Punk Art Corner: We Salute The Dawning Of Michigan Medicaid's Work Requirements

"This legislation is a twisted joke.

Even with the changes made in the House, 

it’s still a turd, a shiny turd, 

but a turd nonetheless."

<State Senator 

Coleman Young II (D-Detroit)>

"And those who are opposed 

to this legislation 
that encourages and enables 
someone on Medicaid
to go find work
or get degrees 
and still remain eligible
 for Medicaid are looking for reasons 
to prevent people 
from enjoying the joys of work."
<State Senator Mike Shirkey

(R-Clarklake)>

<"Welfare should always

be a hand-up, not a handout.

But instead our current system

takes millions of dollars

from hard-working Michigan families

and gives completely free benefits

to people who are oftentimes

perfectly able to work 

and earn their own

health coverage."

<Tom Leonard,

MI Speaker of the House

(R-DeWitt)

"Republicans used 

every rule in the book 

to silence the voices 

of House Democrats

 and the people we represent, 

and when that didn’t work, 

they threw out the rulebook.

 I am disappointed 

in Speaker Leonard, 

and I expected better."
<Sam Singh,

MI House Minority Leader

(D-East Lansing)

“We have had a meeting of the minds 

to say let’s find that common ground. 

It’s a complicated thing, 

so we’re working through that."

<Governor Rick Snyder>

"Medicaid is not a jobs program, 

it is not a work program. 

It is a health care program."
<State Rep. Yousef Rabhi

(D-Ann Arbor)

<http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1388385>

"If this is going to be a Christian nation

that doesn't help the poor, 

either we've got to pretend

that Jesus was just 

as selfish as we are,

or we've got to acknowledge 

that he commanded us

to love the poor

and serve the needy 

without condition -- and then admit

that we just don't want to do it."

<Stephen Colbert, Comedian>

"We have this strange thing 
in our politics
 where people get elected 
promising to bring back 1950s jobs,
 when we can’t fill 2015 or 2017 jobs.
That’s the core conflict 
that is unresolved in all this.”
<Scott Miller, 
Trade policy expert,
Center for Strategic
and International Studies>