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In reply to the discussion: The Clinton Administration OPPOSED SCHIP. People here are trying to re-spin the history of SCHIP. [View all]Baobab
(4,667 posts)40. Hoyt, I was talking about robots. About our creating new life
Its the nature of exponential growth to be surprising if people base their expectations for the future on their past experience they are guaranteed to be underestimating the rate of change.
Now our top leadership is not exempt from knowledge and given as they have access to our best minds I think that its guaranteed that they know this is happening. Basically, we're in a transition period from a world where humanity needs to work all the time to a world where we don't.
Plus, as I said, we're going to have company!
We now have to figure out what to do!
What the hell are we going to do....
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The Clinton Administration OPPOSED SCHIP. People here are trying to re-spin the history of SCHIP. [View all]
Baobab
May 2016
OP
And this poster knows that, yet is till posting lies! Also claiming trade deals killed SCHIP when
bettyellen
May 2016
#5
The rules are very complicated but they include a "standstill" on new finacial services
Baobab
May 2016
#12
CHIP is an ongoing program that has been expanded in the years past your citations. Period.
bettyellen
May 2016
#13
But in 1994-1995 Biil Clinton signed GATS, and GATS threatens SCHIP, Medicare and Medicaid
Baobab
May 2016
#46
Maybe because the Understanding on Committment in Financial Services was right around the corner
Baobab
May 2016
#14
More likely, it is the best health care reform they could get at the time -- for children.
Hoyt
May 2016
#27
Why are you and perhaps a few others seemingly the only persons who see my posts about trade deals.
Baobab
May 2016
#30
No one understands your posts about GATS, nor does anyone believe a law passed in the 1990s will
Hoyt
May 2016
#33
You're trying to portray me as some kind of outlier but the fact is, these deals are opposed
Baobab
May 2016
#34
Not trying to portray you as anything. You asked my opinion why no one reads your posts on GATS.
Hoyt
May 2016
#36
What the Hillary supporters mean by that is that at one point Hillary must have said she was strong
pdsimdars
May 2016
#32
What amounts to a global war on children's health for big corpos began under Clints
Baobab
May 2016
#25
CHIP still exists and has been EXPANDED despite your eight year old link saying it is doomed. OP is
bettyellen
May 2016
#6
Why are you arguing CHIP is not successful or has been expanded? Facts are stubborn things.
bettyellen
May 2016
#22
If you can find the Baucus hearings from 2009, buried in there there are some very imteresting
Baobab
May 2016
#35
Kennedy gave her a whole lot of credit for CHIP, until he was backing Obama after which he soft
bettyellen
May 2016
#16
"program wouldn’t be in existence today if we didn’t have Hillary pushing for it " EM Kennedy
bettyellen
May 2016
#19
They did say in their article that it was politics that caused the lack of support in the first go
vintx
May 2016
#24
Minimum wage will be increased in a year as long as Trump does not win. The crap you post is not
bettyellen
May 2016
#49
They were pushing GATS, which literally eliminates the rights to health and education for corporatio
Baobab
May 2016
#28
Im surprised Factcheck would not clarify that too, but thanks for the fuller explanation.
bettyellen
May 2016
#62
The trade policy picture is complicated. Which is shown by this document from Maine.
Baobab
May 2016
#21
"program wouldn’t be in existence today if we didn’t have Hillary pushing for it" -Edward Kennedy
bettyellen
May 2016
#20
You "remember this" but can;t find a single citation to back up her "opposition". Shame on you.
bettyellen
May 2016
#23
Countries cannot propose or maintain any law or policy that is inconsistent with the FTA
Baobab
May 2016
#39
In fact if you read about teh GATS trade deal in 1994, you'll see that it conflicts with SCHIP
Baobab
May 2016
#50