Give and Take Once More

Who’s Afraid of Healthcare?

    Annie posted on  “Politicususa” : What I don’t get is how anyone can defend the healthcare Act. So many Americans are seeing their hours cut, our healthcare costs are rising because of it. Friends who did not have insurance were encouraged because the Act was passed, only to learn that they could better afford healthcare before all this was put into motion.

  COMMENT: Annie, if you are getting this kind of false information from friends, you need to find better friends. If from members of Congress, you need to listen to members who know what they are talking about (among those to avoid,  Michelle Bachmann and her belief that Obama is supporting al-Qaeda and bringing the biblical end times; she read it in the bible).

   There is no credible information that what you claim to be true is happening on more than a piecemeal scale. Your favorite Congressmen tell you the people don’t want Obamacare, and yet 8 million started the signup process in the first week, although the deadline is not until mid-March.

   FactCheck.org says, “The fact is, some will pay more and some will pay less. Some currently uninsured Americans will pay little or nothing because of the law’s expansion of Medicaid.”

   

   That Other Guy’s Too Fat                  

   Concerning the shutdown, a reader wrote:  I think this country needs to trim the fat. If your government job is not essential to the running of this country, then it should not exist.

   COMMENT: National parks are not essential. But that's the first thing House  Republicans threw a fit about when they learned that the parks are a part of the government they voted to shut down.

   Is NASA essential? Do you want to shut it down permanently? How about the FDIC that guarantees to pay for your savings if your bank fails? It is not essential to the hourly wage worker who has no bank account or savings. How about food and drug inspections? Not essential if you grow all your own food and never need medicine. How about public schools? Not essential if you have no children, or can afford private schools.

   ONE PERSON’S “ESSENTIAL” is another person's luxury. Are you sure you have thought this subject through? It is obvious that a lot of the people we elected to Congress have not thought it through. Among a few thousand other shortcomings, they have thrown another huge setback to the backlogged processing of claims for veterans' benefits by shutting down much of the non-essential Veterans Administration. Obviously  House Republicans do not consider it essential to compensate or care for soldiers that they sent into combat.

   Oh, I forgot. All the House Republicans did was cut off the money for the VA. It must be Obama's fault for telling the employees they don't have to come to work without pay.