Ed Schultz Quotes
They ought to be focused on saving healthcare. They ought to be focused on making sure we don't privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. That's where the Democrats ought to be.
Schultz, Ed. News with Ed Schultz. RT America, 2017.
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.
In 1955 Jonas Salk invented his polio vaccine. A bill was introduced in Congress to provide the vaccine free to all children:. At the time, very conservative politicians like Hobby, wanted no connection between the government and the health and medical system other than what the military did. What was ironic and made Hobby's view all the more unpopular was the fact that Dr. Salk, refused to patent his vaccine and gave it free to all. (See {628275}.) The only cost that was required was for the small amout that had to be paid to the manufacturers to produce the vaccine. The the government cost was very small.
Note how Laffer, ideologically opposed to Federal government operations, conflated the Motor Vehicles Administration operations, badly run in many states by the Federal. Ironically he appealed to Americans to judge Medicare and Medicaid. What he overlooked it that the citizen participants in these programs are very happy with the Federal Management. Next to Social Security, Medicare has been the second most popular Federal program. In 2012, when the Obamacare additions to Medicare and Medicaid were major issues, Americans voted clearly for President Obama and Obamacare. Many conservatives however continue to oppose government operation of anything except the State Department, the FBI and the Military / Security agencies.
Edward Andrew Schultz was an American television and radio host, a political commentator, news anchor and a sports broadcaster.
