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Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com
Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com. Originating on Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles and syndicated coast-to-coast and around the globe! NOW FIVE DAYS A WEEK!
'BradCast': 10/13/2017 ('Chaos')
10-13-2017 (53.92 MB)
At the end of another week in our now Dysfunctional States of America, Donald Trump has decided to turn his self-loathing and rage over his own failing Presidency into chaos unleashed on the citizens of the nation and the world. Just hours after his Executive Order on Thursday, issued in hopes of paving the way for worse health care policies to be sold, the White House announced they would no longer pay subsidies to health insurance companies meant to help cover out-of-pocket medical expenses for low-income citizens. Over the summer, after months of Trump threatening to cut off so-called Cost Sharing Reduction (CSR) payments defined by the Affordable Care Act ('ObamaCare'), the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that doing so would raise premiums by 20%, result in lost health care for 1 million in 2018, and increase the federal deficit by nearly $200 billion over the next decade. So, of course Trump did it anyway. The matter now moves to the federal courts, where state Attorneys General have announced they will file suit (along with the insurance companies who will likely do so as well, since they are still legally required to give customers the discounts, whether Trump reimburses them or not) and to Congress, which could pass legislation to mandate the payments be made. We explain what it all means and who will be most harmed by the President's attempted murder of the Affordable Care Act, as he tries to hoax his own gullible voters into believing it was a 'suicide'. And, on Friday, Trump similarly injected even more chaos into U.S. foreign policy by falsely declaring that the seven-nation agreement that prevents Iran from creating nuclear weapons was not in the national interest. In doing so, he offered a litany of straight-from-Fox-"News" propaganda about Iran that would likely embarrass even those in the George W. Bush Administration who falsely sold the case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. That issue, on whether to officially end the long-sought pact that all other parties agree has been working, also now goes to Congress to determine its fate. But, its a Congress with Republicans like Rep. Scott Perry (PA), who accused CNN of 'making up' the still-ongoing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico. Amidst all of this, one Democrat, at least, has an idea that might end up saving the world-- if the otherwise impotent elected members of Congress can ever come to terms with the dysfunction they've sown and the monster they've created. Take away his nuclear button. Immediately.
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