“Bernie is the most honest person in the Senate” Says Senator Lindsey Graham

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“Bernie is the most honest person in the Senate” Says Senator Lindsey Graham

September 26th, 2017

Awake Goy

Bernie is the most honest person in the Senate Says Senator Lindsey Graham

By Eric Zuesse.
washingtonsblog.com

Eric Zuesse

In the CNN Town Hall debate between Senators Bernie Sanders and Lindsey Graham (plus Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Bill Cassidy) that was telecast on Monday evening September 25th, the Republican Senators Graham and Cassidy were unable to discredit anything that Sanders said against their Graham-Cassidy Republican healthcare bill in the Senate, but instead they attacked Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act). Sanders said, regarding that, Lets not throw the baby out with the bathwater and received the biggest applause yet in the debate. Immediately after this, someone in the audience addressed Klobuchar and noted that President Obama had lied about what Obamacare would do (lower premium-costs, allow keeping ones existing insurance policy, etc.), and Senator Klobuchar said that those are the reasons Obamacare needs to be fixed.

The Republican Senators (Graham and Cassidy) both joined with Sanders in attacking the insurance companies and drug companies for (as Sanders said) last year the insurance companies and the drug companies made $55 billion in profits while soaring their prices. But Cassidy attacked Sanderss plan as socialism, and Cassidy then received the biggest applause yet for Republicans in this debate. Klobuchar responded to that by saying the U.S. healthcare system needs more competition, meaning less regulation, less government-involvement to prevent the healthcare suppliers from cheating.

Graham said that one thing is sure: Obamacare is failing, and more big government is not the solution. Other industrialized nations have higher quality healthcare than the U.S. and at less than half the per-person cost, but Graham and Cassidy and Klobuchar apparently dont want it. Sanders kept on pumping his Medicare for all program.

This was therefore no debate on the facts, but only a debate on socialism versus the free market (which the U.S. already has more of than anywhere else and also the costliest and among the worst healthcare), and Sanders stood alone against the ideological consensus, and had only the facts on his side facts that the Republicans and Klobuchar said the U.S. needs to avoid (socialism instead of capitalism in healthcare).

The drug companies and insurance companies must have gotten some good belly-laughs out of it. They can feel even more confident than before, that they rule Americas suckered-majority (who think that all of socialism is of the dictatorial type, communism, and apparently never even heard of: Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, and even UK, France, Japan, Canada

Ideology sure can be profitable for the suckerizers, who advertise everywhere. And, of course, the suckerizers wont be donating to Sanderss campaign. Is this a country thats made by the corrupt, for corruption? Is that the American business model?

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of Theyre Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRISTS VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.