The Real Reason Republicans Want to Pull the Plug on Obamacare | Robert Reich
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Robert Reich explains the real reason why Republicans want to repeal Obamacare.
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Mr. Reich, what you are doing is a great service. Thank you.
The people who get the short end of the stick will STILL vote for Trump and the Republitards.
Some, but most Blacks and Latinos are too smart to fall for it.
@Anthony Gianoulos like tax break for the rich.,......
@Anthony Gianoulos (Sorry traveling to fast for my self.Trying to reply to someone who had sham as a part their name. I should know better.
One nation under Trump, with liberty and justice for SALE.
🤣😂😅😆😄
B A That’s the “for SALE” part. The price of justice is high!
Call Trump . His number is 666
Shouldn't that would be "without liberty"????
George Walker The point is liberty and justice only for those who can afford to buy it.
The ACA ("Obamacare") works in those states which embraced it. Without
it, I would be paying over $11,000/year in premiums and "deductibles"
even *before* I had been diagnosed with diabetes and had
quadruple-bypass surgery. With ACA, I've got a reasonable expectation of
living another 20+ years; without it, my life expectancy drops to about
three years or less. My story is not unique. According to actuarial
figures created for the insurance industry itself, Mr. Reich's figure of
20,000 people dying in the first year is a conservative ("low-ball")
estimate; the number could be as high as double that. Speaking
personally, I'd rather not become one of those statistics, thanks all
the same.
Tristan Black Wolf similar history..after 30 years as skilled labor.
Tucson JJ incorrect
you worthless self- serving bag of feces
You are responsible for your health conditions. If you die sooner that later the only person to blame is YOU. Heart conditions and diabetes are preventable by the person.
Robert Richardson I see you don't know shit about diabetes true in some cases it is preventable but notice i said "some" in most cases it's not, i have diabetes once you get it you learn the facts and you sir don't know shits o yea same goes for Heart conditions so fuck off . i don't have a Heart conditions but do have diabetes and it popped it's ugly head at me at 61 last OCT 2017.
Robert Richardson excuse me, ever heard of genetics?
Thank you for cutting through the BS and telling us the truth.
I used to live in New Zealand and I had a Canadian girlfriend and she had an accident in NZ. She received FREE surgery and FREE hospital care. I now live in Australia, and I recently had a bike accident and I had two FREE operations and FREE healthcare in hospital.
I've lived in Australia. My wife and I had two children there. Public healthcare is just like public education. Better in wealthy areas and worse in poor areas, and too many administrators on larger salaries than needed. Let's not copy dysfunction from other countries.
May I respectfully suggest that you are missing the point of my comment. If you want another system be my guest. I’m very happy with the treatment my girlfriend and I received.
I don't have to worry about Obama care. Thank God I live in China.
What we need to do is remove the influences which have skyrocketed health care costs, in the first place.
Hospitals padded their bills, claiming that it was needed in order to compensate for
the amount of uninsured which they had to care for. This instigated
an exponential gradient for cost increases, because the loss of the
padded charges, were calculated as loss of actual expenses, when
hospitals would calculate the amount of padding they would add to
future charges.
We also had the extortive efforts which insurance companies imposed on hospitals.
Insurance companies loaned out the lawyers for free, for malpractice
suits. Insurance companies also lobbied to have the awards for
malpractice suits pushed up into multi-million dollar amounts. Once
they had gotten hospitals over a barrel, they offered them
malpractice lawsuit insurance, which cost the industry billions, and
multiplied the expense of health care drastically. These are the
causes of the ridiculous costs, which we are inflicted with.
Any solution which does not deal with these influences, will never accomplish anything.
Paul Xaxier remove lobbyists for the insurance and health care interests, term limits and VOTE.
Turning any public good into a for-profit industry will result in bottomless abuses. Anyone making a dime will find endless justification to extract more and more whether they need the money or not. Just wait and see what happens to public education if Betsy Devoss has her way. It'll be "we should never skimp on our children" to justify multi-million dollar salaries of school executives.
I really appreciate your presentation and have subscribed. After being in the Peace Corps and working with the aged and disabled, what you have to say is more than apparent. If anyone here says otherwise, it is either due to crass ignorance based on rationalization and denial, or due to their being a part of the problem. In my opinion, until we boost education, increase opportunities to remove provincialism, decrease poverty and reform those whose lives have fallen into crime, we will never progress. I suspect there are many more narcissistic sociopaths out there than we think. It appears greed never falls out of fashion. Please keep up the great work.
