Well now he can have a taste of his own medicine as the Republicans tell HIM “we’re never going to do that so stop trying”

I hope you all have had enough of this ping pong game between the Red and the Blue.

Vote GREEN!

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This doesn’t surprise me one bit because the conservatives are usually the most corrupt and definitely the most hypocritical.

I couldn’t agree more! Don’t misunderstand what I am saying. There are exceptions to the rules and we know who they are; but in general they are not worthy of our vote.

Look at what just got voted in. Now we have a larger GOP population and there first agenda and Obama’s (a Republican in sheep’s clothing) is to give money to the rich and increase the taxes on the poorest of Americans, cut into the Social Security program and Medicare to cover shortfalls which unless we make ourselves loud and clear we’ll never see again. There’s actually going to be a $400 increase in taxes on the poorest of the poor if this tax bill gets passed while every other level will get tax relief at the expense of the poorest. But this has pretty much always been the case especially in the deep south where they tax food and other necessities to extract as much money from the poor as they can. So they are literally so poor that they have to choose between buying milk or buying eggs. I have a new found respect for what these people live through on daily basis although I find it hard to believe that our country is not the place that I was taught it was.

I for one am dependent on SSDI because my employer changed my disability policy without notifying me which is a very long legal discussion but needless to say one I didn’t win. So it’s all I’ve got to live on and I’m being bled dry very quickly. I can’t afford all my medications, I can’t even put away enough to cover my property taxes every month. So at some point I will – I don’t know what will happen to me. But now they are threatening to reduce the COLAs which will hurt me even more along with the devaluation of the dollar and the inflation that the Fed is saying we don’t have (I can guarantee that we do as the CPI is almost at it’s all time high) and now they are reneging on the $250 promise for 2011 because of not getting an increase and the rapid cost of medical care increasing. That may not seem like much to someone that can work but to me it’s huge and many others.

Before the crisis even hit seniors who have medical coverage that I cannot even apply for because I’m not old enough (which is age discrimination) got complete drug coverage through their insurer and the state and yet they have been able to amass retirement accounts, pensions, etc which I have not. But my point is they get a lot of benefits that people that are on SSDI do not get but yet we are treated the same when it comes to our monthly check from the federal government. Those of us on SSDI don’t get a premium for having greater medical expenses or not having been able to create nest eggs. But that is not my point. My point is that even with the money that seniors have been able to save they are still losing their homes in large amounts to property taxes. And just yesterday I heard that senior bankruptcies are up 433% on the year so things are looking really bad for those of us on fixed incomes and the only thing we have to look forward to is when we’re going to loose everything because they keep taking away from us the tiny amount we get. Yet we put people in prisons at a cost of roughly $50,000 per year, per prisoner while seniors get an average of 1/5 of that amount and have to pay for their medical insurance, food, prescription, doctors visits, clothing, cars maintenance, homeowners and auto insurance, all utilities, etc while the prisoner pays for nothing. Who says crime doesn’t pay? It pays better than having to live in the federal safety net and have to worry every day as to what major expense may come up that is going to drown us in a sea of debt.

I can’t sell my home because renting would be more expensive. I live in a very low income area which forced me to leave my friends and support network behind so I could at least survive for a while – so it appears that there’s a war against the old and disabled. My only choice is to leave the country and in the process I will loose my medical insurance and I can only hope that I can either buy insurance which may be affordable outside of the US or that it’s medical costs are so cheap that I won’t have to worry about having insurance or that a foreign government would be willing to let me buy into their system. But I’m not real big on leaving behind the only country I’ve known to have to learn a new language and maybe end up with foods that I don’t really care for or whatever. It’s a tough choice and one that I’m dragging my feet on making because it’s going to be hard on my physically as well as mentally.

But it’s obvious that they don’t want to take care of the people in our country that cannot be productive and be slaves to the capitalist pigs. If we don’t work we are accused of being malingerers and if we do work they are continually cutting our wages through currency devaluations. Even at my last place of employment for the 4 years I worked there I never say a merit pay raise only a COLA. I don’t know if that’s the way all employers are now but it was the first employer I worked for that I didn’t get a merit raise every year or a promotion.