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In reply to the discussion: What I like to tell my RW friends regarding their "working HARDER to EARN a better wage" chestnut - [View all]Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)He was dead right to take that on first.
THE biggest drag on this country is our health care system.
NOW, it isn't the most common sense approach we both would have wanted - single payer.
But, he simply did not have the congress to get any more than what he got.
He tried REPEATEDLY to get jobs bills going, but the most entrenched congress I have seen in nearly 50 years has not allowed ANY movement on anything and HCR took an epic battle that only concluded with them being able to use reconciliation at the end.
I have my issues with his being too cozy with big banking.
But, what has happened is NOT his fault.
He isn't a dictator, he is one man dealing with 435 congressmen/senators.
He absolutely would have done better on HCR if he could have, but barely got what was passed passed.
And, he absolutely would have addressed A LOT of other issues, but he simply does not have the congress to do it.