Dr.Sack

No. Obama recruited Perez for DNC chair over Ellison. Perez is an establishment neoliberal corporate Democrat who speaks in platitudes and cliches and becaus of it refuses to offer any bold progressive policy ideas. He says things like “our values unite us.” And when pushed on healthcare he says “everyone has a right to affordable healthcare”. https://theintercept.com/2017/02/24/key-question-about-dnc-race-why-did-white-house-recruit-perez-to-run-against-ellison/ It’s not really overhauling it, so much as taking out the 30% overhead of private for profit insurance. It would be like how Medicare currently works. The government would be the single insurer / payer. Not a difficult overhaul at all and even conservatives who study trends know it’s going to happen sooner or later. http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-conservative-case-for-universal-healthcare/ Why Trump doesn’t try to pass this before 2020 I have no idea. He would be re-elected in a landslide if he proposed and passed Medicare-for-All with the help of his followers & the Progressive left.

Rosen was a better passer and more complete & accomplished QB coming out of college, but his injuries, concussions, overall size & durability scare me. He could be as tough as Tom Brady same height, similar weight coming out of college, or he could be made of glass like Trent Edwards. Time will tell.

Japan has 127 million, Germany 83 million, France 67 million, the UK 66 million, South Korea 51 million. It would work here very much the same way Medicare works now, except the idea is to expand it to cover everyone while also providing vision, dental, long-term care while also eliminating the Part D prescription drug donut hole. You can consolidate Medicaid, while keeping the VA system separate. It would lower costs $17 Trillion over a decade compared to our current system. And there wouldn’t be 30 million people without coverage. That $17 Trillion in economic savings would be very deflationary to our economy so it would be necessary to spend that money elsewhere like; regime change wars, more Wall Street bailouts & imprisoning 25% of the world’s prisoners despite only having 5% of the world’s population. In reality we can spend much of those savings back into the commons; infrastructure, sustainable energy, transportation, schools, hospitals, airports, high speed rail.

Obviously you don’t, because you don’t even know who the head of the DNC is. And if you knew the story about how that person was handpicked by Obama to defeat the person you mentioned you’d have more cred. Why when attacking socialism aren’t you talking about Japan, S. Korea, Germany, France, the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Israel?

I love this thread...why are you conservatives so worried about AOC? As Pelosi attempted to explain “this is an isolated phenomena.” Lots of time being spent on an idealogy that can “never come to pass” as Hillary said about Medicare For All. Its always nice to know that establishment Democrats & Republicans can come together to sell us another 40 years of Neoliberalism.

Let’s see him in camp. Do we have EJ or JK?

Wow I never heard of this movement conjured up by right wing trolls around 1 month ago. I did a little research and was surprised to see the nonpartisan James Woods deeply involved in an effort to make this trend along with thousands of Russian bots with Russian IP addresses. ?

You’re suffering from Trump Clown Syndrome. Side effects include flip flopping on: debt reduction, & free trade agreements.

I’d be surprised if Trump knew how to play checkers let alone chess. Trump is doing some good things in showing the U.S. that you don’t need to pay for things with tax revenue. Trump is a good advocate for Modern Monetary Theory & I respect him for showcasing it to the GOP & corporate Democrats. Medicare for All & public college are next. Bravo Trump!

Think like a conservative for a moment: was it we want open free trade until Trump said we want tariffs? Was it we want a balanced budget until Trump said I want $70 Billion more for defense/offense while cutting taxes $250 Billion per year? That $320 Billion was printed from thin air. Paul Ryan & the other Ayn Randers heads are exploding.

A few numbers such as median wages, and average wages, over the past 4 decades are extremely important in a political climate where jobs & wages took precedent. The economic data whether acknowledged by the establishment or not gives my argument credence. And economic Populism whether you acknowledge it or not played a central role in Trump winning, and Sanders proving to be more of a challenge than HRC ever expected. “When I was campaigning, I was talking about 18 and 20 years (when) wages effectively went down. Now, for the first time in a long time, they're starting to go up for people." Donald Trump on Thursday, March 8th, 2018 in remarks before a Cabinet meeting.

