Gronka

I forgot who said that there is no such thing as bad publicity. Over the past two years a day did not go by without a Trump headline. Free publicity.
Now that Trump Republicans are in power we will see how they can legislate and execute.
Perhaps relying on the best promises of coal and oil producers will keep our air and water from continuing contamination. We will have to rely on these corporations because any federal clean air and water rules will be rescinded.
Repealing Obama care will reinforce the power of commercial for profit insurance companies. These same companies who stated during the debate before the law was past:" rates will go up if this law is passed, AND, rates will go up if this law is not passed".
After all, insurance companies are used to spending 30 cents of premium dollar for administrative cost, AND taking 30 cents of premium dollar for profit. That leaves 40 cents for health care.
Of course a single payer can operate for 7 or 8 cents of premium dollar for administration and no expenses for profit. Look at Congressional health insurance, Medicare, or Military health care.
How will the Republican tax reforms stimulate job growth in industries that no longer need workers replaced by automation? Will a decrease in corporate rates increase employment? Since so many corporations do not pay taxes anyway why should we expect things to change?
It would seem that any benefit to the average citizen in the next 4years will rely on some unrestricted individuals to do the right thing. These are the same individuals who run the banks, energy companies, insurance companies, drug companies,etc. These folks needed restrictive regulation in the past to keep their greed in check, but now that we have a new regime perhaps they will voluntarily change.

whitewolfowner

Even Fox is liberal; just not as bad as the others and sometimes they try to be neutral. None of the main stream media is totally neutral (all news sources by ethics should be) and most are nothing the Clinton news network. Most never ran anything without running it by the hag first and she told them what to say.

bob44044 Loc: Ohio

This bias started long before Facebook or any other social media. Social media added to it, but the media went rogue long ago because of the liberal take over of the universities. They now are the liberal bastion in America. The public school systems have been taken over, filling our kids minds with global warming crap and other liberal agendas.

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

Your references to Medicare/Medicaid/VA medical as being good examples are bogus. There are any number of us on UHH who can testify to their shortcomings. Hell, the VA just took a hell of a beating recently for the lack of care they afforded. And those programs rely on taxpayer funding. Look at Federal budget expenditures & those programs take up more of our non discretionary spending than any other programs, thus your cost claims are bogus. Are there some "success" stories ? Of course there are but they pale in comparison to the failure stories...As for the jobs to be created, yes, technology has done away with many, but to denigrate the PE before he even assumes office shows up your true beliefs....That "Free Publicity" was mostly all negative but it didn't stop him from winning despite the fact that almost all media outlets, Hollywood, Wall street were against him. It's more of a failure of Democrats to see beyond the urban areas that has led to their demise...

whitewolfowner

whitewolfowner

All disabled in theis country are severely abused and violated severely. BU the abuse of our veterans is a whole new level. Trump has constantly addressed the veteran abuse but has yet to say one thing the rest of the disabled being violated an done of the worst is New York state Comp; his own state.

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

But NY has been run by Democrats for years now.... Where are the benefits they propose ? They have had lots of time to fix things.

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

Jay, I think the problem is that if they are the "takers" rather than "earners", they don't give a damn so long as the free stuff keeps coming, and the liberals, if they are in elected office, just want to keep the free stuff flowing so they can keep their privileges, perks, and pensions, and they have learned not to fear 'the people'. If they are part of the wealthy 1%ers (ie.Soros, Kerry, Gore & ...) or even the 5%ers group, the amount of the extra taxes, if they pay them, doesn't mean as much to them as it does to the regular "working people" who are now averaging about $5-8,000 less per year than when O'bama became President. Voting a few of them our each election cycle, also reminds them that "we're watching"!

whitewolfowner

New York comp is terrible. It's you against the insurance company and the judge. The insurance company will lie thought their teeth and the judges will let them get away with; even to the point of making accusations at the injured worker that are total fraud. Both the insurance companies and the judges will out right violate the law and you can't get a thing done about it. I know someone who has been denied multiple surgeries since 2000, denied benefits (they owe him over $325,000 in back comp payments) and refused to re-emburse him for mileage to the doctor and mediations paid for out of pocket. This alone amounts to thousands of dollars. Now this person is a medical prisoner in their home for over two years and they cannot get up or down the stairs to get in or out their home or even get in the tub to bathe and no one in New York State or the other state they live in will lift a finger to help. They are literally left to rot and die in their home. They connive together to cheat and steal from the injured workers and it is even worse for those that moved out of state. An author could write a book over this person's case and if a good lawyer looked at this case, they should be filing multiple million dollar suits, but the system is do dirty, no lawyer wants to touch it.

wuzfuzzab Loc: Red Deer, Alberta

"Truth---elusive--for Left"---now there is a truism!!!!!!!!!

