Well this is interesting…

https://extranewsfeed.com/in-england-trump-means-fart-and-other-amusing-translations-of-the-presidents-surname-d8ae74f64797

With the recent failure of the Republican Senate to repeal the ACA, I hope Obama’s legacy will remain intact until a newer better plan comes along.  Specifically, I think our current healthcare woes won’t go away until a government sponsored healthcare is enacted.  What would it look like?  I have no idea.

Even Bernie has no idea…. but he sent a message via the PAC asking about healthcare.

And one of the questions, I gave my idea of what I think might work.

Share your thoughts with Bernie… Here’s the Link.

https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/mfa-your-thoughts?source=em170731-full

With the Senate’s healthcare bill’s demise these past few days, I got wondering about the differences between the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and the “Republicare.”  I found this nice comparison from the BBC.

The one thing that struck me is the tax breaks on the wealthy the “Republicare” is going to implement in the first version got taken out from the second version.  More importantly, do people really believe that cutting the revenue gained from taxing the wealthy is *REALLY* going to allow a maintenance of healthcare support?  And more broadly, is taxing the rich really going to be a viable model for years to come?

I think ultimately, both Democrats and Republicans have to get behind a single universal government healthcare provider.  The government will also need to establish what they consider as “mandatory” healthcare services and benefits, and determine a reasonable cost of service price point(s) for the mandatory services and benefits.  These services and benefits need to be adjusted as the citizen grows old as well.  For all other non-mandatory items, the healthcare market can take up the slack and charge premiums to cover those types of services.  I think this is great win for both private and public sectors.

The Senate’s Healthcare Bill has come out.  And almost immediately, the opposition from within the Republican ranks is forcing a delay in the vote.  Sounds familiar doesn’t it?  The CBO scores it even worse than the House version.  egads…

I wonder who else will be in the room when the Republican’s gather enough votes to make it happen.

One thing that’s a bit interesting that I heard from the political podcasts are that most of the items don’t take into effect until after 2020.  Sounds very political doesn’t it?  How true is this?  Not sure.

Let’s face it.  The current US politics is a fucking mess.  Whenever one political party is in power, the other party seeks to put down and belittle the party in power.  The term “bipartisan support” might as well be considered the Holy Grail.  The latest incident deals with the secretive process this new AHCA/TrumpCare that’s being formulated by the Senate Republicans.

Back when ACA/Obamacare was being formulated, Republicans were not in power and were subsequently denouncing the Democratic led efforts for healthcare.  This Washington Post article does a good job summing up the hypocrisy in politics.

When will the average citizens become tired of this bullshit?

Why can’t the average citizen hold the politicians for BOTH parties accountable for their actions and words?

Trevor Noah’s recent commentary about the excuses Republican’s are using to explain Trump’s behavior is hilarious.  #2 which starts at around the 4 min mark is hilarious.

I hope…

So Bernie Sanders made news that was surprisingly negative. Reading about it here and reading other articles got me thinking… Was Bernie wrong to pursue such line of questioning? 

To me, more politicians need to hold other politicians accountable.  The way I see it, if a nominee considers himself Christian first and doesn’t view other religions with “equal” respect, how do we as citizens know that the decisions this nominee makes are neither tainted with a religious view nor considered as religiously blind?  In my mind, what Bernie wanted to do was to ensure that  this nominee wouldn’t be using his religious convictions to implement policy in a “religiously blind” government. 

On my opinion, it’s like abortion. The whole abortion issue boils down to the fact that a religious viewpoint is disguised as a political viewpoint of “every life is precious.”  Yet the irony to me is, we have forgotten veterans, unwanted homeless, and even hungry families that are ignored by these religions.  The life of these people are just as important as that of an embryo, yet religious leaders don’t make a big fuss out the forgotten. 

I don’t know what to say.  Reading this Wired article should leave EVERYONE confused at exactly what is going on politically.  The same statements are interpreted in two widely different viewpoints based on political ideology.  Seriously all this bullshit?

But the events from Comey remain clear…

• Trump ordered EVERYONE out of the room.
• Trump told Comey, he “hoped Comey can let the Flynn Investigation go.”

That’s not hoping.  That’s Trump performing a premeditated action with the intent to stop the investigation.