“If we can whip our mules into a frenzy, they’ll pull more!”. /s
I’m already retired. I know they want me dead.
Let’s make Americans healthier by…
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Letting them eat more contaminated food. Still no healthcare though!
$1 trillion is how much m4a would save annually, along with 114,000 American lives. Also annually.
We’re paying a trillion a year to kill 114,000 Americans, and neither party thinks that’s bad enough.
That brought up an angry memory when Obamacare was first being debated. They were floating the idea of universal healthcare and the Republican propaganda machine came out in full force. There was something on Fox News that said something like “a study by the Congressional Budget Office shows over the next decade, universal healthcare would cost $7 trillion”.
But then neglected to mention the same survey showed NOT implementing universal healthcare would cost something like $17 trillion. Fucking scumbags.
Obamacare is conservative legislation (RomneyCare) and preserves insurance corporations position in the Healthcare system.
Making small adjustments to the orphancrushingmachine and calling it a win is shameful. If democrats cared, every blue state they control would have their own version of universal Healthcare.
$1 trillion is how much m4a would save annually
You’ll pull mp3 from my cold, dead hands!
Back in the 1960s there was talk about reducing the work week to 25 hours.
That was before Nixon got elected.
George Jetson had like a four hour workday. They seriously stole so much from us.
I like this comparison because the reason Jetson could work so little was because of the technological advancements.
We live in what people from must a couple centuries ago would consider a wizard magician magic world because of the insane technological advancements we’ve made.
So why the fuck are we still working this much?
The answer is simple. Because the fruits of our labor and humanity’s advancements have been stolen from us by a greedy minority. And we aren’t nearly as mad about it as is necessary to get what we deserve.
It is. A few centuries ago things like buying new clothes was an occasion. But now we have fast fashion and throw away crap.
I mean I fucking hate a lot of the fashion garbage. I have an extremely utilitarian view of clothing and people would probably hate me for it.
The only reason my work pants are different colors is because sometimes the color I prefer is out of stock. I did go so far as to intentionally pick two different colors of shirt of the same style, though. I have fashionable non-work clothes because my sister-in-law buys her husband trendy new clothes every year and he’s about my size.
Maybe fast fashion is a bad example as it is built on the backs of suffering humans
I’m convinced that RFK (the original, not his failson) would have been a transformational president on par with FDR, had he not been assassinated.
And he had a pushbutton job and was exhausted after pushing a button… Twice!
A sense of pride and accomplishment.
Watch, they’re going to spend over $1t to advertise to get Americans to “feel healthier” just to raise the age… They won’t actually do anything beneficial.
Why is Dr. Oz making a comment about the deficit in the first place? He’s supposed to be a medical doctor, not an economist.
Doctors should be saying what is healthiest, not what makes money for the government. His priorities are out of whack.
He a shit doctor, so why not be a shit economist.
He’s an advertising endpoint.
Doctors should be saying what is healthiest, not what makes money for the government. His priorities are out of whack.
At least he’s not making the Phillip Morris case that smoking will kill people before they can claim their pension. Unhealthy and makes Uncle Sam a few bucks.
Thanks you :)
He’s a conservative. They think they’re experts at everything. That way they don’t have to learn anything or refer to experts who make them feel inadequate for how stupid they are.
Cool cool so why not 2 extra years? 5? 20?
Honestly, I’d rather he think “Make them healthy enough they can work more,” instead of “Make them poor enough they can’t retire.”
Feels like choosing between a dog bite and bear bite.
It is just marketing. What he is really saying is “keep slaving plebs.” This is jut trying to make it sound noble. Like telling a toddler, “I don’t think you are mature enough to eat your vegetables.” Only in this case, instead of the goal of making a kid eat healthier, the goal is to keep us slaving on behalf of the ownership class.
I guess what I am saying is either way, you will be too poor to retire.
For me, the biggest concern that keeps me from retiring is the cost of healthcare, Medicare for all would abate that concern some, so people like me might retire early. Obviously, the wage slave owners are opposed to that, so Medicare for all is reviled by the both the right wing party (Dems) and the far right party (repubs).
This petty shit they are doing pretending to care about finances while laying the burden on the people, while literally pillaging the treasury to line their own pockets, and wasting billions more on needless wars and other Trump vanity projects, it really is the pinnacle of arrogance.
Dr oz needs to be sent to the shadow realm
One year means a higher chance of death so they can avoid paying out social security.
send him to work in the mines and ask him again a year later
70 more years now and they’ll understand that the whole socialism thing actually makes sense as well. Just like taking paying and taking care of your workers actually results in higher and longer production
Give me a four day workweek and I’ll be healthy enough to work an extra year.
Not BE healthy, FEEL healthy.
