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Bingo. The GOP is an increased danger to this country. They are trying to take away healthcare without offering any healthcare. They want people with pre-existing conditions and 9/11 responders to fend for themselves while they take millions from lobbyists in exchange for big corporate welfare.
" The GOP""are trying to take away healthcare without offering any healthcare."
Show us in the Constitution where it REQUIRES the U.S. too provide your health care or health care insurance?
You are FREE to shop the private market and pick whichever company you want.
Over 80% of the people get their health care insurance through their employer.
Obama Care is still available, why don't you get it from there?
I support paying for everything I support. Your plan is to renege on our obligations.
"Your plan is to renege on our obligations"
What "obligations"?
Technically the 1st respondents were ALL LOCAL NY City, etc employees, so the fed is out of the picture.
Why should the people form the rest of country pay for a NY CITY obligation?
I find a lot of hypocrites on the left at this site.
They DEMAND the fed fed swoop in and help in cases like this and hurricane,, tornados, floods, fires earthquakes, etc., then turn right around and say " Our police will NOT assist ICE, etc, it is NOT our "responsibility".
The left isn't a bunch of war mongers, they just elect the the war mongers to the White House. You know, the one person who controls troop movements and can bring the troops home at any time. Yet that elected democrat does the opposite.
"The left isn't a bunch of war mongers, they just elect the the war mongers to the White House."
Really?
Dem's who voted FOR the wars:
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN) Biden (D-DE)VP at the time
Breaux (D-LA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carnahan (D-MO)
Carper (D-DE)
Cleland (D-GA) Clinton (D-NY) Sec of state at the time(Labeled Smartest women in the world by many lefties) Daschle (D-SD)Leader of the Senate at the time and co-sponsored the bill Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND) Edwards (D-NC) Ran for VP
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hollings (D-SC)
Johnson (D-SD) Kerry (D-MA) Ran for Pres.
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA) Lieberman (D-CT)Ran for Pres.
Lincoln (D-AR)
Miller (D-GA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Reid (D-NV) leader of the Senate at the time
Rockefeller (D-WV) Schumer (D-NY) Current SML
Torricelli (D-NJ)
The only jerks are those who believe what they hear without looking for the truth.
Paul does not oppose healthcare for first responders, and he has not permanently prevented funding from being authorized. All he has done is delay the bill, so they can have a vote on an amendment to offset the additional spending with cuts elsewhere. This is in complete accordance with Paul’s decades long record as a fiscal hawk and responsible steward of taxpayer money.
Outraged reactionaries need to take a deep breath: The funding for 9/11 responders will still be authorized. All that will happen now is that, rather than passing by a voice vote with unanimous consent as was attempted on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will have to bring the already-passed House bill up for a vote, including a vote on Paul’s amendment to offset spending, after which it will almost certainly become law.
Amash is right - One of the main reasons government is not accountable is that politicians and media oversimplify discussions about legislation. A good example is the 9/11 VCF bill. Everyone agrees government should help compensate victims of the attack, but implementing details are ignored.
Don't confuse them with the FACTS, they CAN'T handle it and you will force them to tun for their "safe" place with their crayons and call their therapists!
Rand Paul is only illustrating perfectly that if you risk your life to save fellow Americans in the wake of an attack and knowingly put yourself in an environment that will cause you life shortening medical issues, the government will tell you to go pound sand.
Balanced budgets don’t matter in this case. The first responders are owed medical care at the very least. You didn’t see Rand Paul in NYC to help. Pathetic.
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I am disgusted of always hearing what a great guy this pandering idiot is.
Bingo. The GOP is an increased danger to this country. They are trying to take away healthcare without offering any healthcare. They want people with pre-existing conditions and 9/11 responders to fend for themselves while they take millions from lobbyists in exchange for big corporate welfare.
