Is Trump The Chosen One?

PJ, that's been the case for quite a while. The conservative yahoos bleat about "government handouts," yet they lap them up eagerly. When a tornado or a hurricane destroys Redneckville, FEMA shows up. Who pays for that? Them no-good liberal coastal elites!

And the mouth-breathers in Kentucky may vote Repubblekin almost exclusively, and call Obama a no-good socialist darky, but gawrsh darn if they didn't flock to the Medicare rolls when Obamacare made it possible for them to do so.

....then California should not need, nor take, any funds from anyone other than Californians. No federal funds, because they don't need them.

Obamacare made it possible for the government to fine peolpe who didn't get health insurance...and Kevin faults people who got health insurance. Bat crap crazy!

Sweet Old Bob doesn't understand, or pretends not to understand, my point that Kentuckians railing against that no-good darky Obama and his SOOOOOOCIALIST healthcare plan--then signing up for it by the tens of thousands--is a wee bit hypocritical.

Sweet Old Bob also pretends not to understand the inherent contradiction, pointed out by PJ, in the conservative states decrying "big government," yet eagerly lapping up federal money. He also doesn't understand, or pretends not to, that all those "well-run, fiscally responsible" Trumper states are in that kind of good shape because they are net consumers of goverment funds and services (i.e., the government gives them more than they give to the government).

Kevin didn't understand a single thing I wrote. Not surprised.

Why are you the only person who has ever refered to Øbama as a "no-good darky" in this forum? Perhaps your true colors are showing through...

Please learn how to read, Sweet Old Bob. I never referred to Obama that way. I made an ironic reference to the way conservative mouth-breathers refer to him. But then, you knew that.

Another claim that you can't prove. You are fond of setting up strawmen to knock down.

You also don't know much about Medicare. I have Medicare health insurance. I didn't ask for it, wasn't given an application for it, and wasn't given an option to refuse it. The government automatically put me on it when I turned 65. I paid for it through payroll taxes. I pay for it now, too. The Medicare premiums are taken off the top of my monthly social security retirement benefit (I paid for that too).

The Medicare expansion was additional funding given to the states, which was used (when that funding was accepted by the state's governor) to expand Medicaid. I misstated the situation in Kentucky; the most significant expansion was the Medicaid rolls, though Medicare coverage was expanded as well.

It's a minor distinction. My point was that all the Trump worshippers, if they were true to their god and the holy tenets of conservatism, should have refused that extra medical care--but they didn't.

You share a common misconception, that you paid for your current Medicare coverage. You actually paid for other people's Medicare coverage, and other people are paying for yours now. The government didn't put you payroll taxes in a big shoebox with your name on it. It spent those taxes the same year they collected them from you.

Typical lib - get caught lying, and claim you "misstated" something.

Looks like Kevin doesn't know there are income requirements to receive Medicaid.

People were forced to get health insurance, or get fined if they didn't have it. It's YOU that is saying people should have refused that extra medical care...

I'm on Medicare and I'm paying Medicare insurance premiums every month, but I'm not paying for my Medicare insurance...must be another Kevin misstatement.

You're adorable, Sweet Old Bob. I hope that your Medicare is covering your cognitive decline.