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Probably because your state is too busy spending it on social programs that buy votes...
The healthcare that illegal immigrants get is care at the Emergency Room, thanks to EMTALA, a law signed by Ronald Reagan in 1986.
PS: Any person, illegal immigrant, legal immigrant, or citizen, can get care under EMTALA, but the kind of care you get is VERY LIMITED.
If you have cancer, you will be stabilized and discharged, and you will still have cancer.
If you have diabetes, you will be stabilized and discharged but your diabetes will not be treated.
If you're having a heart attack, you will be stabilized and discharged.
But you will not receive heart surgery to repair your problem.
And by the way, if you don't pay the bill, it just gets tacked onto the health insurance premiums.
It's just about the stupidest solution imaginable, and the least effective and MOST EXPENSIVE.
ER care costs almost five times what regular care costs.
This proves that you have NO IDEA what you are talking about, which means you're a Republican.
And you don't even know what a Republican president did in 1986, which means you're an average Republican.
Which means you don't know diddly squat.
Any other questions?
Trumpy had a Congressional majority in both houses and still never got an infrastructure bill passed.
The fascist Trump was too preoccupied with Muslim bans and putting kids in cages.
AGAIN you try to twist and turn what people said or in this case never saidAgain, you ignore that the President is responsible for the economy day one after taking office except of course in Obama's case because that doesn't support your narrative.
You continue to lie about spending because that is what you want to believe.
You ignore that TARP was included in the CBO Projections because that again doesn't suit you.
You ignore that TARP was repaid and again that doesn't suit you nor was it used to lower the deficit.
You ignore what Obama did inherit, a Democratic Congress, TARP, no approved budget, and a stimulus that saw employment drop to 138 million in 2009 and 139 million in 2010
You ignored that 9.3 trillion was added to the debt because of poor economic policies and no new full time jobs created but rather part time for economic reason jobs paying less in taxes than full time jobs
You continue to focus on blaming conservatives for allowing people to keep more of what they earn and actually raising taxable income on blue state citizens with higher state and local taxes that they can no longer deduct from their federal return
Blame is all you do and accepting responsibility is a foreign concept. Rather sad to see someone like you at your age so poorly informed and unable to grasp the reality of executive responsibilities and the failures of the Obama economic policies leading to the worst recovery in American history
AGAIN you try to twist and turn what people said or in this case never said
Where have I said anything about spending?
I am the one that has said we need a balanced budget amend, that has some teeth in it where we could NOT spend more then we take in
I also said we could have exceptions to this law, a war, or a great recession/ depression would be the only ones
I don't need to talk about something that has been already paid back
as for the employment numbers, I guess YOU don't understand that employment always lags in a recession / depression and you do NOT get out of one in one day.
You say the recession was over in July 2009, well that may be when we STARTED to get out of it but NOT when we got out of it.
and as for the 9.3 Trillion added to the debt, well in order to get out of a recession / depression you can get out of it two ways spend your way out or start a war like WWII and again Obama did not run it up 9.3 T
It was 8.3 and I will add the 256 Billion ( I believe it was 256 B ) to his debt , that is the amount of money he added to Bush's last budget.
and it doesn't matter IF it was passed or not the President ( EVERY President ) has to submit a budget,
and Every President takes over the Budget and the debt on Oct 1 of the year he takes office not on day one,
YOU like to have the Dem Presidents take it over on day one but the Republican Presidents on Oct 1.
Now as for wanting people to keep more of what they earn , I am NOT the one that wants a percentage of the 44% of people who do not pay FIT to pay FIT and not have enough money to live on.
and I haven't said that taxes should be raised on anybody ( it is you that does that all the time, you want to cut taxes on the top income earners and RAISE the taxes on the lower 44% )
and keep giving more tax cuts to large Corps that make millions if not Billions in US profits, Yes lets tax the people that work hard and are hardly getting by and give tax cuts to Corps. making big money ,
I have also said we should have a temp. sales tax of say 1 percent to pay off the debt, there would be no exemptions for any body including Corps.
if you buy it you pay sales tax on it
seeing everybody got some benefit from running up the debt
Have a nice day
Yes, why is this a federal and not a state and local issue? Why is that that states like Mass have UHC as do others thus requiring us to have ACA? What does the concept neighbor helping neighbor mean to you? Is that neighbor a federal bureaucrat that buys votes by spending money?
