There are few more important jobs for leaders than serving the work with sufficient funds to keep the lights on and invest in progress. If the work is immoral then the budget will be the sustaining force of immoral outcomes. If the budget is immoral then the work will be immoral and immoral outcomes can be expected.
I won’t question how the Democrats move through this temporary, man-made (sorry for using the gender specific) immoral interregnum. This is what Democracy looks like.
Democrats know that real people’s lives are being impacted every moment by politics. Children, mothers, dads, families are suffering every day right now because the budget for SCHIP was expired, purposely, because of Ryan and McConnel’s morals, i.e., the failure of Congress. Children are dying from the flu while Community Clinics are struggling to stay open.
Many of the same families are suffering every day with moms and dads being taken by federal agents storming their homes to drag people out of their homes, pulling them out of cars filled with children, handcuffed and bused to deportation camps.
It’s chilling to imagine the unanswered telephone calls today… The widow who just buried her husband and calls Social Security to ask, “What will I be living on now, how do I get it, and how soon can I have money to feed my children?” Calls for help, calls with help ready needing to be deployed. Calls reporting an American dad picked up and deported because no one answered the calls for help. These calls are the work of the government happening every day.
Democrats have an obligation to oppose an immoral budget.
The government must function. It’s a matter of life and death.
Americans have an obligation to be principled and realistic about the impacts of our footprints.
May the integrity of the nation and our common set of morals fuel Democrats today no matter what t
hey have to do to fund the good work of moral Americans.