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

The Republicans are all about profiting the priviledged class. So see Social Security privatized with an immediate 35% benefit reduction to pay for investor + corporate profits and administrative overhead. Also, benefits will be limited to a specific number of years, like 15 to 20. Look for Medicare to be block granted for insurance. This will have await ACA repeal so that existing conditions limit availability. There will be a new wrinkle - all applicants will be subject to DNA analysis in order disclose hidden existing conditions. The insurance industry has been working on how to implement DNA data for at least 15 years.

ollie Loc: Ogdensburg, NY

I can't believe anyone can say the things Trump said and not only stay in the race but win it. God knows Hillary did her best to loose and did but come on America like most of us felt "were these really the best this country has to offer ????"

btbg

Social security privatization works. Just ask the people who work for the city of Houston which opted out of social security at it's inception.

If I had all the money that my wife and I had paid into social security and had been allowed to invest it we would be multimillionaires now. Instead I am still working because social security took my discretionary income that I could have invested.

A much more rational retirement program would be for the government to require individuals to invest or save 6.5 percent of their income in a set of approved investment programs that gave the individual some say in their investment. The 6.5 percent that the employer pays could be used to continue to fund social security for those who have already retired, while the current system is phased out.

Social security is a horrible investment. It is not intended to be enough money to live on it is a "security net". However, for most young couples, and young is when you really need to start saving the amount of money taken from your wages by social security makes it impossible to have adequate money to invest.

Just five percent of your income invested at 20 year average market rates, starting when you are 20, would allow most individuals to retire at age 55-60 with adequate savings to live on without government help. But try to save that money with the amount that the government already takes out.

The government doesn't invest the money that i pay into social security. Rather it spends it on those that already retire and assumes that I will be paid by those who are younger than I once I retire. In other words it is a giant government sponsored ponzi scheme.

As for insurance. Ask anyone who had good insurance before the affordable care act if their insurance is better now or was better then. Answer: it was better then because my insurance is now subsidizing others who didn't have insurance previously. Example my wife has had a hysterectomy and I have had a vasectomy yet our insurance must now pay for the chance that we might get pregnant. By the way we are both 60. That means that my insurance costs have gone up while the coverage for things individuals our age actually need have gone down, to help pay for the additional costs incurred by the insurer for covering those who are normally more expensive to insure, but now must be on the same cost plan as we are.

The affordable care act is a good deal if you were without insurance before, if you have a preexisting condition, or if you are low income and have your insurance subsidized, but it is a very bad deal for the rest of America, which just happens to be the majority. Unfortunately Trump is already backpedaling on actually repealing obamacare, instead saying that he wants to keep the best components of it, including insuring preexisting conditions, which is one of primary reasons that costs have gone up so fast.

It's like all other government programs. It's great if you are a leach sucking off of the system, or if you have a catastrophic health program and it absolutely sucks for everyone else.

I forgot one other thing that is untrue in your post. The majority of millionaires and CEOs are democratic these days. It's the democratic party that is the party of the rich not the republican. Just look up party registration and mean income. You will find that the narrative that has been said for years about who is the party of the rich simply isn't true.

But forget about looking at stats, just look at all the rich and famous that supported Clinton versus who supported Trump. Then think about it. Why were the middle class supporting Trump and the rich and famous supporting Clinton? In spite of what you think it isn't because the middle class is idiots and the rich and famous are generous. It's because both sides were voting for their own interests.

By the way check the stats republicans also give more to charity despite democrats having higher incomes. Why? because democrats thing that charity is the job of big foundations and government and conservatives believe that charity should come from the heart.