Comments on: The House GOP’s Disaster Relief Disaster

By: USW Blog » Blog Archive » Why Eric Cantor Can’t Rescue the GOP’s “Lost” Message

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:02:26 +0000

[...] I wrote earlier, after GOP leadership adjourned the House without voting on disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy victims, disdain for government is a Republican [...]

By: Terrance Heath

Terrance Heath — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:39:07 +0000

And, of course, the problem with privatizing government services for profit is that there are people who need those services, whom it is not and never will be profitable to serve. It's bad enough when the private sector does make a profit for delivering services, because the pattern is that they (a) over promise in order to land the government contract to deliver services, and then proceed to (b) overcharge for delivery of services and (c) underserve the communities in in question. When it comes to the poor, the near-poor, the working-poor, etc., the profit margin in slim to none. From a purely profit-oriented perspective, there's no point in bothering. That leaves millions pretty much out in the cold on everything from health care to education. I guess the difference between conservatives and progressives is that conservatives don't much care. Conservative economist Tyler Cohen summed the conservative position pretty well:

Breathe deeply and try to summon your inner peace before reading this description, from economist Tyler Cowen, of what conservatives and libertarians should put in health care policy. You're going to need every drop of calm and sanity you can muster.
2. A rejection of health care egalitarianism, namely a recognition that the wealthy will purchase more and better health care than the poor. Trying to equalize health care consumption hurts the poor, since most feasible policies to do this take away cash from the poor, either directly or through the operation of tax incidence. We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor. Some of you don’t like the sound of that, but we already let the wealthy enjoy all sorts of other goods — most importantly status — which lengthen their lives and which the poor enjoy to a much lesser degree. We shouldn’t screw up our health care institutions by being determined to fight inegalitarian principles for one very select set of factors which determine health care outcomes.
I'm going to repeat that: "We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor."

By: Frans Roosen

Frans Roosen — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:51:29 +0000

It is disgusting that this lazy, incompetent,self-serving, mean and hate driven congress is holding office.
If it is the TRUE reflection of the American people, shame on you. Shame on the sanctimonious who find vindication of there twisted biblical quotes by taking refuge into their houses of worship on Sundays. Shame on your ignorance, shame on you for voting these miscreants in office based on uncritical acceptance of there rhetoric of lies and hate. SHAME, SHANE,SHAME!

By: Theodore Wirth

Theodore Wirth — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:52:22 +0000

“It’s not really about the deficit.” It’s about privatizing all government services for profit.

By: clarence swinney

clarence swinney — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:44:58 +0000

OBAMA BLAME
Who Dug the Deep Hole? Who Fumbled the ball?
Numbers rounded

Clinton left Bush an 1800B Budget
Bush Left Obama a 3500 Budget

Clinton left Bush a 240B Surplus as far as the eye can see
Bush left Obama a 1400B Deficit as far as the eye can see

Clinton left Bush 5,700B of Debt
Bush left Obama 11,800B of Debt

Clinton left Bush a 237,000 net new jobs created per month
Bush left Obama a 31,000 lowest number since Hoover.

Clinton left Bush 17 Million Manufacturing Jobs
Bush left Obama 11 Million Manufacturing Jobs

Clinton left Bush a 10,800 Dow
Bush left Obama an 8028 Dow

Clinton left Bush Peace on Earth Good Will From Most Men
Bush left Obama Hell on Earth Two disastrous wars. Enmity of 1500 Million Muslims

Clinton left Bush a President most highly rated of any peacetime President in Asia, Africa, Europe.
Bush left Obama the most hated President in history
Bush left Obama an Housing Tsunami and Financial Volcano
Bush left Obama, in 2008, an 8500B Bail out commitment Yes! 8500 not just 700
Bush left Obama his Takeover of Fannie/Freddie, AIG, and first bailout of Chrysler
Bush increased maximum loan by Fannie/Freddie from $153,000 in 2000 to $300,000 then to $729,000
That is how F&F got stuck with so many toxic mortgages. Bush gift to Big Bank pals.
Bush increased FDIC maximum deposit coverage from $100,000 to $250,000. Help the rich.