Saturday, March 11, 2017

Roskam's decade long free ride disrespecting forgotten constituents is OVAH

When my Congressman Peter Roskam (IL-6) shows up to speak at the Glen Ellyn Civic Center, 535 Duane Street, Monday, March 13 at 8:00 AM, he'll again face a gauntlet of district protesters. They're ten years of being ignored by their congressman are over, as long as he chooses to govern strictly to the affluent, ultra right bubble of voters who show up Election Day every two years to return him to Congress. He ignores the majority of registered voters who till now had forsaken seeking relief from real, daunting problems he is charged with addressing, but doesn't.

The biggest current crisis he ignores is health care. Roskam spent the last eight years working feverishly to deny health care insurance to the 20 million now covered by the Affordable Health Care Act. He spent his energy trumpeting the Big Lie that the ACA was a job killer, without offering a shred of proof. The endless upward parade of new jobs after ACA passage royally refuted Roskam's specious charge. He not only erased the 20 million newly insured by the ACA as a success story, he ignored recognizing the 50,000 lives saved by the ACA. When discussing real problems with insurance exchanges and cooperatives, Roskam never acknowledges his role in Republican efforts to kill ACA insurance subsidies which would have avoided much of that problem. Roskam is always all in for drowning government help for the desperate in the bathtub of Republican heartlessness.

But go the Roskam's website, www.roskam.house.gov and you'll find him singing the praises of the the $600 billion tax cut for the rich over a decade, he voted for in the despicable TrumpCare replacement. Missing however will be any mention of the 15 million human beings the Congressional Budget Office will advise next week will be tossed from the health insurance rolls. A lie of omission like that should make Roskam's nose expand the entire length of the Sixth District.



Like Humpty Dumpty, Roskam's free ride making a cool quarter million a year in salaries and benefits to disrespect his constituents is in for a fall. And all the Trump's horses and all the Trump's men, ain't gonna put Roskam's free ride together again.

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