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As I’ve heard mentioned elsewhere, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Rams and Donald already have a handshake agreement. The Rams just need to free up cap space…maybe by cutting Barron.
They had to wait until June 1st to cut him but now they can save $7 million in cap space, if they choose to go that route.Here is an answer to your question WV.
‘Why don’t we just copy the Canadians?’ is because we can’t. We’re not Canadian and we don’t share the same history or the same social ethos.’”
I don’t buy that. It’s not because we are so culturely different; it’s because the US has been so propagandized that anything socialist is bad, and single payer is largely portrayed as socialist by the powers that be. It’s not culture – it’s a relatively small group of people who got rich off the current healthcare system, and therefore have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. IMO that’s what’s keeping us from having single payer. If you describe the benefits of single payer to most Americans and they are all for it. It’s not until you call it single payer that they turn up their noses.
FYI for anyone interested….
Waterfield is partially correct when he says single payer failed in Vermont because of costs. However, the Vermont plan excluded large businesses from participating. Therefore, a huge source of funding was lost from the beginning. Plus, they never figured out what to do with people who were already on federal Medicare/Medicaid. For these reasons, one could argue that what Vermont was trying to implement wasn’t really single payer anyway, so their experience cannot really be used as an “I told you so” by the anti-single payer crowd.
Economic growth through the first quarter of 2018.
Why do so many people think Trump is having such a positive effect on the economy?
https://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdp_glance.htm
We have far better and more accurate ways of identifying people in need today than 50 years ago. I say that’s a good thing not a bad thing.
Maybe that explains the growing safety net, but I don’t thinks so.
The amount the US pays for SNAP has tripled since 2000 and doubled since 2007. Our ability to identify people who need help hasn’t grown that much since 2007.
I’ve not investigated this, but I’d guess we’d find the same trend for WIC, EIC, Medicaid, etc.
I would guess the increasing cost of helping poor people can be linked to Wal-Mart and McDonald’s trends in America. Instead of decent paying full time jobs, people now are forced to work at Wal Mart and make 10 bucks an hour.
As a result, Wal Mart owners and execs are billionaires and millionaires while the US tallies a bigger and bigger debt for my kids’ future in order to save poor people from abject poverty.
I think Bernie might have put forth a version of this argument in 2016.
The social safety net is a mere pittance compared to the safety net afforded corporations through subsidies, etc; ie, corporate welfare.
