[pct-l] Pct-L Digest, Vol 70, Issue 19

[melko]

5. Re: Paying for SAR (Brick Robbins)

Want to weigh in on some of the comments and specifically the analogy of 
feeding strays to feeding the poor and those without insurance. I work 
for my husband, a consumer bankruptcy attorney in Tehachapi. At least 
50% of the bankruptcies are medical related. Did you know that if you 
get hurt on a trail like the PCT, and require a helicopter to fly you 
out that the cost of that ride is $48,000? We personally dropped our 
insurance when our monthly premium rose to $3800/mo for 2 people. Please 
tread carefully where the poor are concerned. We are all just a few 
paychecks from being on the streets ourselves.

We had several generations of politicians who actually were capable of 
seeing poverty and who had, like Martin Luther King for his people, a 
dream of ending it.

What we have now are politicians whose fetish is money, the most 
corrupting of all fetishes because it replaces all else as the focus of 
self-value in those individuals and by their policies in the society as 
a whole.

When a society makes money the center of power it becomes the focal 
point, the determination of value. By that standard those who have money 
are good, and those who don’t aren’t and have no value. And those who 
have it, by the circular logic of those minds, got it all by themselves 
because they’re deserving with the help of no one and nothing else, or 
if with the help of “something else” because they’re good and deserving.

And those in this world who don’t have money aren’t deserving. Those who 
are in poverty, by the judgment of this modern generation of 
Conservative politicians, deserve to be in poverty. They have no 
intention of “ending poverty.” They have every intention of enacting and 
enforcing policies that intensify the differences between our haves and 
our have nots by allowing those who have to have more which they will 
have by denying it to those who in their judgment just aren’t deserving.

If they were deserving they’d have.

Argument won. Welcome to the old deal previously known as The Gilded Age.
Credit to John F. McBride, Seattle, WA

Read more 
here:http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/12/4554855/democrats-show-their-unwillingness.html#storylink=cpy

Penny Melko