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To: i-node who wrote (771710)2/27/2014 12:54:49 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 1575984
 
That was the day we began to double the number of seniors with medical coverage. It took 5 years to complete the job.



To: i-node who wrote (771710)2/27/2014 1:23:46 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 1575984
 
"That was the day we started running up what is now about 60 Trillion in debt that, eventually, will collapse the entire economy."

Now it's the same old song
But with a different meaning
Since FDR been gone

Indeed, these same arguments we hear today against health reform were used even earlier, to attack President Franklin Roosevelt’s call for Social Security. It was denounced as a socialist program that would compete with private insurers and add to Americans’ tax burden so as to kill jobs.

Daniel Reed, a Republican representative from New York, predicted that with Social Security, Americans would come to feel “the lash of the dictator.” Senator Daniel Hastings, a Delaware Republican, declared that Social Security would “end the progress of a great country.”

John Taber, a Republican representative from New York, went further and said of Social Security: “Never in the history of the world has any measure been brought here so insidiously designed as to prevent business recovery, to enslave workers.

nytimes.com

Obamacare - The Neutron Bomb That Will Decimate The U.S. Economy


Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/21/2013 10:07 -0400

zerohedge.com