With all of the talk of free school lunches, the need to extend unemployment rates, and the absolute need (according to NH Speaker of the House Norelli (D)) to implement Medicaid Expansion NOW, isn’t it worthwhile to see how “poor” NH really is?
That’s right – we are ranked dead last – where dead last is really best! Given the fact that LBJ’s Great Society’s “War on Poverty” is now 60 years running at a cost of $15 Trillion and the poverty rate flatlined, the phrase “the poor ye will have with you always”, we now know to be true (an eternal truism, much to the dismay of Progressives who can’t learn from history).
Going to the source, Louisiana is the worst with an official poverty rate of 21.3%. NH is the nation’s leader 7.5% poverty rate (and coincidentally, one of the best unemployment rates too).
So we are about to fall on our financial of State Sovereignty knees to spend $2.4 Billion more that the Feds doesn’t have for Medicaid Expansion here in NH? That will move citizens that are actually paying for their own healthcare insurance themselves and put them on the Public Dole.
And I thought the goal was to make people self-sufficient and not dependent (/sarcasm)?
(H/T: Governing)
