On the Backs of the Poor, Disabled and Elderly
Already, even without the spending cuts proposed by Republicans, many people have to choose between food, utilities and medicine. Many will die this summer because they cannot afford the cost of air conditioning in places of unbearable heat. Many die each winter because they cannot afford the cost of keeping their homes warm.
And yet, the Republicans refuse to even consider increases taxes of those that can afford it. They claim that these tax breaks are needed so jobs can be created. Yes, jobs are being created in India, China, Korea, and other places around the world. The job increases in America is far below the unemployment rate (which is a fictional statistic that does not include many that are unemployed).
Now the Republicans plan to hold the American people hostage again in the battle with President Obama and the Democrats in Congress.
Wake up America!
Time is running out….tick-tock tick-tock. This should be a give and take situation. Republicans are acting like children that don’t get their way.
LOL, I gave you a heart. I think about the same thing many times too.
Honestly, I am just waiting for the Republicans to realize that they must increase the tax and reduce THEIR spending habits (and the Democrats too) for real progress.
During the Bush Regime, those Tax Cuts for the Rich, resulted in the Major Corporations reducing their job forces here in America, while making record profits.
The Republicans couldn’t do more damage to America, if they tried. I think they are trying.
i think the republicans should lose their pay until this is resolved.
i don’t usually comment on blogs, but i’m so sick of so many narrow minded people thinking they have all the answers to the problems of this country. where were you when the bush regime was in charge. you sat back and said nothing. now that someone has to clean up their mess you have all the answers. why were’nt you asking questions when the harm was being done? i haven’t been able to vote all that many years, but i sure did’nt vote for bush, and i thought he was an idiot from day 1. i’m sure some of you will be really pissed at me but i don’t give a rats ass. stop complaining about everything and do something about it. and please before you rant on these blogs find out if what you are writing is actually the truth. and allah.. this was not intended to be a slam to your blog, just so happens i like what you write, it’s some of the other bs that i read on other blogs and the replies.
The unemployment rate number the government claims and reports IS off because when you hear it reported on the news or in the papers, it always based on people who have filed claims or recertified their existing benefits. How about all of those people whose benefits have run out? Just HOW are THEY counted? Simple answer…they aren’t, yet they exist by the masses. But they aren’t able to contribute to our economy right now because they aren’t earning any money so who cares about them anyway, right? 🙄 👿 It’s DISGUSTING! 👿 👿 👿
I’ve been Ayn Randed once.
It was May 10, 1997. The Rains came and flooded my City. THe Firetrucks were underwater. The Police were underwater.
I was without food and water for days.
What is Our Government for?
Is the Government’s only job to provide infrastructure to Oil Refineries and Highways so truckers can deliver goods. If so, Who should pay for those infrastructures? Me? I want health care and public transportation, let Dell Computers build their own damn highways.
FKNSTEVEN for a third party to work you must start at the local level. It never works from the top down. Teddy Roosevelt tried it, Ross Perot tried it and several other people tried it. If you are too lazy to do the work at the local level first, you will never gain support on the national level.
Do something about it! Yeah. Sure. Go right ahead. Be my guest. PLEASE prove me a totally wrong “doomsayer”. Go ahead. I dare ya.
I actually had a conservative in my local paper’s online version, that argued with me that no one has or will die here in the US due to lack of food, shelter or health care coverage.
I told her about my friend, a severe diabetic, who had nerve damage in his feet, and his vision wasn’t the greatest. Because he had few skills, and was more of a manual laborer, he was considered unemployable. He couldn’t afford regular check ups, and wasn’t eligible for medicaid being a single guy w/ no dependent children, nor was he declared medically disabled. With no help, and his fiance working as a waitress, he couldn’t afford all his equipment. Including the needles to inject himself with insulin, so too often, he went without, because after using the needles 3 times, it hurt too bad to inject. He died about a year and a half ago due to heart failure because of his out of control diabetes.
This lady starts arguing with me about things, and asked why I hadn’t gone online to help him order his needles… Uh, duh, because I can’t do it for him. I couldn’t believe that she blamed me for the fact that I either didn’t let him use my computer, etc… because he didn’t have one, and really didn’t know how to use one. With medical supplies, it’s one of these things that there are so many hoops you have to jump through, and this and that, what ever, have a doctor’s order for this, that and everything… Insisted that there’s free stuff, and when I looked? No, no, no! Pay a certain amount, even if it was cheap, it still cost money, and it’s free SHIPPING. I’d have bought them, but, when I’m on limited funds too, I really can’t afford to buy it unless I’m going to forgo my own underwear, or not wear socks with my shoes which would lead for me to have foot problems… (I’m prone to eczema and other skin conditions).
But anyway, now the problem is going to get worse… And these people don’t want to believe me. I’ve seen how elderly try to budget and live on so little food to make ends meet… Some have to choose between food or medicine. Yet it’s blamed on some bad decision they had to have made in the past. Like we are all wealthy? We’re all equal in earning power? Everyone can be rich? NOT!!! Whose head is in the sand?
I never understood how giving billionaires who already aren’t creating jobs, more money is supposed encourage them to suddenly decide to create more jobs. It’s simply padding their bank accounts on the backs of the poor and the dying. How many more millions of dollars do they need before they’ll decide to create a job or two?
The poor and the elderly are having to choose between death by hunger, heat, cold, or cancer. Meanwhile the rich and the congresscritters are stuck with the soul-shattering burden of picking out a new yacht and deciding on the perfect vacation plan.
The GOP plan (and quickly becoming the Democrat “compromise” plan) is to kill them all and let the CEO’s split the plundered spoils of the Class War.
Yet no one dares mention that all of these “horrible entitlement programs” could be paid for triplefold with plenty left over to pay down the deficit if we simply canceled our ongoing Permawar. But I don’t see the GOP calling off their holy war against the Muslims anytime soon, and I don’t see either side letting go of their military contract kickbacks ever.