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Kuttner on TAP
The Times Brands Sanders and Warren as Far Left. The sheer ideological bias of the mainstream press continues to astound. Today’s offender is a piece in The New York Times (page B2 of the Monday print edition) with the headline “Democrats Are Cautious About Ideas on the Far Left.”
The Times’ examples are Medicare for All and free public higher education. Call me old-fashioned, but I always thought “far left” referred to such ideas as nationalizing the means of production. You know: Lenin, Fidel, Chairman Mao.
Free public higher education is about as far left as Lincoln’s land grant colleges. For more than a century, it was the norm in America.
The Times bases its conclusion on a survey which shows that 30.5 percent of Democratic respondents want public colleges to be free to everyone and another 31.6 percent want them free to all but the wealthy. So, depending on how you read the poll, you might conclude that 62.1 percent of Democrats want public colleges to be free for the vast majority of people. Does that make most Democrats far left?
Turning to Medicare for All, the Times survey finds that 58.4 percent of respondents want Medicare to be available to all, with the option of keeping private insurance, while only 24.7 percent want everyone on a “single government plan.” (Actually, Medicare comes in many flavors, but never mind.)
Yet the same poll asks respondents which candidate they most trust on health care, and … wait for it … 35.8 percent pick Bernie Sanders and another 33.2 percent pick Elizabeth Warren. In other words, 69 percent prefer Sanders or Warren on health care, and of course both favor Medicare for All.
So, by the Times’ definition, 69 percent of Democrats are evidently “far left.” What gives? Could it be that respondents have inconsistent, context-dependent preferences, depending on how the question is asked?
Well, yes, as any competent pollster can tell you. That’s just Political Science 101. The Times betrays three bad habits: overwriting headlines and stories, misunderstanding the dark arts of polling, and a not-so-subtle bias favoring the political center. ~ ROBERT KUTTNER
Robert Kuttner’s new book is The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy. |
Diane Ravitch's blog 
“Far left.” ha! When I began as Asst Prof IN CUNY in 1971, it was FREE, no tuition plus Open Admissions–all HS grads admitted. NYC then was not “far left.” At that time, Calif. state coll were low-fee. NY and CA were first two states to legislate triple-track public university systems in the US starting in 1948. CUNY was free from 1847 until 1976 when conservative resurgence led by Wall ST forced tuition on all students. The corporate mainstream media are teaching America to fear and doubt liberal candidates and policies including high taxes on high incomes which were common from the 30s to Reagan. Turning the nation to the right has been a long-term project of industry, govt. and mass media, nullifying democratic and constitutional rights, reversing abortion and gay rights, demonizing folks of color and immigrants, pushing conservative common sense about what to expect or ask for in politics. We’re in an environmental calamity; a barbaric time of vast poverty, violence and cruelty at the bottom and unimaginable wealth and privilege at the very top. A moderate tweak of national policies will not turn the tide of Trump and the last 40 years of bipartisan looting.
Exactly!!!! The time for “moderation” is over.
Actually the City fiscal crisis killed free tuition at CUNY. The crisis had little or nothing to do with the operating budget and everything to do with the burning outer boroughs. The City became the landlord of last resort for housing and whole neighborhoods that resembled Dresden after the bombing. The financing arrange to deal with the crisis bankrupted the City. The result was cutting the operating budget of the city to pay for it. Teachers, Police , Fire houses and free tuition at CUNY were the victims. Diane would know this well.
The solution was gentrification and the financialization of the City’s economy. London’s loss was NYCs gain, as more and more World Finance moved from London to NYC . Yet the cuts to CUNY kept going. Reagan was the phony Tea Party long before the phony Tea Party existed.
” Why would you want to pay for your neighbor’s child’s education” . When you could pay to bail out Wall Street instead.
Eisenhower’s taxes on the wealthy were higher than either Bernie or Warren’s proposed taxes, but you won’t hear mainstream media talking about it. Mainstream media wants to present centrists as the reasonable option so the same policies that are crushing the middle class can continue. Voters should vote for what they believe is right, not what The NYT or CNN keep presenting as “reasonable.”
Yes, good points. But the GOP and libertarians will say that Ike’s 91% top marginal tax rate was the official rate, the effective rate was actually about 50% because of all the loopholes. 50% would be great, better than the current top marginal rate of 37% and there are tons of loopholes, tax dodges, tax evasions and tax shelters enabling some to pay no taxes at all. JFK closed many of the loopholes and lowered the tax rate to the low 70% range. That would also be good, the rich and the corporations need to pay their fair share, long overdue.