Keep singing it, Robert!
And the civilised world looks on
and marvels !
ACA was a precursor to healthcare for all. (Obama even says this in one of his interviews) It allows the private market time to adjust naturally and fiscally to the changes. As well as getting some people on Medicare which will ultimately be everyone. . It also gets healthy people participating which is huge!!! Somethings like a mandate may have seemed harsh for some, but at the end of the day we could have made a smooth transition into healthcare for all. Republicans don’t like ACA because they know it was leading to healthcare for all and in no way do they want that. Maybe because of money or maybe because they know it will work and it makes the evil progressives in the Democratic Party actually look like they know what they are doing. Party over people’s !
Don't say "losing their health insurance" say "losing their healthcare". You're letting them frame the debate.
Lunacy??? No. It's by design...
I thought it was about lining their pockets with our misery.
I don't understand why those tiny amounts (to the wealthy), would make such a big deal to not have? That's like nothing to someone with millions or billions. I'd like to see one of them make it on a $500/wk take home, when rents are $2k/mo, and can't even afford the premiums for health insurance...Most of the wealthy exist off the labors and consumption of everyone else, except for the ones whom are wealthy through inheritance.
So much for standing up for what’s right.
The red states need to know this
Yeah but what about abortion,guns.race and religion all those things that keep the working class divided.Remember children divide and conquer.The rich have used this for thousands of years they have a system and they know how to work it.
donny trump = empty promises
Dr. Phil : " past behavior indicates future behavior".....
Thank you.
I thought Americans were the great innovators. Why are they the only industrial country that does not have universal healthcare?
Because the people like Obamacare. Thats why.
Greed the ultimate sin!
Can a Republican answer this question; Why were u guys in favor of the ACA before pres. Obama embraced it??
We wern't. And YOU are an imbecile. Get your nose our of Barky's ass.
381 Medallion, the ACA was a democratic party idea under the state of Massachusetts. It was never a Republican idea. Massachusetts has always been a democratic party.
@john Stetson John, do you agree that the Democrats have controlled the Congress of Massachusetts for a very long time.
@john Stetson the Massachusetts state house of representatives has 127 Democrats and 32 republicans and 1 independent. The Massachusetts state Senate has 34 Democrats and 6republicans.
@john Stetson, Romney vetoed 8 sections of the law and they were overridden by the Massachusetts legislature.
I can't participate in the system because of massive premiums combined with massive deductables. Because I can't afford those I get taxed harder. ACA hasn't helped me one bit. The only solution is single payer, anything else (including ACA) is unacceptable.
You know this, and I know this, but how do we ge the ignorant masses to vote for what's in their best interests, rather than voting for what feels good?
A large portion of America votes based on their church, their fear, their need to feel included, and their inate selfishness.
Perhaps the left needs a makeover and some PR coaching to win over voters with emotions, not stats, which is how they make their voting decisions.
Tax the rich
Feed the poor
Til there are no rich no more
I had Obama care but trump in his wisdom didn't cut my Obama care but he gave me the option of paying for it myself 900 dollars when I only make 1000 a month on social security that's how republicans minds work duck the poor
So 95 Republicans stumbled on this post and have it thumbs down lol
Why is Robert Reich the only person telling Americans how it is and talking straight to them?
Would not be able to afford healthcare without ACA. Are there some things in the ACA that need fixing? Yes. I am sure my tax dollars are going to pay the salary, health insurance and benefits for you all in the government. So why don't you all voluntarily give up your health insurance and benefits so other Americans can get health insurance too, it would be a start. The conservative republicans have always struck me as arrogant and self righteous. As long as their needs are met, who cares about anyone else?
haha good thing i left Amerikkka. The nonsense no longer affects me. I have very good, and very affordable healthcare. :)
Everyone is happy! We are happy because you are gone and you are happy because you are gone. I wish more people would follow your lead!
I plan to make healthcare available to all who pay taxes and their dependents. Whitley for President, 2020
And what about those too poor to pay taxes?
What's lunacy is that you're not running for office
It must be said: Class Warfare....
People want to know why they should support an institution that doesn't care to support them.
CJusticeHappen21 are you talking about Congress?
