Mark Horne:
Ted Cruz pointed out the obvious, that Obamacare is going to hurt Americans, including working class Americans. It is going to increase income inequality. So, the Rachel Maddow website trots out a sneer from Steve Benon: “The Contradiction Behind Cruz’s Confusion”
So let me get this straight. The Affordable Care Act is too generous to working families, but it’s also punishing working families. Health care reform goes too far in making economic inequalities less severe, but health care reform also goes too far in making economic inequalities more severe.
Clearly, Ted Cruz takes himself and his rhetoric very seriously, but one wonders if he expects the rest of us to do the same.
News flash: No one ever thought that “Health care reform” could make “economic inequalities less severe” outside a general plunging of everyone into an equal poverty (which, technically, would result in less inequality). If people actually believed that the Obamacare magic spell could work, then there would have been more supporters and Republicans would not have swept up seats in 2010.
It is true that the conviction that theft is wrong is more prevalent in circles that vote Republican. But most of those people also hold to another notion with immediate consequences for economic theory: crime does not pay. Robbing from the rich and giving to the poor cannot empower the poor or make them truly better off. If anyone benefits, it is the robbers themselves.
So opposing redistribution is not contradictory to noticing that redistributionist policies hurt the people who they claim to help (like African Americans and women, for example). On the contrary, the promises of redistribution are usually cover for plans to further degrade the middle, working, and lower classes.
Brenon attempts to win against Cruz by bluffing:
As a substantive matter, the right-wing senator’s argument is predicated on an assumption: the Affordable Care Act will put working-class Americans out of their jobs. He said as much in his little speech: “We know that Obamacare is killing jobs all across the country. Indeed, Obamacare is the biggest job killer in this nation.”
The problem, of course, is that the right can’t support any of this with evidence. There is literally nothing to support Cruz’s claim. Nothing. Cruz pointed to a “survey” conducted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce – a lobbying group that tends to ally itself with the GOP – but the “survey” was an unscientific poll the group conducted on a website two years ago. As even Cruz should understand, this wasn’t a legitimate examination of private-sector intentions.
The survey was not “nothing” even if it wasn’t a scientific investigation. The White House Administration’s attempt to withhold numbers as long as possible and refuse to explain if it is counting those who enroll as being insured or getting ready to purchase insurance tells us that everything possible will be done to obstruct the collection of data.
“If anyone benefits, it is the robbers themselves.” This goes back to what Mr Limbaugh stated and once again he is RIGHT!
The article clearly instils with clarity how the Democratic/Liberal Government has used “Health care” as yet another catapult in order to STEAL from hard working Americans ….The liberal Government uses health care as a ‘legitimate reason’ to Steal as much as they can in the form of outrageously high insurance payments and premiums…leaving those same hard working people with less of what THEY EARNED…and somehow this is in a progressives mind “moral” ??? – Stealing is NOW MORAL? Oh, please…leave us out of your guilt trips…
And once again – The Liberal mindset just throws ‘words’ out there…. words that the gullible -the naive – the losers and the non-producers of this country “WANT to relate to” …. they WANT others to pay for them without ever having to lift a finger…
… when it comes to Liberals actually implementing their Liberal “policies” and “agendas” under the guise of helping… these same policies and agendas are, on the outset and in the “long run” complete failures. It becomes a growing cancer…. which we now have in this country…
More so the crux of their ideology is that these same politicians and of course the arrogant and stupid media who does their ‘bidding’ ALL think “they” are smarter, better than every other American...but they ‘use’ the ‘guise’ of ‘caring about the poor’ and the ‘middle class’ of which they do not “truly” give a crap about so long as their ideology keeps them in power and in the money….making sure they are the FIRST to get a slice of that ‘Pie”….THEY are the epitome of “Money is the root of all evil” and THEY are the ones who create another deadly sin in this country “Envy” another catapult to create ‘friction’ and division and eventually to ‘steal’…
Once again, OF the $ slices $ of that proverbial pie? the LARGEST $ slices $ (as Rush Clearly clearly stated) will go to the ONES IN POWER…then, they will (RE)distribute the “leftovers” to the ever growing amount of peasants jumping on the liberal bandwagon… who will get significantly smaller pieces of the Pie… and the income equality they bitch about all the time?? Well, does anyone honestly see THAT GAP under this type of governing EVER closing??? Allow me to answer that…”NO”!! and NOT EVER!!….ESPECIALLY not under LIBERALISM and “their” pizza pie chart…
In a Capitalist world – it is the Individual – who has “control” over their own slice of Pie – their own destiny – not the Government!! …
…Not the Government and their ever shrinking pieces of the pie to the masses who have been enticed by ‘freebies’ and now ‘choose’ to depend on Government….Government dependency will never EVER shrink the Liberal propagandized “inequality gap” liberals love to bitch about…. Not even by FORCE !!
Americans need to cure themselves of Liberal /Republibocrat Cancer.. And, Conservatism is the cure.. it is the cure for reviving an America we once knew…Conservatism is the antidote if America is ever to survive the liberal/republibocrat and Progressive cancer which has invaded this great country…
TED CRUZ?? HE is the one who got it right!
WHO SAID THERE IS NOTHING TO SUPPORT TED CRUZ’CLAIM.
YES THERE IS, THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE OF THIS USA WHO BELIEVE THAT TED CRUZ COULD BRING THEIR CONVICTIONS TO THE GOVERNMENT, HE DID IT AS A PRO, NO CONFUSION,
AND TIME IS PROVING TED CRUZ AND THE PEOPLE HE BELIEVED IN AND ASK THEIR OPINION,
do you ALL LEFTISTS, MEAN TO ACCUSE the PEOPLE of being confuse ???
YES IT PROVED HIM, AND PEOPLE,RIGHT AT 100 PER CENT,
THE LEFTIST ARE THE CONFUSE ONE, ON ALL ISSUES THEY TACKLE, THEY LOST THEIR CREDIBILITY A LONG TIME AGO,
NOBODY BELIEVE THEM AND THEIR MOUTH PIECE MEDIA,