Senate rejects UN treaty for disabled rights in 61-38 vote

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75. My grandmother ran a group home in NC

And my family would have thanksgiving dinner at the home with the residents.

There were eight people who lived in the home, and for most of them their family would visit only once or twice a year, if that. All off the residents were older women, and one person who lived there, Sandy, was blind.

The residents formed a family that cared about and for one another. We got to know each of them as individuals. The group home wasn't just a group house or hotel. It became their home and family in every sense.

But I would never have had exposure to a group home or the people who lived there had my grandmother not started and managed it.

And I believe that's what the GOP takes advantage of - the idea that for most people, the residents were anonymous, faceless and nameless. The GOP speaks about them as a number. Many people don't think about the consequences of reducing funding or eliminating group homes. Like you wrote, many of the residents would be put out on the street or put in a nursing home. The family gets ripped apart. It breaks my heart.

I became friends with Sandy over the years, and we would exchange gifts each Christmas. She passed three years ago, and I miss her.

My blood boils at the callousness and cruelty that defines the modern GOP. Policy has a face, and to republicans, the weakest and neediest in our society are tax burdens to be discarded so the rich will become more wealthy.