It is time for Dems to stop the Republican Scrooges

During the debate on the Republican Tax Bill yesterday Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown asked Senator Orrin Hatch to help restore C.H.I.P. first before cutting taxes. This was the Senator from Utah's response.

“[L]et me tell you something: we’re going to do CHIP. There’s no question about it in my mind. It’s got to be done the right way. But we, the reason CHIP’s having trouble is because we don’t have money anymore.”

This quote is coming from one of the writers of the C.H.I.P. legislation in the 1990's and a person who thinks tax cuts that are not paid for to the tune of 1.5 trillion dollars are more worthy than 15 billion for helping poor children with health insurance. Furthermore, according to the article cited below, Hatch went on to say "I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won’t help themselves – won’t lift a finger – and expect the federal government to do everything.” Is he really saying that poor children need to help themselves? This is like the scene in the opening chapters of A Christmas Carol where the charity collectors are rebuffed by Scrooge who say the poor should die and decrease the surplus population.

There is a new war on poverty and this one is against the poor themselves. The Republican Stooges have instituted policies that make the poor seem like the bad guys and leeches. That is not the case in most instances.

It is time for the Democrats, starting with the Debt Ceiling and funding the government deadlines later this week, to lead the fight against the Republican Scrooges and demand C.H.I.P. and other programs for the less fortunate be restored and maintained. After that, they need to appeal to all that will listen, on a new program to restore American Growth and Prosperity for all by lifting everyone and not just the one percent. Given what the Republican Party has been doing this year, it should be the easiest job the Democrats have in the next two election cycles. There are only so many people who will fall for the Presidents attacks on the N.F.L. That is if he is still President by the time of the next elections.



https://talkpoverty.org/2017/11/28/quiet-attacks-rights-probably-havent-heard/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/us/politics/tax-cuts-republicans-entitlements-medicare-social-security.html?smid=fb-share

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/during-tax-debate-republican-questions-funding-childrens-health

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/02/politics/trump-tweet-flynn-firing-fbi-reaction/index.html

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2017-11-30/liberal-criticism-of-the-gop-tax-plan-over-income-inequality-is-misplaced?src=usn_fb

https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-12-01/democrats-must-focus-on-minorities-women-and-white-men-to-win?src=usn_fb