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In reply to the discussion: Biden and Pope Francis team up against cancer [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)And you might want to take some time to review his comments at the Vatican.
He advocated for UNIVERSAL ACCESS to treatments/cures...that shouldn't be just for the "rich and powerful."
Easier to complain, though, isn't it?
There are no PEOPLE in VT. There are more people in GREATER BOSTON than there are in the whole state of VT. Mayor Marty Walsh has more to worry about than Governor Shumlin.
VT is a place of people who don't like big cities, who have a rural, countrified, slow-pace mindset, who are mostly white and make more money per capita than most people. Of course they like him. It's a small audience, and he votes the way they like and goes along with their wishes, changing his mind as needed. This accounts for his gun votes, his regime change in Iraq votes (x2), his advocacy of civil unions rather than marriage in 2006 (because marriage equality, HE said, would be "too divisive" -- see, he LISTENED to Vermonters, who were against it back then), his vigorous support of military hardware expenditures (VT is the Green Mountain State--where the Green Mountain Boys come from).
VT is also the place that--just this past year--REJECTED UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. Why? TOO EXPENSIVE. All that number crunching couldn't make it work. It went down in FLAMES.
The very poor and destitute are never turned away in the USA. The fact of the matter is, if you're "working poor" you have a harder time getting quality health care. We can improve the situation and we should--but half a loaf IS better than none.
As Biden said,