Susan Estrich is the Robert Kingsley Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California Law Center. She serves on the Board of Editorial Contributors for USA Today, as a presidential appointee on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council and as a mayoral appointee on the City of Los Angeles Ethics Committee. She was also national campaign manager for Dukakis for President in 1988. Her Democrat Party credentials are impeccable. Today she has an article at Creators.com about the stimulus program and the healthcare reform proposal.
She comments that although the number of people employed in Washington, D. C., has increased, it is decreasing in California where she lives. She states:
"The idea that somehow you're going to tax the "rich" enough to pay for quality health care for every American who doesn't have it, can't afford it or stands to lose it, not to mention for all of the undocumented aliens who receive it for free now and presumably will continue to in Obama health land, is almost laughable. It's one of those things candidates say in campaigns, ignoring the fact that it doesn't add up. But in a bill that might pass? Add a 5 percent surtax on every small business in the country that makes $250,000 or more? This is going to create jobs? What am I missing?"
She is absolutely right! Thank you, Susan Estrich, for your honesty and clarity in evaluating the direction the current healthcare reform program would take us.
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