Originally Posted by direstraits:
Originally Posted by jtdavis:
seeweed, that was the first time I saw that Joe Republican thing. It is funny and 100% true. I've wondered who costs the government more, me or Mr or Mrs Tea party organizer.
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Yes, its been around for years and just as erroneous, as ever.
A few examples:
"Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.
That liberal would be Nixon, who founded the EPA. Never thought of tricky ****y as a liberal.
All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Joe gets it too.
No, employer's medical plans were implemented to attract scarce workers during WWII, when pay raises were frozen. The present Obamacare ill destroy this and cost much more. Bills start coming due this month.
He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
Actually inspection laws were passed in reaction to The Jungle. The author, Upton Sinclair -- socialist, wished the book to start a revolution.
Progressives are like roosters. They crow in the morning, disturbing one's rest. Then, strut around claiming credit for the sunrise.
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As to Nixon, I always thought that he was interchangeable with LBJ and the same difference. The EPA was necessary at the time but the newest version of the EPA might be a true job killer.
As to employer based health insurance, the architect of the ACA (Obamadon'care) plan wanted to end that:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03...l?hpw&rref=books
WASHINGTON — Ezekiel J. Emanuel, who helped devise the Affordable Care Act, has a vision for how it will eventually work. Democrats hope it will not materialize anytime soon.
Mr. Emanuel expects the law to produce an unadvertised but fundamental shift in where most working Americans get their health insurance — specifically, a sharp drop in the number of employers who offer coverage to their workers. That scale of change would dwarf what took place last fall, when a political firestorm erupted over President Obama’s “if you like your plan you can keep it” pledge.
As to the the meatpacking industry changes, another Republican was involved:
The book's assertions were confirmed in the Neill-Reynolds report, commissioned by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. Roosevelt was suspicious of Sinclair's socialist attitude and conclusions in The Jungle, so he sent labor commissioner Charles P. Neill and social worker James Bronson Reynolds, men whose honesty and reliability he trusted, to Chicago to make surprise visits to meat packing facilities.
Despite betrayal of the secret to the meat packers, who worked three shifts a day for three weeks to thwart the inspection, Neill and Reynolds were still revolted by the conditions at the factories and at the lack of concern by plant managers (though neither had much experience in the field). Following their report, Roosevelt became a supporter of regulation of the meat packing industry, and, on June 30, signed the Meat Inspection Act of 1906.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F..._Meat_Inspection_Act