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kairos12

(12,852 posts)
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 12:12 PM Jun 2021

The Public Option and Extended Unemployment Benefits

Recalling the tooth and nail fight over the Public Option during the Obamacare debate it brings to light the motivations to end the Extended Unemployment Benefits. Reich Wing rip-off business owners know they can't compete by offering a living wage or an insurance plan that doesn't impoverish its customers without cutting back on their profits.

So, they get Trumpist Red State governors or legislators to force people back to poverty wages and eliminate the Public Option as a customer choice.



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The Public Option and Extended Unemployment Benefits (Original Post) kairos12 Jun 2021 OP
Linking wage stagnation to gimmicks.... RegularJam Jun 2021 #1
 

RegularJam

(914 posts)
1. Linking wage stagnation to gimmicks....
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 12:22 PM
Jun 2021

Or vehicles not designed to actually address the problems isn’t a winner for us.

Just about every argument that brings about the word Covid is a loser for us at this point in time. The only time we should mention it is when hanging the negatives around Republicans necks and attacking ourselves to the positive.

Legislation is the way to deal with this topic.

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