willisninety-six:President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking in Syracuse at the New York Democratic Sta
willisninety-six:President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking in Syracuse at the New York Democratic State Convention in 1936.FDR’s satirical rebuke against Republicans who opposed Social Security and the New Deal during the 1936 election.80 years later the very same Republican Party used the same rhetoric unironically to justify taking away health insurance from 20 million Americans.One specific example: the Republicans in the Texas Lege are doing The Same Damn Thing over Harvey Recovery funding. They care so little for the lives and health of Texans, and so much for the taxcuts their millionaire and billionaire owners crave, that they are letting the heart of the Texas economy literally rot rather than spend a dime to so much as help remove the garbage lining Houston’s streets. It’s despicable, they’re despicable, and the corrupt, self-selling ideology that propels them to this behavior is despicable. -- source link
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