XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: MeanDog@BiteMe.dash   
      
   On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:20:34 -0500, Governor Swill   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 02:45:14 +0000, Mitchell Holman wrote:   
   >>Collectivism fails  wrote   
   >>> On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:06:43 -0500, Governor Swill wrote:   
   >>>>To repeat, millions of Americans can now afford health insurance who   
   >>>>couldn't before.   
   >>>   
   >>> Actually they can't. Not without government subsidy.   
   >>>   
   >>>>The rising cost of health insurance has more to do   
   >>>>with Republicans chipping away at ACA than with the original design of   
   >>>>the program. Add to this the GOP has repealed most of the mechanisms   
   >>>>that paid for ACA thus increasing the budget deficits.   
   >>>   
   >>> More undocumented nonsense.  For four long years the Republican Party   
   >>> did not have the power to do that, and yet the Dems needed to increase   
   >>> the subsidy.   
   >>   
   >>    The party of bailouts complains about   
   >>government subsidies. Oh, the irony.........   
   >>   
   >>Bailout......................Year.........Cost.............President   
   >>   
   >>Continental Bank........1984.......$9.5 billion.....Reagan   
   >>   
   >>Savings & Loan..........1989.......$293.3 billion...Bush   
   >>   
   >>Airline Industry...........2001.......$18.6 billion....Bush   
   >>   
   >>Bear Stearns...............2008.......$30 billion......Bush   
   >>   
   >>Fannie Mae.................2008.......$400 billion.....Bush   
   >>   
   >>A.I.G.............................2008.......$180 billion.....Bush   
   >>   
   >>Auto Industry...............2008.......$25 billion......Bush   
   >>   
   >>TARP...........................2008.......$700 billion.....Bush   
   >>   
   >>Citigroup.......................2008.......$280 billion.....Bush   
   >>   
   >>Bank of America...........2009......$142 billion....Obama   
   >>   
   >>US Farmers.................2018.....$10 billion......Trump   
   >>   
   >>US Farmers.................2019.....$28 billion......Trump   
   >>   
   >>US Farmers.................2020.....$35 billion......Trump   
   >>   
   >>Covid...........................2020......$500 billion.....Trump   
   >>   
   >>Argentina...................2025.....20 billion......Trump   
   >>   
   >>US Farmers.................2025.....$12 billion......Trump   
   >   
   >In the interest of fairness, Obama bailed out more than just BoA.  And   
   >look how much that one cost!   
   >   
   >I note you totally screwed up the COVID figures.  Should read:   
   >   
   >COVID.....................2020.........$1 trillion.........Trump   
   >COVID.....................2021.........$500 billion...... Biden   
   >   
   >Been seeing commercials for Farmers insurance lately.  I wonder why   
   >they need the money.   
      
   FWIW, Farmer's insurance is not health insurance.   
      
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