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In reply to the discussion: Republican senator calls health care, food, and shelter a privilege [View all]sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)4. Ask him the same question DeVos got at Harvard - about billionaire donors driving the GOP
Student: So, Youre a billionaire with lots and lots of investments, and the so-called school choice movement is a way to open the floodgates for corporate interests to make money off the backs of students. How much do you expect your net worth to increase as a result of your policy choices and what are your friends on Wall Street and in the business worldlike the Koch brotherssaying about the potential to get rich off the backs of students?
In this case, ask Johnson "Many billionaires donate to your campaign and to GOP dark money funds that are used for congressional campaigns. How often do you go to policy conferences in which billionaires or their employees or donor networks are speaking or writing? How often do you read sources like the Federalist or Reason or white papers from the Cato or Heritage or Bradley foundation that are funded by GOP billionaires?"
We shouldn't be talking about Johnson's words, we should be talking about his underlying REASONS for saying those words.
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Republican senator calls health care, food, and shelter a privilege [View all]
turbinetree
Oct 2017
OP
I agree, but when a dangerous unqualified pinhead stands in front of a bunch
turbinetree
Oct 2017
#2
I should think the right to life includes the right to food, shelter and health care
The Velveteen Ocelot
Oct 2017
#3
Right to guns (and to be shot) but not a right for health care? Oh, I see. The NRA
SharonAnn
Oct 2017
#39
Ask him the same question DeVos got at Harvard - about billionaire donors driving the GOP
sharedvalues
Oct 2017
#4
This is a real viewpoint held by conservative Christians. I was raised in this mindset.
Coventina
Oct 2017
#6
And we, the citizens of the FORMERLY great state of Wisconsin chose this assclown over Russ Feingold
Still In Wisconsin
Oct 2017
#11
Thought Republicans were firm believers in 'the right to life'. Oh, That's only
sinkingfeeling
Oct 2017
#28