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It was reported in The Nation (and nowhere else that I ever found when I went looking—so, grain of salt) that Obama said that all the totally unnecessary jobs t
by vundercind 2y ago
It was reported in The Nation (and nowhere else that I ever found when I went looking—so, grain of salt) that Obama said that all the totally unnecessary jobs that’d be eliminated are exactly why he wouldn’t push full single payer.
It’s a regressive-tax-funded white collar makework jobs program. JFC.
- triceratops 2y agoHe didn't have the votes to get single payer through Congress. Simple as.
- vundercind 2y agoYes, I agree that is at least one reason that happened, and possibly the main one. I think the Nation’s quote of him on the topic points out something that may be true, which is that he might have balked at doing it given how many people would be laid off (hundreds of thousands, surely) and what the optics of that would be, though I kinda doubt the quote itself. But yeah, even if he’d been gung-ho behind it, it wasn’t happening.