An outspoken critic of the ACA, WSJ editor Joseph Rago, dead at 34

[still_one]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/business/media/wall-street-journal-editorial-writer-is-found-dead.html?_r=0

Make no mistake about it, Mr. Rago was a right wing conservative who railed against entitlement programs.

Here is the last paragraph from his last editorial against the republican failure to repeal the ACA:

"The coming days will see more than a few liberal tributes to the invincibility of the entitlement state, and how Republicans miscalculated by declining to accommodate ObamaCare. Entitlements by their nature are hard to reform once they’ve gained a constituency, but what these odes will omit is how close Republicans came. They had the power to reverse the march toward single-payer health care, and most wanted to use it but were blocked by a few feckless deserters.
The ObamaCare Republicans are betting voters won’t remember, but implosions this consequential take a long time to forget."

http://archive.is/75lJU#selection-2345.0-2349.122

It is obvious from his last editorial his disgust for the so-called moderate republicans

And while accolades will be bantered about how he was such a "clear, logical, thinker, I doubt compassion for those less fortunate will be used to describe him.

Make no mistake about it, Mr. Rago was a wing nut.

He was an alumni of the Dartmouth Review, a bi-weekly neoconservative newspaper with the likes of people like Dinesh D'Souza and Laura Ingraham.

Here is a flavor of the kind of paper the Dartmouth Review is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dartmouth_Review

[JI7]

1. there will probably be conspiracy theories on this

and how hillary or obama or liberals were behind it

[still_one]

2. No doubt about it.

[anniebelle]

3. Whatever

All's well that ends well.

[LSFL]

4. So cold!

We're talking about a thinking, feeling human being being plucked from this earth in his prime!

Just kidding. He was advocating early death for millions because they are poor. Instant karma.

May his backfat crackle in hell for eternity.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Yeah, you can bet on that.

[n2doc]

5. Oh well, condolences for his family

He'll just be replaced by another soul-less, evil scumbag.

[dalton99a]

6. Alex Jones believes it was an actor and no one actually died

[nikibatts]

8. He wasn't "all that and a bag of chips." And he was wrong about Americans not wanting a welfare

state. The only people who don't want one are the rich and super rich, although their own wealth has come from a type of state welfare couched in terms of "subsidies" "grants" "Federal contracts" 'tax loopholes" "tax credits" and a host of business and corporate "write-offs," It' the gated mindset of people who not worked their way up from anything except inheritance of wealth and white skin.

[still_one]

10. You are so right.

[sharedvalues]

9. Social safety net. "E-word" is a GOP smear word