How Special Interest Groups Have Changed Trump

Fareed Zakaria wrote in his Washington Post column about health care this week. One of the quotes from President Trump that caught my attention was a quote from his 2000 book “The America We Deserve”. The following shows just how much his opinion has changed or his loyalty to his supporters has changed his opinion:

I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses. . . . We must have universal healthcare. . . . The Canadian plan . . . helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. There are fewer medical lawsuits, less loss of labor to sickness, and lower costs to companies paying for the medical care of their employees. . . . We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.”

Has he been influenced by special interest groups or has he really changed his mind on such an important issue? As you probably know our President has changed his mind on issues ranging far and wide. Whatever fits his mood at that moment seems to be his opinion. Never mind that his truth is ever changing and what ever comes out of his mouth is the truth for the time being.

Maybe for once he should look back at what he said and think about the country for a change. Not just blasting the present laws and regulations into history.

Round One Goes to the Sane

Trumpcare pulled. Hooray to that. What’s next? According to President LOSER tax reform! That would be great! I bet his version of tax reform is lower taxes on the wealthiest 1% and raise it on the rest of us. I know, I know he keeps talking how the middle class will benefit from his tax cuts. But the tax cuts won’t be for the middle class. His reasoning is if the wealthiest get bigger cuts the economy will improve because they have more money to invest and it will work its way down. Sounds like Reagan trickle down economics if you ask me. That didn’t work out too well for the middle class now did it?

Health Care

Why, if the new health care bill doesn’t pass, can’t the Republicans work on a new and better version. I have not been a big fan of Obamacare but it is certainly better than what the House is to vote on today.

Trump and his Republicans need to put aside their egos, wipe their noses, pull up their pants and get on with the campaign promise of Making America Great Again. Stupid slogan but apparently effective.

Pull the bill, go back to the drawing board and put out a heath care bill the really cares for people.