Heresy. Rev. Barber smacks down Jesus-quoting GOP Rep. who claims poor dont want health care

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By Katie Paris |
MARCH 4, 2017
Perhaps in the ultimate show of desperation, Rep. Robert Marshall (R-KA) has turned to Jesus to try to justify Republican plans to take health care away from millions of people. Rev. William Barber is having none of it.

Obamacare is increasingly popular, and Republicans are increasingly desperate to conceal their plans to repeal it — most recently going so far as to hide draft legislation in a sealed room in the basement of the U.S. Capitol.
While at least one Republican on Capitol Hill, Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), is well enough in touch with her constituents to say that Medicaid expansion “better be” in Republican plans to replace Obamacare, another hit a new moral low in justifying GOP attempts to get rid of it.

In what NY Magazine’s Jonathan Chait rightfully calls the “most morally repulsive argument for repealing Obamacare I’ve ever heard from a member of Congress,” here’s how freshman Congressman Robert Marshall of Kansas explained, in his view, Medicaid expansion is a bad thing:

“Just like Jesus said, ‘The poor will always be with us,’” he said. “There is a group of people that just don’t want health care and aren’t going to take care of themselves.”

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1. Jesus said, "The poor will always be with YOU"

You being those who profit off the poor. You being those who tie up heavy burdens for OTHERS to carry. You being Robert Marshall and his kindred spirits.