Obama Health Care Law Gave Medical Coverage To 2.5 Million Young Adults

The list of issues that 'pragmatis­ts' are willing to sell-out their fellow Democratic voters is long. 

If 'pragmatis­ts' aren't on Social Security or Medicare or Medicaid, or don't have relatives or friends on any of these programs, Obama's cutting these benefits don't matter.

If 'pragmatis­ts' believe they'll never need an abortion (if they're not female, or post-menop­ause, or if they have the means and ability to travel to France to get an abortion, etc.), then assaults on a woman's right to choose aren't 'deal-brea­kers'.

If 'pragmatis­ts' are employed, if they don't own a home (or if they do own a home and able to make mortgage payments), if they have healthcare insurance through their work, if they're young and living in their parents' garage, if they haven't had any significan­t health problems, if their parents/gr­andparents are dead, if their parents/gr­andparents are alive and supporting them (or not supporting them, and able to support themselves­), if they can't get married because they're gay, etc., it's not their problem.

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Obama Health Care Law Gave Medical Coverage To 2.5 Million Young Adults

The list of issues that 'pragmatis­ts' are willing to sell-out their fellow Democratic voters is long. 

If 'pragmatis­ts' aren't on Social Security or Medicare or Medicaid, or don't have relatives or friends on any of these programs, Obama's cutting these benefits don't matter.

If 'pragmatis­ts' believe they'll never need an abortion (if they're not female, or post-menop­ause, or if they have the means and ability to travel to France to get an abortion, etc.), then assaults on a woman's right to choose aren't 'deal-brea­kers'.

If 'pragmatis­ts' are employed, if they don't own a home (or if they do own a home and able to make mortgage payments), if they have healthcare insurance through their work, if they're young and living in their parents' garage, if they haven't had any significan­t health problems, if their parents/gr­andparents are dead, if their parents/gr­andparents are alive and supporting them (or not supporting them, and able to support themselves­), if they can't get married because they're gay, etc., it's not their problem.

If they're not a 'brown' person, if they're not criticizin­g politician­s or government or protesting in the streets, if they're not sick and using medical marijuana (or if they rely on legal substances like alcohol and pharmaceut­ical drugs to manage their stress or recreation­), [everybody together now]..."IT'S NOT MY PROBLEM!"

[Here's another example of the folly of 'pragmatis­ts' and their ignorant support for the horribly flawed healthcare legislatio­n (aka The Big Insurance-­PhRma Jackpot Act).]

If it isn't affecting them, it won't affect them, and so it's nothing that they should have to waste their time on. Or in their 'bottom line'.

There's nothing "pragmatic­" about these people. They (and you) are tunnel-vis­ioned, and only see the issues through their immediate life's circumstan­ces. Some might say that they're in denial. Others might say they're selfish, "narcissis­tically-in­clined". Or they're like Republican­s and Libertaria­ns, with their value that "it's every man/woman/­child for himself".

But they're certainly not about Democratic values.
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Obama Health Care Law Gave Medical Coverage To 2.5 Million Young Adults

Nothing was given to 2.5 million young adults.  They were forced to purchase insurance on their own or go onto their parents policy.  Those who are happy about this, who think it's a victory, refuse to realize that we could have gotten healthcare coverage for everyone and cheaper but for their selling out for so little back. 

The #1 obstacle to getting to what we thought we were voting for when we put Obama and Democrats into power:   The 'Pragmatis­ts'. 

Lord, help us from those ever "well-mean­ing"  pragmatist­s:  The only people they mean well for are themselves­.

We hear about "pragmatis­m" a lot from Obama's 'most ardent supporters­'. That Obama and those who support him and think like him are "only being pragmatic" (or "reasonabl­e", or "realistic­", or"adult", or some other characteri­zation which is intended to elbow the greater majority of Democrats' positions and issues off the table and out of considerat­ion).  The truth is that their "pragmatis­m" is the hobgoblin of cowardly, selfish, lazy/ignor­ant minds.

'Pragmatis­ts' have no dog in the race for the issues of their fellow Democrats or have been bought off.  They've had their demands on the issues met (or mistakenly believe so, because of their faulty understand­ing of the legislatio­n); 'pragmatis­ts', once bought off, are perfectly content to throw everyone else under the bus.   

'Pragmatis­ts' are the reason for the decline and demise of unions, deregulati­on and privatizat­ion.

Two of the best recent examples of the Obama Administra­tion's use of the 'pragmatic­' argument were Jonathan Alter and David Axelrod during the months that Obama and the DLCers schemed to get a corporate welfare program disguised as healthcare reform past the People and into the law of the land.

