an email I just sent to a MAGA cousin of mine.

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cab67 (3,409 posts)

an email I just sent to a MAGA cousin of mine.


Nothing has happened to her yet, but she's panicking and asking for help. She's perpetually underemployed, has a history of making very poor decisions about her own finances, and has some health issues.

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Dear Cousin,

I got your text earlier today asking us to put some money away in case you need it for your medical expenses. You’re concerned that Medicaid is about to be slashed and you might lose your coverage.

I’m responding by email because I want to say more than just “no.”

You voted for Trump. You voted for every Republican on the ballot in your state. You brought this on yourself, and I'm not inclined to intervene.

Most likely, you knew they said they'd do this, but didn’t think they meant it. This means you lied yourself into making the biggest mistake any citizen of this country could have made in the modern era. They told you what they would do, but you voted for them anyway.

That, or you didn’t know they wanted to do this. Trump kept telling people Medicaid would be safe. In that case, you didn’t do enough research before casting a ballot. That’s even worse; it means you’re moving through life willingly ignorant of things that matter to you and expecting everyone else to clean up the mess you’ve helped create. That Trump cannot be trusted to tell the truth is now an objective fact and not a mere opinion, and pretty much every other Republican in Congress expressed a bloodthirst to kill the whole program. That includes the ones who are pretending they oppose it, now that it's in that abomination of a bill and they can read the polls.

I suppose there's a third possibility - that you knew this would happen, but assumed the rest of us would cover your losses because your desire to abduct immigrants, do whatever Netanyahu tells us, and raise tariffs that other countries - and not US consumers - would obviously pay outweighed any actual consequences you would personally face, and that because we're all a bunch of do-gooder libtards, we would be too soft-hearted to say "no." I always tell my grad students to check their assumptions BEFORE doing something that can't be reversed.

Sorry, but I can’t help you this time. I’m a lot closer to 60 than I care to think. I also have a young daughter, and my wife – though in good health – has encountered some medical problems. As have I. I have to put my immediate family first as a parent and spouse does, especially as costs rise while our salaries do not.

And even if I could, I wouldn't. Yeah, I’m one of those progressives who thinks we should help one another. But you know what? I’m also a realist and a pragmatist. I don’t have the resources to support you, given where I think the economy is going and what the White House is doing to the federal scientific organizations on which I’ve relied for my work. We’re saving for our daughter’s future and our own retirement, along with the unexpected expenses that arise from time to time. There is no hypocrisy in wanting to help people and expecting others to face the consequences of their actions.

You voted for the people who did this. This is what you wanted. I will not take away that which you asked for.

Sorry.

Oh - and did you ever get your kid immunized? Might be a smart thing to do; a vaccine is a whole lot cheaper than being treated for a serious illness, not to mention the work days you'll miss caring for your convalescing kid.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220446899

Cough cough BS

[SVPete]

Fictional cousin, fictional fear, fictional told-ya-so gotcha- .

[Zathras]

Cough cough BS

Of course it is. And, if it was real, it would have been the DUchebag who made the request for family to put money away for their future medical needs, not some fictional relative.

[SVPete]

... And, if it was real, it would have been the DUchebag who made the request for family to put money away for their future medical needs, not some fictional relative.

        

[DefiantSix]

[jukin]

Now this could have happened only with the payers changed. The DUchebag is the one on medicaid and the "cousin" told him "no, we're done financing your lazy ass."

[SVPete]

What DU-folk can't get into their spacious empty skulls is that people who voted FOR Trump learned 9 or 10 years ago to dismiss out of hand the MSM's Hate-Trump BS. 10 years of MSM partisan lies have had consequences. IOW, if there were a "MAGA" cousin, she would have dismissed, not believed, MSM wolf-crying about Medicaid cuts.

On a related tack, I have family members who work in a branch of healthcare that would see some effects were Medicaid benefits cut. I have been hearing zero concerns from them about Medicaid benefits being cut.

[Tess Anderson]

who the hell tells her cousin to save money for her future medical expenses? I don't think so, Chrissy.

https://www.facebook.com/chris.brochu

some guy in PA is stealing your posts, btw - CAB is educated, yet still a dummy at the end of the day:


 
 
 

[SVPete]

An obvious case of an unearned superiority complex.