Americans
will discover in the next week the only hazard to their health is repugicans on a crusade to see which faction can cause the most damage
to…
When
Americans think back on historically evil and depraved human beings,
they may think of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, or even Osama bin Laden
for their profound immorality in wantonly taking human life and creating
terror. If the American people took stock of the repugican cabal over
the past four years and considered the terror and distress they have
caused tens-of-millions of American citizens, it is likely they would
conclude that, as a group, conservatives are as depraved, wicked, and
inhumane as any of history’s human monsters. Whether it is deliberately
withholding food, shelter, or medical assistance from people in need,
there are no bounds repugicans and their wingnut agitators are
unwilling to cross to inflict damage on Americans. As the government
runs out of money to operate and its ability to borrow to repay repugican debts looms, the true extent of the repugican cabal’s malicious nature is
becoming clear.
In what has to be the epitome of evil in the
face of good news for New Yorkers, the pantheon of wingnut malice,
the Heritage Foundation led by the vile Jim DeMint erected a
sign in Times Square
warning “
Obamacare may be hazardous to your health.”
The sign’s message is to invoke fear as New Yorkers discover that,
because of the ACA, their healthcare insurance premiums are falling by
at least 50%
on top of no pre-existing conditions, no lifetime limits on coverage,
and parents’ ability to keep children on their policies until age 26.
That DeMint is responsible for fear mongering and disregard for
Americans is not surprising. Last week DeMint
told
an audience that Veteran’s healthcare benefits and Medicare senior
citizens pay for are un-American. However, DeMint is just one face of
the conservative movement waging a ferocious battle with itself to
determine which group can inflict the most damage on the American
people.
On Thursday, 43 repugicans garnered support from wingnut groups Club For Growth, FreedomWorks, and Heritage Action for
legislation to shut down the government unless the Affordable Care Act is defunded. The House measure
attracted support from teabag Senators Mike Lee and Ted Cruz to “
save America from Obamacare.” The groups boast that “
momentum is building”
to stop the healthcare reform law and prevent tens of millions of
Americans from getting healthcare insurance and to allow the insurance
industry to keep raising premiums. The repugican leadership in the House is
disappointed because their
proposal
to maintain sequester spending levels and force the Senate to defund
the ACA is in jeopardy of failing. Both groups’ ultimate goal is ending
the ACA and cutting spending to inflict the maximum amount of damage on
the most Americans possible, and they are threatening a government shut
down and defaulting on the nation’s debt to achieve their goal.
With
the country’s debt and deficit falling at a record pace, and Americans
suffering the effects of the GOP’S sequester, the only reasonable
explanation of repugican’s actions is that in their malicious minds,
people are not suffering enough. In a very recent Gallup poll, a record
number of Americans are
unable to afford
the basic necessities of life including 20% who said they lacked the
money to buy the food that they or their families needed, and
75% are barely surviving living from paycheck to paycheck. The repugican answer is to
vote next week to slash food stamp funding when
15%
of American families already live with perpetual food insecurity repugicans exacerbated by cuts to school lunches, Meals on Wheels, and
Head Start. The repugicans are dissatisfied that only 24% of America’s
children live in dire poverty because their parents are unable to find
work or struggle with part time-employment at minimum-wage jobs. To rub
salt in their wounds, one repugican quoted his christian bible and
said, “
The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat” to justify cutting food stamp funding regardless that
42% of food stamp recipients work and the rest are seniors and children.
The
level of inhumanity endemic to repugicans belies their so-called christian delusion; particularly their drive to increase the number of
Americans who are hungry and in poor health. In the next week, with only
4 legislative days to fund the government, repugicans will battle
among themselves to see which group can inflict the most damage on the
people, and it is barely mentioned that Speaker of the House John
Boehner lusts to slash Social Security he hopes will be his lasting
legacy. Boehner promised to hold the debt ceiling hostage unless
Democrats and President Obama accept a deal to cut to Social Security,
Medicaid, Medicare, farm programs and government pensions to inflict
even more suffering on Americans.
Boehner’s evil is represented
in his response to criticism that slashing crucial domestic programs is
unfair when people are hungry and struggling through no fault of their
own. Boehner said, “
It may be unfair but what I’m trying to do here is to leverage the political process;” to achieve the “
goal to stop Obamacare, to cut spending.”
Despite the debt and deficit falling, and dissatisfied the sequester
damage is limited, Eric Cantor proposed keeping the sequester cuts in
perpetuity and Boehner
said “
Now, it’s time to deal with the mandatory side.” The
mandatory side
are programs that require funding by law including Social Security,
Medicare, and Veteran’s benefits; all programs that benefit senior
citizens will ensure that Republicans leave no American unaffected.
To
be fair, it is wrong to single out Boehner, Cantor, or teabaggers as
inherently malevolent because the entire wingnut 'movement' is
intrinsically evil. It is bad enough repugicans have not proposed or
supported one piece of legislation to help any American who is not
filthy rich, but they have been on a crusade to withhold food, shelter,
and medical care from people in need. That the Heritage Foundation is
assisting repugicans in their effort to eliminate the Affordable Care
Act coupled with their inability to explain how it is dangerous reveals
their only purpose is inflicting pain on Americans; especially since the
Heritage Foundation proposed the ACA’s primary components in 1989.
The repugicans,
teabaggers, libertarians, and their belief tanks have resorted to
fear-mongering, misinforming, and warning Americans for three years the
Affordable Care Act is an existential threat, and now according to the
Heritage Foundation it is “
hazardous to your health.” Americans
will discover in the next week the only hazard to their health is repugicans on a crusade to see which faction can cause the most damage
to the people and the nation. They are just as evil as any of history’s
monsters and although they are not slaughtering millions of Americans
quickly, they are intent on inflicting slow death by withholding food
and healthcare from the working poor, seniors, and children.
