Mitch McConnell beat Polio- Thanks to Gov. program

[packman]

The only things consistent about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is his staggering hypocrisy and his shocking cruelty. Nothing has illustrated this more than the fight to repeal President Obama’s landmark healthcare act.

Mitch McConnell has been relentlessly working to roll back Medicaid and deprive millions of Americans of government-sponsored healthcare coverage for eight years now.

But if it weren’t for the government, McConnell would not be able to walk at all.

Young Mitch came down with a terrible case of polio as a child in Alabama. “My mother was, of course, like many mothers of young polio victims, perplexed about what to do, anxious about whether I would be disabled for the rest of my life” he admitted in a 2005 interview.

But luckily for him, his mother took him 50 miles to the Warm Springs, where President Roosevelt won his own battle with polio and established a polio treatment center that was paid for by the public.

President Roosevelt asked the people of America to send in dimes to the White House as part of his “March of the Dimes” foundation. Over two and a half million dimes were mailed in, and they paid for Mitch’s physical therapy and treatment.

More at:

http://thepoliticus.com/content/mitch-mcconnell-beat-polio-child-thanks-government-healthcare


Makes you wonder- Ryan, Mitch and other Repukes who benefited from gov. programs now want to destroy them. Could they be carrying psyche scars that they want to erase from their past? Could they all be so emotionally angered from their earlier misfortunes that they blame the people and the organizations that saved them ?

[True Dough]

1. He beat polio

but it didn't give him a heart!

[GeorgeGist]

2. With all due respect ...

March of Dimes was not and never has been a Government program.

http://www.marchofdimes.org/mission/a-history-of-the-march-of-dimes.aspx

[packman]

4. True - Thanks for the reminder

I remember in grade school having a card that you put dimes into which the school would collect and then send out to the March of Dimes .

Somewhat similar to this---

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[NCjack]

3. Mitch and his mom are "takers".

[barbtries]

5. i don't think so.

they deserved the help they got. that doesn't mean someone else in the very same circumstances would. it certainly cannot imply that people in even more dire circumstances deserve to get help. don't you get it? they're sociopaths!

until yesterday i had reached a level of calm compared to where i was on, say, November 9, 2016. well they fucked it all up for me now. because i have an empathetic bone in my body. many, in fact. i hate these motherfuckers and do not accept any kind of excuse for their evil acts but that they are evil. damaged, maybe, but not to any extent that i can feel an iota of pity for them considering that they will see millions of people off to a premature death and/or a life of destitution without a qualm.

[demtenjeep]

6. too bad

he doesn't remember people doing good for him

and cry'n ryan doesn't remember how he "made it"

[Madam45for2923]

7. Woah! I did not know that!