The burning question is: Will their vengeful ideology bankrupt the government??? Inquiring minds and all that…
That’s a rhetorical question: the reason the GOP does anything is to hurt poor people, wrongfully stack the deck in favor of the 1% and to ensure that white protestants keep a death grip on power.
Saving the government billions doesn’t matter to the GOP. It only matters if those billions can be routed directly to the 1 percenters, and the 99% pay for it.
The GOP hates poor, sick kids. “Let 'em die!” they say, “and reduce the surplus population.”
But where are the ghosts of Christmas past , present and future to set them straight?
The Republican deficit hawks strike again! Any program that saves the government money needs to be sabotaged, while they lavish the 0.1% with massive influxes of government cash! It’s the only way to run a nation!
Into the ground…more hypocrisy from Republicans, who really do seem to want to make government worse and less able to take care of people in need. I wonder why they hate the nation so much.
The Repubs concern for life ends at birth.
The holdup is that the GOP is dominated by spiteful old men
Not OT (in terms of fiscal idiocy):
"When Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was asked at his confirmation hearing what he thought about using private companies to collect [IRS] money owed to the government, he replied that it “seems like a very obvious thing to do.”
Kids don’t vote, right? This makes me so furious.
It makes the Repukes feel as manly as Trump
The underlying assumption is that somehow the GOP actually cares whether or not children have health care…
Like I said in an earlier post: The GOP has no interest whatsoever in the welfare of ordinary people – especially poor, people of color, etc.
And then complain about the cost of getting their lawns mowed.
“CBO Says Funding CHIP Actually Saves Gov’t Billions. So What’s The Holdup?”
What’s the hold-up? The hold-up is that CHIP helps people. That’s the hold-up. Fuck the GOP.
I just read this article over at Politico that says something similar.
I’m an economist, and I’ve crunched the numbers on “the Mother’s Pension Program,” a cash-based welfare program begun in 1911. It might seem odd to look at a social program more than a century old to draw lessons for today. Most of the recipients are long dead. But that’s actually why looking at the Mother’s Pension Program is so valuable: we can track the impact of the program over the course of the recipients’ entire lifespans using census, military and other government data. And there’s even a comparison group: Some families were rejected from the program mostly because their incomes were a bit too high to qualify. We can use children in these families to assess how they fared over the course of their lives relative to those who received cash. They did not do as well.
https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2018/01/10/fighting-health-effects-of-poverty-welfare-000608
The House Freedumb Caucus is floating an idea to consolidate this program with school lunch funding.
They claim it’ll reduce the number of sick kids, while supplementing school lunches nationwide.
They’re calling it the “Soylent CHIP” initiative.
Extending CHIP for 10 years would save a total of $6 billion, CBO staffers said. The internal estimate comes just a few days after the agency reported publicly that it had slashed its estimate of how much it would cost the government to renew CHIP for five years—from $8 billion to around $800 million—following Republicans’ move to repeal the individual mandate as part of a tax overhaul.
They hate babies. Republicans hate babies. In other news Republicans hate everyone that is not making more than $200,000 a year.
The Republicans are probably using CHIP as a (pardon) bargaining chip with the Democrats but that only underscores their base indifference to the welfare of less monetarily endowed constituents.
What it also underscores is their shortsightedness and overall indifference to fiscal prudence and the conclusions of research on poverty, education and children.
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” –Frederick Douglass
What’s the hold up? I’m going to go with this bag of dicks right here.