What is referred to as the “far left” in the Untied States today is what Europeans think of as common decency.
What is the difference between Social Security, Medicare for seniors and Medicare for all? Basically nothing. These are not “far left” ideas anywhere on Earth except parts of the USA. One might have thought the NYT would understand that.
Nowhere else. Exactly.
The Times is paid well not to understand that.
BOO! Socialism!!!
LMAO. Socialism is worker ownership of the means of production.
So, an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, or ESOP is Socialism.
The ghoulish right has managed to keep a lot of U.S. workers entertained or preached into stupefaction for a long time now. They’ve put the stupid in stupefaction. But as the song says, the times they are a’changin’. Too bad one can’t say that of The Times.
So anything but split the difference centrism is extreme? The concept of universal human rights, e.g., Heath care and education- enshrined on the United National Declaration of Human Rights- is extreme? Denial and only if “we” can afford it is the extreme.
Any Canadian will tell you our universal healthcare means all DR visits and hospital stays, surgeries etc are all free (drugs and dentists not yet fred we are working on it) but we only pay half as % of GDP that Americans pay. Universal healthcare only cost half of what private healthcare costs. Universal education child care to PhD needs go be seen the same way.
Amen
The Catholics in England derided the Protestants as “Puritans.” They were not shaken. They wore the accusation that they wished to purify the Church as a badge of honor.
For too long now, the right in the United States has been able to hurl the term “Socialist” at anyone espousing any policy a nanometer to the left of utter rapaciousness and cruelty. Enough. I say, own it, brothers and sisters. Own it! Socialist? You betcha. Boo!!! Haaaaa haaaaa haa! You want to see Socialism? How about we eat the rich.
(I don’t really want us to eat the rich. Ewwww. But I wouldn’t mind their thinking that.)
No need to eat them. Just throw them in vats filled with that acid that dissolves entire bodies in a few days.
The New York Times is clearly a neoliberal, corporate supporting publication.
The Wall Street Journal of Corporate Apologetics has been running for a solid year now almost daily pieces about the dangers of Socialism, about how any day now, the US is going to become Stalin’s Russia (as if that’s what Socialism is). One used to have to go to Ayn Randy kooks or the John Birch Society to encounter such claptrap. And now the New York Times is joining in that chorus. And all the fat cats are mounting “Anyone but Sanders or Warren” fundraisers. LOL. You want to get a good read on the country? Look at our popular entertainments, at The Hunger Games or movies like Elysium or The Island. Scroll through Netflix or Amazon Prime and note how many films there are about dystopian futures featuring a ruined planet, starving masses, and a few rich, fascist overlords. We are in the beginning stages of a phase transition, like a pot of water just before it starts boiling. There’s something happening here, and you don’t know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones?
“And now the New York Times is joining in that chorus” – I think they were already there. Remember how they barely covered Bernie’s phenomenal primary rallies/ polls in their rush to promote Hillary? They’re either scared of being labelled liberal scum by the rwnj’s, or (more likely) dancing to the tune of big money.
Yes, you are right about this.
And have you noticed that the NYT is not allowing commenting on this piece? (I’ve also noticed a pattern where the Time often does not have a commenting option on pieces which are critical of Bernie.
This paper is doing its best to get Biden elected. It seems to think that, barring that, Buttigieg is the next best option that is at all viable. It’s all about protecting the US healthcare racketeers. All about the $$$$.
OK, Kuttner already nutshelled it, but, hot under the collar, I just have to expound.
Obviously the NYT poll was very different from previous polls on Medicare for all [81% Dems pro in July vs 25% in their poll 5 mos later]. They tout theirs as revealing “more choices.” But what kind of choice is “government-run insurance [for] anyone who wants it, but people should be able to keep their private insurance if they prefer it”? How is that “well to the left of current law, but more moderate than those proposed by Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren”? Maybe because it sounds a lot like status quo, i.e. keep Obamacare maybe w/tweaks, as proposed by “more moderate” candidates Buttigieg & Biden. This option is neither immoderate nor moderate, it’s simply the healthcare version of public schools + charters and vouchers, i.e., unworkable financially.
