Medicare and Social Security Funding at issue again

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Not because of lack of availability.

Pete

Indeed it is. Because of the lack of availability of quality prenatal care and nutrition.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by 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

First, my hand is up because I have lived in these neighborhoods. What do you want to know?

Second I actually agree with you that starvation is not a big problem in this country, nutrition for poor kids is however.

I don't think you mean abusive parents, I think you mean troubled parent.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Indeed it is. Because of the lack of availability of quality prenatal care and nutrition.

bingo, nutrition is the problem

i just posted the same thing

[piece-itpete]

Finn, it's been studied to death. Some soon to be parents just don't go and get it. I've even heard it discussed on black radio stations.

Noone, I knew you did Did you ever check availability of free meals in your area?

And when some parent doesn't feed their kids because they're cracked out, I call that abusive.

Pete

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Noone, I knew you did Did you ever check availability of free meals in your area?

I never had personal need but knew people who did and food was available.
i would say that being poor absolutely makes it very challenging to eat healthy and nutritious.

And when some parent doesn't feed their kids because they're cracked out, I call that abusive.

you say tomato, I say tomato

[piece-itpete]

Ah so.

Yeah, when I was really poor I'd end up eating a lot of fast food. And a local place sold pecan twirls for $.50 a pack, they made dinners occasionally.

Sometimes I didn't really feel good.

Even being pretty darned poor I only went to a free dinner once. It was not fancy but balanced, the way a school lunch would (should?) be.

But I felt like a mooch. Some of those folks looked pretty bad off.

Pete

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Ah so.

Yeah, when I was really poor I'd end up eating a lot of

pasta and butter

never went hungry

[piece-itpete]

Lol!

For us it was a lot of potatoes and generic mac & cheese (still 5 for buck back then). Often when butter was too dear, we'd have mac and cheese with margerine and water - yuck. Peanut butter was pretty common too... I hated ramen noodles.

I still like pecan twirls occasionally

What I liked best about the area, outside of doing whatever you wanted (and the super cheap rent!), was the kids. They generally didn't get treated very well by just about everyone, and we did. My car was never broken into, not even when unlocked.

Pete

[Fast_Eddie]

No offense, but it's all a load of horse shit.

Social Security is just fine. Will be for a good long time, by any measure. And when it's not, no problem. Adjust the payroll tax accordingly and move on. Should we adjust some things now? Probably. People are living longer. Probably a good idea to raise the minimum age. But these ass holes sure go out of their way to make these sound like giant problems when in reality, they're not.

Wonder why they do that? Wouldn't be to get votes, would it?

Republicans hate Social Security. I just wish they had the balls to come out and say they just want to eliminate it. But they won't because they'd never get elected again. So they lie about how bad everything is so they can try to pass some "reform" measure that kills it slowly. It's like looking at a car that needs a tire patched and saying we need to junk it and start walking everywhre. Just stupid.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by Fast_Eddie

No offense, but it's all a load of horse shit.

Social Security is just fine. Will be for a good long time, by any measure. And when it's not, no problem. Adjust the payroll tax accordingly and move on. Should we adjust some things now? Probably. People are living longer. Probably a good idea to raise the minimum age. But these ass holes sure go out of their way to make these sound like giant problems when in reality, they're not.

Wonder why they do that? Wouldn't be to get votes, would it?

Republicans hate Social Security. I just wish they had the balls to come out and say they just want to eliminate it. But they won't because they'd never get elected again. So they lie about how bad everything is so they can try to pass some "reform" measure that kills it slowly. It's like looking at a car that needs a tire patched and saying we need to junk it and start walking everywhre. Just stupid.

they don't hate it, they simply want all that cash in the private sector t increase unearned income for them