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Originally Posted by Robbie
How am I a "hater"?
This is the TRUTH coming out.
How about you address this instead of attacking ME?
I'm not the one who did any of this.
I was just curious why YOU didn't come on GFY raising hell about being tricked by politicians. And now they are laughing at you and calling you "stupid".
Your reaction? Ignore it and attack me? Huh?
Come on! This asshole is sitting there openly saying that you are stupid for believing them and laughing about how they lied to you on purpose to get things passed.
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So a quick look see around the net and seems this guy was responding to a question about transparency in legislation. Your smoking gun comments about this being a tax..
Were directed to how "congress" not the American people perceived the bill. Even the NYTimes spells it out pretty well..
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Suppose that Congress decides that everyone in America should have an iPhone. There are two ways it can do this:
1) The government could allocate money to buy all Americans iPhones.
2) The government could require that everybody buy an iPhone but create a tax credit equivalent to the price of the phone.
To an economist, these things are pretty much identical. To a politician, they are very different. The first is a big-spending government giveaway. The second is a tax cut. And in that distinction lies the heart of the firestorm around comments by one of the intellectual godfathers of President Obama’s health reform law.
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As for the other about Americans being stupid.. While watching the "full video" and not just the Fox News 20 second clips. It's pretty clear he is talking about how bills in general including ACA get passed.
He was simply saying the govt depends on people not being fully informed on this stuff. Just like Congress was kept in the dark about all the dirty shit in the Patriot Act or it would of never been passed.
Or how things like the Republican "jobs" bill doesn't actually create jobs but is just a guise for tax cuts to big business.. ACA just like any other bill is full of shit that the people whom write is don't want you to know about.
So what's new about that? This is why congress should have to vote bill by Bill and not stuff shit loads of things into a bigger bill.
So yes, if you look at 20 second sound bites it sounds damning.. However if you watch the full video of what he said, the context of what he said was pretty clear.
Of course 20s is all you guys have for attention span, hence you running off like monkeys to post your band new 2 year old news..