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On the Senate floor last week, just hours before Republicans passed a $1 trillion tax cut, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown challenged Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch: Why were Republicans about to pass tax cuts for corporations and business owners while the Children’s Health Insurance Program remains unextended?
Hatch reacted with fury. “Nobody believes more in the CHIP program than I,” he shot back. “I invented it. We’re gonna do CHIP. There’s no question about it in my mind, and it’s gotta be done the right way. The reason CHIP’s having trouble is we don’t have any money anymore.”
Then Hatch got himself into some trouble.
“I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of trillions of dollars to help people who won’t help themselves, won’t lift a finger, and expect the federal government to do everything,” he said. “Unfortunately, the liberal philosophy has created millions of people that way, who believe everything they are or ever hope to be depend on the federal government rather than the opportunities that this great country grants them.”
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"... everything they are or ever hope to be depend on the federal government rather than the opportunities that this great country grants them.”
Yes, right, golden opportunities like living under bridges, eating out of dumpsters and sleeping in boxes on snow banks abound, and the rich, as well as the poor, are forbidden to panhandle, to steal bread and to urinate in public places.
It's the equality of rich and poor alike under the law that made this great USA country great, unlike those dismal socialist countries (ugh) where everyone depends on the federal government for everything and everyone is starving if they're not already dead.
"The reason CHIP’s having trouble is we don’t have any money anymore.”
Okay, Orrin, just stop the senseless wars - that'll free up a few trillion.
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