Republicans don’t want votes? I would argue democrat policy shows they do care about the poor where as republican policy or lack there of shows they do not.
If republicans had the moral side on all issues then we would have more supreme court justices that support life. You would have the middle. Instead you allow the republican leaders to do a terrible job and still get your vote and never grow any closer to making abortion illegal again and certainly don’t make yourself look very godly in the process.
Democrat policy does not show any care for the poor, not for a long time anyway. The last thing any party did for the poor was the Earned Income Credit, and that was Reagan’s. The Dem party is all “middle class” welfare and “pay back the contributors” oriented.
Was “cash for clunkers” good for the poor? No, they couldn’t afford the new cars and the ones they buy and depend on were destroyed, raising the prices of “clunkers”.
Is Obamacare good for the poor? No, it puts another 17 million people (many of whom had insurance) onto an already overburdened Medicaid.
Obama promises to make utility bills “skyrocket” to please his big environmentalist contributors. Does this help the poor? No, it hurts them. They would like to heat their homes, refrigerate their food, be cool on 100 degree days. But no, their bills need to “skyrocket”. In my state, Obama’s war on coal is estimated to cost every household an additional $1400/year. Now, think of what that is for an elderly person whose income from Social Security is $1200/month, or a person on SSI whose income is not quite $700/month.
And, of course, this administration has shifted reimbursement from “chronic care” to “well care” (despite the fact that “preventive care” does not improve outcomes) And who are the “chronic care” people? Well, just about everybody who is disabled is in that category. So patient dumping is going on while all the medical providers advertise and promote “well care”. It’s a lot cheaper to do nothing than it is to do something.
And the easiest of all. When they had an insurmountable control of government, did they help the poorest of the poor…the disabled poor? Oh no. Not a farthing to them other than free abortifacients to limit their numbers. SSI has not changed at all, other than the COLAs that were built into it decades ago. Well, and of course, in order to facilitate the middle class wealth transfer that is Obamacare, we had to put an extra tax on medical devices. Does anyone doubt that the disabled are the big users of medical devices?
Let’s not accept mythology as truth. Neither party does much of anything for the truly poor, and hasn’t, for decades. And in the last six years, the truly poor have taken it on the chin. But they often don’t vote, and certainly don’t contribute to political campaigns, so why should this administration and its party care about them?
