Ever the ardent partisan, I created some more Republican’t bumper stickers. Display these proudly wherever you might encounter a Democrat.
And don’t forget: vote early and often!
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Republican’t Bumper Stickers
The general election is coming to a head, so I thought it was time to show my support for the Republican’t Party. I created these bumper stickers for you put proudly display your Republican’t philosophies. Feel free to distribute these as you like.
How Medicare destroyed America… right?
Medicare and Medicaid were introduced in middle of the Johnson administration, much to the angry protest of conservatives at the time. A trip thru Time magazine’s archives shows that they called them a handout; they called them socialism; they called them government interference in private health matters.
Sound familiar? All these things are being said about the Obama administration’s universal health care plan. Only add to that the panicked cry of Republican stooges saying that Obama’s plan will kill your grandma.
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Why a national health care system is a good idea
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Back in the late 1600s, people noticed that houses sometimes caught on fire and burned down. This sometimes even spread to nearby houses and destroyed a great deal of property and killed or injured a number of people. At the time, the best defense was forming a little community bucket brigade to pass water from one person to the next and throw it on the fire. But then someone had a great idea: form a permanent organization whose job it would be to put out fires. How do you pay for such a thing? Private fire insurance. How well did that work? Well, like an HMO, it was better than nothing.
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Barack Obama gets an A- for his first 100 days as president on pretty much every issue. His cabinet appointments have been clumsy, and his handling of the stimulus package unnecessarily watered down good economics with bad to satisfy Republicans who then voted against it anyway. But for the most part, he has done an excellent job of rehabilitating the United States on the world stage and handling the break down of the economy. The test he has failed was on the subject of torture.
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