MEPS.
- my friend. Had brain cancer as a child. At 4 years old, they gave him surgery and chemo and he recovered completely. At age 18, NOBODY would insure him. Ended up joining the army for medical care.
- my mother. Relatively healthy. Got a new job as a CNA at the age of 55. Insurance didn’t kick in for 6 months. By month three, something was going terribly wrong. She couldn’t work and she couldn’t afford a doctor. She ended up losing her home and all of her possessions and I moved her in with me. Couldn’t get her social services because she didn’t have a diagnosis... because she couldn’t afford a dr and all of the tests. Collapsed and nearly died of a thyroid storm. THAT got her disability and she finally got help.
These are just a very few problems faced by the ‘working poor’ and these problems are very real.
Children who get sick shouldn’t have to deal with the ‘pre-existing condition’ issue once they turn 18. There’s no TIME to put together a career or get through college so that they can get onto an employer’s plan. An adult who’s too sick to work shouldn’t be denied medical care.
The old system was broken. Obamacare has serious issues and must be replaced with something better, but at least it did address that one thing.
Republicans refused to acknowledge the problems. Obamacare solved them stupidly.
We cannot go back to the days where Republican’s bury their heads in the sand and ignore serious problems because of ‘bootstrap principles’. Sometimes problems are simply too big for an individual to manage alone or for a family to help. (Think hubs and can afford to help our son out with a $3000 a month premium plus deductible and co-pays?! WHO can afford that?!)
What Trump actually said.
"If somebody has no money and they're lying in the middle of the street and they're dying, I'm going to take care of that person," Trump said.
The funny thing is... I think Trump would really latch on to conservatism if he would sit still long enough for someone to explain it to him.
I think this is something the “Conservative†media machine might want to keep in mind. Candidates come and go, your reputation follows you around for the rest of our career in media.
Really want to get a reputation as habitual liars? Take a look at how that tactic has worked for your cohorts in the Leftist media.
Trump has promised that "everyone" will be covered. You cannot do that without either an individual mandate, or single payer, so some mixture of the two. It's simply not possible as a matter of logic. Without a mandate, some people will choose not to be insured because they won't want to pay for it. And if they're not willing to pay for it, then the government must. Otherwise, "everyone" will not have coverage.
This obvious contradiction keeps getting ignored by Trump supporters who insist that he's going to eliminate Obamacare but not have single payer. You can certainly do both, but you can't do that and cover "everyone", as Trump said he is going to do.
If he wants to backtrack on "everyone" being covered, that's fine. But until he does that, it would be irresponsible not to ignore what he's said.
If Trump is already veering towards the middle now, just think of what’s going to happen if he gets the nomination.
Trump That doesn't mean single payer. And I mean, maybe he's got no heart. And if this means I lose an election, that's fine, because, frankly, we have to take care of the people in our country. We can't let them die on the sidewalks of New York or the sidewalks of Iowa or anywhere else.
Just another Establishment Republican politician.
NONE and this article is CRAP; filled with lies, distortions, and is extremely biased.
I continue saying prayers he (Cruz) can be our next POTUS.
Trump:
We are going to work with our hospitals. We are going to work with our doctors. We've got to do something. You can't have a small percentage of our economy, because they're down and out, have absolutely no protection so they end up dying from, you know, what you could have a simple procedure or even a pill. You can'tt do that. We'll work something out. That doesn't mean single payer. And I mean, maybe hes got no heart. And if this means I lose an election, that's fine, because, frankly, we have to take care of the people in our country. We can't let them die on the sidewalks of New York or the sidewalks of Iowa or anywhere else"
This is the same sort of sleazy lying by omission, misrepresentation and innuendo that the Leftist media has used against Conservatives for decades. When did "Conservatives" decide adopting the Leftist PR tactics was going to work for them?