Your Opinion (Really)

[Bingo]

Recently, I was talking to a young woman who works with one of my daughters. The young woman was agitated because the clients she had served that day were in her opinion, milking the system.  The woman was from another country, an Asian country. Because she is pregnant she qualifies for the Illinois Medical Card. Her husband is going to school at a local University. They are using food stamps. The woman has no doctor locally. She HAS BEEN RETURNING to her country EVERY TWO MONTHS for medical care and follow up. She wasn't feeling well that day, and was talking about going to the emergency room that evening. When she goes to the ER, and pronounces she has no OB/GYN, she will be assigned to one. Her child will be delivered in this country in two months, a US Citizen. And then we will give her coupons to buy milk and other nutrious food for her infant. The friend of my daughter said that isn't the worst. A young woman she went to school with has an 8 yr old child and a two year old child. That woman remained on the medical card herself for all 9 years because her caseworker at DHS 'liked' her. Now she is working and the state is subsidizing her child care. And I totally believe in subsidzed child care so parents can afford to work if they want to do so. I don't mind helping the women above or any others as long as the assistance is for a short period and not abused. There is such need to help human suffering but cuts have to be made because of the users and abusers.

[SpiritMan]

Bingo. This is not directed at you, this is inspired by your post!

Of course abuse within the system needs to be a part of the solution. But what I've seen in other countries I've lived in is that when healthcare is universal there is no discussion about who gets what because everyone gets care without question, across the board. This is something that's hard for Americans to understand because everything has to have a price tag. I tend to not give much attention to stories about someone someone else knew who heard about someone that did such and such. That kind of thing blows things way out of proportion. It's a story about one person, not the whole picture. Then when you put that beside the bigger picture of the cost of war, the cost of corruption, the cost of corporate monopolies, then the price of milk and nutritious food is nothing in comparison. The whole discussion of such things is a deliberate distraction from the real problem of the biggest raid on a national treasury in the history of mankind. The thieves stole literally hundreds of billions of dollars and they want the average citizen to direct their anger at mothers with children, not bankers and lawyers and politicians. What happens is hundreds of thousands of people who really need help get thrown aside to suffer because one person abused the system and that's something the average person can relate to because they don't live next to a billionaire and they can't relate to that. War is paid from taxes that are collected from everyone. That very same money could have paid for healthcare for literally every person in America, regardless of who they are or where they came from. I have a huge huge moral problem with talking about not giving care to someone because they are not from this country so they must be "taking something from hard working Americans" when in that same moment a bomb paid for by American taxpayers may be falling on innocent women, children and elderly somewhere in the world. How to we balance that out when we look at the bigger picture?             

[Guardian Angel]

"War is paid from taxes that are collected from everyone."  Those taxes are collected from everyone except big corporations who find enough loop holes to keep from paying taxes! 

The Pentagon has a budget that could solve all of our problems if just the waste was cut out of it, then no one would have to be denied anything........  Another solution would be to raise the Social Security tax base and that would solve the Social Security problems, but no, they want to cut programs that help the poor, rob the poor to put more in the coffers of the rich....  When will the people who buy into FOX and other Rupert Murdock media ever WAKE up.  Probably not till it effects them.   I'll bet a few in Wisconsin have had a rude awakening.

[SpiritMan]

The tables are finally starting to turn!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rZbvi6Tj6E

[SpiritMan]

Michigan SB-0153 gives the REPUBLICAN governor of Michigan the ability to replace ELECTED town governments and school districts with private corporations, simply by declaring a fiscal emergency! When Proposition 8 was passed in California many people said it was the first time a proposition was used to “remove” rights! Now Wisconsin has followed by taking away the rights of workers! WHO IS NEXT!

[SpiritMan]

Here's the problem in a nutshell!

"That’s why it’s so important that the President have something more to say to the American people than “I want to cut spending, too, but the Republican cuts go too far.” The “going too far” argument is no match for a worldview that says government is the central problem to begin with."

Where is the candidate Obama who made me feel like he was on my side? How about saying the cuts are just a smokescreen, because in reality they do nothing to balance the budget?

Taxes should be raised on the uber-rich and the corporations! Loopholes should be closed! I do not support a president who agrees with a lie!

http://robertreich.org/post/4371884779