Who’s the Special Interest Here?
So Medicaid funding that will help elderly people in nursing homes and save the jobs of tens of thousands of teachers and other school employees and firefighters and other first responders is on its way to being passed. Cause for celebration, right? Jobs are saved, needed services (and lives) are saved, and our next generation gets a decent education.
House Minority Leader John Boehner sees this as a payoff to special interests. Who are the special interests here? Grade school students or their teachers? The janitors who clean their classrooms or the lunch ladies? Firefighters or the people they pull from burning buildings?
Other Republicans voted against it because it closed corporate tax loopholes. No, really. Senator Scott Brown looked at this bill and decided that because it closed loopholes that major multinational corporations exploit to avoid paying their fair share, he wouldn’t support jobs and services for Massachusetts.
This is how today’s Republican officeholders think: working people and children are special interests, multinational corporations should be defended at all cost.
Tags: Education, FMAP, Jobs, John Boehner
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