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eridani

(51,907 posts) Sat Jun 13, 2015, 05:17 AM Jun 2015

Republican congressman: People with disabilities are a drain on society

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/11/1392449/-Republican-congressman-People-with-disabilities-are-a-drain-on-society

The Nevada State Democratic Party has released audio of Republican Congressman Cresent Hardy speaking to a Libertarian Party Expo in Las Vegas in which he says people with disabilities are a drain on society. From Raw Story:

“I have three children,” Hardy explains. “One of them is summa cum laude and two were magnum cum laude. The other one, he didn’t need an education. He works for Raytheon, smarter than all the rest. He works hard, he builds things that are genius. Some people have that ability.”

“But they all work hard. They are raising their own families,” he continued. “They will not be a drain on society, the best they can. Hopefully they will never have some disability that causes them to have to utilize that.”

Response from the Nevada Dems:

“If Cresent Hardy wants to talk about ‘drains on society,’ he should point a finger at his buddy, deadbeat rancher Cliven Bundy, not disabled children,” said Nevada State Democratic Party spokesperson Zach Hudson. “Hardy has compared employment non-discrimination laws to ‘segregation,’ agreed with Mitt Romney that 47% of the American people are ‘freeloaders,’ and now called children with disabilities ‘drains on society.’ Cresent Hardy’s comments are outrageous and he owes an immediate apology to every Nevadan with a disability.”

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Republican congressman: People with disabilities are a drain on society (Original Post) eridani Jun 2015 OP

Society: Republicans are a drain on society. n/t PowerToThePeople Jun 2015 #1

Eggzaklee! Scuba Jun 2015 #8

republiCON's madokie Jun 2015 #2

Ohh, God Bless Him Rstrstx Jun 2015 #3

Roosevelt could not even stand unaided. merrily Jun 2015 #4

Republican Jesus says fuck the poor, kill the sick for they are a drain on society... Human101948 Jun 2015 #6

Here in Illinois our new republican governor has cut mucifer Jun 2015 #5

Republicans if they could would implement project Solyent Green yuiyoshida Jun 2015 #7

The issue is what do we do as a society for those of us Warren Stupidity Jun 2015 #9

What a horrible representative speaking to a libertarian group. He's got his... appalachiablue Jun 2015 #10

I HATE ReTHUGS! MoonRiver Jun 2015 #11

PowerToThePeople

(9,610 posts)

1. Society: Republicans are a drain on society. n/t

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 05:18 AM

Jun 2015

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

8. Eggzaklee!

Reply to PowerToThePeople (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 08:43 AM

Jun 2015

madokie

(51,076 posts)

2. republiCON's

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 05:20 AM

Jun 2015

are MEAN people, am I not right?

Rstrstx

(1,399 posts)

3. Ohh, God Bless Him

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 05:25 AM

Jun 2015

Maybe one day he'll be smart enough to learn how to count

merrily

(45,251 posts)

4. Roosevelt could not even stand unaided.

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 05:29 AM

Jun 2015

But, yes, some disabled people do need OASDI and/or welfare in order to avoid dying of starvation and/or exposure.

People who begrudge them that are a drain on humanity, sucking the life and soul out of it like fucking vampires. Ironically, many of them pretend to be religious.

Human101948

(3,457 posts)

6. Republican Jesus says fuck the poor, kill the sick for they are a drain on society...

Reply to merrily (Reply #4)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 05:43 AM

Jun 2015

Sell your clothes for an AR15 and fight against the taxation tyranny of Caesar!

mucifer

(23,552 posts)

5. Here in Illinois our new republican governor has cut

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 05:29 AM

Jun 2015

reimbursement to pediatric home nursing through public aid. That caused a 20% decrease in pay to many of the home nurses doing shift work to care for these children. The kids typically get 8-12 hours a day of home nursing usually an LPN. So lots of the nurses quit to find better paying jobs. So the parents are doing much more care. They can't get enough sleep. Which has lead to the kids getting sicker which has lead to the pediatric ICUs being fuller. Of course without having enough nursing care it's much harder for the parents to work. etc etc etc.

And our governor is trying to get rid of the public aid hospice benefit because of money. Because you know ICUs are so cost effective.

yuiyoshida

(41,832 posts)

7. Republicans if they could would implement project Solyent Green

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 06:01 AM

Jun 2015

and submit the rest of us to eating persons with disabilities.. yes its an exaggeration but one they would no doubt approve.

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)

9. The issue is what do we do as a society for those of us

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 08:58 AM

Jun 2015

that need help. The republican philosophy is that we are all on our own. That society has no responsibility to provide for those in need.

appalachiablue

(41,146 posts)

10. What a horrible representative speaking to a libertarian group. He's got his...

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 09:07 AM

Jun 2015

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)

11. I HATE ReTHUGS!

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 09:14 AM

Jun 2015

I've worked with people with disabilities all my adult life. Their disabilities are not choices they made to rip off the government. The difficulties they face in life are completely overwhelming. Right now, our so called civilized society throws them a few bones in terms of disability compensation and ReTHUGS even want to even take that pittance away.

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