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Jay Beattie
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On May 31, 6:50 am, "Tom Kunich" <cyclintom@yahoo. com> wrote:
> "Ed Pirrero" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> > It's just you. "Infinitely" worse? There is no industrialized nation
> > that even approached economic destruction over public health
> > insurance. Please describe, with figures, this economic destruction.
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> http://brillig.com/debt_clock/
What on earth are you smoking? The debt clock was going backwards
during the Clinton administration. "Public health insurance," vis.,
Medicare and Medicaid were created during the Johnson administration.
Not that Johnson was a great president, but the economy was smoking
hot in '65 -67 (starting to overheat in fact). Personal income was
growing at a record rate. Too bad about that war thing. Good object
lesson ignored by GWB.
BTW, Bush created the Medicare drug benefit. The benefit is over-
priced because it was guaranteed to line industry pockets (because the
federal government was forbidden from screwing down payments to drug
makers). Another great fleece tax payers to benefit corporations
program. Also, Social Security and Medicare are over-funded -- and the
excess is going in to the general fund. It is the great hidden tax
used to pay for things like no-bid Halliburton contracts. If the
excess over current liabilities was put in to a real pension plan like
a PERS (rather then going in to the general fund), we would be
swimming in retirement dough. But then that would require GWB to
raise regular income tax to cover his idiotic war. -- Jay Beattie.
> "Ed Pirrero" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> news:a905879c-e5b8-400e-a4d2-8e37c1635493@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
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> > It's just you. "Infinitely" worse? There is no industrialized nation
> > that even approached economic destruction over public health
> > insurance. Please describe, with figures, this economic destruction.
>
> http://brillig.com/debt_clock/
What on earth are you smoking? The debt clock was going backwards
during the Clinton administration. "Public health insurance," vis.,
Medicare and Medicaid were created during the Johnson administration.
Not that Johnson was a great president, but the economy was smoking
hot in '65 -67 (starting to overheat in fact). Personal income was
growing at a record rate. Too bad about that war thing. Good object
lesson ignored by GWB.
BTW, Bush created the Medicare drug benefit. The benefit is over-
priced because it was guaranteed to line industry pockets (because the
federal government was forbidden from screwing down payments to drug
makers). Another great fleece tax payers to benefit corporations
program. Also, Social Security and Medicare are over-funded -- and the
excess is going in to the general fund. It is the great hidden tax
used to pay for things like no-bid Halliburton contracts. If the
excess over current liabilities was put in to a real pension plan like
a PERS (rather then going in to the general fund), we would be
swimming in retirement dough. But then that would require GWB to
raise regular income tax to cover his idiotic war. -- Jay Beattie.