My Twitter feed is full of anger and disgust.
I wonder if the tour guides at the US Capitol will continue to describe the Senate as "the world's greatest deliberative body." If so, one can only hope that in the aftermath of the rushed vote on tax cuts they are regularly challenged by their fellow citizens who are visiting.
— Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) December 2, 2017
As a consequence of this tax cut vote millions will lose access to health insurance and thousands will die.
— Lawrence H. Summers (@LHSummers) December 2, 2017
Thousands (or tens or hundreds of thousands?) will die and many more will suffer, be disabled, be chronically ill.
https://twitter.com/Kyle_Lierman/status/936587093006016513
Spreading the wealth of education, bad; making very rich people richer, fabulous.
John McCain, undergoing cancer treatment paid for by taxpayers, voted last night for a bill that will compromise cancer treatment and research for taxpayers. And we paid him to do it.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) December 2, 2017
What you’re witnessing tonight in the United States Senate is the weaponization of pure, unmitigated greed. Lobbyists are writing the bill in pen at the last minute. And Republicans are no longer even pretending to care about anyone but the super rich. What a shameful night.
— Nope. (@JoyAnnReid) December 2, 2017
Let me put this in personal terms: This unconscionable GOP tax bill is great for ppl like me who don't need a break, but will CLOBBER the ppl in my hometown where the median household income is just $19,250, and where my mom and brother still live. Tell me how this is fair?!
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) December 2, 2017
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7 responses to “Tell us how this is fair?”
While this plan will help curb the population, though unfortunately it won’t take only the lemmings that voted for these guys, this will lower the actual unemployment rate which which will include all the people they leave out in order to say it’s low now, and with the deaths of so many elderly, that will save on pensions and social security (until they get around to getting rid of that) so that they will have mostly the right amount of people for what will assuredly be low paying jobs because it’s entirely human to gain wealth and not want to share it.
Why have “death panels” when you can just have Death?
Saves on paperwork.
See? Now you’re thinking like a republican!
But, YNNB, death panels is “playing God”. Insurance is, too, if you’re honest, because going to the doctor is trying to defeat God’s will. So if God chooses to have the poor people die while the rich people live, that’s just…well, God’s will. And who are we to argue with that?
I need to go bathe now…
if that’s the case i’m in deep shit anyway. I’m an atheist.
Too bad Republicans prefer sucking up to Trickle-Dow, Wrathful, Smitemeister, Old Testament Yahweh instead of Liberation Theology, Eye of the Needle, Socialist Jesus. Of course, if they did they wouldn’t be Republicans. Now there’s an inkblot test for you. you see what you want to see and what you bring to it.
It’s at times like these that, I confess, as an atheist, one regrets the fact that some people will not burn in Hell.
So THIS is what they meant by “draining the swamp”. The “swamp” is ordinary America, and they are well and truly draining it.