this is the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary
Rd Gettysburg address President Abraham Lincoln
I hey you know
rather rather a a short
speech a meanie he apparently wrote on the back to an envelope
com four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent
a new nation
conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men
are created equal now we are engaged in a great civil war
the summer he coulda been written yesterday
I mean actually to compare what's going on now i spose to the civil wars to
really minimize the Civil orbit a
now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure we r
Matt on a great battlefield that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that
field
as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives
but that my nation might live it is altogether fitting and proper that we
should do this
but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate
we cannot concentrate consecrate
we cannot hallow this ground the brave men living and dead who struggled here
have consecrated
far above our poor power to add or detract the world will little note
nor long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here
it is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work which they who fought here
have those so far nobly advanced it is rather for us
to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us
it from these honored dead we should take increased devotion
to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion
that we here highly resolve
that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God
shall have a new birth of freedom and that government
love the people by the people for the people
shall not perish from the earth
that's it that's all speech
and
what we have today if you look at a map
above the state's that
have decided to take federal money
for expanding Medicaid
and you look at it at a map of the states that have chosen not to
it almost looks like the old Confederacy it's really remarkable
here's a messaging thing that I would like to get out
to any democratic politician who may be listening and I know some other
democratic politician staff members
listen to this program and and I know
and hope they listen to it over the white house probably just wait to see if
what but kinda subversive stuff is he gonna say today anyway
here's the way to here is the way to message this
and every
Democrat who is running for office in 2014
this is how to message this you say to the people
love the state love fill in the blank step you know a state like Michigan that
is not taking the federal Medicaid money
you run an ad same
you are a taxpayer you been pain federal taxes to the federal government for
years and years and years
and the federal government would like to return some love your tax dollars
to you and to your fellow
workers and in in the state emission
in the form above healthcare by expanding Medicaid
but you're Republican Governor Rick Snyder has said he does not want
you to get your tax dollars back he wants Washington to keep
the tax dollars for Michigan rather than sending them back to the state
and so also says joe blow my republican opponent
Joe doesn't think that you should get your tax dollars back either
because it's in the form of health care God for bed people should have health
insurance
so vote for me the democrat because I am
strongly committed that that this state
in this case Michigan that this did that Michigan should we get back from the
federal government the federal tax dollars that were sending to them every
year
and that we should use that method and in and use that money to expand Medicaid
others put it in a frame up let's just get our bad our own money back
member of active ronald reagan was with you know promoting know his tax breaks
it
it's your money
well where do you think this this money that is fun in the medicare expand their
Medicaid expansion is
is coming from it's coming from tax dollars it's your money
and Scott Walker and and and rick Snyder and
million a.m. I'm he bobby Jindal and I i
all these these crazed republicans
they don't want the people and their states to have their own money back
because G if they get health insurance they might think
President Obama did something nice for and we can't have that power the
headmaster
so democrats take
a queue from ronald reagan
here's your messaging it's your money
you senator Washington DC the present the United States wants to send their
money back to you in the form of cheap
health insurance and the republicans in your state are
blocking that throw the bums out
it's pretty straightforward stuff