The cited ‘Man on the Street’ (31-yo grad student Naomi Korchonnoff) reveals the tortuous thinking behind NYT’s implied claim that even millennial Dems are more moderate than we thought: “I don’t agree with the blanket aspect of [Medicare for all] because I think that people who earn enough to have their own private insurance, say through their employer, should be able to keep that,” she said– “It’s the ideal insurance to have…” (said no one w/employer-provided ins ever) “… the lawmakers should make health care available especially [to] low- and moderate-income people who…cannot afford to buy marketplace insurance.” In other words, let’s divide it up three ways: Medicare just for those who haven’t empl-prov ins & can’t afford Obamacare [i.e., those in red states which chose to reject fed Medicare extension]. This thesis reveals only that, tho Naomi wants all covered, she doesn’t know much about the principles of group ins, nor about the shortcomings of employer-provided ins in meeting major medical expenses.
Maybe I’m being too picky, but this to me is close to a red herring in NYT’s poll Q’s: “Voters also sounded a note of caution about the cost of candidates’ plans: Half of Democrats said the United States should adopt progressive proposals only if they do not increase the budget deficit, compared to 38 percent who said they supported the plans regardless of their fiscal impact.” Anyone who’s for Medicare for all—or govt-funded college—is about using govt clout to bring the ungodly cost of American healthcare—and college—into line w/that of other OECD countries, who all have universal govt-provided ins & amply-subsidized, or free college. The 38% who said “regardless of fiscal impact” were no doubt thinking something like, universal healthcare and tertiary ed are more important than outspending all nations on defense sevenfold.
Yes!
Ny Times is far left behind by real journalism.
Senator Mike Braun [R-IN-] is a STRONG Trump supporter. [Notice that he speaks on Fox Business.] Braun has already forgotten that the Trump tax cut benefitted the wealthy and corporations. We have more money to give to the military than the military wants and have money for a worthless Space Force BUT there is NO money for Medicare for All.
Here is Braun’s stand on Medicare for ALL:
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
The senator says some of his colleagues must’ve skipped 8th grade math.
Medicare for All is completely unaffordable and the idea will get Pres. Trump re-elected in 2020, said Sen. Mike Braun, talking about the cost of the various proposals by Democrat candidates for president on Fox Business.
“It seems like most of my cohorts cut class on 8th grade math and especially on Finance 101,” said Braun. “Even if that’s not the right figure, $32 trillion, you divide that into ten years, that’s the size of our federal government currently in terms of what we spend.”
Braun said if the government spends that much on healthcare, there won’t be money for anything else.
“They (Democrats) never talk about how they’re gonna pay for it,” said Braun. “You cannot keep borrowing money to the tune what we’re currently doing, which is a trillion dollars a year in deficits. When she (Elizabeth Warren) talks about a wealth tax, you couldn’t tax the top two quintiles of all their income and pay for this stuff.”
Braun said he believes providing health care to that extent is “really fantasy land”, and that lawmakers have a lot to talk about, when it comes to health care reform.
https://www.wibc.com/news/local-news/braun-medicare-all-crazy-talk-and-will-get-trump-re-elected
I currently spend more money on health insurance than I do on federal taxes. Nor do I have a choice, since the deal I get as a teacher either pays a large part of my health insurance or I do not get that part of my salary. Sounds like what Justice Roberts called a tax. Only my dimes go to a private company so the guys can make some coin off me. Then they tell my doctor if it is OK for him to run a test to see if I have some dread disease. Sure am glad these people saved me from the socialist death squads.
All the comments are correct. The left used to be those who suggested the nationalizing of the means of production. I happen to think this has a poor record. There are advantages to competition in the economic system. So far, however, we have not learned to play the game without an umpire.
Some of you may have heard of “Dummy” Hoy, a baseball player for the Cincinnati Redlegs in the 1800s. Once he was involved in a play that lost the championship for his team when he told the truth to the umpire. Just try to get that out of the modern business community.
It’s sickening that the corporate apologists keep getting away with these claims that Medicare for All would be too expensive. OUR CURRENT SYSTEM IS THE ONE THAT IS TOO EXPENSIVE. The US spends on healthcare TWICE, PER CAPITAL, the average in the OECD, and we have, arguably, worse health outcomes.
In 2016, the US spent $10,348 per capita for healthcare. The total expenditure was 3.3 trillion, or 17.9 percent of GDP.
