Good thing I didn't write this in the morning because I would have really been on my high horse.
A few things I could go off on...
1. I choose -c- none of the above. I really am sick of the campaign trail and know that my vote doesn't count one bit so why bother to follow it.
2. If Obama gets the nomination I feel like we are all doomed (Darin and Kristen I know you have your reasons...but seriously). Just on welfare I feel like he is saying - don't worry you want a house, we will pay for it, you want food, we will pay for it, you want preschool we will pay for it, medical insurance we will pay for it, you want a million bucks we will give it to you. Seriously last night we were watching the news and there was this woman bemoaning that she couldn't pay for her medicine so she was suing Medicare because they denied her because they miscalculated her information. Did I feel bad she was in a hard spot, yes. Did I see her 60 inch high definition tv in the back ground and feel sorry that she couldn't pay her bills, NO but she felt entitled that SOMEONE ELSE should pay her medical bill (so she could have her tv...and whatever else her little heart desires.)
3. Insurance. I will just stop there.
4. On the BRIGHT side I am in that stage where I can feel the baby move and it is still fun.
Hopefully next post will be nice and bright and cheery.
9 comments:
Amen.
Politically, I totally agree with you! And on not-political issues too!!! You are right on!
Wow. Tell me how you really feel. I am voting for Walter (Jeff Dunham's ventriloquist dummy). He has some good ideas and is crochety enough to keep everyone in line. Have you checked out my blog yet? mountzclan.blogspot.com. it is not nice or pretty stuff but it is me so be prepared. miss you!
Amen Sister!!! I am in the middle of writing a letter to John Mcain and Obama.
My big issue: !!! Let's go and give a break to all those people who have housing loans and can not afford them. Let's reduce the cost of their house and rewrite their loan so they dont have such a big bill to pay. Let's let the American People pay for their bad choices/ignorance, etc."PUH LEASE!"
I am so sick of hearing poor Obama and how he grow up so poor. "Oh so sad". It drives me nuts that he thinks everyone in America does not have the same opportunities. This is what he said last night..."People who have the grades and desire to go to college, but don't have the money." BS! There are many ways to pay for school besides mommy and daddy or a student loan. You don't need to pay for schooling by getting yourself into huge amounts of dept. Hmm, lets see, how about serving your country? How about work study? How about a job? Why does everyone feel entitled to attend the most expensive undergraduate schools? Why not choose your state school? Come on Obama, where is your pride?!? If you have to get student loans to better yourself there is nothing wrong with that! This is called being self suffucient! Just be sensible. Don't pay 30G's per year for an undergrad degree that will never be able to pay off that loan.
Does anyone actually WANT to do something for themself and improve their own situation, or should we just all give up and wait for our checks to come? Come on. Where is our pride? Since when did the American Dream become the American handout? How have we- as Americans- let this happen???.....
We are Americans! Lets start acting like it.
Amen, Julie! I couldn't agree more. And Amen to pondfamily, too. Great speach! (Seriously!)
You are awesome - seriously!! Very passionate..
Calm down pregnant woman! or you are gonna have the baby right now.....you need some hershey's stuff...haha or too much sugar!?. that's funny though...I agree with you...when people is not trying to do their best and then everybody else have to pay the price for their bad choices...but there's some that are in the side too. I love you
Clearly there are issues with the welfare system in our country including some abuse, however we need to view and judge the issues and the people with fairness. I think it is a good thing to debate the policies and surely they can be improved, perhaps dramatically. I just hope we can separate the policies from the people. I feel it is fine to criticize the policies but all too often when these things are debated we end up attacking the people.
We just went through the struggle of making ends meet while my husband worked to get his Ph.D. During this time I saw many members of the Church who were also trying to get their graduate degrees make ends meet by relying on such entitlements as Medicaid, food stamps, Section 8, federally subsidized student loans (Stafford Loans, etc.) and other such things. Those programs helped many get through. We should be grateful for them and allow others the same opportunity without the stigma of critical judgment.
I have also witnessed people who were born into poverty to uneducated parents, surrounded by drugs, violence, abuse and ignorance who have used those programs as away to lift themselves up to a better life all the while hoping to get to a place where they can enjoy the life style my family and my other member friends enjoy. Anything we can do to help them seems like the right thing to do.
This discussion reminds me of Mosiah 4:16-20.
History and economics teach us that some form of government based welfare is needed for a society to care for the poor in a comprehensive and fair way (a quick read of any history text book will show the situation here in America before the government stepped in, think of what went on during the industrial revolution). Not only that, history teaches us that with out some sort of social welfare net societies do not regenerate themselves because people do not take risks (the risk is too great for them because they will have nothing to fall back on) and new talent is not developed (the poor remain poor and so a huge talent pool is never tapped). Further every society that has allowed the gap between the rich and the poor to grow too large has failed.
Now are the current welfare policies in America the right ones? Well that is debatable, but they have gone a long way to create more opportunity and equity which are hard things to argue against.
Another point is that Obama’s plan for health insurance builds upon private insurance and does not create a government based health insurance program. However it does create incentives to purchase health insurance and help for those that need help (small businesses and families). It is very similar to what Mitt Romney put in place in Massachusets when he was governor there. If you are interested in getting the facts about the program you can read about it here (always better to get these things from the source): http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/
My last point on the health care issue is that (I admit I am not the expert here) there has been a lot of research showing how having access to good health insurance is directly related to personal health and well-being. It seems very wrong that the well off have the right to be healthy and the poor do not. I find that to be a very hard thing to justify. How can we see another lack and we not care?
I realize that this is long enough to be it's own post, but I just want you to understand my perspective.
Don't even get me started on this issue. Just when we are going to buy a house its going to be harder for us because of the credit crunch-and because we chose not to buy a house three years ago because we couldn't afford it(What a concept!)but now our taxes will pay for all the people who couldn't afford it and bought one anyway. I agree that some type of welfare is necessary and while we never used food stamps, WIC etc, we did rely on Federal subsidized loans and for the birth of our first two kids Medicare supplemented the cost of delivery that was not covered by our insurance. I'm really grateful for those things but I do have to say there is a lot to be said of the example our political leaders are setting. As a nation we go into more and more debt to fund the "national sense of entitlement." Its a mess and I feel bad for whoever ends up with it-because quite honestly I'm not sure I feel good about how either one of them is going to handle it.
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