This is the Tom Hartman Program.

And welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you.

The piece I published today over at heartmyreport.com and

also over on Dailycoes is a handy guide to translating the debates Republicans speak into plain

English.

And just a few things, right, that I noticed during the debate that kind of rang bells for me.

Nicky Haley complaining about the $22 trillion dollar COVID stimulus.

It was actually almost 3 trillion altogether.

And she says, that's now left us with 80 million Americans on Medicaid

and 42 million Americans on food stamps. Well, Medicaid is a single-payer health care system.

It doesn't pay sales people's commissions. It doesn't distribute profits or dividends to shareholders.

In fact, if it earned any profit,

it would go back to the government, but it doesn't.

It doesn't have CEOs that make millions

or in the case of United Health Care billions or billion anyway

like dollar bill McGuire

uh... so

you know actually it's a good thing that as many people are on Medicare or Medicaid rather as as there are

although to qualify for Medicaid you have to be poor which you know generally

speak obviously there's some exceptions but

that's not a good thing you know the poverty part of it but but still I you know I wouldn't be concerned about that the

42 million Americans on food stamps though I think that is an actual indictment of our

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