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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm sick of them pretending this is a "healthcare bill"
What Congress is really doing is give the rich a $1 trillion dollar tax cut by defunding medicaid and health services that the sick and poor (and a lot who think they are middle class but are actually poor) rely on to survive.
Congress is giving the rich a trillion dollars using the cover of repealing that black guy's insurance reform.
This is theft from sick and poor citizens to benefit the rich under the guise of sticking it to the black guy, thus making it acceptable to the sick and poor racists who'd rather be racists than be healthy.
Fuck All Of Them.
Solly Mack
(90,771 posts)Won't change how it is reported but at least we don't have to be part of the farce.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)LeftInTX
(25,371 posts)atreides1
(16,079 posts)But on the funny side...many of those who didn't like the "black guy's" insurance reform, are going to be in for an unpleasant surprise!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)The ACA had lots of issues, but it was not nearly as bad as GOPers' plan.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Now that their nuts are on the line to lose healthcare they suddenly care about the ACA. Who'd a thunk it?
Initech
(100,080 posts)It's how the republicans get away with all the evil shit they do. There's bills right now to overturn bans on silencers and they're calling it "hearing protection". Gerrymandering is called "voter honesty". It's evil and it's wrong.
pandr32
(11,588 posts)I hear this claim repeated on every news source. No-one steps up and says it's because of sabotage.
calimary
(81,313 posts)NOTE: This shreds any and all of their objections about how liberals/Democrats are all about "income redistribution" which lets them pull out that moldy-oldie sceeeeeeeary buzzword "Communism!" - and its trusty sidekick which they also love to use as a swear-'n'-scare word: "Socialism!"
THIS, TOO, is income redistribution. Just - in the direction they've always wanted: up, so the rich can get richer on the backs of the poor from whom the funding is taken. Their problem with us liberals/Democrats/progressives is that we'd rather see "income redistribution" move down, from the rich who already have plenty to the poor who have little to nothing.
This shreds yet another of their favorite handy-dandy talking points regarding the above. They hate income redistribution when it moves money from the already-well-off to help those less fortunate instead of the other way around. But they can't use that excuse anymore. Because "income redistribution" is EXACTLY what they're trying to do now.
I just really have a big problem trying to justify the act of further comforting the already comfortable. They're not the ones who need the comforting. Too much Catholic school at too impressionable an age, I guess.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This!
mgardener
(1,817 posts)Right wing death party.
They are NOT pro life. They don't care about human beings. They do not have religious values.
They do not feed the hungry, take care of the sick. Money is their god.
Cha
(297,304 posts)Gothmog
(145,313 posts)Turbineguy
(37,342 posts)somebody's neck is an axe-duller.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)and called them "jobs bills".