I have been traveling quite a bit lately which means I get to eat a lot of bad food and read long books, the bad food, not so great, the long book has been nixonland. According to the book Nixon was able to exploit racial tensions to convince whites it was OK for them to be racist and if they didn’t vote for him their pleasant suburbs would be over-run with dark people. Later Reagan used the same strategy when he argued that welfare moms were living the high life at the expense of hard working whites. Most recentely we keep hearing that undocumented workers are going to take all the jobs and sell drugs and murder all us good white folk; and if you believe Lou Dobbs the undocumented workers will give us Leprosy as well.
Certain yackers are still trying to exploit the racial divide the problem is their are not enough scared white people to make it work, and perhaps their are less scary brown people. The most recent attempt to get people scared of mexican immigrants probably fell somewhat flat because it is hard to be scared of the people who mow your lawn or work at the local McDonalds.
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When you consider that not only is it cruel but very expensive to send the uninsured to the emergency room universal health care is going to be a bargain at almost any price.
A BARGAIN AT ANY PRICE — ESPECIALLY THIS ONE…. The “t” word — “trillion” — not only sounds intimidating, it seems outlandish. A thousand billions. It’s hard to even fathom.
And with House Democrats unveiling a health care reform package yesterday with a $1 trillion price tag — Senate Dems are aiming for the same figure — it’s likely opponents of reform hope the “t” word alone is enough to make the effort sound scary.
It’s worth noting, then, that we’re talking about $1 trillion over 10 years to cover just about every legal resident in the country — without adding a dime to the national debt and without raising taxes on the middle class — finally reforming a broken system after decades of talking about it. Paul Krugman is right to call this a “bargain.“
Of course because it makes sense I am sure it will be apposed by most Republicans and Evan Bayh
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Sarah Palin to resign. What kind of scandal is about to unfold?
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