Jesse Jackson Jr. Quotes
It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and poverty when it comes to creating and funding a national health care system for all Americans.
Jackson, Jesse L., Jr., and Frank E. Watkins. A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights. Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001.
That particular Libertarian platform called for the abolition / repeal of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Post Office, Federal election Commission and campaign finance laws. Extreme radical ideas such as this are not typical of Libertarian Party positions before or afterwards. The quotation illustrates that there are people in America who would end public education if they could. The quotation also illustrates how a small cadre of people can capture control of a political party and create a platform that is their own personal views which may be different from most of the party members or the historical position that the party has taken. In 1980 the Libertarian Party Vice Presidential Candidate was David Koch, one half of the billionaire conservative Koch brothers. Their money financed the Libertarian Party in that year and David Koch’s views then prevailed in the party platform. Historically, the Koch brothers moved from a minor third party to the Republican party at the beginning of the 21st century when their money was able to help drive the party very far to the right from the traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.
He was prophetic. It was the start of the Canadian health system as we know it today. precursor of the New Democratic Party.
Eisenhower later fired Hobby because when Salk invented the polio vaccine and Hobby did not get it distributed to all Americans regardless of their ability to pay. For a while, poor children kept getting polio after it was unnecessary. Arthur Flemming took over HEW and did the job as Eisenhower wanted. Eisenhower was a health advocate uncharacteristic of the conservative wing of his party at the time.
There were many countries whose laws proclaimed that health care was a right but could not deliver the health care to many of its citizens. However, every developed country except the United States considered health care a right and delivered health care to its people. The large majority of U. S. citizens received good health care but not as a right.
Jesse Louis Jackson Jr. is a American politician who served as the U.S. Representative from Illinois's 2nd congressional district from 1995 until his resignation in 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the son of activist and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson and, prior to his career in elected office, worked for his father in both the elder Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign and his social justice, civil rights and political activism organization, Operation PUSH. Jackson's wife, Sandi Jackson, served on the Chicago City Council. He served as a national co-chairman of the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign. Jackson established a consistent liberal record on both social and fiscal issues, and he has co-authored books on civil rights and personal finance.
