06.07.13
WhiteManistan: Operating out of spite
It’s been obvious for a long long time WhiteManistan, the Republican Party, and all the Ted Nugent-ized people operate with punishment toward those deemed their lessers always in mind.
Not news, but it’s nice to see Krugman write it:
Medicaid rejectionism will deny health coverage to roughly 3.6 million Americans, with essentially all of the victims living near or below the poverty line. And since past experience shows that Medicaid expansion is associated with significant declines in mortality, this would mean a lot of avoidable deaths: about 19,000 a year, the study estimated.
Just think about this for a minute. It’s one thing when politicians refuse to spend money helping the poor and vulnerable; that’s just business as usual. But here we have a case in which politicians are, in effect, spending large sums, in the form of rejected aid, not to help the poor but to hurt them …
[Republican] spitefulness appears to override all other considerations. And millions of Americans will pay the price.
“What it might do, however, is drive home to lower-income voters — many of them nonwhite — just how little the G.O.P. cares about their well-being, and reinforce the already strong Democratic advantage among Latinos, in particular,” he adds.
Cold Civil War 2, hatred of the black President and the neo-Confederacy roll on.
Sic semper tyrannis!
Is WhiteManistan un-American? From the archives.