"Section 8 housing has what to do with Medicaid?"

They're both programs for poor people.

You can use Medicaid to get Housing through Section 8, is the answer you were looking for.

The Republicans are engineering it so five or ten million poor people will die off.

It will save the taxpayers money.

"No one is advocating for Medicaid benefits cuts for those that qualify"

Yes they are.

"And btw, no talk of the prescription drug eo that Trump signed?"

Yes there's talk that the pharma corps are pushing back against the micro-managing President who poses a threat to their business.

Of course, the Republicans have always said that Americans pay high drug prices to fund future drug development.

So I guess America won't be developing drugs in the future. Interesting 180 by the Republicans, but not at all unexpected. Certainly it is in keeping with the cuts to things like cancer research and not even working on a flu shot for this fall.

The GOP is a Death Cult.

"Don't worry Snoofy you'll still get your free diapers."

It's not me I'm worried about.

"People are seeing that the Dems have been ripping off the tax payers for years"

If you had ever earned a paycheck, you'd realize not much of it goes to Medicaid.
These cuts in Medicaid are not going to find their way into your pocket.
These cuts are being made to fund tax breaks for the rich.

"Because your party has zero solutions and just cries because their grift is being taken away."

Cancer research is a grift.
That' is really what Republicans believe!

"And lastly thanks for ruining the planet by driving your big gas guzzling SUV."

^
Did this Republican just try to shame you by saying Global Warming is real?
LMFAO!!!

Sure, like pharma is going to stop cancer research because, you know, their wouldn't be any money in a drug that cures cancer.
#32 | Posted by fishpaw

They're not going to stop.
They're going to do less of it because Uncle Sam decided to cut payments for cancer research.

Of course there's money to be made in drugs that treat and cure cancer.
You have not demonstrated that you understand how Capitalism works.
Specifically, you haven't demonstrated that you understand the ROI when government invests in the private sector research.

Republicans coming out in favor of Price Controls.

Today's Republicans don't even know why they are supposed to be against Price Controls.

It's really something to see, the complete lack of education across throughout an entire generation of Americans.

"Buddy, this is the happiest I've been in a decade.
Careful, people are likely to start comparing you to me.
#34 | Posted by eberly

Nobody is ever going to mistake you for being happy, Eberly.

"I understand that when government invests say 1 million into private sector research only about a 10th of it actually goes to the research."

Yeah, so you're just lying.
You don't know anything about government grants. You never got one or worked under one.

Why'd you take their money if you're so opposed to them getting the money?
???

"#45 All you need to look at was the funding for EV stations around the country"

You meant the funding granted to the States that largely still hasn't been spent?
You're claiming it was spent on largesse, when in fact it still hasn't been spent.
Do you understand the difference between money that has been spent and money that has not been spent? Apparently not!

"Section 8 housing is meant to be TEMPORARY "

It's exactly as temporary as poverty.

"-It's actually longer than that; it's multi-generational."

It's exactly as temporary as poverty.

"these programs never should have been allowing this fraud and abuse."

It's fraud and abuse, that poverty exists?
Show us the nations that don't have poverty, and show us how they did it.

"The principle is, if you're able-bodied and working age you shouldn't be paid by everyone else to stay home and be useless."

And you think these people make good employees?
That they can perform tasks worth two or three times their labor cost?

How many twenty hour a week welfare refugees work at your company?

"That's 250k per station."

Is that low? Is that high?
How much should it cost?

"Section 8 is a back door pay off to rich Democrat land and slum lords."

Jared Kushner and Tucker Carlson are not Democrats.
But they are Slum Lords.

"frequent eligibility checks" that means people with disabilities and transportation issues get kicked off Medicaid for not jumping through government hoops and filling out government paperwork.

Republicans Love Making Poor Americans and Old Americans Jump Through Government Hoops and Fill Out Government Paperwork.

"I know why people like Snoofy Are against this - they're about to have to get off their asses and go to work."

I'm at work right now.
You haven't had a job in years. Maybe decades.

I'm against this because it will hurt old people and poor people.
You're in favor of this because it will hurt poor people.

"so the 850k number has to involve a lot of grift."

You need to spend some time outside the safety of your Alternate Facts bubble, and stop using Republican Math

"Stop with the --------, you're against it because it will keep people from playing the system"

It isn't even designed to keep people from "playing the system" whatever that means. It's just putting up new barriers to access.

I doubt the enhanced eligibility interrogations will even be revenue positive.

It will cost taxpayers a lot of money to make people jump through those hoops. Government workers will be working night and to process the millions of new pieces of paperwork.

And you will proclaim that 100% of people who lose benefits because they failed to comply with your In-Person fetish and your Bureaucratic Paperwork fetish, were moochers. When in fact it's people who can't make it to the appointments.

This is a witch hunt, and witch hunts always find a victim, and are always 100% sure she's a witch.

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You, like all Reublicans except Eberly, have a very bad understanding of economics if you think this part of the plan is actually going to save the taxpayers any money:

"millions of people would lose health insurance under the plan"

It costs taxpayers more money, not less money, when people without health insurance show up at the ER because they have no other venue to get health care.

"my guess is that when the system catches up to you, you'll be off the freebies."

What freebies?
I have a job.
You're the one who does not have a job.

"I work when I want to now"

You do nothing with your life.
You don't look forward in life, you only look back.

"I've held a job since I was a teenager."

Yes but you're supposed to get better jobs.

Your teenager job is not supposed to be the same job you hold as a fifty-seven year old man.

But that sure does explain why you don't want to go to work any more.

You were supposed to grow out of your comfort zone. You're not supposed to just ride your parents coattails into middle age.

But it's too late now. You'll never be able to be proud of what you've accomplished in life, because you never set goals bigger than "Not Working."