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I feel betrayed
Posted by Raven on December 7th, 2009
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Some things speak for themselves:
First:
President Obama is becoming a great disappointment, as the Democrats slowly dismantle Medicare and Medicaid.
…then:
And I am disappointed, hurt, worried, and depressed that the Democrats were the ones who got the cuts passed. I feel sure they wouldn’t have done so if Teddy Kennedy had been there. And Obama, what do you have to say for yourself? Were you sitting cozily in front of the fireplace too, watching a Walt Disney movie with your adorable daughters?
I smell a fox, in fact several. We are in a democracy; I accept that we don’t all agree. But I worked hard to get Obama elected. I have fought hard to encourage others to support health care reform, and to support Obama’s plan, and now I feel betrayed.
..and so on. There are many disappointed people. But who cares? They’re all old, or have some vested interest in our elderly.
Obama’s losing his mojo. If he keeps pissing people off, he’s going to be fired.
December 7th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
“Fourteen thousand people lose their health insurance every day in America,” Mr. Reid said. “The American people don’t get weekends off from this injustice. Bankruptcy does not keep bankers’ hours. The bills don’t go away just because it’s Sunday or Saturday. The pain is still there. And so our work continues this weekend.”
And where is that overarching concern when bills and proposals come up for consideration that would put Americans back to work? Why, it’s in the partisan dumper, of course. Or when more bills come up to kill American jobs and security? It, too, is in the partisan dumper.
And BTW, Mr. Reid, when will you be willing to sit down and negotiate with American citizens your own insurance package? Never? That’s what I thought.
December 7th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
What I find fascinating about the health care debate is that right-wingers who protest against a national health care plan simultaneously protest against cuts for Medicare & Medicaid. Don’t right-wingers know that they are both government controlled health care? Shouldn’t right-winger mentality be to axe it all because the government should tell you how to live your life (or whatever the current popular right-winger philosophy is)? The most popular reasons why right-wingers are afraid of a national health care plan (raises taxes, decreased coverage, and lack of choices…) also apply to Medicare & Medicaid. The only difference is that Medicare & Medicaid have 40+ years of empirical data showing that it’s a giant black hole sucking down tax payer’s money that is in desperate need of reform. So where is the right-winger backlash against Medicare & Medicaid?
December 8th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Apple, you’re probably too young to remember the screams of anguish coming from the halls of Congress in the 60s, but they weren’t coming from the libs. The donkey Congress passed the Medicare/Medicaid legislation in 1965, and it was opposed by Republicans and some Southern Democrats (you know – the same Democrats who opposed Republican efforts to pass social equality legislation LBJ still gets credit for?) precisely for the reasons that have come to pass – it is a black hole that has mortgaged our great-great grandchildren’s futures.
When it was suggested a few years ago that maybe, just maybe, the growth of SS/Medicare/Medicaid could be slowed just a bit, it was the jackasses (with a few gutless Republicans) who created such a storm of fear that, not only were the reductions not made but the total was added to!
And you wish to blame Republicans for this society-destroying menace to humanity? Way to take responsibility! No wonder the debt has tripled/quadrupled in the last year.
And BTW, after having the money stolen that could actually pay for retirement and health benefits after retiring, many retirees have no choice but to take the meager crumbs the government doles to them, all with the understanding that it’s the GOVERNMENT’S money, not theirs. I know, not all of them would have been wise enough to create retirement accounts, but under almost any conceivable scenarios such a system would have been better than the killer we have now.