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nkpolitics1212

(8,617 posts)
Mon May 22, 2017, 08:23 PM May 2017

I just learned that Donald Trump is proposing cuts in Medicaid.

We need to ask low income social conservatives what is important to them. Being able to pay their medical bills or being concerned about Donald and Michael getting Married? We should also remind them that they are losing medicaid benefits to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.

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I just learned that Donald Trump is proposing cuts in Medicaid. (Original Post) nkpolitics1212 May 2017 OP
I'm pretty sure Congressional Democrats will be saying this ASAP! WinkyDink May 2017 #1
Yes. 60% of all people who are served by Medicaid are working DesertRat May 2017 #2
Medical bills, and long term care for their elderly parents, or themselves. NT enough May 2017 #3
GOP wants to harm or kill as many of us as they can. Eliot Rosewater May 2017 #4
But, but.....freedom! Wounded Bear May 2017 #5

Wounded Bear

(58,598 posts)
5. But, but.....freedom!
Mon May 22, 2017, 08:39 PM
May 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.”[3] People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

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