{"id":24428,"date":"2014-11-26T16:04:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T21:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24428"},"modified":"2014-11-26T16:04:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T21:04:24","slug":"figuring-out-part-of-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24428","title":{"rendered":"Figuring Out Part Of The Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNS News<\/a> posted a story yesterday about some recent comments by New York<\/a> Senator Chuck Schumer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Schumer said the health care law, popularly known as Obamacare, is \u201cvery important\u201d but the timing was wrong, and was not at the \u201ctop of the agenda\u201d of the American<\/a> people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were in the middle of recession. \u2026 People were hurting and said \u2018What about me? I\u2019m losing my job,\u2019\u201d said Schumer, who spoke as the Democratic<\/a> Policy Chairman on why his Party was defeated in the 2014 mid-term elections by Republicans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLike I said, about 85 percent of all Americans were fine with their health care in 2009, mainly because it was paid for by either the government or their employer \u2013 private sector,\u201d said Schumer. \u201cAnd so the average middle-class<\/a> voter, they weren\u2019t opposed to doing health care when it started out but it wasn\u2019t at the top of the agenda.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong,\u201d Schumer also said. \u201cI think it\u2019s a good bill [Obamacare] and I\u2019m proud to have voted for it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBut, it should have come later,\u201d said the senator.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is a very interesting statement. If 85 percent of all Americans were fine with their health care in 2009, why would it have been different if ObamaCare<\/a> had come later? If 85 percent of Americans were happy with their health care in 2010, should that bill have been passed then? If 85 percent of Americans were happy with their health care, why was a bill necessary? Couldn’t you have found many things that 85 percent of Americans thought needed to be changed?<\/p>\n

Senator Schumer goes on to say that the $787-billion federal stimulus was not large enough. Good grief! I think it is obvious that the grass roots message of smaller government and less spending has not gotten through to the Democrats (and unfortunately, a large proportion of the Republicans). If we are going to turn this country around, Washington needs to begin to listen to the average middle class Americans who makes this country work. The policies of the Obama Administration<\/a> have harmed both the middle class and the lower class, and it is time to admit that those policies do not work. Smaller government benefits everyone–when the government spends less, the people have more to spend. We need to remember that in 2016.<\/p>\n

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