Cruelty is the point: don’t be a party to it, DFL
Recall that the DFL controls the governor’s office, the Minnesota Senate, and is tied with the Republicans in the House.
Then recognize that, in spite of being in a dominant position, DFL leadership has agreed to eliminate MinnsotaCare coverage for a swath of Minnesotans, many of whom replace our roofs, trim our trees and care for our lawns, look after our seniors, milk our cows, harvest our crops, work in meat processing plants — and the list goes on — and who, by the way, pay taxes on their earnings and contribute to Social Security which they’ll almost certainly never collect.
Regardless of their immigration status, these persons contribute to our state, perform valuable work, and deserve to be treated as human beings, which includes receiving health care. Study after study shows that immigrants — including undocumented ones — contribute more than they take.
Apparently, there is a revolt by a couple of dozen DFL legislators who have promised to vote against the deal, and my Senator, Dr. Alice Mann, is one of the leaders of the resistance. I sent her a note of thanks, but I do that publicly here. Keep it up, Senator.
Don’t blame the DFL; blame the Republicans for this, says Patrick Coolican, the managing editor of the Minnesota Reformer. But blaming Crone Demuth (like crème de menthe only bitter with chunks of grievance), Junior Niska, and Wally Hudson for treating a segment of our population as subhuman is a waste of time. They don’t care; they lack the heart to care. And they have obviously not taken Matthew 25:35 to heart; they’ve probably never read it. Junior Niska sends his kids to a religious school, and he wants us to help pay for it; maybe the next generation will read the passage. Probably not, since that’s not what the religious schools are for.
It’s up to the people who theoretically have a heart to make this right.
This is all made extra annoying because the state is also poised to grant substantial and continuing sales tax giveaways to the largest tech companies on the planet to build energy and water sucking data centers in the state, facilities that after construction produce little employment and likely little income tax revenue, due to the ability of the companies to allocate revenue and income away from Minnesota in inter-company self-dealing shenanigans.
If we made an effort to make the tech bros pay their way in Minnesota, we’d be able to insure our immigrant community with money to spare.
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