2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "the Sanders campaign is simply pulling numbers out of the air." [View all]Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)You prefer to forget those not looking for work are not counted as
unemployed?
Look, you bought into a centrist guy's shtick, Paul Starr, and a red baiting
one at that. He has literally used the word Bolshevik to describe Sanders.
The critics you're relying on are Clinton and Obama advisors and Sanders is
a progressive. If you want to claim he is wrong you haven't presented
a serious case to do so. They also were rightly taken to task with their
initial political hit job, as your link identifies the time line..they HAD to go back
and finally do the work and even then, one can honestly approach an
economic plan and disagree without referring to Bernie as a liar.
Gerald Friedman is NOT Bernie's economic advisor as one has not been
named but we do know that the economic stimulus package at the time
was not nearly large enough...as even Stiglitz spoke out about. Or is he too
a gibberish maker in your eyes?
ACA has cost problems that are real, not imagined and Clinton is offering
to do no more than tweak it. It will take an honest voice to speak to
the reasons a for profit health insurance industry and a law that does not allow
the government to negotiate drug prices must end. I provided you analysis from
PNHP, they're not a shabby group of political partisans. The way forward
is to confront the problem, lobby money in politics, that is what prevents
advancement and I am voting for the only candidate who is not cluttered
with special interest money. It will take time and he has never said otherwise,
your opinion of him is shocking. You're calling a president fighting for
single payer a protestor and not a president? They're not able to lead the
US and fight? How the fuck do you think Obama got ACA?
*Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a professor in public health at City University of New York at Hunter College and co-founder of the advocacy group Physicians for a National Health Program, said Friday that the "numbers on single-payer do, in fact, add up."
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/12/fact-argue-experts-sanders-medicare-all-numbers-do-add
Hillary Clinton: Single-payer health care will "never, ever" happen
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-single-payer-health-care-will-never-ever-happen/
She is using the same bullshit they used on her in '93.
The Numbers Don't Add Up In Clinton's Health-care Package
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-09-16/news/9309160080_1_clintons-plan-caps-and-subsidies-health-care
You are certainly free to stick with a candidate with WS money up to her
eyeballs and a hawk on foreign policy..I am sure some believe that will
work out great. Hillary, a true champion of neoliberalism.