You Don’t Really Need Those Entitlements… Do You?
by Pamela LeaveyWe heard Bush talking about cutting back the “entitlements” last night in the SOTU address, but funny thing is (or not so funny), he wasn’t talking tax cuts for the wealthy or tax breaks for the corporate whores. No, he was talking about Welfare, Medicaid, federal child-support enforcement funds, student loan interest and a host of other things that all affect the poor.
The House yesterday narrowly approved a contentious budget-cutting package that would save nearly $40 billion over five years by imposing substantial changes on programs including Medicaid, welfare, child support and student lending.
With its presidential signature all but assured, the bill represents the first effort in nearly a decade to try to slow the growth of entitlement programs, one that will be felt by millions of Americans. Women on welfare are likely to face longer hours of work, education or community service to qualify for their checks. Recipients of Medicaid can expect to face higher co-payments and deductibles, especially on expensive prescription drugs and emergency room visits for non-emergency care. More affluent seniors will find it far more difficult to qualify for Medicaid-covered nursing care.
George W. Bush will never know the pain of worrying about making ends meet. He’ll never have to suffer with out healthcare and neither will the wealthy folk that he favors — why because he’s lived the life of “entitlement.”
Most of those who will feel the pinch of these cuts to the budget have never had didly and most likely never will. Cutting off federal child-support enforcement funds and forcing cutbacks to Welfare will cause an unjust burden to single mothers and roll back the clock some 15 – 20 years. I could tell George W. Bush a few things about being a single mother, going without child support and even being on welfare, but he wouldn’t care — and neither would his cronies in Congress who approved this travesty!
The people who don’t need the “entitlements” are making out like bandits while the people who just struggle to get by, have new worries to add to their plates. You can’t survive on worries and worries don’t feed a hungry family.
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What we are seeing in the governments slashing of the foster program is indeed a plan that I believe is in conjuncture with The Infant adoption awareness Act.This act is in place to adopt the healthy infants of the poor for the wealthy friends of the Republicans. I believe that someone said ” Ok, let’s see what is in place now that was not in place when the supply of infants for adoption was not scarce ? And grandparents help is one of those things.Many grandparents need the money for their grandchildren .This we will be one step closer to bringing back the good ole days when all a Mother needed to lose her baby was to be scared,no parental support and a lack of programs to enable a single Mom to keep her own child. Everything old is new again!
I have a little different spin to this story. How can or how do the Republicans stay in lock step when voting. Will threre every be Congress person or Senator that will break away and vote for what is in the best interest of all Americans. Is there a Republican out threre with just a little bit of decency? We lost this vote by two. Here in California all 19 Congressmen voted yes! What a bunch of B.S.
Is my money an Entitlement if I get to keep it?
I lean Democratic … I’m a little ticked to keep reading how getting to keep your own hard earned money is being talked about on the same level as entitlement programs like welfare, child support services, etc.
This thing called…
You lean where.. right.
uhh … based on nothing except that I don’t see anything wrong with tax breaks you say I lean right? … wow, I guess twenty years of voting Democrat and supporting/volunteering for Kerry wouldn’t dissuade you, huh? In case you didn’t notice, that was a trackback that your blog put in as a comment so perhaps you didn’t read the part where I said I don’t mind paying taxes or supporting welfare for those in need?
Stumbling
Guess I didn’t – sorry about that.
These automatic link backs get confusing when parts of a post eleswhere are read out of context.
One comment from the actual post:
“I’m a little ticked to keep reading how getting to keep your own hard earned money (you know those horrible, horrible tax breaks that the wealthy get. . .”
Keep in mind that the GOP tax breaks primarily help the ultra wealthy. Complaining about these is not the same as going after higher taxes on the upper middle class.
Confusing yep. I’m new to trackbacks and didn’t realize that it would be put in as a comment. But I really do not lean right – on most things
And voting for a Republican – not bloody likely (maybe one exception I can think of, but not where I live.)