Chuck Schumer calls healthcare reform the most difficult issue America has ever faced

  While reading this article about the healthcare reform bill I saw a quote from Chuck Schumer that caught my eye.

We’re struggling to come together on the most difficult issue America has ever faced

  The most difficult issue that America has ever faced? Really Chuck? Are you serious? There have been at least two depressions in America– the Great Depression and the Depression of 1893– along with the Panic of 1907. We have had a second war for independence– the War of 1812– and a civil war, and World War II. Then there was the civil rights movement and women’s suffrage. But Chuck Schumer declared the healthcare reform issue more difficult than any of these issues.

  Either Chuck Schumer does not know his American history or he is trying to make excuses for Barack Obama’s inability to pass the legislation that he considers his landmark legislation. In stating that the healthcare reform issue is the most difficult issue America has ever faced he has greatly exaggerated the healthcare crisis and in the process he has degraded all of the struggles that past presidents had to overcome, and he has done it solely to prop up this failing president.