Editorial,
The Week in Review – Analysis, Commentary, Opinion
05.06.2017
There is not a greater
hive of scum and villainy in all the galaxy.
I am tempted to leave my
commentary there.
The members of the United
States Congress are the elected representatives of the American people, the
wealthiest nation on earth, and they just passed a bill that will pull health
insurance away from tens of millions of Americans.
They zealously went about
the task of pulling apart the Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama,
and would put in its place the American Health Care Act, at the insistence of
T-Rump, and to fulfill what they say are their promises to their constituents.
Now they are saying that
they just wanted to give the White House a win. They needed to show they were not so incompetent
that they could not pass a bill through the house.
What they have done, is a
moral outrage.
People will lose their
coverage, or if covered lose benefits, it will most hurt the poor and the
elderly, or anyone with a preexisting condition.
People will die, lose
their saving, lose their houses, go into bankruptcy, because of the benefits
they have stripped from the average American.
They passed the bill with
one vote to spare, all republicans. They needed 216, they got 217. None of the
members even read, and the cost to the American people had not been scored.
There is a group of
people who will benefit from its passage. The rich will get richer, hundreds of
billions of dollars in tax breaks will accrue to the wealthiest one percent of
Americans if it passes.
The republicans in the
house, smoked cigars, made victory speeches, and held a party on the lawn of
the White House. Then they immediately started making excuses, telling their
constituents that they believe the Senate will fix it.
It is a bait and switch,
a scam.
The House of
Representatives, there is not a greater hive of scum and villainy in all the
galaxy, worse than the Mos Eisley, but this is not a puppet show.
Or is it?