In sharp contrast, the average OECD country spent $4,069 USD, per capita, or 8.9 percent as a percentage of GDP.
Why the vast disparity? Because in the US, vast amounts of our healthcare dollar are siphoned off into the profits of insurance rackets, hospital rackets, phrama rackets, etc. Gotta pay for those heliports at the Montana hunting lodges of the healthcare CEOs!
Is the price tag high? Yes, it is. But we are ALREADY PAYING TWICE AS MUCH.
When, oh when, will Democratic politicians, in general, start calling this falsehood out EVERY TIME IT IS UTTERED????? This needs to happen until moderators at debates and news outlets like The Times or The Wall Street Journal are embarrassed to raise the issue in the way that they now routinely do.
But, hey, NYT, don’t let the facts stand in the way of your ideology. Your fat cat corporate owners would be upset if you did that.
Oops. typo. TWICE, PER CAPITA
Those figures, btw, are from “Health Expenditures.” National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/health-expenditures.htm. Accessed April 9, 2019, and “Spending on Health: Latest Trends.” OECD, June 2018. http://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/Health-Spending-Latest-Trends-Brief.pdf. Accessed April 9, 2019.
One more cx: the figures I gave, above, for OECD averages are from 2018, not 2016. So, they are HIGHER than they were in 2016. LOL.
And the figure for 2018 is $3.65 trillion spent on US healthcare every year! The estimated $32trillion over 10 yrs cost of Medicare for all was probably based on 2015’s rate of actual expenditure under current system—without any correction for the huge reduction of eliminating ins cos et al hangers-on [got to be at least 25%]—much less single-payer govt systems $clout to negotiate reasonable costs of pharmaceuticals. And we’re already spending 11% more now than we did 2 yrs ago! Anyone who says we can’t afford $32trilllion over 10 yrs either doesn’t realize we’re already spending more than that [& increasing annually]—or just doesn’t want to see that pie divided equally! God forbid we have something other than a range from way more than you need for a few, to way less than you need for most, to zero for the poorest.
Exactly. None of this is difficult to understand. So, why don’t the Dems just say this? Well, a lot of them don’t because they too (Mr. Biden, I’m looking at you) are in the pockets of the insurance and pharmaceutical companies and the provider networks.
The same argument that it was too expensive was made in Canada by righties before they switched to a single-payer system. We have the existence proofs of these systems that are cheaper and more effective.
And people love their employer-provided insurance until a) the premiums become too high for them to pay, b) they get sick and find that the insurance company they and their employer paid into all those years won’t cover their treatment.
And the folks at The Times know all that, ofc. But they run this stuff anyway. One could, politely say that that’s disingenuous. But let’s say what it really is: LYING via cherry-picking the relevant facts, done to serve the financial interests of the very few to the detriment of the health of the many.
Over the last couple of decades, the Democratic Party has moved moderately to the left, while the Republican Party has moved decidedly to the far right.
Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein put it this way more than seven YEARS ago:
“We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.”
“The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition…When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html
It amazes me how tribal the Republicans are. They continue to be a threat because so many followers vote against their own interests. Zombie voters will follow a mad man off a cliff. It defies logic.
I assume the Republicans are motivated by fear of a Tweet. Those who resign are the last moderates, leaving only the vile and the fearful. Important to remember that the Republican Party was once the party that favored immigration, strong alliances with other democratic nations, low deficits, a professed belief in family values. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency. Trump got rid of all that. Now the Republican Party stands for whatever Trump says or does.
Republicans are even more extreme now. Trump has cleared out the moderates. All that is left are Republicans committed to evangelical religion, opposition to abortion, wiping out the line between church and state, and greed. It is now Trump’s Party. He can do no wrong. His legacy will be the federal judges with lifetime appointments, now occupying 1/4 of all judgeships. Mitch McConnell used Trump to impose rightwing judges everywhere.
The New York Times? What’s that? Never heard of it.
It’s the newspaper of wreckord.
Santa Claus wears a red suit. Must be a Socialist!
–Arlo, sort of
I LOVE Borowitz. Remember it is satire. [He always hits upon the truth.]
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Scientists: Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans
“It’s possible that they will become more receptive to facts once they are in an environment without food, water, or oxygen,” a researcher said.
MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)—Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth to sustain life, a sobering new study reports.
