Governor Dennis Daugaard will be holding "Capital for a Day" activities in Aberdeen next Friday, August 16. "The community is invited and encouraged to participate in the events." An event everyone who used to work for now-bankrupt corporate welfare recipient…
Posts tagged as “socialism”
Montana Socializes Medicine for State Workers, Saves Money and Lives
By caheidelberger on 2013.08.06
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth will sit around with a few other doctors at her office tonight to grumble about the Affordable Care Act and talk about her pledge to take health care benefits away from thousands of South…
Sioux Falls Honors Lenin Favorite Pettigrew with Falls Park Statue
By caheidelberger on 2013.05.18
Of course Perry Groten would cover this event: the City of Sioux Falls now honors a vote-fraudster and Republican crony capitalist turned flag-insulting socialist sympathizer with a larger-than life statue in Falls Park. The 900-pound, ten-foot bronze statue of R.F.…
Spearfish Crazies Warn of Soviet Socialized Medicine Camps
By caheidelberger on 2013.03.26
My wife noticed this wingnuttery on the public bulletin board at Spearfish City Hall yesterday: The plain 8x11.5 photocopy shows a map of the Soviet Union (which, I remind you, we are no longer at Cold War with, because it…
Big Support for Medicaid Expansion; Two Opponents Shout Socialism, Theft
By caheidelberger on 2013.02.21
Speaking of Medicaid expansion, yesterday brought the first meeting of the South Dakota Legislature's Bipartisan Medicaid Expansion Exploratory Committee (B-MEEC? No! Be bold!). According to SDPB, 21 citizens came forward to speak in favor of accepting the Medicaid expansion offered…
Does Romney Agree with Ryan That Social Security Is “Collectivist… Socialist” Trap?
By caheidelberger on 2012.10.03
President Barack Hussein Obama and Willard Mitt Romney debate tonight. I don't mind if Jim Lehrer asks President Obama whether he endorses Vice-President Joe Biden's famous declaration that health care reform is "a big "f---ing deal." But I really hope…
Veterans Subjected to Socialized Medicine; Voters Subjected to GOP Hypocrisy
By caheidelberger on 2012.08.06
Mitt Romney, Kristi Noem, and Gordon Howie will tell you, with varying degrees of passion, consistency, and sanity, that socialized medicine is bad. It's actually better than our ugly, inefficient private system. But hey, Republicans, are you serious about fighting…
Director Forman: Obama Not Advancing Socialism
By caheidelberger on 2012.07.11
MiloÅ¡ Forman knows a thing or two about real tyranny. Nazis arrested his parents: his mother died in Auschwitz; his father, in Buchenwald. He lived in Warsaw Pact Czechoslovakia. He lost a TV job for making a Communist Party official…