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much appreciated. 
It makes no sense, as the OP highlighted.
Businesses don't want to pay for healthcare, which frankly, I don't blame them.
BUT, they want to get behind the complete opposition to any kind of single payer system.
Then hide behind all the flowery bullshit about pulling yourself up by your boot straps and as you noted, the divide and conquer stuff about all the TAKERS and ball about taxes.
This bucknut jackwagon I know at the gym. Talked to him for years, literally, hard right winger, and despite my rather middle of the road position on things, I was always the liberal. He actually references Rush Limbaugh as if he is a truthful and authoritative source of information, wears these hideous anti-Obama t-shirts.
Big taxes and all those people sucking off the system guy.
But, his wife is ... a public teacher.
I gave up a long time ago trying to talk politics with him, and have worked HARD to not talk politics with him. One day we were talking health care, and he proudly announces how he does not use his private company insurance, but instead is on his wife's because it is cheaper.
I nearly took a 45 plate off his head. He won't pony up to pay the rates for his private sector employeers health care (he sells textooks, which of course are bought by schools with, yes, tax payer dollars) and sucks MY tax dollars for his healthy care.
And, I am the sucking off the tax payer's teet liberal Rush babbles about all day long.
As you noted, all about me, have mine bullshit.
and I might say I have never heard the term "bucknut jackwagon", but I like it very much and with your permission use it in the future. It is simply so descriptive.
... and it's one of the main reasons I'm a non-practicing Catholic. Don't tell me that poverty and suffering is inevitable. That poverty, suffering and sacrifice builds character. This is the 21st century. This country could have saved the fucking world, and of course ourselves, by taking the road less traveled. But TPTB took the wrong fork at the "Y" in the road. And Viola', here we are. Poverty, suffering and too much sacrifice kills the spirit of a people. And THEN they start in on the safety net that is literally, and only barely, keeping people alive at all. It has to stop. This country has to right itself, once and for all, or this indeed, is the final fall (fail) of Capitalism and the big experiment called "Democracy." 