The research, conducted by the University of Minnesota, identifies a virulent strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge, leaving scientists at a loss as to how to combat them.
“These humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information,” Davis Logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the study, said. “And yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive.”
More worryingly, Logsdon said, “As facts have multiplied, their defenses against those facts have only grown more powerful.”…
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/scientists-earth-endangered-by-new-strain-of-fact-resistant-humans
A Google search of Fordham Institute Board of Trustees presents, as first result, an old list.
What’s responsible- the vagaries of computer algorithms or, design?
When I was on the Fordham board, from 1998-2009, there was not one person of color. Neither on the board nor on the staff. I was the only female on the board. All pale males.
“pale males” – great word choice
More than 14,000 migrant children will spend Christmas in wire cages in concentration camps run by the United States government. Thanks, President Trump and Propaganda Minister Stephen Miller. Here’s hoping that the new year will find you standing in the dock at the International Court of Justice charged with crimes against humanity.
Democrats are too far left? So how do the corporate Dems feel about FDR and LBJ? FDR, in the depths of the depression, created Social Security, the FDIC and many other laws/programs that helped ordinary working class citizens. LBJ enacted Medicare and Medicaid over the objections of the GOP, AMA, Ronnie Reagan and the usual suspects. We already have single payer for those over 65, universal health care for the elderly, ergo universal health care is not science fiction. It is possible, doable and should have been done ages ago. We already have tuition free education, K -12, so why not add 4 more years for college? Oh right, that would be communism, according to the GOP, Trump and the libertarians/Ayn Randians.
Not that The Chicago Tribune is such a liberal paper (of course, it’s not–has been conservative & Republican, w/outlandish public school education opinion columns by Tribune Editorial (I would call it Idiotorial) Board Member Kristin McQueary, always against teachers; one column wished for a disaster similar to Katrina because, in all her wisdumb, she thought the hurricane & its aftermath “cleaned up” the New Orleans public school system, agreeing w/Arne’s assessment), but it has just been bought by an even more awful organization. Journalists there are quaking in their boots, waiting for the inevitable layoffs.
Oh–&, further–the argument that every other industrialized & free nation in the world has national health care–& can afford it, even though the U.S. is the richest nation in the world!–is totally ignored, year after year, time & again.
Much like the climate crisis–it just ISN’T happening, & nothing can be done.
In this regard, elected officials may be likened to IQ45 in the sense that he has the temperament, E.Q. & coping skills of a toddler: you know, when a small child does mischief & finds him/her/theyself in trouble, he/she/they goes to the bedroom & hides under the blanket…since tot cannot see others, said tot thinks no one else can see him/her/they either.
I once worked for a special ed. director who went around schools (& also did so at school board meetings, where he sat in the back onstage, trying to avoid speaking or answering any parent or teacher ?? One parent screeched at him once, “Take off those glasses, LOOK at me & ANSWER THE QUESTION!!”) wearing dark sunglasses–inside the buildings!
Not only was he physically seen–we saw right through him.
Many of them, ofc, see quite clearly but are paid not to. The analogy to the dark glasses for willfully not seeing and not being seen still works.
Sep 26, 2016
Donald Trump said he’s “smart” by not paying income taxes — and argued that if he did, the money would be “squandered.”
Question: What is the difference between Jesus Christ and Donald Trump?
A: Jesus never thought he was Donald Trump!
The Christmas message this year from trump—Hate a family member for trump.
The Ten Commandments from Trump on the Mount:
Thou Shalt Cheat
Thou Shalt Steal from Charities
Thou Shalt Covet Thy Neibor’s Wife
Thou Shalt Lie
Thou Shalt Exort
Thou Shalt Hate immigrants
Yes, from the catechism of his god, Mammon.
Happy holidays to you, Carol. And to the world in general:
Remember, today, that 14,000 migrant children, having fled starvation and violence, are spending their Christmas in wire cages in the concentration camps promulgated by Donald Trump and his Minister of Propaganda, Stephen Miller. May they live to see the day when this foul misadministration is gone, when they are welcomed and proffered grace and opportunity, when those guilty of this crime are punished, and this dark time is behind us. If you have opportunity, in the coming year, to take it to the streets to oppose this, please do.
“There’s no smocking gun,” says the “man” with no smucking clue. Twice, he said it in the same twittering. Third-grade retention for thee, Donnie T!
