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busterbrown

(8,515 posts) Sat Jun 24, 2017, 05:46 PM Jun 2017

So McConnell Had Polio as a Child...

Story was floating around that his recovery was funded by Fed Program..

Turns out story was false... He didn’t receive aid from govt. funded program but from FDR”s Charitable Program
dealing with Polio.

The fact is that thank God for McConnell’s recovery.. but he should also be aware that he was lucky....that there was a charitable organization in place for his illness.. You’d think he’d have some FUCKING Empathy. Scumbag he is!

http://www.snopes.com/mitch-mcconnell-polio-government-healthcare/

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/04/snopescom/

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So McConnell Had Polio as a Child... (Original Post) busterbrown Jun 2017 OP

So it sounds like it was "FDRs Charitable Program dealing with Polio," pangaia Jun 2017 #1

Yes, the miserable bastard would have been crippled for life had he not smirkymonkey Jun 2017 #2

This was the "March of Dimes". marybourg Jun 2017 #3

Best friend had Polio. Wellstone ruled Jun 2017 #4

Like that Republican Texas Governor crippled by the tree fall... bagelsforbreakfast Jun 2017 #5

Since FDR was behind it...kind of hard not to call it a Fed Program. bresue Jun 2017 #6

exactly what i was thinking busterbrown Jun 2017 #8

The other side makes up whatever they want and 35-40 million eat it up pbmus Jun 2017 #7

Yeah yeah, and it turned him into a turtle Dem2 Jun 2017 #9

pangaia

(24,324 posts)

1. So it sounds like it was "FDRs Charitable Program dealing with Polio,"

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Sat Jun 24, 2017, 05:53 PM

Jun 2017

that saved him rather than God.

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

2. Yes, the miserable bastard would have been crippled for life had he not

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Sat Jun 24, 2017, 05:55 PM

Jun 2017

received the necessary intervention. And he now has the nerve to deny it to others. I hate that rat-fucker more than anything. How dare he!

marybourg

(12,633 posts)

3. This was the "March of Dimes".

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Sat Jun 24, 2017, 06:09 PM

Jun 2017

When I was a kid (pre-Salk vaccine) there was a cardboard stand next to nearly cash register, with dime-sized cut-oust to put your change into. When filled, the shopkeeper would mail them off to Warm Springs.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

4. Best friend had Polio.

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Sat Jun 24, 2017, 06:36 PM

Jun 2017

That was 1952,closest Hospital was 15 miles away. He was transfer to the Sister Kenny Facility in St Paul Minnesota. Seems to me,he was their some 6 or 8 months. He was one of the Lucky Ones. No paralysis and as a Farm Kid,his Physical Labor help regain his Muscle Mass.