These statistics help explain the rise of Trump & the progressive left movement, no? Or are you in the camp of explaining away the rise of populism to racism, sexism, & xenophobia on the right and left? If so how CNN & MSNBC of you. To rephrase, are you honestly are arguing that declining wages, economic stagnation have zero correlation to populism seen in today’s politics?

Big deal, get a babysitter / nanny & Party it up.

Peterman was accurate in throwing the ball to opposing teams corners. McD attempted a Hail Mary and it blew up in his face. Glad he owned up to it. Proving he’s humble & capable of putting the blame not on his players but himself. Where this gets interesting is if Josh Allen lights up training camp & the preseason and pushes McCarron & Peterman for the starting job. Will McD be willing to roll with the rookie & weather through the learning curve?

The richest 10% of Americans own 84% of all stocks. Furthermore most of the Trump tax cut has led corporations to invest their additional income in stock buybacks, to further increase executive compensation. By buying back shares they aren’t investing in new plant and equipment, hiring more workers or increasing wages. Real wages when adjusted for inflation are holding at 2.7%. Inflation at 2% means about a 0.08 increase in average hourly worker take home pay. The stock market is trading at all time highs when looking at price to earnings ratios. You also have real estate bubbles that have popped up all over the country even in metro areas like Buffalo. Trump has also put himself in a bind if the market turns south. We’ve had 9 years without a recession. With tariffs starting to impact inflation and interest rates going up to thwart inflation we are moving towards the next recession.

Kind of like... Trump said after Charlottesville “there’s fine people on both sides.”

Never been embedded with Antifa but have sympathy to any organization whose sole mission is to oppose hatred like the white nationalists of the U.S. espouse. I suggest you read Mein Kampf to better understand the role of capitalism’s merger with fascism. I suspect you are well versed in the adage “accuse the other side that of which you are guilty of.”

Independents can’t favor policies like expanding Social Security, Medicare? Mmmm Kay. The Overton Window skews far right on this forum. Lots of key demographics covered here; white, late 50s & older & conservative. This board needs Indy’s like me to bring the conversation back to the center.

What makes me laugh is people who don’t vote & conservatives who for decades championed neoliberal free trade deals & the elimination of federal debt who now are going in the totally opposite direction.

I’m an Indy because I favor policies that help the people not corporate profits.

Not my side. I’m an Independent. Obama suspended habeas corpus. https://theintercept.com/2016/11/11/commander-in-chief-donald-trump-will-have-terrifying-powers-thanks-obama/

I’ll let our courts try them. Although we’ve suspended habeas corpus & could theoretically send these terrorists to Club Gitmo where they can undergo ‘enhanced interrogation’.

Obama?!?!? The NeoLiberal? As he said, he governed as a moderate Republican. Obama and the Clinton Neoliberals got in bed with Wall Street, Big Insurance & Big Pharma to strip out the only progressive idea in the ACA, the single-payer public option. Obama was an absolute failure and deserved to lose Congress in 2010. He campaigned rhetorically as a Progressive but turned into a Clinton Third-Way Democrat about 5 minutes into his Administration. Could have done amnesty, single-payer, broken up the banks, but he caved like every weak NeoLiberal Corporate Democrat since Jimmy Carter.

I love our country so much I want to help everyone get access to world class healthcare. Meanwhile you think the status quo of 35 million without healthcare & 47,000 people a year who die due to lack of coverage is fine. I say it’s not. You are also cool with spending $700 Billion on the defense/offensive military at a time when Russia spends $65 Billion a year. You love the $7 Trillion spent on war in Iraq & Afghanistan too. Imagine what that money could have done having been spent domestically rebuilding our D grade infrastructure.

We will leave the killing to Nazis. As Trump said “there’s fine people. On both sides.” Trump & the Republicans can’t even come up with a healthcare plan outside of stripping away preexisting conditions coverage from the Heritage Foundation conceived ACA. Time for Medicare-for-All with expanded coverage eliminating the donut hole & providing long-term care insurance, while eliminating Medicaid & consolidating it with Medicare.