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Thom's blog
Obamacare is not some socialist marxist leftist plot...
Obamacare is not some crazy communist, left-wing, socialist plot. It’s a Republican plot.
Back in 1971, then President Richard Nixon was extremely concerned that he would have to face then Senator Ted Kennedy in the 1972 presidential election. At that time, Senator Kennedy was pushing a proposal for a national single-payer healthcare plan that would extend coverage to all Americans.
Nixon knew that Kennedy’s proposal would be popular with the American people, and could threaten his re-election chances, so he came up with a healthcare proposal of his own.
Nixon’s proposal for healthcare in America included different plans for four categories of Americans.
Under Nixon’s plan, employers would have been required to buy health insurance providing a basic package of benefits for 150 million working Americans and their families.
For 20 million Americans who were considered the working poor at the time and their families, Nixon’s plan would have replaced Medicaid services with private health insurance plans fully paid for by the government for the poorest, with a sliding scale of contributions for families earning over $3,000 (roughly $17,300 in today’s dollars).
Nixon’s plan also dropped Medicare premiums for 21 million “aging” Americans, and instead adjusted Social Security taxes to make up for the costs.
Finally, Nixon’s plan lowered healthcare costs for 30 million self-employed Americans by allowing them to buy healthcare policies at lower group rates through insurance pools.
Now, what does all of that sound like to you? It sounds an awful lot like Obamacare, right?
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... 'Disappearing' people, Net Neutrality, Pot, Whips, chains & capitalism (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Is America 'disappearing' people?- America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio 
Screwed: Net Neutrality...the 11th hour- Tim Karr, Free Press
PLUS, Whips, chains & capitalism- Lynn Stuart Parramore, Reuters / Alternet
Daily Take: Obamacare is not some socialist marxist leftist plot...
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Thursday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Thom talks issues of the day with America's Lawyer- Mike Papantonio, Ring Of Fire Radio
Article: " 5th Amendment" (double jeopardy, witness against self, due process, taking clause, due compensation).
Article: " 10th Amendment" " The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people".
Hour Two: How to run a state - the Minnesota turnaround by Gov. Mark Dayton
Hour Three: Historic FCC vote on net neutrality- Craig Aaron, Free Press
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Conversations w/Great Minds P1 - Prof Eric Foner - The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
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Rumble: WV Wants to Make ObamaCare a Crime
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In a special Conversations with Great Minds segment, DeWitt Clinton Professor at Columbia University and author of Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, Eric Foner tells us the real story of the underground railroad and debates the current AP U.S. History debate.
FCC Passes Net Neutrality...
How Reaganomics Changed Corporations
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Republicans Believe in Scott Walker, Not Global Warming
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