Astounding Hypocrisy
from the Metro Times:
Astounding Hypocrisy
State Funded Health Care is Communism, except when it's for Lansing Pols
By Jack Lessenberry
PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
Here’s something so awful that even a hardened old cynic like me had a hard time believing it, at least for a nanosecond.
You know all those Republicans in the state Senate who fought hard against extending Medicaid benefits to the working poor? Turns out they aren’t completely without compassion: Every one of them voted to give lifetime, state-funded medical benefits … to themselves.
As for the poor? Their clear message is they should go crawl in a hole and die.
Even though they failed to stop Medicaid, most — as I write — are still working to hurt the poor and cost the state hundreds of millions … out of spite. That’s what they did by voting against giving the bill immediate effect. ....................(more)
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