The
Red Tsunami
Veep
Pence did his best
impression of a
male angler fish
this afternoon, seeming
nothing more
than a shrunken
parasite after having
latched
onto
his meal ticket's
derriere.
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Reagan sat on his hands as AIDS patients died.
Dubya sat on his hands as New Orleans drowned.
Trump is sitting on his tiny hands as people are dying
from a pandemic.
The trickle in "trickle-down" is venom.
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If there was a virus that caused people to get out
and vote you can bet the GOP would have had a vaccine
available for every American, for free, before the
first Chinese sniffle.
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Car Number One: You pay an exorbitant
fee every month just to own this car but if you actually
use it you get charged extra, and you never know how
much extra until the bill comes. Sometimes
the tally includes services you never authorized, so
you have to spend hours on the phone, with people who
obviously don't care about you, trying to straighten
it out.
Sometimes you're not allowed to drive this car because
the actual owner doesn't think your trip is necessary,
so you have to rent an even more expensive car and
pay for the trip out of pocket.
The people who own this car keep at least 15% of your
payment for themselves. Why? Because they think they
deserve it. And because there's no alternative. They
know you have to have a car.
This car can cost you as much as 20% of your annual
income.
Finally, and most oddly, if you have to change jobs
you have to go out and get another car, usually because
your
new
employer has a deal with a different car company. Tough
beans.
Car Number Two:
You pay a set rate for this car every year based on
a percentage of how much you earn, usually about 4%.
The car is always there for you and it always works.
Car number One, as though you couldn't guess, is basically
how our current health insurance system works. (Just
a reminder, health insurance is not health care.)
The second car is Medicare for All.
Convince me I'm wrong.
=Lefty=
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