Republican politicians love to talk about the sanctity of life, specifically kids’life, until supporting it may reduce tax break for their corporate masters. We must not forget the failure of the tax-cut-scam.
Protect Our Care released the following.
Gambling With Kids’ Coverage A New Lowlight in 210 House Republicans’ War on Health Care
Washington, DC – After 210 House Republicans voted to slash $7 billion from the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to patch up record deficits being inflicted by the tax breaks they gave to big corporations, Protect Our Care Campaign Director Brad Woodhouse released the following statement:
“Until recently, the CHIP program earned broad bipartisan support; after all, what kind of person would oppose health care for children? Then, Donald Trump decided to make kids’ health coverage a political football, proposing billions of dollars in cuts, which over 500 prominent national and local organizations oppose. Tonight, 210 House Republicans voted to cut CHIP anyway, selling out thousands of kids in their districts. Republicans are right to fear Americans’ wrath over their irresponsible tax bill, which blew a $1.3 trillion hole in the deficit, but gambling with kids’ coverage to pay for tax breaks is a new lowlight in Republicans’ war on our care.”
Experts Slam CHIP Cuts
Lisa Shapiro, Families USA: “Contrary to the title of the bill and statements from the Trump administration and Republican leadership, the CHIP Contingency Fund is neither expired nor unnecessary. It is exactly what the name says it is: a contingency fund that was created to ensure stability in CHIP and to provide flexibility for states to protect their children.” [6.7.18]
Bruce Lesley, First Focus: “It is critically important to understand that CHIP is financed with a block grant, and therefore, it fails to adjust for economic recessions, epidemics, medical inflation, or natural disasters which all threaten the health of children. Consequently, in the program’s early years, states repeatedly faced funding shortfalls and responded by imposing waiting lists and enrollment freezes upon children without regard to their health status or medical condition. In recognition of the fact that waiting periods and enrollment freezes threatened the lives and well-being of children, Congress revamped CHIP’s financing in a number of ways, including the creation of the Child Enrollment Contingency Fund in 2009.” [5.25.18]
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Republicans are concerned about abortion and the rights of the fetus but then when the child is born, they are on their own. They cut food stamps, WIC and now want to cut funding to CHIP. They are more concerned about saving money for themselves and to hell with the rest of us. They run up the national debt then want to cut social programs to pay for their wealthy masters massive tax give away!
Of course a Mechanical Engineer would understand that tolerance is essential!!!
It is the key criteria upon which things FIT TOGETHER!!!!
Please keep up the good work EW!!!
r/s
Gary, BSME, UCLA, 1972
Thanks Gary Barber.
BSME, UT Austin, 1983 ?
Republican views on embryos are based on the superstitious belief that souls enter eggs at conception. Primitive and very unscientific. Also primitive is the belief that one person can morally rob another, either directly or by delegation to some 3rd party (elected or not). Pure tribalism at it’s finest. Property rights are human rights, and to toss them overboard leads only to subjugation of the individual to the collective. It turns human being into sacrificial animals being led to the slaughter.
Interestingly enough, government seems to allow one to be charitable with one’s neighbor’s wealth – but those same people who advocate such robbery, would never contemplate doing it directly. They seem to have some blind spot that doesn’t allow them to see how delegating an immoral action doesn’t separate them from the action – much like hiring a hit man still holds the hiring person guilty as the assassin pulling the trigger. If you advocate robbing your fellow man, your also guilty of being a thief.