Republicans To The Heroes of 9/11 - You Are On Your Own, We Have Rich People To Help Out

The Republicans in the Senate just blocked a vote on the bill that would provide medical care to the heroes who responded like true patriots when America needed them to help their fellow citizens in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

Really guys...really? Are you fucking serious?

I thought the GOP was all about patriots, all about our troops, our police. I thought they were all about the heroes of this greatest country in the world. I thought that their party felt the impact from the horrible attacks on 9/11 just as much as the rest of the country.

Well, obviously I thought wrong.

This is such an outrage. Just plain morally disgusting.

There is no - and I mean NO - reason to not only allow this to go to a vote, but also no reason to not have a 100% yes vote on this.

Don't even try to justify it by saying it will cost $7 billion. Keeping the lower tax rates on the richest 2% of the country will cost $700 billion, and they have no problem with that.

Now you can debate that tax policy, that is fine. I think it's ridiculous to not raise taxes by 3% on the richest 2% of the country when our country is going bankrupt. However, maybe you naively think that "trickle down" works (it doesn't, fact, proven by history). That is your right. But don't try to tell me that the reason you are voting against medical care for America's heroes is because of cost - clearly the Republicans have no problem adding to the national debt if it is to help out the richest 2% of the country. Not a single person of which, by the way, was one of the responders. Police and firemen don't quite fall into that $250k + tax bracket.

The Republicans have stated that they will not vote for anything until the tax cuts for the richest 2% are passed. They actually find that to be a more important act then providing medical care to the heroes of 9/11. They care more about helping rich people than helping American heroes who need help most. How much more un-patriotic can you get?

"Go wait in the corner over there heroes, you may die in the meantime, we are going to let the rich people cut in line so we can give them a little more money that they don't need, I mean, after all, they are rich, and are so much more important than you".

So says the GOP.

This is the most blatant case of political opposition I have seen from them yet. Heroes be damned, we won't let the Democrats pass anything, we need to fight them on anything they suggest.

Fucking disgusting.

There is no defense for this un-patriotic action that the Republicans took today.

Lar