They Always Hurt the Ones We Love
A while back (May 1) I posted a commentary on how the richest 6% of Americans could “solve” the Social Security “problem” simply by paying taxes on their entire earnings just like the rest of us do. That, however, will not happen, as I said then, since neither the rich nor their media will allow it. After all, one of our Founding Fathers said, “This country should be run by the people who own it.”
Today a new twist on that appeared in the Columbus Dispatch via The New York Times. The 3.5 column-inch story reported: “WASHINGTON – Elderly people with low incomes might lose some of their food stamps if they sign up for the new Medicare.”
A document sent from Bush’s Health and Human Services Department to congress and “addressed to elderly and disabled people” says, “If you qualify for extra help, your food stamp benefits may decline.”
There you go. We have to have a drug plan that will cost trillions of dollars so that the poor, elderly and disabled can afford their meds. Then, when they sign up for it, we put X dollars in one of their hands and take X dollars out of the other.
How is that helpful? And where do you think all the money spent to not really help the poor, elderly, and disabled actually ends up?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm . . . probably the pharmecutical industry will plow it back into research to further benefit the poor, elderly, and disabled.
If not, I’m sure the media will scream bloody murder – don’t you think?
- Uke Man
Today a new twist on that appeared in the Columbus Dispatch via The New York Times. The 3.5 column-inch story reported: “WASHINGTON – Elderly people with low incomes might lose some of their food stamps if they sign up for the new Medicare.”
A document sent from Bush’s Health and Human Services Department to congress and “addressed to elderly and disabled people” says, “If you qualify for extra help, your food stamp benefits may decline.”
There you go. We have to have a drug plan that will cost trillions of dollars so that the poor, elderly and disabled can afford their meds. Then, when they sign up for it, we put X dollars in one of their hands and take X dollars out of the other.
How is that helpful? And where do you think all the money spent to not really help the poor, elderly, and disabled actually ends up?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm . . . probably the pharmecutical industry will plow it back into research to further benefit the poor, elderly, and disabled.
If not, I’m sure the media will scream bloody murder – don’t you think?
- Uke Man
1 Comments:
Tom,
This is beautiful. I read the article in the Dispatch today and became so angry. You expressed my feelings so well. The hatred I feel for Bush and his cronies grows daily. Sondra
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