Zack Space and Roy Blunt — from Ohio and Missouri, respectively — are members of the House of Representatives. Blunt is a Republican and Space is a “Blue Dog Democrat,” which means for all practical purposes he’s a Republican.
Down With Tyranny! challenges them:
Good thing Lou Dobbs was lying as usual when he made up all that crazy nonsense about how immigrants are bringing leprosy to America! Otherwise Space might be condemning schoolchildren in Chillicothe, Zanesville and New Rumley to falling off toes and fingers and a life without noses, just so he could seem like even more of a Republican than he already has been since being elected in 2006.
Did you know that Rep. Space’s district in Ohio has one of the highest poverty rates in the state? It’s also one of the worst off in terms of health care:
• 390 residents of Ohio are losing health insurance every day, and 14,000 Americans nationwide lose insurance daily.
• The average family premium in Ohio costs $1,000 more because our system fails to cover everyone– and $1,100 more nationally.
• Our broken health insurance system will cost the Ohio economy as much as $7.1 billion this year in productivity losses due to the uninsured– and up to $248 billion nationally.
• In Ohio there has been a 14 percent increase in the uninsured rate since 2007.
• 1,500,000 are uninsured today in Ohio.
That’s just half of the list — read the rest if you have the stomach for it.
On to Roy Blunt who, as noted above, is from Missouri:
Blunt is one of the House members who has benefited most from the legalized bribes given to “cooperative” members of Congress by the Medical-Industrial Complex. He’s taken $1,660,898 from them and another $556,682 from Big Insurance. He expects them to pick up a major part of the tab for his Senate election bid next year and he’s working his ass off to destroy health care reform hoping people in Missouri will be taken in by the barrage of lies being put out in the form of twisted TV ads.
Here is what’s up with the people in Missouri whom Rep. Blunt does not represent:
• 210 residents of Missouri are losing health insurance every day, and 14,000 Americans nationwide lose insurance daily.
• The average family premium in Missouri costs $400 more because our system fails to cover everyone– and $1,100 more nationally.
• Our broken health insurance system will cost the Missouri economy as much as $3.7 billion this year in productivity losses due to the uninsured– and up to $248 billion nationally.
• In Missouri there has been a 16 percent increase in the uninsured rate since 2007.
• 770,000 are uninsured today in Missouri.
Again, that’s about half of the complete list.
Not everyone is having such hard times, however:
Blunt and his latest wife Abigail get the best health insurance and the best health care available on the planet– courtesy of the American taxpayers– so when he, and the rest of the Republican swine and their filthy Blue Dog allies, say they don’t believe in government-sponsored health care, remember, they just don’t believe in it for us; they love it for themselves and their families. They like things just as they are; do you?
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