http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/07/1409659/-Fox-News-worried-John-Kasich-cares-too-much-about-the-poors-Silly-them?detail=email
Ohio Gov. John Kasich might have emerged out of Thursday night's Republican debate as a moderate, reasonable kind of guy, largely thanks to Megyn Kelly's attempt to brand him as a poor-people loving hippie because he took Medicaid expansion.
"You defended your Medicaid expansion," Kelly intoned, "by invoking God, saying to skeptics that when they arrive in heaven, Saint Peter isn't going to ask them how small they've kept government, but what they have done for the poor. Why should Republican voters, who generally want to shrink government, believe that you won't use your Saint Peter rationale to expand every government program?"
Because you don't want your Republican Christians acting like Christians. In his response, Kasich invoked a true Republican saint, Saint Ronnie.
KASICH: -- first of all, Megyn, you should know that--that President Reagan expanded Medicaid three or four times.
Secondly, I had an opportunity to bring resources back to Ohio to do what? To treat the mentally ill. Ten thousand of them sit in our prisons. It costs $22,500 a year to keep them in prison. I'd rather get them their medication so they could lead a decent life. […]
So we're treating them and getting them on their feet. And, finally, the working poor, instead of them having come into the emergency rooms where it costs more, where they're sicker and we end up paying, we brought a program in here to make sure that people could get on their feet. […]
And finally, our Medicaid is growing at one of the lowest rates in the country. And, finally, we went from $8 billion in the hole to $2 billion in the black. We've cut $5 billion in taxes and we've grown 350,000 jobs.
Now if she'd explored this a little bit, Kelly's concerns about Kasich not being a true believer might have been allayed. See, those $5 billion cut in taxes, three guesses who benefited from that and you'll probably only need one. Half of that tax cut went to the top 5 percent of Ohio's wealthiest families.
The one percent in Ohio got on average a cut of $1,846. The poorest 20 percent—$4. Then this year he proposed another tax plan that would raise state and local taxes on the bottom 60 percent of workers, and give the top 40 percent a break. A big break: "those making more than $388,000 a year would receive an average of $11,906 in tax cuts."
because that is a given you don't try to snatch food stamps and wic and healthcare and care more for those you disenfranchise than the gov't that feeds you too, so what exactly is she railing against the humanity of a republican does that invalidate him as a republican while validating him as a compassionate American who cares, but he's still a republican????????
that makes it clear who the Christian is and who are republican and right wing evangelicals or was it just a election ploy. shame all those voters will probably ignore him in the vote because he spoke the words of empathy but did he really mean them??????.
