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The White Elephant

Attention all voters
Who love a great scam
The Republican Party
Now welcomes flimflam

Republican healthcare
Fell apart at the seams
Through an absence of facts
And a surplus of dreams

Republican planning
Takes a decade or two 
To discover what's missing
Is an average IQ

American healthcare
(Most expensive on earth)
Will not save your life
But destroy your net worth

So enlist in a Party
Where the money rolls in 
And believe those in Congress
Can spend it like sin

No pilgrim had healthcare
Play the cards that you've got
For, "I am the President,
and you are naught!

Copyright © Rico Leffanta | Year Posted 2017

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Patricia Groshong Date: 4/28/2018 10:05:00 AM I'm laughing. So tickled by this poem. Boy, can you pen a truth and make it fun to boot. Looking forward to reading more of your work! They use to say that's "bad"...a young man at work said; that's "dope". Well, I think I'll say, that's good, really good. Great, actually. I need more time and education to be able to use this new slang!!! Login to Reply Rico Leffanta Date: 4/28/2018 2:32:00 PM Thank you for taking the time to read my stuff, but it only takes an open mind for inspiration to flow. With Trump as POTUS, inspiration flows faster than one can write! Mahalo nui loa! Aloha! Rico

James Horn Date: 3/31/2018 8:12:00 PM And you are a have not. Jim Horn Login to Reply

Rico Leffanta Date: 8/23/2017 11:09:00 AM After Charlottesville and Phoenix, Trump is now The ALL-White Elephant that the Republican Party would love to give back - to anyone! Login to Reply

Rico Leffanta Date: 7/17/2017 1:25:00 PM Without healthcare, pilgrims and pioneers made this nation great by stepping over the bodies of their loved ones. The Hepatitus C pill now costs about $4 in India compared to $1,000 in the USA, the full treatment $85,000 in the USA compared to only $33,000 in France, because Congress prefers personal wealth to public health. $50,000 still buys considerable political and AMA clout! Login to Reply

Chris Green Date: 7/12/2017 6:23:00 AM Obamacare is costing me a fortune now, much more than I ever paid before the Democrats decided they needed to stick their hands in my pockets again and pays for virtually nothing I need. I just wish it would go back to the way it was before, I had good health insurance. And tell me this, if Obamacare is so great, why do none of the politicians have to use it? Why did they get a pass and we didn't? Nice poem by the way, you did express your views very creatively. Login to Reply Chris Green Date: 7/14/2017 2:02:00 PM I know, I didn't vote for a democrat because of exactly those reasons. Rico Leffanta Date: 7/14/2017 12:46:00 AM You should elect someone with integrity. As long as Congress determines millionaires and corporations need not pay taxes to support the free-spending federal government, you must pony up. Other nations see the benefit of having an healthy, well-educated workforce and zoom up WHO ranks, whereas the USA just tumbles out of the top ten.