09-04-2014, 06:22 AM
For all of its HUGE failings and bias toward Big Medicine and Big Pharma, Big Insurance, Obamacare is better than nothing...yet...
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There was a report on '60 Minutes' last night about a'Health Bus.' It was a nice story, and Icommend the two nurses and the doctor that donate their time and energy tothose who desperately need it. However,there was an underlying story that was not developed, and would have made thework of these wonderful people unnecessary. The governors of 24 states would rather see the residents of theirstates suffer and die rather than accept a portion of the Affordable Care Act.
Medicaid was offered to all states if their residentscouldn't afford to pay for any form of insurance, and the federal governmentwould pay for it for two to three years. These governors said that their states could not afford to pay the priceafter the feds cease payment. What ismore important than the lives of their people? What are the projects that are more necessary and require spending theirtaxpayer's dollars?
I am constantly astounded how quickly our country moved frombeing compassionate, and considering the well-being of all of its citizens thenumber one priority, to a country that takes care of the wealthy and the poorbe damned.
The cause is no secret. As a once famous detective said; "follow themoney and you'll solve the crime." Aslobbyists become more powerful, and influence the votes of Congressmen andSenators, the working class and the poor will be left out. The majority of American citizens do not havea lobbyist, and, therefore, we have no representation in Washington.
Now the extreme politics and do-nothing attitude of federalpoliticians is trickling down to the states and state government.
The wealthy, including Washington politicians, have greatbenefits and retirement. They don't wantus to have what they have. They wantmore money. Having a vast fortune istheir only goal.
Wall Street was the cause for what I continue to believeshould have been called a depression. Not one of the upper management in these companies has beenindicted. No one is in a prison cell. If I stole as little as five thousand dollarsfrom one of their banks, I would be sent to prison. Money walks.
We, the working class, pay for the extravagant life style ofthe 'rich and famous' in several ways. Our labor, all too often for an insufficient pay check, makes them fourand five hundred percent profit yearly. Our consistent bad choices at the polling booth continue to create a badgovernment. Our choice to ignore thegrowing disparity between the classes, increases their power over us.
It should be a right of every American to receive goodhealth care. It's a fact that those whohave excellent health care are the ones who vote against it for the rest ofus. The governors of 24 states havepointed their fingers at the poorest in their states and said; "die."
James Turnage
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Governors Let Their Citizens Die
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There was a report on '60 Minutes' last night about a'Health Bus.' It was a nice story, and Icommend the two nurses and the doctor that donate their time and energy tothose who desperately need it. However,there was an underlying story that was not developed, and would have made thework of these wonderful people unnecessary. The governors of 24 states would rather see the residents of theirstates suffer and die rather than accept a portion of the Affordable Care Act.
Medicaid was offered to all states if their residentscouldn't afford to pay for any form of insurance, and the federal governmentwould pay for it for two to three years. These governors said that their states could not afford to pay the priceafter the feds cease payment. What ismore important than the lives of their people? What are the projects that are more necessary and require spending theirtaxpayer's dollars?
I am constantly astounded how quickly our country moved frombeing compassionate, and considering the well-being of all of its citizens thenumber one priority, to a country that takes care of the wealthy and the poorbe damned.
The cause is no secret. As a once famous detective said; "follow themoney and you'll solve the crime." Aslobbyists become more powerful, and influence the votes of Congressmen andSenators, the working class and the poor will be left out. The majority of American citizens do not havea lobbyist, and, therefore, we have no representation in Washington.
Now the extreme politics and do-nothing attitude of federalpoliticians is trickling down to the states and state government.
The wealthy, including Washington politicians, have greatbenefits and retirement. They don't wantus to have what they have. They wantmore money. Having a vast fortune istheir only goal.
Wall Street was the cause for what I continue to believeshould have been called a depression. Not one of the upper management in these companies has beenindicted. No one is in a prison cell. If I stole as little as five thousand dollarsfrom one of their banks, I would be sent to prison. Money walks.
We, the working class, pay for the extravagant life style ofthe 'rich and famous' in several ways. Our labor, all too often for an insufficient pay check, makes them fourand five hundred percent profit yearly. Our consistent bad choices at the polling booth continue to create a badgovernment. Our choice to ignore thegrowing disparity between the classes, increases their power over us.
It should be a right of every American to receive goodhealth care. It's a fact that those whohave excellent health care are the ones who vote against it for the rest ofus. The governors of 24 states havepointed their fingers at the poorest in their states and said; "die."
James Turnage
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass