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3. Ah, the so called death panels that ironically enough, the republicans howled about possibly ...
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 12:51 PM
Jul 2020

occurring when Obama Care / the ACA was being voted on/passed in Congress.

The republican death panels are here finally but under republican control (of course). This is a sneaky backdoor way that republicans are going to reduce the numbers of people that are on social security/medicare/etc. (they never before could get enough votes to reduce the spending on these programs, even though we paid for these benefits via every single paycheck).

The republicans stripped all government resources to the bone and then some (across all walks of government), and now because of their blind obedience to republican ideology as well as gross incompetence (let the private sector step in and take over!), the private sector is clearly unable to handle the magnitude of this crisis, hence the republican 'death panels'.

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