Maybe they wouldn't have to have more kids if they had opportunities, or their parents had had opportunities...
They've squandered their opportunities.
Maybe they wouldn't have to have more kids if they had opportunities, or their parents had had opportunities...
Children should be taken away from their mom and put into foster homes. She isnt fit to raise them and the father is in prison. Let her be the aunt instead of the direct mother, it lets her stay in their lives but prevents suffering. Having one kid is expensive enough, I cant even imagine having 15. How did she pay the hospital bills?
But never will people who rail against welfare admit that the vast majority of recipients are white.
His principled position to keep government out of our personal lives(and... following the Constitution) is the reasoning for his "no" on those bills; not necessarily the contents of the bills themselves.
Are you incapable of seeing the bigger picture there?
Unconstitutional is unconstitutional no matter how you slice it. A lot of those things would require an amendment.
His foreign policy is stellar and how it should be... but let me guess, you assume he's an isolationist?![]()
Yes, welfare was not a problem in the early days when it benefited white women. Actually, government subsidies (such as land grants, for instance) weren't a problem either...when it benefited white establishment.
But never will people who rail against welfare admit that the vast majority of recipients are white.
They cannot deny someone care, but they can ask you to pay the bill over time as a debt. I am in the process of working out the billing for a hospital visit while I was not insured (3 day visit cost me 10 grand, I had to wait 6 months to get coverage for a pre-existing condition as I messed up and missed the 30 day window when moving).Hospitals cannot deny someone care if admitted through an ER (i.e. they can't ask you you if you can pay or not). When someone lacks insurance, Medicare will reimburse the hospital up to a certain percentage of the cost. However, she likely had Medicaid, which would've paid those bills.
I assume you mean to the left, but yes it has gotten bad. Thank the neo-conservatives and the rise in popularity of people like Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, and Rick Perry. The country has moved to the right so much so that someone like Ron Paul seems liberal.
And don't get me started on the Tea Party people...
They cannot deny someone care, but they can ask you to pay the bill over time as a debt. I am in the process of working out the billing for a hospital visit while I was not insured (3 day visit cost me 10 grand, I had to wait 6 months to get coverage for a pre-existing condition as I messed up and missed the 30 day window when moving).
He's a constitutionalist and a strong believer in small government.
Sadly, we like in a country where people believe the government should do more. That's why folks believe he's crazy.
And the happiest people are where government does indeed do more not less.
Table: The World's Happiest Countries - Forbes.com
You were what they call a 'cash patient'. And that is something you don't ever want to be as you know. People literally go bankrupt trying to pay off medical debt. No other developed country in the world can that happen but in the U.S.
When I have a health problem ALL I worry about is how serious it might be. The financial implications, in terms of paying for care, as opposed to the impact on my life if I were seriously ill, never enter my head. I have a chronic health condition for which I'm seen regularly - support workers help me with practical and financial issues. Currently I have a bad back - I can phone up tomorrow and go my doctor a couple of days afterwards.
Strangely enough I have no fear of the cost, even though I'm poor - then again I live in the UK.
Of course the NHS isn't perfect - contrary to the right-wing propaganda about the "costly" NHS, we spend less as a percentage of GDP on healthcare than many developed nations - certainly less than the oh-so-wonderful USA.
Much of the propaganda comes from the free-market ideologues who've held sway since Thatcher and who would secretly like nothing more than the huge riches that would come the way of them and their friends in a privatised system. Constantly tinkering with the NHS under the guise of "reform" when the secret aganda is to actually undermine it, so the proponents of private healthcare can point and jeer and call for more private input is becoming a tried and tested tactic to try and erode the huge regard this "socialist" system is held in by most ordinary people in this country.
There are three things that would make me extremely wary of ever working or living in the US, as much as I admire many things about the country. The extreme racism in some parts of the country and the apparent racial separation that seems to exist there (separate black and white TV ratings? WTF?); the private health system and the gun laws. Despite some of the nonsense I've heard about the UK from some the US gun lobby, the annual murder rate for the entire UK - a population of 60 odd million - is around 1'000, with firearms accounting for about fifty of those.
I'm not denying we have a problem with violence in some parts of the country; our clubs were even banned from playing football in other countries for a while because of the violent behaviour of our fans. The difference is that most of the violent offenders use knives - its kind of difficult to carry out a drive-by knifing, or to cut down multiple victims from a thousand yards away with a machete. Seems kind of obvious really.
And the happiest people are where government does indeed do more not less.
Table: The World's Happiest Countries - Forbes.com