|
|
||
Ask Americans if they want free food, too Date published: 3/15/2010
I, like many other American citizens as well as 30 million others living here, am following closely the round- table discussions with President Obama on health care reform. Correctly, Obama has observed that if you ask most people living here if they would like universal, no-strings health care, they respond yes. I suspect if you asked them if a new home, free food, and eight vacations per year at government expense would be desirable, they would also say yes. We agree on that much, at least. Congress has lost the confidence of the great majority of Americans, a fact that seems to escape our so-called leaders. You can paint the people opposed to the government's efforts to intrude into every aspect of our lives as obstructionists, but the fact remains that this very same body of congressmen and senators is collectively and individually responsible for the death struggle the middle class is now engaged in. Where were all the round tables when we pleaded with Congress to seal our borders, to not ship jobs out of the country with NAFTA, and to proceed with caution before deciding to go to perpetual war? Congress did not listen then, and they are not listening now. There is enough fraud, fat, waste, and prosecutable crime in the Medicare and Medicaid systems now to serve the needs of our citizens, and the government has done nothing to discourage it. Congress is failing at its job, and that is to listen. Larry Johnson Stafford
and Fannie and Freddie...the feds certainly helped get millions of deserving people into their own home...the American dream come true..
they'd have enough $ to pay for their own healthcare
premiums.
and still say they do not have $ for healthcare? I know lots of
people who say they have no money bit live a more than
comfortable life. It's all a matter of priorities. But the take over
of healthcare by the government can't be all that bad. I mean,
look at what the government did with public housing?
'I suspect if you asked them if a new home, free food, and
eight vacations per year at government expense would be
desirable, they would also say yes. We agree on that much,
at least." I would NOT like anything of the sort from the
government. It's not free and I could only imagine what it
would be like if the government ran such things! Some of
us like to work for what we have & save for what we want.
Larry Johnson does not speak for me.
I'm sure you're referring to folks like the woman from Guatemala, here for 13 years illegally, cannot speak English, can't even read or write in Spanish (only 3 years formal education in Guatemala). 1) Deport her where? 2) Why would Guatemala take her - she has no papers to prove where she came from? 3) How much in taxes you willing to pay for her transportation? 4) Drive her to the Guatemalan embassy, & drop her off: bet His Excellency the Ambassador doesn't want her. Easier said than done.
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||