Douglas Hogg I'm talking about any country where the richest possess more political sway than an ever-growing poor, and an ever-shrinking middle-class. America is one example of such a situation, but it is not the only one afflicted by the widening divide.
CJusticeHappen21 you’re talking about Congress who should support their constituents but support their donors instead. This is why nothing is done. The top 5% or so controls the agenda.
fred sims Didn't know Black Gays were such a problem.
CJusticeHappen21 Black gays the minority’s minority.
I didnt get to keep my plan, I didnt get to keep my doctor and my premium is $1,300 per MONTH and I am healthy. Affordable? anyone who believed Obama and the dems shouldnt be allowed to have a drivers license.
So work to make it better. Trump doesnt have a plan. Priod get a vlue. Your blaming the wrong people. Get a clue the repubs are corportist only for the weathy. Always will and alwsys have been. Priod !!!
Yes, it's atrocious. But were you aware that the affordable care act is a plan contrived by Mitt Romney and the conservative Heritage Foundation to fatten the coiffures of the private healthcare system? Don't be fooled. The ACA is not socialized medicine which is much cheaper and more effective. That's why every other country in the world is doing it
Makes sense to me. Why are there millions that don't seem to care, even though this kind of attitude will hurt them also? There can not be many Americans that are so steep into fear and bigotry that all things Obama have to come down even it hurt them, can there be?
In San Francisco we have the height Ashberry free clinic. When I retired I got insurance and told them. They replied they don’t take insurance, they would have to hire a billing department and buy a computer. We are free.
No, you don't. You have the HAIGHT-ASHBURY free clinic. How come I live in the midwest and know that, and you live in San Fran, and DON'T?
The ONLY reason that matters is that's it's what people want and need to happen. Not the rich, US!
The problem is Insurance companies... why do the CEO's of large insurance companies need a 20 million dollar salary? what do they do? reside over the board of directors? that's it..... everyone called Gary Johnson a idiot over one gaff, but he was right in the fact that healthcare is no where near free market , which the GOP tout all day long....get insurance companies and government out of healthcare and watch the prices drop ....
Thank you
The ACA does not address cost management in anyway. As doctors and hospitals charge more and more, the insurance industry raise their rates. Our copays , coinsurance, deductibles and exclusions continue to go up and up. The result is that we are for the most part getting less for more. The administrative requirements that the ACA implemented have made it nearly impossible for small independent medical practices to exist. So, we now have large medical corporations buying up the industry. I have both kidney and neurological disease and have lived with these diseases for decades. I have talked to the doctors and staff and I have paid the medical bills and insurance. The ACA was not the answer, sorry. Just my opinion and I hope that in the greatest nation in the world that somehow we can make it possible for those who need care to get it.
They can't pull the plug.They don't have an alternative solution or a better solution!
That won't stop them! That's the whole point of this exercise! They won't EVER come up with a health plan cuz they. Don't. Care!
@@denisemayosky1955 It's so odd that they haven't by now with Grump in his 3rd presidential year now!
The ACA was one small step forward.
Let's not forget the terror felt over loss of healthcare coverage. When healthcare is not guarranteed by gov't employer-provided health insurance is an additional handcuff on their workers. With this additional bargaining chip employers can drive down wage demands and work conditions.
thanks Bob.
Im sick of republicans saying: ITS DUH LIBERAL MEDIA!!!!
Oh, besides the fact it didn't work.
Even this won't convince you, dummies, will it?
TUCK FRUMP!
I would really like to see this channel make a video describing how any of these videos are going to do anything because I don't understand how a trump voter is going to end up watching one of these.
1 million dollars = $1,000 per month for 83 years. Or, slightly less than $7.45 per hour x 40 hour per week x 80 YEARS.
I think the saddest thing about that is, those three groups mentioned would probably barely even notice a windfall in the amounts mentioned. What good would 7 million dollars do to the richest 400 people in this nation? The percentage of their total else would be so small it would be less than negligible
Republicans vote against their own best interests to serve the wealthiest who don't care about the little guy.
I totally agree with thing Robert Reich said in this video.
Obamacare raised my insurance cost to almost double. I'm a healthy 24 year old that's paying in extra so that others can get medication. That's bullshit. If I have to pay more so that someone can pay less and use my extra money to get their meds, there's a problem. I should only have to pay in enough to cover myself. My tax dollars go to Medicare, and thats fine. But my insurance dollars cover everyone EXCEPT me, and that shouldn't be happening. I should pay less because of my lack of existing conditions. Someone with exiating conditions should pay more to cover their own expenses. (Rant over.)
I personally don’t think the Republicans will do it because it will help bring about social medicine. It is just meant to get people to focus on keeping what they have and liking it-private insurance.
I really wanted some information as to WHY these things would result from the repeal of the ACA. He said a lot of things, but did not support them. While I agree with this video is really did feel like propaganda do to the lack of any support for it's claims.
This video highlighted his personal interests. He listed 0 positive effects of free market health insurance. He told us that we are voting against our best interests (leftest always know better). He said the only effect this will have is to force money out of the pockets of poor and middle class and deposit that money into someone's tax return (pharma? health insurers? republican congress?). He ends it by suggesting that this is a move to increase income inequality and therefore we must fight it at all costs.
So I looked up the CBO's most recent report (there have been a lot of iterations), and the most recent repeal would decrease the current deficit, $668 billion by $338 billion, by 2027.
There would also be a 4 million citizen decrease in those insured by 2019 and a 13 million decrease by 2027.
Finally, premiums will go up by 10% each year for the next decade.
www.cbo.gov/publication/53300
It's important to note that there have been many iteration of this repeal and one that would provide tax cuts to the rich wouldn't be impossible. Also the rich do pay the most for Obamacare and do stand to gain the biggest tax cut by percentage. I don't know if you have to pay taxes on medical costs under Obamacare, but if the govt got rid of those taxes that could be what he's talking about and would still impact this discussion.
Robert Reich is someone that I trust. He was a former Secretary of the Treasury and generally has an anti-wallstreet viewpoint. He always had and interest in larger taxes for the rich and less for the middle class and poor. He's using an appeal to his authority on economics in this case. I definitely helps make this video more entertaining, but does end up being a little bit like propaganda.
Andrew Bryner, there will not be a decrease in deficit, The tax plan outlined by the White House and Republican leaders in the House and Senate could cost more than $2 trillion over the next decade, according to a preliminary estimate by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan advocacy group, cuts on ACA/Healthcare, also cutting Medicare and Medicaid, all of this so they can give the wealthiest people a huge tax cut which in turn will increase our deficit by a over 2 trillion in the near future and I guess social security can be cut next. It turns out this video was not propaganda, please read the article from Politifact/fact check they state "the primary financing mechanism of the Affordable Care Act was Medicare changes" www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/mar/01/thomas-perez/taxes-wealthy-pay-obamacare-dncs-perez-overshoots/ also www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/oct/04/mick-mulvaney/did-budget-director-mick-mulvaney-flip-flop-higher/ I wanted to add, if your interested, check out/google our economic history, we did best when the people who made the least were taxed accordingly and the people who made the most were as well, the wealthy still saw record profits because our economy was good, tax cuts to the rich and deregulation is what created the Great depression and every other economic down turn we have had, the laws put in place by FDR were to keep it from reoccurring, the Republicans who claim to be so evangelical can not be if they have more than enough money for the rest of their lives and their children's lives, but resent paying their share so the poor, disabled and elderly can survive, money is their god make no mistake, the rest are lies.
Bitch, I agree with everything you sad politically. I'm a Democratic and I'm a fervent supporter or Robert Reich's. Don't just assume because I said, the CBO estimates there will be a $338 million decrease in spending if Obamacare is repealed. If OBAMACARE is repealed. I never talked about there tax plan which cuts through several public services for the poorest Americans while slashing taxes for the rich. With the only hope for successfully funding the govt. residing in destroying all Social Security and Medicaid programs. Leaving millions of the poorest Americans broken and torn safety net to fall back on.
In the words of Robert Reich, "I deal in facts".
I know these cuts will morally leave millions without help when they need it most, I know that cutting taxes for the rich leave the poor to pick up their tab, without providing any benefit to the economy, and I know California, a state with high graduated income taxes, high regulations and high minimum wages, has the largest GDP per capita in our union (excluding oil states).
Arthur P.
Facts to you are propaganda
Opinion, your facts.
Health care, climate change,
Trump being a moron...to name a few.
Only solution is for people not to work for people who don’t provide healthcare then all the businesses will go bust.
Here's a tip ... stop calling it Obama-care. It's called the Affordable Care Act.
