@WildMediaOnly I always have the shoe talk with a woman before we leave out. Even if she's stubborn and steps out in heels, we're bringing those tennis shoes along.
Chris Cuomo asked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez how we pay for Medicare for All, tuition free college, and the green new deal. It gives people sticker shock. Her answer:
“People talk about the sticker shock of Medicare for All, but they do not talk about the sticker shock of our existing system. In a Koch brothers funded study, it shows that Medicare for All is actually much cheaper than the current system.
Let's not forget that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act because they ruled that each of these monthly payments that everyday Americans make is a tax. We pay it every single month. (Or we pay at tax season if we don't buy plans off of the exchange.)
Americans have the sticker shock of healthcare as it is. Why aren't we incorporating the cost of funeral expenses of those who die because they can't afford access to healthcare? That is part of the cost of our system. Or the cost of reduced productivity because of people who need to go on disability or are not able to participate in our economy because they don't have access to the healthcare that they need?
At the end of the day, we see that this is not a pipe dream. Every other developed nation in the world has this. Why can't America? And that is the question we need to ask.
We write blank checks for war. We just wrote a $2 trillion check for the GOP tax cut. And nobody asks how are we going to pay for it.
So my question is why are our pockets only empty when it comes to education and healthcare for our kids? Why are our pockets only empty when we talk about 100% renewable energy that is going to save this planet and allow our children to thrive?
We only have empty pockets when it comes to the morally right things to do. But when it comes to tax cuts for billionaires or unlimited war, we seem to be able to invent that money very easily. To me it belies a lack of moral priorities that people have right now, especially the Republican Party.”
When School Board Member Jitu Brown talks about the status quo, he’s talking about what our communities live every day: neighborhood schools starved of resources for decades, CTE programs wiped out, mental health clinics closed, and food deserts where Black families can’t even buy groceries.
The Protecting Chicago Budget is about ending that sabotage and investing $1 billion back into schools, libraries, mental health care, and real safety.
If you’re tired of politicians bending to corporate interests, call your alder and tell them tochoose people over profits.
Vote YES on the Protecting Chicago Budget.
Not sure why there are people bothered by this interview. Personally, I believe this was a good interview, and much needed discussion concerning content and business amongst Christians.
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The Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in favor of a Georgia family whose home was wrongly raided by the FBI and was unable to sue for damages because of law enforcement immunity. https://t.co/zTWatKYdq7
BREAKING: Unbelievable. AOC EXPOSES the Trump Administration for ending legal status in the US and MAKING people undocumented - then having the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented. This is evil.
I was arrested in in the Capitol Rotunda while protesting health care cuts as a pastor long before I came to the Senate.
Now as a Senator, I am engaged in the same moral struggle.
I won’t stop praying, fighting, and working to stop these cuts and defeat this Big Ugly Bill.
Illinois follows the law — we expect the federal government to follow the law, too.
We won't participate in abuses of power.
We won't violate court orders.
We won't ignore the Constitution.
We won't defy the Supreme Court.
We won't take away people’s right to peacefully protest.
@CTULocal1 City council went against Mayor Johnson's push to raise property taxes. Chicago has too many schools: selective, charter, magnet..... Suburban districts tend to have more resources, because they relatively have higher property taxes and they don't operate a surplus of schools.
Philly needs to play Saquon. SB rings are not guaranteed. To sit Saquon for a game, they may not may not play, isn't cool. Even if Philly gets to the SB, there is no guarantee they'll win. To sit Saquon is an injustice to his career. Let that man run.