Health Care and other Issues

The President wants health care reform, well so do a lot of other people in this country,BUT, will it ever come.

I don’t care how hard he tries, he will never be able to achieve this, why, because this depends on forces bigger than him. This takes me back to 1976, in Oklahoma, I was working for an agency that was implementing section 8 housing.

We kept running across the same problem, elderly people that received 15 dollars a month in food stamps. Some were eating dog food, some weren’t eating at all. We had a representative in to explain some rules and regulations, and the question was asked, “why did they receive such a small amount on food stamps”. His answer was “The Governments view is The strongest survive”.
At that time, this just seemed to be rediculous, but over the years,it has proven to be true. The common man has had his back broken. He has lost his job, because the companies have been allowed to take their buisness off-shore, because of labor cost. The man has worked for the company since he was in high school, he never got any other education, because he planned on retiring from this job, this is how he planned on putting his children through college.

Now the company has closed, and moved to some south American country, or orders from China. The man is left without a job, there is no insurance. Now he’s told, there will be stimulus money, and a new job. This never comes, because the stimulus money is sent to the states, and by the time it gets to his town, nothing is left, because the trickle down effect, doesn’t work. There is no job, or insurance. He is told that he can retrain for another job. What can a 50 year old person, that hasn’t set foot in a class room for 30 years, be trained to do? The President needs to understand, If it doesn’t get to the people that are hurting, it isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

Until the corruption in government is halted, common people will never survive, because of the greed in government. The elected officials no longer govern by the laws set forth by the founding fathers, it is all about greed. If you grease my palm, I will certainly grease yours. People don’t realize, almost all votes are bought in some shape form or fashion. Until the politicians get their hands out of the cookie jar, America is doomed.
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just talking about things that need to be brought out.