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turbinetree

(24,683 posts)
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 05:06 PM Apr 2021

Sen. John Kennedy: We're Spending $75 Billion To Give 'Able-Bodied' People Under 55 Medicaid, Food S

CLTV 4/25/21 8:56am Play time: 02:24

By Heather

https://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2021/04/sen-john-kennedy-were-spending-75

Hey dip shit did you by some strange chance vote for a fucking 1.5 trillion dollar tax cut in 2017........why yes and he even bragged about it...and now he's attacking all those folks that got his tax cut....and paid into Social Security and Medicare, I just wonder if his parents got social security and Medicare .......more than likely.........

https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2017/12/sen-john-kennedy-r-la-helps-pass-once-in-a-generation-tax-cuts-for-the-american-people

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Sen. John Kennedy: We're Spending $75 Billion To Give 'Able-Bodied' People Under 55 Medicaid, Food S (Original Post) turbinetree Apr 2021 OP
We're spending to give able bodied corporations $2 trillion In It to Win It Apr 2021 #1
+2 appalachiablue Apr 2021 #12
Are there no work houses? FalloutShelter Apr 2021 #2
Prisons?? IrishAfricanAmerican Apr 2021 #6
Yes that's a Scrooge quote. FalloutShelter Apr 2021 #9
How was he ever a democratic member ? RANDYWILDMAN Apr 2021 #3
He was? underpants Apr 2021 #4
I don't think he was a federally elected Democrat dsc Apr 2021 #7
A patron for the bribing class and Russia. The Wizard Apr 2021 #5
able bodies ppl in the military suck up way more than $75 bill every year nt msongs Apr 2021 #8
This is why math matters TexasBushwhacker Apr 2021 #10
The point is to pitch the peons against each other underpants Apr 2021 #11
Does that mean he's ready to fight to raise the minimum wage ... surrealAmerican Apr 2021 #13
we actually pay him onethatcares Apr 2021 #14
We're paying "able-bodied" US Senators who only pretend to work for the American people. Irish_Dem Apr 2021 #15

FalloutShelter

(11,834 posts)
9. Yes that's a Scrooge quote.
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 06:01 PM
Apr 2021

Nice catch.
Where indigents labored for their keep, poor children, the physically and mentally sick, the disabled, the elderly.

dsc

(52,152 posts)
7. I don't think he was a federally elected Democrat
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 05:40 PM
Apr 2021

but he was actually a Democrat and endorsed Kerry in 2004. He was state treasurer at the time.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,146 posts)
10. This is why math matters
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 06:04 PM
Apr 2021

Even if $75 Billion being spent providing food and healthcare for "able bodied" people is a waste, it is 5% - that's FIVE PERCENT - of the $1.5 TRILLION that the GOP gave away with that tax cut, to people and corporations that didn't even need it.

These idiots just don't comprehend the concept of "working poor", yet they don't want to raise minimum wage a penny. They don't comprehend that there are people who lost their jobs because of COVID-19 who are still unemployed or under employed. I just spoke with a former co-worker who hasn't worked in a year. She had been making $100K as an HR manager!

They don't comprehend how many parents, mostly women, have had to leave the workforce to stay home with their children, whose schools were closed because of COVID-19.

Their stupidity and lack of compassion are mind boggling, and most are very proud to point out that they are Christians. Really? PROVE IT!

underpants

(182,626 posts)
11. The point is to pitch the peons against each other
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 06:13 PM
Apr 2021

Let us scrap it out over nickels while trucks are backed up to the Treasury

surrealAmerican

(11,358 posts)
13. Does that mean he's ready to fight to raise the minimum wage ...
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 06:18 PM
Apr 2021

... so those able-bodied people can afford food, housing, and healthcare?

Yeah, I didn’t think so.

onethatcares

(16,162 posts)
14. we actually pay him
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 06:31 PM
Apr 2021

littlemarco, pricksnott(aka rick scott) lindsey, and the rest of the scumbags $174,000.00 a year to kiss corporation ass

What should we do? I'm at a loss, they don't give a nether regions about emails from non corporate entities that don:t have large checks attached to them....

Start GOTVing now.

Please?

Irish_Dem

(46,527 posts)
15. We're paying "able-bodied" US Senators who only pretend to work for the American people.
Sun Apr 25, 2021, 07:47 PM
Apr 2021

They bad mouth the country, stop any progress, and then sit back and take a salary, benefits, perks.

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