By: John Hatfield

John Hatfield — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:10:10 +0000

I was laid off from my job after 3 years of success in april 2009. I had surgery for cancer in January 2009 and will have no insurance after January if I still cannot find a job. My cancer could reappear anytime now and I would not be able to get insurance even if I could afford it. So, I am facing potential death due to political ideologies and an intangible concept called “money” having greater value than human life in our American contemporary society. Criticize the evils of “socialism” all you want but a society who will willingly allow fellow citizens who have been unfortunate enough to become seriously ill at a time of deep financial recession to have no health care makes a mockery of all the feigned patriotism to victims of 9/11 or anything else. It is the LIVING americans who we need to have compassion for and spend mney to help, not the dead. Nationalism, patriotism, religionism, and all the other “isms”aside,what is a life; mine, yours, anyone’s worth. Such a society that is totally careless of life I have no regrets in leaving.

By: dprosenthal

dprosenthal — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:38:28 +0000

After all the terrible waste of tarps, stimuli, bail-outs, etc. – this is a situation in which the gov’t SHOULD step in and provide financial aid. These are not people who chose to live on welfare or to spend the money they earn on luxuries rather than buying insurance. Laid-off workers are victims of a failing economy, more than willing to work to provide for their families as soon as the jobs become available. How much better for our tax dollars to help deserving Americans than providing hugh bonuses on top of huge salaries to executives who obviously failed
to do an adequate job in the first place.

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By: John Hatfield

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