David Fishback's Blog: "This is not the health care bill Trump promised."

Saturday, May 6, 2017

"This is not the health care bill Trump promised."

Donald Trump and his fellow old white male Republicans celebrating House vote to gut Obamacare

Today's Washington Post demonstrates that President Donald Trump lied to the American people about what he would do regarding health care. See here. (This is not the health care bill Trump promised)

But no one should be surprised. As early as August 2015, he admitted that he routinely lies to get what he wants. See here And all Trump wants is to "win."

2018 and 2020 will test our institutions and our people. If Trump gets away with this, then it will be evidence that too many of our people do not deserve the Constitutional architecture bequeathed by those who came before us. We must work to be worthy of the legacy we have been fortunate enough to have been born into or have chosen, through immigration, to embrace.

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David S. Fishback, a retired attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, is Advocacy Chair for the Metro DC Chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). His involvement in social justice efforts began as a college student in the 1960s, when he ran a tutoring program in Washington, DC. Following a year as a VISTA volunteer at a prison in Memphis, TN, he went to Harvard Law School and worked on Democratic Party reform issues.

After graduation, he joined the Office of General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. In 1983, David went to the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, where he litigated environmental tort matters, most notably the government's successful defense against lawsuits brought by asbestos product and Agent Orange manufacturers, who were seeking to shift their tort liability to the federal taxpayers.

In 1984, David became co-president of the PTA at a magnet integration primary school in Silver Spring, MD, beginning his efforts as an education activist in Montgomery County. He began advocating for LGBTQ youth in 2002 when he was appointed to the County Board of Education's Citizens Advisory Committee on sexuality education issues. During his time as chair of that committee and later through PFLAG, he was integrally involved in the ultimately successful effort to bring intelligent discussion of LGBTQ topics into the secondary school health curriculum and guidance offices.

A past member of the Temple Emanuel of Kensington MD Board of Trustees, David and his wife Bobbi co-founded and co-chaired (from 2002 to 2019) the Temple's Kulanu Committee for LGBTQ outreach. He is also a long-time member of the Temple's Social Action Council. In 2020, David was appointed to the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism.