Elizabeth Warren misses the point on government overspending
Nov 17, 2014 10:26:41 #
Senator Elizabeth Warren has been making the TV talk show circuit lately, giving her stump speech as her hosts try to carry on a conversation with her. On Late Night with Seth Meyers, Tuesday, November 11, 2014, she was at it again.
Ignoring the fact that the Democrats message was not received in the recent General E******n, she continued unabated, including boasting about the Unaffordable Care Act.
Seth Meyers, to his credit asked some good questions. But she wouldnt answer his questions, just continued with her stump speech for the 2016 Presidency or wh**ever she is running for.
Said Meyers, A lot of candidates in your Party seemed to distance themselves from Obama during this e******n, almost saying We will fight him as hard as Republicans did. Do you think, looking back and seeing the results that that was a mistake.
She didnt begin to answer the question, nothing about why Democrats distanced themselves from President Obama. She just recited a list of what she considers to be the Presidents great accomplishments, starting with: Millions of people in this country have health care who wouldnt have had health care.
First of all, its not health care that people have signed up for, its health insurance. And while we dont get an accurate count from the government on how many people have actually signed up, we most assuredly have no idea how many have actually received health care as a result of Obamacare. Its only insurance they are being forced by the law to get, not actual health care. In fact, it is the health insurance industry being turned into welfare.
Warren went on to say: The Republicans shut down the government, flushed away 23 billion dollars, money that could have been spent on, you know, schools or on medical research and yet werent held accountable for that.
The government shutdown of a year ago was not even an e******n issue, and didnt seem to phase us v**ers as a reason why we should be v****g against Republicans. Yes, that shutdown, the one that only closed about 18% of the federal government for a few days, and put National Park officials on overtime so they could blockade sites such as the World War II memorial from the World War II veterans who were visiting it. Never mind that when these sites close every night or on weekends, no blockading of them is necessary. This tactic, meant to be something to blame Republicans for, completely backfired on them.
As to holding Republicans accountable for the shutdown, lets remember it was the President shutting things down because he refused to be willing to work with Republicans on a spending bill. How about if we hold Republicans accountable for the good they were doing in trying to stop the national debt from skyrocketing? If Republicans had actually united in their efforts, it would have made a powerful statement that said we shouldnt continually be raising the debt ceiling. The national debt has gone up more under the Obama administration than there has been debt under all the Presidents combined.
And then she confuses the issue even more by saying, with her inflated figure, that the cost of the shutdown was money that could have been spent on schools and medical research. While fact checkers would question her figure for the cost of the shutdown, it wasnt schools and medical research that was being shut down.
Meyers, while very accommodating to her stump speech approach to talk TV, did actually try to get some answers to why Democrats did so bad in the e******n, but to no avail. Instead he gets a rehash from Warren of the issues the Democrats were running on during the e******n, issues that people resoundingly v**ed against.
Ignoring the fact that the Democrats message was not received in the recent General E******n, she continued unabated, including boasting about the Unaffordable Care Act.
Seth Meyers, to his credit asked some good questions. But she wouldnt answer his questions, just continued with her stump speech for the 2016 Presidency or wh**ever she is running for.
Said Meyers, A lot of candidates in your Party seemed to distance themselves from Obama during this e******n, almost saying We will fight him as hard as Republicans did. Do you think, looking back and seeing the results that that was a mistake.
She didnt begin to answer the question, nothing about why Democrats distanced themselves from President Obama. She just recited a list of what she considers to be the Presidents great accomplishments, starting with: Millions of people in this country have health care who wouldnt have had health care.
First of all, its not health care that people have signed up for, its health insurance. And while we dont get an accurate count from the government on how many people have actually signed up, we most assuredly have no idea how many have actually received health care as a result of Obamacare. Its only insurance they are being forced by the law to get, not actual health care. In fact, it is the health insurance industry being turned into welfare.
Warren went on to say: The Republicans shut down the government, flushed away 23 billion dollars, money that could have been spent on, you know, schools or on medical research and yet werent held accountable for that.
The government shutdown of a year ago was not even an e******n issue, and didnt seem to phase us v**ers as a reason why we should be v****g against Republicans. Yes, that shutdown, the one that only closed about 18% of the federal government for a few days, and put National Park officials on overtime so they could blockade sites such as the World War II memorial from the World War II veterans who were visiting it. Never mind that when these sites close every night or on weekends, no blockading of them is necessary. This tactic, meant to be something to blame Republicans for, completely backfired on them.
As to holding Republicans accountable for the shutdown, lets remember it was the President shutting things down because he refused to be willing to work with Republicans on a spending bill. How about if we hold Republicans accountable for the good they were doing in trying to stop the national debt from skyrocketing? If Republicans had actually united in their efforts, it would have made a powerful statement that said we shouldnt continually be raising the debt ceiling. The national debt has gone up more under the Obama administration than there has been debt under all the Presidents combined.
And then she confuses the issue even more by saying, with her inflated figure, that the cost of the shutdown was money that could have been spent on schools and medical research. While fact checkers would question her figure for the cost of the shutdown, it wasnt schools and medical research that was being shut down.
Meyers, while very accommodating to her stump speech approach to talk TV, did actually try to get some answers to why Democrats did so bad in the e******n, but to no avail. Instead he gets a rehash from Warren of the issues the Democrats were running on during the e******n, issues that people resoundingly v**ed against.
Nov 17, 2014 11:09:30 #
Ricko
Loc: Florida
JMHO wrote:
Senator Elizabeth Warren has been making the TV ta... (show quote)
JMHO- it is obvious from her comments that she does not have a clue about who actually shut down government and the effects thereof. Just another liberal progressive big government spender. Warren or Clinton presidencies would merely be extensions of Obama's term in office. Good Luck America !!!
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