GOP: We dont have money for sick kids because we gave it all to the wealthy

[workinclasszero]

GOP: “We don’t have money” for sick kids because we gave it all to the wealthy
In a move that would make Scrooge blush, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch insisted there is no money to help cancer-stricken children days before jamming through a tax scam that gives billions of dollars to the uber-wealthy.
By Dan Desai Martin DECEMBER 2, 2017

At the beginning of the holiday season, Republicans showed Americans where their priorities lie: Giving aid and comfort to mega-rich donors and leaving sick children out in the cold.

Republicans, who control the House, Senate, and the White House, have refused to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This program, which provides health care to nine million low-income children and pregnant women, expired on September 30th.
Instead, with the holidays fast approaching, Republicans focused on their top priority: raising taxes on the poor and middle class to give billions to the top one percent.

In the middle of a cold December night, Republicans rammed through a tax scam bill riddled with mark-ups written all over it that were literally illegible.

But when asked about reauthorizing CHIP just days before, Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch had the gall to claim, “We don’t have the money” to pay for it.

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[SamKnause]

1. They don't care about poor sick kids.

They only care about fetuses.

[workinclasszero]

2. Yes

The second they are born the "pro-life" republicans are good with them starving to death or dying from an medical condition for lack of insurance.

[SamKnause]

4. Actually I think they enjoy it.

They are EVIL LIARS.

[DBoon]

8. No, they don't care about fetuses

They just want to ensure women are a permanent subservient class

[SamKnause]

11. I stand corrected.

They pretend to care about fetuses.

If they truly cared they would believe health care, food, housing, and education are rights.

[saidsimplesimon]

3. Recommended

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[dalton99a]

5. Falwell et al: "If God loved them, he wouldn't have let them get sick"

[workinclasszero]

6. Heretic prosperity preacher: If God loved them they would have been born rich!

The poor are evil sinners because gawd makes them poor and we should punish them!

And all the fake Christian republicans said AMEN!

[dalton99a]

7. Yep.

[Martin Eden]

9. If we are a Christian nation ...

... then please define "Christian."

[L. Coyote]

10. More like: "Fuck you poor people, you vote for Dems."