And childhood vaccinations have been traditional since I started school more than 8 decades ago.
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Not any more, thanks to MAGA. Texas. Measles.
Is that why RFK Jr. questions vaccinations, and does that make his questioning a good thing?
No, it makes him an irresponsible, reckless idiot. Question it privately, research it privately, and then using your good judgement and you deep technical knowledge, challenge the theories through regular channels.
In contrast, RFK has no professional training in biology, chemistry, or health sciences. He used his famous name to peddle quack remedies while questioning medical science as part of his sales pitch.
He's a quack and a conspiracy theorist that normal people know to ignore. He was given a prominent place in the Trump Admin because he is right at home with the other MAGA quacks.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. needs to stop saying vaccines are “a personal choice.”
They’re not. Speed limits aren’t a personal choice. Smoking on airplanes isn’t a personal choice. Paying taxes isn’t a personal choice. In wartime, the draft isn’t a personal choice. Sacrifices are what make us a nation instead of 340 million selfish hunter-gatherers. Each of us gives up some personal freedoms so we all stay alive. Opposing lifesaving mandates is childish libertarian nonsense.
You might want to examine the programs that have been cut finally.
Did that only promote compassion and an open mind to people's differences? Yeah, I can see why MAGA hates that.
The assumption that USAID is a benevolent program only dedicated to health is fallacious.
Some people think that if $70 or $80 out of a $100 gets to people in desperate need, it's money well spent. Others focus only on the $20 or $30 that didn't make it through the pipeline, for many reasons. And there's always some of that.
So it's an easy excuse.
No, I would know that ObamaCare, passed by Democrats, is available with such huge deductibles that, to make it usable, the government must provide large subsidies for care and premiums. I would also know that it was passed under reconciliation when Democrat leadership lamented that it was the closest they could get to socialized medicine at the time. I would also know that it was not done for altruistic purposes but to buy votes at the cost of those subsidies.
Sure, laws are only ever passed for "buying votes." Well, Obamacare was a total bargain compared to the Republicans Great Vote Buy this fall when they pass a massive $5 trillion tax cut for the rich.
No, and DOGE is going into the DoD.
Yeah, they're taking books on Jackie Robinson out of the West Point libraries and cutting funds for ensuring women's needs are being met in combat, such as properly fitted body armor. Wow, that'll balance the budget in no time.
He fired 14 of them because they are responsible for identifying WF&A - but didn't do it, or didn't make it work.
Trump is firing cops and replacing them with cult members who will enable grifting because that's what Trump and his stooges do.
Medicare, itself, is taken by fraud for about $60 billion a year, and DOGE has and is finding ways to stop it.
I would love to see a competent effort in that area. So far, DOGE gives me no confidence they are equipped to do that.
Spoken by a Lib who has no interest in government efficiency.
You have no basis to make that assertion.
Remember that Clinton fired 400,000 government employees.
Oh, cute. Is that story going around MAGA circles as an example of how unfairly the media is treating Trump's savage and reckless cuts? Al Gore's Reinventing Government eliminated over 100 programs, over 250,000 federal jobs, and consolidated over 800 agencies. And they did it gradually and deliberately, with much input from the agencies themselves, while also working cooperatively with the government employee unions.
I thought libs had no interest in government efficiency. Which is it?
The federal government's efficiency must be amazing since the number of federal employees has remained constant for the last sixty years while the population roughly doubled.