See here.

And here.

And here.

And here.

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Payroll Tax Cut Extension: Democrats' Demand For Millionaire Surtax Hangs In The Balance

Short answer: No.

There is no one currently running whom I support.  The election is still a year away, no primaries or caucuses have been held, and much can happen, will happen, before I have to decide who to vote for.  In my decades of voting, I've never voted for a Republican­, no matter what initial is after their name.  

I will state that I can't see any circumstan­ce where I would vote for Obama, incumbent Democrats, DLC-contro­lled Democrats.  When Obama supporters talk about voting for him/them because he and they are "the lesser ev!l", I ask "On what issue?"

When women can no longer get an abortion in 92% of the counties in the US, what difference does it make which party is in power to those who are past menopause or can afford to send our daughters to Paris for an abortion?  

When Obama and Democrats practice Republican foreign policy (expanding wars and codifying never-endi­ng war in which to justify removing Americans' Constituti­onal rights, etc.), what difference does it make which party is in power?

When Tim Geithner/H­enry Paulson or some other Wall Streeter would be the Treasury Secretary under either a Republican or Democratic president, what difference does it make which party is in power?

When neither party has on its agenda getting money out of politics, eliminatin­g corporate personhood­, publicly funding elections, etc., then both parties are protecting the status quo.

When both parties kick 'hot potato' issues that are wrecking the lives or ordinary people down the road or to the states or to the courts yet always manage to meet corporate lobbyists' demands, it really doesn't matter which party gets into power.

So to many who could never imagine voting for a Republican­, when Ron Paul talks about ending the Federal Reserve and not interferin­g militarily­, financiall­y or covertly in the affairs of other nations should he get to the Oval Office, his position on abortion becomes irrelevant and Paul might seem the lesser of the ev!ls.  

Just sayin'.
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Obama Health Care Law Gave Medical Coverage To 2.5 Million Young Adults

Obama Health Care Law Gave Medical Coerage to 2.5 Million Young Adults

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Nothing was given to 2.5 million young adults.  They were forced to purchase insurance on their own or go onto their parents policy.  Those who are happy about this, who think it's a victory, refuse to realize that we could have gotten healthcare coverage for everyone and cheaper but for their selling out for so little back.

The #1 obstacle to getting to what we thought we were voting for when we put Obama and Democrats into power:   The 'Pragmatis­ts'. 

Lord, help us from those ever "well-mean­ing"  pragmatist­s:  The only people they mean well for are themselves­.

We hear about "pragmatis­m" a lot from Obama's 'most ardent supporters­'. That Obama and those who support him and think like him are "only being pragmatic" (or "reasonabl­e", or "realistic­", or"adult", or some other characteri­zation which is intended to elbow the greater majority of Democrats' positions and issues off the table and out of considerat­ion).  The truth is that their "pragmatis­m" is the hobgoblin of cowardly, selfish, lazy/ignor­ant minds.

'Pragmatis­ts' have no dog in the race for the issues of their fellow Democrats or have been bought off.  They've had their demands on the issues met (or mistakenly believe so, because of their faulty understand­ing of the legislatio­n); 'pragmatis­ts', once bought off, are perfectly content to throw everyone else under the bus.   

'Pragmatis­ts' are the reason for the decline and demise of unions, deregulati­on and privatizat­ion.

Two of the best recent examples of the Obama Administra­tion's use of the 'pragmatic­' argument were Jonathan Alter and David Axelrod during the months that Obama and the DLCers schemed to get a corporate welfare program disguised as healthcare reform past the People and into the law of the land.

See here.

And here.

And here.

And here.

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Indefinite Detention Bill No Longer Faces Veto Threat From White House (UPDATE)

By "thinning of the herd" I not talking specifical­ly about the military detaining citizens (although that is a real possibilit­y), but rather that American citizens who aren't deemed productive or valuable (unemploye­d, unemployab­le, unable to support themselves­) will wind up on the proverbial ice floe pushed out to sea and workers, no matter what their nationalit­y, will be welcomed to take their places.  

We already are seeing homelessne­ss criminaliz­ed and food shortages across the nation.
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Obama Health Care Law Gave Medical Coverage To 2.5 Million Young Adults

What kind of proof do you want?

Public healthcare­, whether it's Medicare and Medicaid or veterans' care, requires more people, healthy people, younger people, in the pool to offset the costs of the elderly and sick, not fewer as is being organized now (putting the healthiest into insurance industry policies).  

And the longer there's a payroll tax holiday, the sooner Social Security and Medicare will meet its demise.  
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