I suppose it's sweet and nice that the U.S. is helping the Iraqi child Baby Noor with her spinal whatsis, but I'd rather see that money going to help people here in the U.S. Preferably, adults who are unemployed or underemployed and can't afford health insurance.
Baby Noor is propaganda. She's a tool to improve the image of the United States as regards Iraq. Look! We saved Baby Noor! Great. What of Americans who go without medical care because the U.S. will help only those Americans who have bred? Do working, taxpaying adults count for nothing? Even if they're homeless, jobless, and not taxpaying, they still have more potential for contribution than a child does. Why not help the adults?
It's a rhetorical question. I believe that the U.S., and much of Western culture in general, is lost to the Cult of the Child and this will never change. The lives and well-being of children will always trump the lives and well-being of adults.
We as a country and culture would be smart to think about airline safety instructions for passengers. The airline safety cards and videos always show an adult putting the oxygen mask on first, and then helping a child with its mask. "Put your mask on first." It makes sense. If the adults are not able to care for the children, who will care for them? Who will help them, in this modern society that has done its utmost to ensure children cannot care for themselves?
A country and culture that really wants to help children needs to put adults first. Make sure adults are taken care of, and they are in a better position to help children. This also works really well for people like me who don't care about kids all that much and aren't that interested in helping them. It's a win-win solution.
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You are right We do not take care of our adults.Have a great day!!!!!
You are very selfish, but there is solice in the fact that you will ALWAYS be frustrated by this, because it will never change. You "don't like children," and aren't interested in helping them. Well, the bulk of the country doesn't like slobs like you, who want handouts and don't even take the time to get an education. And so, I really hope that you don't get help either.
I hope you're miserable about this for a really long time.
You are very selfish, but there is solice in the fact that you will ALWAYS be frustrated by this, because it will never change. You "don't like children," and aren't interested in helping them. Well, the bulk of the country doesn't like slobs like you, who want handouts and don't even take the time to get an education. And so, I really hope that you don't get help either.
I hope you're miserable about this for a really long time.
(I'm sure you won't publish this because you have some sort of power issue... that's evident from your original post. Rest assured that my intent is merely for you to read this and for you to know that I am glad you are bent out of shape about this. You seem like a terribly miserable person, and I am quite sure you will rot in hell where you belong.
I have a soft spot for loonies who tell me I'll rot in hell where I belong, and then say I'm the one with power issues. Someone sure is miserable here, and I dare say it ain't me.
Hi, reegarding health insurance, I posted this on Turtle's board several years ago, and you might be interested as well.
When I was single and 24, my newly unemployed ex-roommate was bitten on the leg by a brown recluse spider. We lived in an old, decaying house that had many spiders. For several weeks we tried to get her health care as her skin turned black and rotted off her leg in chunks. We went to the hospital ERs, the state Title 19/Medicaid department, Catholic charities, the hospital-owned charities, you name it. She was turned down every time because she did not have kids. The ERs would not take her without a credit card which she did not have. The Medicaid social worker urged her to get pregnant. She doped herself up every night with a fistful of Tylenol and Nytol so she could sleep. Sometimes I'd still hear her sobbing at night, and I'd wonder if a was a spider-bite away from the same fate. I was also unemployed, uninsured, and childfree. Finally, she borrowed the ID and insurance card of a similar-looking friend, and hoped she wouldn't be thrown in jail if caught. Because it had gone untreated for so long, she had to sign a paper before going into surgery authorizing them to cut off her leg if the gangrene had attacked the muscle. Can you imagine being told you MIGHT lose your leg in a few hours?! Luckily, because she was overweight the fat had delayed the gangrene from attacking muscle, but the doctors said if another few days had gone by OR she had been of a normal weight she would not have been so lucky. She ended up spending a month in the hospital and the bill was 40k. She has a huge scar and indentation where they had to slice off the infected parts. If she had been able to get treatment when she'd first requesting it, i.e. if she had kids, the cost would have been under 1k with no scarring. By the way, she and I both had/have college degrees and skills, not that it should matter in this story. The economy can turn to crap for any of us. Unemployment and lack of insurance can happen to YOU.
Back when I was 25, I made my final decision on whether or not I would have children. So I went to the OB/GYN and made an appointment for a consultation for tubal ligation. I had to convince the doctor that I was dead serious about not having children. Among my many reasons was my lack of 'marketable skills' and higher education that would enable me to make more than just above minimum wage(as we all know, living on minimum wage as one person is difficult enough). An unexpected pregnancy would financially devastate me. I am reluctantly given the consent form and I sign right then and there. I am also given the number of Health and Human Services to sign up for a subsidy for the cost of the operation as it will be around 3K for hospitalization, etc. This is an enormous sum for me, about a quarter of my yearly gross. I call the number, get shuffled around a bit(business as usual for gov't services), am finally connected with the correct department, and I am asked how many children I have. I reply that I have none. I am then told that Health and Human Services does not subsidize tubals for women who haven't had children. I tell them I can provide proof of low-income status, that despite working full-time I qualify for Percentage of Income Payments to my utilities, I qualify for the Lifeline plan from my telephone company. Hell, I qualify as low-income by their OWN standards! I am told that, sorry, I still have to have at least two children to qualify for the subsidized tubal.
So...
I learned that no matter how bad off you are, the government still won't help you unless you have kids even if you are trying to prevent needing their help in a far more expensive way.
Four years later, I still haven't been able to save enough for the tubal. This is being uninsured and underemployed at it's finest.
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