Republican Hypocrisy On Display Lies and Misinformation On Health Care Reform
Healthcare reform is coming close to being a reality. The Republicans continue to make their argument against passage of the bill which they intend to fight to kill. But their arguments and reasoning are spurious. Let’s listen to some of what they have to say:
By Matt Patterson- FOXNews.com (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/08/matt-patterson-obama-health-care-town-hall-democrats-republicans-gop/)
“The summit and subsequent events have revealed two distinct philosophies that are like oil and water, and are likely to mix just about as well. Democrats obsess over the uninsured; the Republicans over cost. Democrats believe it’s the business of the government to dictate coverage;… “
This is crap. The Democrats are not trying to dictate coverage. This is a lie. What they don’t want is an insurance industry that will only cover those who don’t need insurance. Insurance needs to be for everybody regardless of the risk. An insurance industry purified insured pool would leave far too many millions of god fearing Americans helpless.
“…the Republicans that government’s role must be limited and encourage competition. What we’re talking about here is two vastly different views of the nature and rationale of federal authority in our lives, a difference between top down and bottom up, between centralized or diffused power, between government that knows best and liberty that comes first.”
What foolishness. This isn’t about the role of the federal government. It’s about a health care system that’s broken and the need to establish one that works for everyone. The government and the people are on in the same, and the people love their liberty because it allows them to choose to fix the broken healthcare system that’s eroding individual wealth, damaging the economy, and causing businesses to resist hiring.
“The best line in this whole debate so far was uttered by Eric Cantor, when at the summit he put his hand on the Senate bill and said to the president: “We can’t afford this. That is the ultimate problem here.”
More lies! The plan is budget neutral. Eric cantor knows this but still insists on misinforming voters since democrats always have to be portrayed as big spending budget busters even when it’s not true.
“The president claims his plan would cost about $950 billion. That’s $950 billion more than we have. Our anticipated budget deficit for 2010 will be a record $1.6 trillion; the CBO foresees $6 trillion in deficits over the next decade, an untenable situation which even Obama’s Secretary of State admits is a sobering national security challenge.”
Again, this reform legislation is budget neutral and this man knows this. If this fellow was so concerned about the deficits he would be demanding that the Bush tax cuts be allowed to expire and that we raise taxes to fund our armies in Iraq in Afghanistan. But no, he won’t do that. The deficit has to be filled by pounding the working class into the ground.
“In fact, these deficits are a mortal threat to our civilization. If these politicians were truly honest, they would have looked at each other and said, “Cantor’s right, there’s no way we can afford this right now!” adjourned the meeting, retired to their respective offices and chambers, and gotten to work getting Americans back to work, which is what they should have been doing in the first place.”
The Republican party of “NO” is no more likely to vote for a jobs bill than they are for healthcare reform. Asking Republicans to get back to work is asking them to think of new ways not to do anything thing.
It’s time to call out Republicans on their lying and campaign of misinformation. They are hypocrites and their ideology and policies have led us into this severe recession. We need to continue to remind them of this and to keep them out of the discussion on how to recover from their legacy.
