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In reply to the discussion: Robert Reich : The deal emerging from the Senate is a lousy one. Let me count the ways: [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)But what we've just said is that healthy people are worthy of health care. But those who need extra help, fuck them. We stopped it to study it. We supposedly couldn't find any way to fix it. So now we have nothing for the disabled except a promise that a commission will meet, and agree there isn't anything we can do. Fuck you disabled. This is near and dear to my heart, because my Mother, before she died, was disabled. My wife is in a wheelchair right now. It is expensive as hell to get things done. Housing, you'll need wider doors, you'll need different sockets, because the disabled can't reach the existing ones, or fit through the door with a wheelchair. Bathroom fixtures are expensive for disabled. A car? You have to have one that allows for at least a wheelchair to be toted along.
But we don't give a shit, because sequestration was bad, it would mean defense department cuts, and those would be disastrous. The disabled, fuck them, we have to make sure Martin Marietta gets billions of dollars for making missiles we want to shoot people with. Billions for defense, no problem. Happy to give it up. A few million for the disabled? Oh well, we can't afford that. It is just unworkable. But twenty years and billions of dollars for the Osprey aircraft? That is just a good investment, Helicopters are just so last century aren't they?
We are shitting on those who need the most help, to take care of the Military Defense Industry. That was the great thing about Sequestration, we were going to finally shaft the MI complex, but we caved, and gave up on those most in need. If this is the way we negotiate, before we're done, our answer for Sandy Hook will be to give everyone an assault rife and declare schools to be free fire zones.