Medicare and Social Security Funding at issue again

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by merrylander

BTW y'all do realize that SS is required by law to put all its surplus funds into Tresuries, it is not a choice.

It never ceases to amuse me that here we claim to be the richest country in the world yet we can't look after our citizens like all the other industrialized nations can. It seems we would much rather enrich Big Pharma and the Health Insurance industries. Even if some children do go to bed hungry.

Something about a nail and hitting it square on the head?

[piece-itpete]

Find a starving child in the USA, and I'll show you an abusive parent.

Pete

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Find a starving child in the USA, and I'll show you an abusive parent.

Pete

you will

[BlueStreak]

Any starving kids in Canada? Australia? UK? France? Germany? Japan?

Not that I'm aware of.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Find a starving child in the USA, and I'll show you an abusive parent.

Pete

If this is true, it is most likely due to the "Social Safety Nets" that extremists on the right love to denounce as "handouts"....................

Maybe they would rather we had more starving kids? More motivation for their "lazy" parents to go get a job? Hmmmm?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Find a starving child in the USA, and I'll show you an abusive parent.

Pete

Don't worry about it. It's only 6.7 million households (5.7% of US households) who suffer from "very low food security." No biggie (as I jam a donut down my yap).

http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/...nger_facts.htm

[piece-itpete]

I'd like a headcount - who's ever lived in those neighborhoods?

Most free meals (and there a LOT) are private charities.

Noone, yes, because that is the only way a child would starve here.

Pete

[JonL]

Originally Posted by merrylander

It never ceases to amuse me that here we claim to be the richest country in the world yet we can't look after our citizens like all the other industrialized nations can. It seems we would much rather enrich Big Pharma and the Health Insurance industries. Even if some children do go to bed hungry.

This should be a sticky.

[finnbow]

The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrial nations in infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants.

http://library.thinkquest.org/C00229...sent/stats.htm

It seems that many American children die before they have a chance to starve.

[piece-itpete]

Not because of lack of availability.

Pete