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Title: Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
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Published: Mar 9, 2011
Author: Ronald Reagan
Post Date: 2011-03-09 11:13:53 by A K A Stone
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Views: 5786
Comments: 6
Poster Comment: Still relevant today.
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Yep.... his administration's policies created the dry run rehearsal for the banking problems in Juniors that we are still reeling from today. Bankers uber alles!!! And Reagan also took your credit card interest deduction away. How do you like them apples?
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And if you don't [stop Medicare] and I don't do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. Reagan's comments look pretty silly 40 years later, Medicare hasn't provided the results he predicted and is more popular than private health insurance. Even tea partiers want the government to "keep their hands off of my medicare."
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
I agree, his predictions sure didn't come true on that one. Someday I'm hoping the Republicans will come to realize he was just as flawed a human being as the rest of their politicians, and stop with the cultishness.
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_____________________________________________________________________________________________ Private health insurance companies say you can only buy insurance for the state you now live in. Move to another state, lose your insurance. Did Reagan notice that?
"Am I for or against abstinence?" - Sarah Palin
#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)
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Still relevant today.
#3. To: A K A Stone (#0)
First you [the governement] decide that the doctor can have so many patients. ... So a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town, and the government has to say to him, "You can't live in that town, they already have enough doctors, you have to go live somewhere else. And from here it's only a short step to dictating where he will go. Pretty soon your son won't decide when he's in school where he will go or what he will do for a livin [sic], but will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do. ...
#4. To: go65 (#3)
Reagan's comments look pretty silly 40 years later, Medicare hasn't provided the results he predicted and is more popular than private health insurance. Even tea partiers want the government to "keep their hands off of my medicare."
#5. To: Rek (#4)
Someday I'm hoping the Republicans will come to realize he was just as flawed a human being as the rest of their politicians, and stop with the cultishness.
Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
-- Robert A Heinlein
#6. To: go65 (#3)
So a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town, and the government has to say to him, "You can't live in that town, they already have enough doctors, you have to go live somewhere else.
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