Speaker Mike Johnson says some Medicaid recipients will 'choose' whether to lose health care under House spending bill

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21. This battle has been fought over and over since the Depression. They define able bodied as those who can stand and tie

their shoes.

I have fought this false perception of healthy and "normal" all my life regarding invisible disabilities, depression, and things like PTSD, or severe anxiety, ADHD, Autism, learning disabilities and a host of other "challenges".

The standards our so called betters would use they themselves wouldn't pass. They don't recognize their own manias, depressions and alcoholism. They do not have the professional perspective or experience to decide who is "fit" and who needs support. Is it any wonder that they obscure the issues through outdated language, psychologically loaded terms and distortions, while decades of well documented research and fieldwork show that the opposite of their abuse is what grants the best outcomes.

I'd love to see how well they would do spending a day, a week, or a month walking in the shoes of those they so enthusiastically plan to condemn.

The simple truth is that the alleged savings they demand could easily be found by cancelling the next round of F-35's currently on order, or repealing the tax breaks so generously granted to the ultra rich. and replacing them with a 2% tax on incomes above $20 million per year.

But they would much rather sanctimoniously punish those whom wiser minds and warmer hearts protected in Law.