If DT looked in a mirror, he would see smoke and flames shooting out of his ears, eyes, mouth, and nostrils. He is the smoking gun, shooting orange turds from his automatic twitter rifle.
LOL. Happy holidays to you and yours, Lloyd!
May every day be a holiday without standing in lines to increase our credit card debt.
Amen to that!
Bob Shepherd
At some point we have to acknowledge that the problem is not the press but the American people. The Social Insurance programs are the anti socialism. Introduced in the 1890s to keep the socialists from capturing the loyalty of working class Germans. Bismark was so brutal that he was too much for Wilhelm 2nd . Who had him step down as Chancellor.
Yet every-time there is talk of expanding the safety net the red flag of socialism is raised and the American people fall for it hook line and sinker.
Had ACA not been passed with its employer mandates, the Great Recession would have killed the employer sponsored health insurance system. Employers would have dropped their coverage in a race to the bottom.
Sorry but the American people, Union workers in particular are too stupid to understand that there is no such thing as employer provided health insurance. Mine was $18 an hour in deferred wages to pay for it. Far more than M4all would cost.
Some of the American people, not all of the American people — just enough for the Alt-Right to kill anything good for all the people.
It is the responsibility of the press to educate the people about these matters.
Bob Shepherd: This is Trump’s idea of how to act at family Christmas dinners. Support Trump and all of his lies instead of offering a decent value statement that brings people together.
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Green New Deal
Dec 24, 2019
Donald J Trump
The U.S. is again a world leader in energy production, but Democrats would eliminate all fossil fuel production under the Green New Deal (means 10 million jobs lost and higher heating and cooling bills).
Bob Shepherd
It’s the responsibility of the People to be able to consume media and apply the proper filters to what the read and hear.
Easy to say every person (in a democracy) should be responsible “to consume media and apply the proper filters to what the read and hear.”
Impossible to implement.
Maybe this is why no democratic style republic (or any civilization no matter what kind of government they have) has ever lasted more than a few hundred years … because as the generations come and go, too many people start to take for granted what the founders created.
Look at China and how many dynasties blossomed and then died almost always due to corruption at the top.
Biden is roaming the country telling unionized workers, “you already have a good healthcare plan you fought for” .
In Canada, unions with good plans were super happy when medicare arrived.
1) it freed up fiscal room on company balance sheets for higher wages.
2) it allowed unions room for other benefits plus “top ups” to the medicare plan for any uncovered items.
Union prayer “what we wish for ourselves, we wish for all people.”
Well-said, Doug.
Having written what I did above, I am hoping that England doesn’t see its National Health System (Boris Johnson says it’s rotting & would like to see it replaced–?!) destroyed.
& why (or how) was he elected?
Amen to this, Doug!!!
It’s hard to take so much winning, winning and winning.
Of course, this website would contain ‘statements that fact-checkers have characterized as false or misleading’.
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Team Trump wants you to own the ‘liberal snowflakes’ at your family Christmas party
Dec. 24, 2019 at 2:47 p.m.
The website includes sections titled, “There was no quid pro quo, Democrats always obsessed with impeachment” and “BIG GOVERNMENT SOCIALISM.” Each contains a video of a campaign official delivering pro-Trump arguments in front of an American flag graphic. Triumphant music plays in the background.
And, as with Trump’s rhetoric, it contains statements that fact-checkers have characterized as false or misleading.
“Family holidays,” a smiling woman says in one of the clips. “Full of love. Full of laughter. And full of the inevitable conversations with the family liberal who just does not want to believe how great America is doing with President Trump in office.”…
“We’ve all seen the news articles about liberal snowflakes being afraid to see their MAGA relatives at Christmas or holiday gatherings, so the Trump campaign wants people to be ready,” campaign spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement. “We’re not helping snowflakes avoid arguments — we’re helping Trump supporters win them!
“As 2019 draws to a close and 2020 approaches, President Trump and Americans are going to be winning, winning, and winning, and then winning some more!”…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/24/team-trump-wants-you-own-liberal-snowflakes-your-family-christmas-party/
The Intercept reported that Bloomberg’s campaign used female inmates from an Oklahoma prison to make campaign calls.
Bloomberg, an exploitive Republican- but, I repeat myself.
Free labor for Bloomberg. Or did he pay them the usual prison wages?
My understanding- the campaign paid the prison- the prison paid the inmates… peanuts.