tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post2631971177247126864..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: The Great Left Wing SecretFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-14450738868691803192016-05-07T13:32:12.753-04:002016-05-07T13:32:12.753-04:00And speaking of motives, even though Trump has sai...And speaking of motives, even though Trump has said in the past that he is in favor of government-sponosored health care, couldn't he attack the Affordable Care Act not only on how it was passed, but how it was written? If there ever was legislation that guaranteed a bloated, inefficient bueracracy, *and* included kickbacks and pork to special interests, Obamacare is it.<br /><br />In Trump-style: "Let's face it, folks, the Affordable Care Act isn't. It's not affordable. Most everybody's rates have gotten less affordable. Employers are cutting back hours to avoid it. Insurance companies are dropping parts of it even as they're raising their rates to try to cover it. States are dropping it completely.<br /><br />"Hillary tried to do this before when her husband was in the White House. Now I'm all for health care, but fortunately we stopped this loony. inefficient, bloated nonsense when she tried it. But what happened? The democrats got together late one night using skullduggery to get this monstrous thing called Obamacare passsed against the will of the people. You heard the lies. 'You'll keep your doctor.' 'You'll pay less.' Heck, we even had one of the guys who engineered it TELL us they had to lie to get it passed!<br /><br />"If the American people deserve health care, they deserve common-sense health care that WORKS. You know me. I can help get the American people the health care they want and deserve. As president, I will encourage Congresss to rescind - or at least defund - Obamacare. Then I will work with both Republicans and Democrats to work out a deal that gives Americans great health care that really IS affordable!<br /><br />"Is that gonna be a tough deal to work out? You bet it is. But hey! That's what I do. As your president, I will do everything I can for all Americans, and it won't be in legislation passed on the sly. . . legislation that has to be passed before the American people can know what's in it." Tim Turnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-47717020135416084602016-05-07T12:59:25.054-04:002016-05-07T12:59:25.054-04:00This is tangential to your post, Fran, and there a...This is tangential to your post, Fran, and there are more recent quotes that say basically the same thing. If I had the guts and the time, I'd gather them all together and post them in the comment section to every post on climate change in dailykos, huffington, etc.<br /><br /> "The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War...one must say clearly that de facto we distribute the world's wealth by climate policy.... One has to rid oneself of the illusion that international climate politics have anything to do with environmental concerns." -- Otto Edenhofer, IPCC Working Group III co-chair, Nov. 14, 2010. Tim Turnernoreply@blogger.com