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It would be almost obscene to amplify the horrific words of Keith Hitchcock. Keith is an American citizen who lost his leg in an accident, but because he’s uninsured, he can’t get a leg.
So despite being a citizen of the richest country on the planet, Keith will be confined to a wheelchair, unable to work and support his family because healthcare in the United States is a privilege not a right.
Chances are Keith will end up on welfare because a man in a wheelchair would probably have a hard time finding a job in a booming economy. Now, during the Great Recession, Keith doesn’t have a chance.
Makes you real proud and feel all warm and fuzzy to be an American citizen when you read about shit like this, doesn’t it?
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Eve, many thanks for your terrific reporting onscene last Saturday. It was heartbreaking, but necessary. Apparently Snowbillie’s book tour was more important to the So-Called Liberal Media to cover; and prison documentaries.
Well thank you Teddy, and thank you too for posting those excellent diaries while I was running around the convention floor.
We have been educated to acquire our own, be self-sufficient, and trust in the system.
I can believe in the first two parts.
I do not trust the third part.
I rejoice to when I hear the mantra of all of those who claim they, unlike us weaker types,
For to hear them tell it, no one gave them anything, while any honest examination reveals that to be totally false. E Pluribus Unum, ARTie!
Gee I just so LOVE our Health Care System…../S
Thank goodness we will still be focused on employer based private insurance if the current bill passes… That ought to help this man a lot.
This is grotesque.. but no less so than something I caught on the local news this morning showing scenes from some Central Valley town where (large numbers of) kids are coming to school so hungry that they’re ripping open ketchup bags and devouring the contents to fill their stomachs, and the bankrupt state can’t afford to provide them with enough subsidized lunches and breakfasts. This country is getting to be a grotesque place.
Shame and humiliation have a place in society. Isn’t it time to hang the scarlett letter on members of Congress that so callously preen talking points that are really little more than bald faced lies while people like the man in the video linger. The reason Congressman Grayson got so much attention from the media was because simply telling the truth is so rare. The tea partiers may be idiots, but at least they are riled enough to take to the streets. Where is the outrage from the social justice crowd? Why aren’t we as equally organized and out there being heard? Until we are, we will continue to loose ground.
And yet, all you hear from the GOP is tax cuts. We are living in a survival of the fittest society. More guns, more gated communities, more people living on the edge. It doesn’t take a genius to see where things are headed if we don’t change our way of thinking. Of course, a lot of these hard right types are counting on the rapture coming soon to solve all their problems.
Blub, where are you?
CA? ["Central Valley"]
George W. Bush worked very hard to be born wealthy. Not everyone is willing to put in the effort he did.
She quits again.
Those gated communities are each “A Shining City on a Hill” envisioned by Republic St. Reagan in January 1974.
She quit to avoid her fans? The birther sheep will still support her.
I’m in San Diego.. I guess the local news had a story from the Valley.
The consequences of having Republics in power for so long are beginning to show.
More than “beginning” to show, I’m afraid…
I expect a rabid Republic attempt to make the next election about gay marriage.
I won’t be surprised. I heard something about it in passing a few days ago, but I wasn’t paying close attention.
Prosthetics are not “Cosmetics”!
She said that she wouldn’t be making a Turkey dinner because it was “too much work”…actually it was “too much of a grind.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8e4n0uKmk0
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/