Bush campaign: Unhappy Workers Should Take Prozac
It’s nice to know what they really think. Saw this at the Reuter’s site:
A campaign worker for President Bush said on Thursday American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones — or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better.
“Why don’t they get new jobs if they’re unhappy — or go on Prozac?” said Susan Sheybani, an assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt.
The comment was apparently directed to a colleague who was transferring a phone call from a reporter asking about jobquality, and who overheard the remark.
When told the Prozac comment had been overheard, Sheybani said: “Oh, I was just kidding.”
July 30th, 2004 at 3:28 pm
I think the comment was meant as, “Since our economic policies have cost them their jobs, they can now enjoy the savings provided by the new medicare precription drug discount cards.
By the way, since Jared started getting Medicare, it’s been soooo much easier to manage his health care. Letters are clearer, benefits are clearer, everything is just plain better. Why can’t we extend Medicare to everyone and put that money we’re paying all those insurance company executives to good use insuring the poor?
July 30th, 2004 at 9:27 pm
Medicare is an example of big government, socialized medicine that not only works, it’s cheaper. Mark me down as in favr of a single payer plan like the one in France. Here’s a description of the French system:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_07/004306.php
and
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_05/003972.php
Of course, we’d have to call it the Freedom System…
August 1st, 2004 at 1:38 pm
What’s truly sad is how miserable of a safety net our medical programs are for the poor. We toss people off of welfare and into a minimum wage job (via workfare) and take away their medical insurance in the process. No wonder so many people stay poor… It’s so disheartening.