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making poor people poorer is never a good thing
legalize pot and gambling and all your problems go away
making poor people poorer is never a good thing
it's such a huge part of revenue in australia. it'd also boost tourism.
no, all it did was create problems...didnt help when most of the swet shops and factories close due to WTA outsourcing to asia and no textile manufacturing industry down here,
why goto a hole to gamble, when u can goto macau or lasvegas?
bull theres pokies on every corner
Racism and Cruelty Drive GOP Health Care Agenda
Richard Nixon had successfully engineered an even more odious plot known as his Southern Strategy. The trick was devilishly simple: Appeal to the persistent racist inclination of Southern whites by abandoning the Republican Party’s historic association with civil rights and demonizing the black victims of the South’s history of segregation.
That same divisive strategy is at work in the Republican rejection of the Affordable Care Act. GOP governors are largely in control of the 26 states, including all but Arkansas in the South, that have refused to implement the act’s provision for an expansion of Medicaid to cover the millions of American working poor who earn too much to qualify for the program now. A New York Times analysis of census data concludes that as a result of the Republican governors’ resistance, “A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people that the program was intended to help. ...”
Why anyone who claims to be pro-life would want to deny health care to single mothers is an enduring mystery in the morally mischievous ethos of the Republican Party. But the exclusion of a working poor population that skews disproportionately black in the South is simply a continuation of the divide-and-conquer politics that have informed Republican strategy since Nixon.
The game plan of gutting the Affordable Care Act despite its passage into law and before its positive outcomes are demonstrated can be traced to a “blueprint to defunding Obamacare” initialed by the GOP conservative leadership under the aegis of Heritage Action for America.
They were abetted in this decision by a Supreme Court ruling last year granting the states the option of not expanding Medicaid to cover the uninsured under the new act. As a consequence, 8 million of our fellow Americans with annual incomes of less than $19,530 for a family of three have been prevented from obtaining the health care coverage that we as a nation decided to grant them.
In the end, this is a replay of the civil rights drama that gripped the nation more than half a century ago, but back then the Republican Party, following the enlightened leadership of Dwight Eisenhower, was on the humanitarian side of the equation.
There are certainly many whites among the 435,000 cashiers, 341,000 cooks and 253,000 nurses aides who the Times estimated will be denied needed health care in the states controlled by Republican governors who have decided to veto the most important provision of the Affordable Care Act.
“In all, 6 out of 10 blacks live in the states not expanding Medicaid. In Mississippi, 56 percent of all poor and uninsured adults are black, though they account for just 38 percent of the population.”
But that also means that almost 44 percent of the poor and uninsured in Mississippi are white, and the gutting of this program that hurts them is evidence of the false consciousness that informs racist appeals.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/racism_and_cruelty_drive_gop_health_care_agenda_20 131008
Thumbs up to the states that can do better than the feds micromanagement.so what happens when the feds remained shutdown, the states are meant to pick up the slack, and everything is ran more efficiently?
if one of the politicians isnt such a huge pussy, he/she could significantly advance their career by playing henry clay
One size does not fit all!
Ever think that maybe that's why they are poor?
They can't control themselves...
Why give money to losers?
so, how much is 10% of a welfare check?
what micromanagement?
Repugs and tea baggers won on the budget amount and are winning in their long term making American distrust and dislike govt. The real winners? The VRWC/1%/UCA who are financing the tea bagger extremists.
"Their Real Goal: Cynicism
So the President cannot re-negotiate the Affordable Care Act. And I don't believe Tea Bag Republicans expect him to.Their real goal is far more insidious. They want to sow even greater cynicism about the capacity of government to do much of anything. The shutdown and possible default are only the most recent and most dramatic instances of terminal gridlock, designed to get people like my friend to give up.
And on this score, they're winning. Congress's approval rating was already at an all-time low before the shutdown, according to a poll released just hours before Washington went dark. TheCNN/ORC poll showed that only 10 percent of Americans approved the job Congress was doing, while 87 percent disapproved. It was the all-time lowest approval rating for Congress on a CNN poll.
A recent Gallup survey found that only 42 percent of Americans - also a record low - have an even "fair" amount of confidence in the government's capacity to deal with domestic matters.
And in a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, 26% of Americans say they're angry at the federal government while 51% feel frustrated. Just 17% say they are basically content with the government. The share expressing anger has risen seven points since January, and now equals the record high reached in August 2011, just after the widely-criticized debt-ceiling agreement between the President and Congress.
It's a vicious cycle. As average Americans give up on government, they pay less attention to what government does or fails to do - thereby making it easier for the moneyed interests to get whatever they want: tax cuts for themselves and their businesses; regulatory changes that help them but harm employees, consumers, and small investors; special subsidies and other forms of corporate welfare. And these skewed benefits only serve to confirm the public's cynicism.
The same cynicism also makes it easier to convince the public that even when the government does act for the benefit of the vast majority, it's not really doing so. So a law like the Affordable Care Act, which, for all its shortcomings, is still a step in the right direction relative to the costly mess of the nation's healthcare system, is transformed into a nightmarish "government takeover." "
http://robertreich.org/post/63417612450
Last edited by boutons_deux; 10-08-2013 at 11:26 AM.
LOL...
You really don't have a better intelligence than a Clam. Do you...
Really?
Must this be explained?
Wow...
Where do I start?
Why don't you start by looking up the requirements that come with almost every federal contribution to a program administered by the states.
i was just asking someone that has direct knowledge. how much was your welfare check? every week? every month? you're the pro.
I have no direct knowledge of welfare. You responded to my words of 10% of a different topic.
Are you really that ficking stupid?
sure you do. how much were the checks?
My God.
I pity you.
You are such a stupid liar.
Link please...
everyone knows you were raised on welfare.
how much do you owe us?
Link please.
you're ashamed.
i get it.
If I was, why would I post the information you are misconstruing?
Link it you stupid ignoramus.
Put up or shut up!
how much did it cost us?
ZERO! Never a recipient of "welfare."
u keep telling yourself that.
but we'll always know.
by the way, in your world, that makes you a lib .
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