I want what I had before obama care, it was affordable and adequate to my needs. When I had affordable health insurance , I had an $800.00 deductible and a.$200.00 co pay and it didn't meet my needs. I use to go for annual checkups but now I'd have to pay out of my own pocket. But now I'm retired and can't even afford cheap health insurance. Hospitals need to stop over charging for goods and services. I guess they forgot their Hippocratic oath.
Why should the people who don't need the healthcare have to pay for it just like the ones you made it but can't afford it can get it.
Robert should of mentioned the ideological roots of the Republic position.
MONEY MONEY MONEY... What else? 😈
Obamacare was designed to fail so that single-payer (government controlled) healthcare would be voted in. But then Hillery didn't win.
Sign up for ACA health care ends Dec 15th 2018 for 2019 coverage. Get the word out.
How would republicans get a tax break from Obama care being repealed?
OK I called the exchange in Nov about affordable insurance for three. The bronze plan (only one obscure provider in my county) was "free" to me after I authorized a government payment of $1,465 a month directly to the insurer. So $17,000 to the insurer automatically from the treasury. Result to me, an insurance deducible of 14,000 a year and then it would pay inflated medical costs. I pay mostly Out of Pocket till I spent $14,000 except for one annual physical (most tests were out of pocket except the std gyno tests). If I would pay $650 additional dollars each month above the government premium I could get a silver plan that reduced the deductible to $7,000 a year. If I paid 1,200 a month then a gold plan that looked like normal health insurance from 2005.
So who would use the bronze insurance. It is obviously just a scam to have you authorize the treasury to pay the private company $17,000 per year to do nothing. It only benefits the companies that have carved out regional monopolies on the exchange and their investors, which are heavy with members of Congress.
So don't be duped the other way too. The companies benefitting from this law have reversed the math to insure they get government stipends from even higher wage earners, and you still need to pay YOURSELF the normal market rate for so so insurance. That normal rate being twice as much as it was in 2007. The companies outside competitive large cities, have carved out monopoly districts for themselves so they can get, by simple math, a hugwe government payment.
For less than that, the Fed could have offered me a $3000 tax credit per person, I could have bought insurance of any type and coverage I wanted. The legislation could have set a rule, to offer health insurance in the US then no denying insurance to anyone, preexisting conditions or none.
Otherwise in 2009 you could have done what Obama campaigned for. Medicare for everyone and the private insurers could go to hell. Also use federal funds to build (rebuild) public hospitals and clinics. That is not what Pelosi and pals passed though. They passed a sweet deal for their friends in the for profit health industry.
Throw your rhetoric all you want. I don't care. This is just cold math. In some districts the math is OK. In some the math is terrible. Most of you don't understand math or money, and you definitely don't realize that tax money paid to a company on your behalf is actually taken from you and given to political "friends" that are more important than you.
Work to rectify this problem now while we have a chance to eradicate these repubd frim their free tide. Tbey have free heslthcare. 100 percent so you have a right to protest this travrsty of justice. Good luck sorry you have such a financual burden in yu and your family.
I don't understand why getting rid of ACA translates to all the tax cuts you mentioned. I'm for saving the ACA, Medicare, and Social Security. Could you please explain to me how those tax cuts follow from eliminating the ACA?
Don't forget the billions added to the deficit.
As a Republican I fear government debt and over reach. They don't actually do much on that.
As a Democrat I fear people not getting enough to survive from the economy. The economy is the best way for everyone to contribute though. Our voting system is also the best way for everyone to contribute. Best way for individual rights as free people.
I don't want American privilege to extend to people if they don't earn it. Not that I deserve it any more than they, but we have to have some systems to work together and distribute resources.
Robert Reich 2020!
#HealthCareForAll
Single tier universal health care.
Look trust me I KNOW the ONLY long term answer is PUBLIC OPTION!
Ok. I like it. Again with more feeling this time.
32 million losing health ins
Well what kind of insurance do they have
thats simply not enough information
If someone lost their 500 dollar a month policy why is that bad
Just simplistic talking points
Democrat propaganda
It's possible that he wants to creat one with his name on it..As we all already know he likes attention.He wants his signature on it to boost his trailed ego.
Think Obamacare actually made health care better for the poor and the middle class? Nope. In fact, the cost of health insurance premiums have skyrocketed while at the same time leaving more hardworking Americans with crushing medical bills. And why do some poor folks not have health insurance? Because the law created a one - size - fits all approach that causes people to pay for things that they don't need.
