Gov. to citizens:
“Go somewhere else and die quietly.”
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It amazes me how conservatives are so willing to destroy medical suppliers and risk their own healthcare delivery system just to prove they can punish the poor and middle class first. So much for their concern for a prosperous free enterprise system much less promote stable families. We are all one medical emergency away from poverty and divorce. That’s the way fascist vulture capitalists keep our population under their heel.
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Do you believe it will be higher next time around?
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Conservatives have convinced their base that they don’t deserve any better than poverty because their god only helps those that screw others in their pursuit to be “winners.” The Prosperity Gospel is destroying Christianity and democracy across the globe and specifically in this country.
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Of course–I agree as well. But, since Bevan is going to do it, or not do it, it’s valuable to try to strategize #resistance responses for both scenarios.
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Can TPM go beyond each side’s talking points (excuse the terminology!) and tell us the only important legal information? What does the Obamacare Medicaid statute say? Are there any implementing regulations prior to the Trump Administration that address these issues? What kinds of waivers does the statute authorize and what kinds of waivers have been granted? It is really wholly irrelevant to the lawsuit what any of us think about work requirements attached to getting on Medicaid, because it is clearly constitutional for federal law to attach such requirements.
So much for an independent judiciary. Do what I want or I make about 12% of my population suffer. How Xtain of me…
We better start helping the next generation to run for office and not stand in their way as they approach politics in a more hands on manner. Centralist Democrats trying to get along with GOP vulture capitalists has produced the failures at the polls that the party so richly deserves. Let the reformers take the stage and run with their message.
Peace, peace? There is no peace. Just anarchy and a lot of suffering. We can fight and suffer just as easily as suffer and accept it.
12%?. If only that was the real problem. We are talking about nearly half of or population at least if not more of the workers in this nation living on the edge just one medical emergency away from bankruptcy and divorce. It’s time to face reality if we are going to help others out of the ditch St. Reagan pushed the middle class into.
What’s irrelevant to the lawsuit is the governor’s threat to throw a tantrum and tear up the whole program if he doesn’t get his way. If the court gives that any weight then we are all truly screwed.
When you are sick, you can’t work. Is that simple enough legally for you to understand? Disease happens. It’s not a choice.
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I don’t know. I’d like to think so, but I just don’t know. As much as I think the GOP will lose horribly this year, I’m also afraid that it’ll produce a backlash by the mouth breathers next year. I’m afraid Democrats will decide that their work here is done and they can go back to doing whatever bullshit they normally do that allows them to sit out elections.
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And furthermore, if you are too sick to work, you are pretty likely to be too sick to fill out a bunch of @$#^%@%$^$ randomly complicated and inconsistent forms and gather all the documentation you need to prove you’re sick. Especially to someone who is getting rated on the number of claims they deny.
Which is the whole idea.
I wonder whether, this being the heartland and all, some of the sick people are going to start considering second amendment solutions. It’s what they’ve been taught, after all.
I’m sure this big-hearted gov would cut the work requirement to 19 hrs/week in a severe recession.
Shorter Bevin: If you take away forced labor I will kill the workers.
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that is the most accurate and succinct summation of the current Republican Party I’ve heard yet. Perfect. And somehow they still vote for these guys, even when it threatens their very health.
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No no no.
God’s Man will gladly restart the Poor Farms and Poor Houses that existed before Social Security was enacted and implemented.
As of yesterday I no longer refer to the conservatives as the GOP or the Republican Party.
They are the Fourth Reich.
Back in the Roaring 20s, Grandma Bacon volunteered to work at the Borough Poor House. The House had a standing rule that you had to work to eat. That rule applied to everyone even people who were bedridden. Grandma was upset at several people so frail and ill that they could not get out of bed. She snuck a pie into the house to feed them.
The God-Fearing Republican Overseers of the Poor House found out about that and banished Grandma from the house. She was blacklisted as a Communist. She wound up taking in boarders to pay the bills.
Now the Republican Party wants to take us back to those days.
The Republican Party must die.
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