ACA has been trumpeted as a success and yet 33 million Americans were uninsured, down 15 million from the 48 million uninsured in 2010 but as population grows the percentage drops but the numbers remain high. Many of those 15 million covered under ACA were eligible for Medicaid so what your party did was create another entitlement program funded by federal tax dollars that truly wasn't the responsibility of the federal gov't and was a waste of money.
There is no such thing as free healthcare as someone has to pay for it. Then there is Medicare for All that someone has to pay for, WHO?
The question was about illegal immigrants getting so called "free" health care.
That has absolutely nothing to do with the ACA, as I pointed out that it is EMTALA, signed by Reagan in 1986.
Keep ignoring that fact and I'll keep shoving it directly in your face until you can't ignore it anymore.
PS: The ACA was originally based on a blueprint by the conservative Heritage Foundation.
I'll keep shoving that directly in your face, too.
If you want to talk about the ACA and Medicare for All, start a thread on the subject.
Trumpy had a Congressional majority in both houses and still never got an infrastructure bill passed.
The fascist Trump was too preoccupied with Muslim bans and putting kids in cages.
The Democratic Party promises to raise the national debt to $200 Trillion. Free medical care. Free college. $100 Trillion to force people to live in tents. Free housing. Free food. Free income for everyone...
... and free everything not just for Americans, but for all 7 Billion people on earth - to be paid for by debt spending, leading to hyper inflation wiping out everyone's savings and for which a roll of toilet paper will cost $500.
This thread is about Making America Great Again and ACA that left 33 million Americans uninsured didn't do that nor has any federal gov't social program done anything other than make people dependent and bureaucrats stronger.
Keep shoving what in my face, false narrative that promotes socialist values?
Thread title: "Democrats does not want to make America great again!"
Do you know what would make America greater? If the right-wing learned the English language.
It's "Democratsdoesdo not want to make America great again!"
America is already great. Plagiarizing the slogan from Ronald Reagan doesn't make a campaign great either.Tell me exactly what the Democrats are doing to make America Great? You think providing social programs that create dependence makes America Great? You think that having a budget where most of that budget is entitlement spending and debt services makes this country great?
Tell me how a massive central gov't that provides personal responsibility needs makes America Great and isn't a great country one where neighbors help neighbors and the neighbor isn't a federal bureaucrat?
America is already great. Plagiarizing the slogan from Ronald Reagan doesn't make a campaign great either.
Your whole idea of government dependence is a made-up fallacy.
Social Security has no link at all to this "government dependency," since one has to have had to work in order to be eligible. Yet, the right-wing attacks Social Security every opportunity it gets. Moroever, the best available research done by ( An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States ) show that the programs conservatives most wants to slash, Medicaid and food stamps, don’t even have large negative effects on work effort either.
But the whole idea that subjecting people to starvation and homelessness creates an incentive to work is just an excuse for selfishness. Throughout most of human history the poor were left to starve and die in the streets and it didn't provide them the incentive to lift themselves out of poverty. Yet, conservatives contend the poor are worse off with government help.
This meme is thrust upon Americans to swallow which happens to serve the interests of the wealthy conservatives that benefit from those policies. Modern conservatism uses the smoke-screen of self-reliance, individualism and character to mask policies which are self-serving, bigoted and cruel. The cadre of conservative billionaires don't want to pay higher taxes that will be used to help "those people." So, they invent a myth that the best way to help the poor is to NOT provide them any help at all. This way, according to them, their misery will give the poor the incentive to become educated and industrious. As I said earlier, this has never worked in all of human history.
Their objective is to keep taxes on the rich low and keep government out of their hair. But these people's numbers are small, so they need to fund propaganda groups like the Heritage Foundation to create biased data and spread the message to middle-class conservatives, who are generally stupid enough to swallow their lies. Thus the pro-life conservative-leaning worker who listens to Rush Limbaugh will repeatedly vote for the party that is less likely to protect his safety, less likely to protect his job, and less likely to benefit him economically.
I asked you specific questions which you refused to ignore. How is Trump's policies not making America better? Do actual results resonate with you
Paul Krugman adds,I refused to ignore them? I agree. Now, you ask a different question.
My answers:
- Joining a lawsuit that if successful, would strip health insurance from tens of millions of Americans, is not making America better.
- Imposing tariffs, that cost each American $1,000 a year and hurts farmers and workers, is not making America better.
- Giving tax breaks to corporations and rich people, is not making America better.
- Paying for those tax-cuts, by cutting Medicare and Social Security -- which he planned to do prior to Dems taking the House, is not making America better.
- Packing the courts with right-wing judges, who many aren't even qualified and who rule against workers, is not making America better.
This is an incomplete list.
