White House Memo Don’t Dare Call the Health Law ‘Redistribution’ By JOHN HARWOOD Published: November 23, 2013
“A commitment to economic justice necessarily implies a commitment to the redistribution of economic resources, so that the poor and the dispossessed are more fully included in the economic system,” Ms. Blank, a noted poverty researcher, wrote in 1992. With advisers wary of airing those views in a nomination fight, Mr. Obama passed over Ms. Blank, then a top Commerce Department official and now the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin. Instead he chose Alan Krueger, a Princeton economist.
“Redistribution is a loaded word that conjures up all sorts of unfairness in people’s minds,” said William M. Daley, who was Mr. Obama’s chief of staff at the time. Republicans wield it “as a hammer” against Democrats, he said, adding, “It’s a word that, in the political world, you just don’t use.”
These days the word is particularly toxic at the White House, where it has been hidden away to make the Affordable Care Act more palatable to the public and less a target for Republicans, who have long accused Democrats of seeking “socialized medicine.” But the redistribution of wealth has always been a central feature of the law and lies at the heart of the insurance market disruptions driving political attacks this fall.
How about theft? Will that work NYT? Lazy non-workers taking things from the workers throughout the history of the world has always been called what it is: stealing.
Or how about truth vs. the lies the NYT wants to maintain? Since that IS what it is - redistribution; i.e., theft. Refusing to call it that is a LIE with a capital L. So basically what the NYT's is suggesting is that truth is toxic to this White House - no surprise there.
Leave it to liberals to want to bury the truth with a lie, since that seems to be all they're capable of.
Shame on them but shame on us for allowing them to get away with it.
The PC words that the globalists / internationalists / statists hae come up with are harmonization and justice. as in harmonization of standards of living and health care justice.
Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #3The PC words that the globalists / internationalists / statists hae come up with are harmonization and justice. as in harmonization of standards of living and health care justice.
These people know the power of words, don't they? They "increase revenues", they create equality, blah blah blah.
They distort reality with their intentional re-shaping of language.
Their goal is to keep the sheep asleep and promote their agenda by camouflaging its socialist accoutrements.
There's no longer an anti-war Left. There's only an anti-Right Left