I’m paraphrasing, but not by much. Nancy Pelosi was interviewed by Rachel Maddow, and had this to say to the young ‘uns who find productive work puts a real damper on their creativity.
“Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.”
Mary Katherine Ham took Pelosi up on the challenge to envision an economy where productive members of society pay for the unproductive members to live comfortably.
If they insist on creating a generation unable to care for itself up to and past the ripe old age of 26 by incentivizing “children”—and I use to term loosely— to stay on parent’s health insurance policies until they’re turning the corner from Clearasil to Botox, there will be fewer educated, able-bodied people who ever learn to take care of themselves.
If they insist on creating a generation incentivized to “move out of the money-making industry” entirely and “into the helping industry,” as Michelle Obama put it, with student loans forgiven by government if and only if students stay away from icky, profit-making industries, there will be fewer people making a profit.
These are the workers—and I may soon be using that term loosely— upon whom liberal Boomer Pelosi must rely to pay her Social Security through their working years. The ratio of workers to retirees has already shrunk from 41:1 in 1942 to 3.3:1 in the mid-2000s, and is expected to dip into to 2:1 in the next decades. Does Pelosi really want one or more of those young people supporting each worker to be a really keen charcoal sketch artist whose earning potential went as thoroughly unrecognized as his genius?
Ugh.
Who is John Galt?
They don’t call her “San Fran Nan” for nothing.
In too many ways the Dems are stuck in the 60′s.
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“Pelosi: When We Pass ObamaCare You Can Quit Your Job”
Why not? They have already quit doing their job.
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Pelosi is drinking utopianista Kool-aid.
And every utopia has been a consummate failure.
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