Exactly
I am sure you are correct but you did not make the causal connection clear.! How does one effect the other? Repeal equals tax cut for wealthy?
Do you really think the 1% that make billions would actually care about 33k. I don’t think so. I recognize that repeal and replace is impossible but that’s why just repeal makes sense. It seems against personal freedom to require individuals get health insurance or pay a tax, I am an adult and don’t need the government telling me what to do.
True.
Medicare for all
This is too gratuitous.
Serious question - I dont understand what repealing Obamacare has to do with tax cuts for the rich. What is the correlation?
What republicans want or don't want is irrelevant. Politicians are only the middle-men in all this. What matters is what the rich want vs. what everybody else wants and who can sway those politicians more. We commoners could sway the politicians if we all voted but the rich have convinced too many of us that our voices don't matter and that we shouldn't even bother to show up at the polls.
Insurance companies don't want single payer for one single reason; they know it will work thereby putting them out of business.
Obama care stoled a big part of my tax check for not having health insurance, I haven't been to a doctor in 20 years
Good. What about not going to a doctor for the next 20 years? How old are you now? How old do you expect to live?
What about the income above 75k do those play both sides of the party😂😂😂
I think there would be more relevance by people if we all understood what rich means. A great example was given stating the tax breaks of those making ove $400,000,000 which makes one easily able to compare benifits of accruing to this income class to thier own situaion. The term rich has been used so long that unless it is defined by an actual income number it relevance is somewhat watered down. I think this would give people a greater relevance where they sit in comparison to others and through this better understandi of the effects of policies and their effects on various income levels. Your perspectives Robert are quite the eye openers.
You never specified what would change tax-wise for the non-1%
1:32
Well, that and racism.
Is this your channel, bro? Subscribed
Who is telling the Republicans to do this? We understand that so long as campaign finances are largely derived from a few big donors then politicians listen to those donors. The single-mindedness that Republicans demonstrate with respect to tax cuts for the wealthy leads me to suspect that their donors are on the phone with them daily. Are the wealthy donors really that greedy that they'd subvert democracy just so they can add to a pile that's already far bigger than they could ever spend?
Yeah, of course the answer is an emphatic YES. And yet another reason why there has to be a global socialist movement that puts people worth over $10 million to the guillotine. It's got to be global or the filthy rich rats will just scurry away to avoid consequences.
If you give people everything they need to live and prosper for free and then stop giving it to them you are not killing them and it’s unfair to say that they will die. Maybe just maybe they will learn to fend for themselves and not continue to remain a domesticated animal. Let humans be humans, trust that people can learn and grow and survive without having to take from others or be given everything.
your videos are very good. my question are why republicans willing to sacrifice the millions of people that's going to suffer? And, some of trump supporters are arguing it's actually good for the US. Some even say, why punish the rich for having more money? IT's because they do more than those below them? THat's why they rich? For trump supporters, I know that they'll only realized this after they're hit themselves from what's the republicans and trump doing (karma?). For now, they're just happy to support trump.
what happened to all these people before they got free health care coverage from the working class?
Were people dying in the streets? Nope... you want funding...maybe stop paying out 1.3 Billion in healthcare cost to non citizens every year... Maybe get a job that pays more than minimum wage... I work for everything I have...no one gave me a handout...I worked 2 jobs while my kids were little and went to college to better myself and my families future... I am 54 and finally made middle class...now you want me to keep funding people so they can sleep till noon? People need to stop acting like children and take some responsibility for themselves...My kids are all grown with children of their own... they all work hard and provide for their families...not sit around sucking on a sock crying about how unfair things are... You want more..go get more...stop expecting the federal government to mandate that the gold ring be lowered so you can reach it...put down the video game controller an pick up a book... education is the key to a moving up... suck at school? Go into the trades..I make a good living and you can too...but it requires pulling up your sleeves and working for it... Not trying to bust your bubble...but life isn't fair, minimum wage is for teenagers and you can't support a family on minimum wage in 2017.. Stop waiting for government to give you everything... you want someone to blame for your own shortcomings? Stop blaming rich people and look in the mirror... YOU are the difference in whether you succeed or fail...
David Deal ugh oh triggered conservative
COMPANION & FORCE DO NOT MIX! If you want me do donate to your chosen charity, "free/subsidized health care" I would be cool with you asking nicely but using force to make me give "$33,000 per year," is morally wrong. Love and force do not mix.