just let them die... 10/20/2017 0 Comments   What fun... after all of our work, we've done it - we've cut fantastic amounts of money from the healthcare budget for the American public. Whoopee !!! Multiple Health Problems will result and people will die. God, what joy! It just doesn't get any better than this. Let's celebrate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, center, with fellow Republican leadership on Capitol Hill. (Photo: Reuters/Gary Cameron) by E.L. Christianson Jr. The simple truth is that those voting for passage of this budget - voting against the American people - are despicable human beings.   This type of activity on the part of the United States congress points clearly to the fact that some people have absolutely no conscious what-so-ever and are totally lacking in human empathy.  Unfortunately, these are the people making our laws.  We often refer to how bad humans treat one another - this passage of the national budget represents a low.   The effects are not as immediate as 'flaying' - tying someone to a post and peeling away their skin.  ​Flaying of humans was used as a method of torture and/or execution during some periods of history.  Stripping away healthcare is a comparable act in the modern day United States, just slower. We've seen it all before.  After our 9/11 tragedy, these same soulless individuals blocked legislation to monitor and treat first responders and emergency workers who suffered illnesses related to 9/11.  After that event, the nation was filled with 'brotherly love' and especially filled with compassion for those who personally sacrificed to help others... except for these contemptible 'lawmakers' who refused treatment programs for those whose heroics resulted in sickness.  To watch the news during those days brought tears to the eyes of every caring person. And here we are today.  No human being can understand the practical stripping away of healthcare by congress and and not be effected emotionally.  It's like witnessing a flaying or watching a reprehensible and abhorrent congress send first responders to their death.  This is absolutely awful. The numbers of healthcare issues that will explode and the number of unnecessary deaths is calculated and reported widely.  But, sickness and death seem unimportant to congress when compared to giving humongous tax breaks to the extremely wealthy.  More money for the rich is all that matters. The popular literature likes to question the capacity of Donald Trump.  Is he mentally able to serve is a question asked widely.  That is an appropriate question about the members of congress who voted to remove healthcare from the public access.  There clearly are serious psychological issues with any human being who is so heartless as to deny healthcare for people with health problems... just go ahead and die. Ethics is a word that comes to mind.  Hypocrite is an accurate descriptive word for a group of people who literally go bonkers over the word 'deficit', and for a group of people who like to claim 'Christianity'. This vote on the budget and its effect on healthcare goes hand in hand with the congressional tax proposal.   Lies and insanity are passed off as conservative government.  Eventually, 'something' will give.  They think of the public as 'stupid'.   They have proof: the Republicans claim that their tax “reform” is good for the middle class, and we keep voting them into office. Other words come to mind... ​loathsome, hateful, detestable, abominable, awful, heinous, odious, vile, low, mean, abject, shameful, ignominious, shabby, ignoble, disreputable, discreditable, unworthy, rotten, lowdown, lousy... it is difficult to describe human activity that is so low... what words are there?  Justice is another word that comes to mind.  Never mind that word, after all, that's a concept that doesn't even exist in the United States of America.  If it did exist, these people would be in prison and not in the congress - and that's the truth !!! 51 GOP Senators Just Voted To Cut $1.5 Trillion from Medicare and Medicaid To Give Super-Rich and Corporations a Tax Cut The Republican budget, declared Sen. Sanders after its passage, ​"is not a bad bill. It's a horrific bill." from Common Dreams by Jon Queally Along strict party lines, the Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday night voted to pass a sweeping budget measure—one criticized as both "despicable" and "horrific" for providing massive giveaways to corporations and the super-rich while eviscerating funding for social programs, healthcare, education, and affordable housing. "Another dark deed done: GOP passes obscene budget to slash Medicare/Medicaid & explode the deficit – all in the name of tax cuts for the 1%." —Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) The measure passed by 51-49 vote, with only one Republican, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, joining every Democrat and the chamber's two Independents who voted against it. Its approval now paves that way for massive tax giveaways to the wealthy and corporations envisioned by President Donald Trump and the GOP in both the House and the Senate. ​ "51 Republican Senators just voted to cut Medicaid by $1 trillion and Medicare by $500 billion so that millionaires and corporations can get a tax cut. It's immoral and despicable," said TJ Helmstetter, a spokesperson for Americans for Tax Fairness, in a statement immediately following the vote. Though the budget resolution itself is nonbinding, MoveOn.org's Ben Wikler notes how the Senate passage on Thursday represents the "starting gun for what might be the most consequential legislative fight of the Trump era: the looting of the U.S. treasury to reward billionaire GOP donors and mega-corporations, at the expense of the rest of us." And with the Senate resolution now in place, a reconciliation process can begin with Republicans in the House, meaning the GOP can "shoot for a tax bill without a single Democratic vote." ​ In the wake of its passage, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)—who earlier this week called the proposal "Robin Hood in reverse" for taking from the poor to give to the rich— said the "Republicans' budget is not a bad bill. It's a horrific bill." we citizens must act together and transform our society to something closer to a 'democracy' where the congress represents the people instead of exclusively representing the very wealthy... as it is right now, we citizens are have been pushed to desperation, and that's the truth !!!