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates, even though the unemployment rate is low and overall economic growth remains decent, though not great. According to Jay Powell, the Fed’s chairman, the goal was to take out some insurance against worrying hints of a future slowdown — in particular, weakness in business investment, which fell in the most recent quarter, and manufacturing, which has been declining since the beginning of the year.
Obviously Powell couldn’t say in so many words that Trumponomics has been a big flop, but that was the subtext of his remarks. And Trump’s frantic efforts to bully the Fed into bigger cuts are an implicit admission of the same thing.
I refused to ignore them? I agree. Now, you ask a different question.
My answers:
- Joining a lawsuit that if successful, would strip health insurance from tens of millions of Americans, is not making America better.
- Imposing tariffs, that cost each American $1,000 a year and hurts farmers and workers, is not making America better.
- Giving tax breaks to corporations and rich people, is not making America better.
- Paying for those tax-cuts, by cutting Medicare and Social Security -- which he planned to do prior to Dems taking the House, is not making America better.
- Packing the courts with right-wing judges, who many aren't even qualified and who rule against workers, is not making America better.
This is an incomplete list.
None of those figures are historically remarkable. Below is year-to-date jobs created by year. Trump has had no policies that did anything to improve employment, besides sitting on the toilet tweeting while enjoying Obama's ten years of falling unemployment.Apparently a big flop to you is 5 million new jobs created, 2.4 trillion GDP growth, 6% African American unemployment, 7.2% U-6 rate. Since those are failure define success for us?
None of those figures are historically remarkable. Below is year-to-date jobs created by year. Trump has had no policies that did anything to improve employment, besides sitting on the toilet tweeting while enjoying Obama's ten years of falling unemployment.
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[TD]Year
[/TD]
[TD]YTD Job Growth (000)
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[TD]2013
[/TD]
[TD]2,302
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[TD]2014
[/TD]
[TD]3,006
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2015
[/TD]
[TD]2,729
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2016
[/TD]
[TD]2,318
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2017
[/TD]
[TD]2,153
[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]2018
[/TD]
[TD]2,679
[/TD]
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[TD]2019
[/TD]
[TD]1,156
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Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
Original Data Value
Series Id: LNS12032194
Seasonally Adjusted
Series title: (Seas) Employment Level - Part-Time for Economic Reasons, All Industries
Labor force status: Employed
Type of data: Number in thousands
Age: 16 years and over
Hours at work: 1 to 34 hours
Reasons work not as scheduled: Economic reasons
Worker status/schedules: At work part time
Years: 2008 to 2019
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2008 4846 4902 4904 5220 5286 5540 5930 5851 6148 6690 7311 8029
2009 8046 8796 9145 8908 9113 9024 8891 9029 8847 8979 9114 9098
2010 8530 8936 9233 9178 8845 8577 8500 8800 9246 8837 8873 8935
2011 8470 8464 8645 8652 8576 8427 8281 8788 9166 8657 8447 8171
2012 8305 8238 7775 7913 8101 8072 8082 7974 8671 8203 8166 7943
2013 8151 8178 7722 7964 7937 8103 8099 7816 7764 7936 7718 7827
2014 7296 7299 7435 7509 7254 7422 7402 7177 7020 7025 6898 6856
2015 6808 6671 6629 6608 6628 6383 6249 6423 6043 5811 6174 6084
2016 5941 5978 6066 6006 6467 5748 5926 5995 5918 5971 5738 5621
2017 5753 5603 5455 5279 5234 5266 5281 5237 5179 4912 4866 4986
2018 4982 5115 4969 4952 4920 4736 4588 4368 4656 4630 4781 4657
2019 5147 4310 4499 4654 4355 4347 3984
Let's not forget reality, where are the 4 million jobs lost in 2009 and 2010? Didn't Obama have a stimulus for shovel ready jobs pass in January 2009? Oh, by the way where do these jobs factor into your calculations?
Your gloom and doom predictions continue to fail as the 164,000 jobs created in July show. Your list is pure liberal negativity and hope for the country to fail
Stripping Americans of their healthcare?? Again since when is it federal taxpayer responsibility to fund your personal responsibility issues
Tariffs don't appear to be hurting as you seem to believe as the results don't show that, job growth in manufacturing again last month as well as Construction
Allowing people to keep more of what they earn really bothers you, why? you actually believe that raising taxes lowers the wealth gap? Not sure where you got your education but your posts are embarrasing
Right wing judges?? You mean Constitutional advocates vs. legislating from the bench? It does look like you are historically challenged again.