Mainecat Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Mitch McConnell Refused to Meet With Group That Funded His Polio Recovery Say a charity group helps you recover from polio. Decades later, representatives from that same organization ask to have a word about your bill being drafted in secret that would reportedly gut healthcare for millions, including people with disabilities, while giving massive tax cuts to the wealthy. You might at least hear them out. Some people might even say that you owe them one. Southern gentleman and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, though, apparently disagrees. As Death and Taxes recently pointed out, McConnell contracted polio as a two-year-old. As he described years later, on the 50th anniversary of the polio vaccine being introduced, polio is a virus that comes on like the flu, but can paralyze people for life. In McConnell's case, after he'd gotten over the initial illness, he had residual effects in his left quadriceps muscle. McConnell was lucky enough that his family lived within driving distance of Warm Springs, Georgia, home to the first (and for many years, the only) hospital devoted solely to treating people with polio. In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had himself been paralyzed by polio, created a charity called the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) to support the hospital and aid polio patients around the country. Comedian and radio personality Eddie Cantor called for Americans to send their spare change to President Roosevelt, in "a march of dimes to reach all the way to the White House." https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/a3zbmz/mitch-mcconnell-polio-refused-march-of-dimes-meeting-over-senate-health-bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted June 26, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted June 26, 2017 McConnell is a possum faced fuck that needs to go...definitely part of the problem in DC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DriftBusta Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 This won't be over until some of these criminal fuck Democrats are in jail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICEMAN! Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez ryder Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 45 minutes ago, ICEMAN! said: not a accurate meme but I guess I don't give a shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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