Hi Bonnie,
Good seeing you on blind democracy. I know that your schedule will
not permit you from attending the JCCB meetings, but if you would
like, I will put you on our email list so you can stay in touch.
It makes me chuckle...in an unfunny way, when I hear folks railing
about how we are lied to by Political Office Seekers. I think of the
past "Presidential Campaign", and my many friends who sat glued to
their TV's and radios and the Internet, analyzing every word dripping
from the mouths of some very glib fabricators.
We're better off spending our time researching the past performances
of these campaigners. For example, there is no connection between the
campaign super promises uttered by Donald Trump, and his track record,
past and present. Why would we believe the promises of a high flying,
wheeling and dealing real estate investor who chiseled everyone who
came into contact with him, cheated his contractors and treated his
workers like animals.
My very first impression of Trump, many years ago, was that he was a
Founding Member of the, I'm for me First, Party.
He has done nothing to alter that image. It is a bit scary to think
that there are people who really believed that Trump really cared
about their needs. What were they all smoking?
But enough of Trump. He got the job, and we're all stuck with him.
The real focus ought to be on what we do about living in a nation that
has no political party for the vast majority of its people, the
Working Class. Following the disgusting actions of the DNC, along
with the undemocratic Super Delegate system, I officially withdrew
from the Democrat Party. They no longer represent me, and I will not
allow them to use my name...not that they care, since I am not among
the 10% of the "Really Honest To God First Class Citizens".
Carl Jarvis, also a former member of the Middle Class, until I woke up
and discovered that there is no "Middle".
On 3/25/17, Bonnie L. Sherrell <blslarner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh, yes, Donald J. Trump promised tax cuts, just as he implied he would be
closing tax loopholes that allow those who are wealthy to avoid paying
their
fair share of taxes.
He might have intended to close those tax loopholes, but not before he
rammed
through his first tax cut, which one would have to earn more than
$200,000.00
per year to take advantage of it. Give a new loophole now, and when he
takes
away others later, his fellow one-percenters aren't likely to grouch as
much, I
suppose.
What frosts me most, however, that he proposed to counter the revenues lost
by
giving those who don't need it this tax cut by cutting Medicaid spending so
much
that it is estimated ninety million people nationwide will lose
Medicaid-funded
services.
What services are we speaking about?
Home care services.
Home-health services.
Necessary consumable items such as disposable underwear and other
incontinence
aids, catheter supplies and bags, dialysate and other materials used by
dialysis
patients, wound care supplies, and countless other things used everyday by
caregivers, nurses, nurses aids, and even primary care providers.
Hospital beds, Hoyer lifts, home commodes and bath and transfer chairs,
wheelchairs.
Physical therapy, speech therapy after strokes and facial injuries,
occupational
therapy, blood transfusions....
Need I go on?
I've been working as a caregiver for the last ten years, and I work hard,
with
ten-plus hours a day during my work week. My job is largely paid for by
Medicaid funds, and one client who receives a fair amount in Social
Security
pays almost a third of her benefits per month to help defray her
caregiving
costs. Without periodic blood transfusions--paid for by Medicaid--and home
health nursing services she would probably have been dead long ago. This
woman
worked hard until she was in her mid-sixties, much of it providing safe
homes
for adolescent girls who'd been abused, neglected, raped, and otherwise
traumatized in their birth homes. If anyone deserves support now that she
is
aging and is largely bed-bound, it's this lady. But had the Republican and
Trump-sponsored healthcare act passed, she'd have ended up in a nursing
home
costing far more money a month and receiving most likely insufficient care.
Imagine--secretively pushing through a healthcare act loaded with a Trojan
Horse
of a tax cut for those who have no need for either said tax cut or the
benefits
of the healthcare act!
Why is this former Republican totally disgusted with this Trump
administration
and Paul Ryan's House of Representatives and Mitch McConnell's Senate?
Guess!
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very
wise cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
We gave the Goblin King control of our nation!
