Grassley: If you want good Health Care “Just go work for the Federal Government”


	Grassley: If you want good Health Care “Just go work for the Federal Government”

disenchantedcitizen

7-5-2009 9:49 AM

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disenchantedcitizen says:

Clearly, Senator Grasseley experienced a meltdown.

Hopefully, he is realizing that evasive answers don’t work anymore. However, evasiveness has worked for politicians for years and they continue to get elected so perhaps he doesn’t see any reason to worry about it.

But to suggest everyone work for the government in order to get good health care is truly asinine.

This guy is clearly not working FOR his constituents.

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