Dear Editor:
What is it with our elected politicians? My representative, Vicky Hartzler, submitted an amendment to the defense appropriation bill that would have eliminated funds for transgender surgery. The vote was 209 supporting and 214 voting against. What? What in the world does gender change surgery have to do with our military's readiness to fight to defend the USA? Go figure!
For more than seven years we have been told by the elected Republicans that if we gave them the House of Representatives, then the Senate, and then the White House, they would repeal Obamacare. A repeal vote was taken two years ago and it passed both houses of Congress and vetoed by President Obama. Now there are senators who voted to repeal it two years ago, but are now not going to vote to repeal an almost identical bill. Why do we keep electing this wishy-washy people to represent us? They talk a good talk, but their walk speaks differently. My daddy told me years ago that, "your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks more than your talk talks."
Why do the people of 31 states, want the people of Missouri to give them money to expand Medicaid in their states? Missouri's elected officials chose to not expand Medicaid and get extra money from the federal government, which the federal government does not have, like these 31 states chose to do. If those 31 state representatives think that their citizens "deserve" (sic) additional monies for Medicaid, then let them increase their state taxes to pay for that expansion. That's a rather novel idea. I think that is called the 10th Amendment to our Constitution.
The option is not to vote for a Democrat, as that party is for allowing abortion on demand, same sex marriage, and a whole myriad of other issues that conservatives oppose, but we need to support conservatives to oppose these Republicans in name only (RINOs). I am tired of these politicians telling us one thing during their campaign and then doing the opposite, when they get to Washington or Jefferson City.
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