For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford—that the government providing healthcare to all people is just unimaginable; it can’t be done. We don’t have the money to rebuild our infrastructure. We don’t have the money to wipe out poverty. We can’t do it. But all of a sudden, yeah, we do have $700 billion for a bailout of Wall Street.
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And when you take into account that the Medicare and Medicaid budget for 2009 is only $632 billion, you gotta ask yourself, “WTF?”
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