Republicans have shown to have a very hard time with change ? probably the reason why they like to deny evolution? or because they have not evolved enough to develop critical thinking, but I digress?
One of the diseases plaguing the Tea Party nut bags is what I like to call ?Selective Alzheimer?s? ? or the willingness to try to forget anything Republicans did or said to harm the country through history.
Being such a big collection of incidents, this is part 1 of the series: Republicans Are Always Wrong ? the Bag o? Nuts Myths, Part 1.
1. MEDICARE WILL BE THE END OF CAPITALISM – WRONG
In July of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law through the Social Security Act that provided health insurance to the elderly and the poor, leading to ? as usual ? a Republicans hissy fit.
In 1962, the then Governor of California Ronald Reagan said:
?One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. No real American wants socialized medicine, but Congress is attempting to fool the nation into adopting just such a program. It has already succeeded in imposing a socialist program on the country by creating and implementing Social Security, which was originally envisioned to bring ‘all people of Social Security age?’ under a program of compulsory health insurance.?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs
Sounds familiar?
After 50 years, and a series of modifications and adjustments, Medicare continues to be the most popular health insurance option in the U.S.A., and the Affordable Care Act is now implemented to strengthen the idea that we must care for our poor and our elderly — and capitalism is 50 years older.
2. INCREASING TAXES ON THE WEALTHY WILL LEAD TO UNEMPLOYMENT AND RECESSION – WRONG
Hum… no, CUTTING taxes will (we will show you that on number 3).
Take a look at these cold, hard numbers:
In 1993, President Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act that raised taxes on the wealthiest 1.5 percent. What happened in the following seven years?
- 22 million jobs were created under both terms of the administration of President Clinton
- unemployment below 4 percent countrywide
- poverty rate down for every one of these seven years, the largest six-year drop in poverty in 30 years
- budget deficit? GONE
According to economists, America enjoyed such fiscal growth and prosperity, they projected that we could pay the national debt in 20 years.
3. CUTTING TAXES FOR THE WEALTHY CREATE MORE JOBS AND PROSPERITY – WRONG
When Democrats stayed home and George W. Bush was elected and passed the 2001 TAX CUTS for the wealthy, the Republicans cheered and predicted record job growth, prosperity and budget surplus. Guess what?
- budget deficit? HUGE
- destroyed the middle class
- Tax cuts for the wealthy did not create more jobs at all.
FACT: Democrats in the White House create more jobs. More jobs lead to better economy and prosperity for everyone, not only the 1 percent.
