Friday, April 13, 2012

A Letter to Ann Romney


Dear Mrs. Romney,

     Yes, being a Mom can be a full time job and very difficult.  However, how much more difficult is it to be a mother of five and to have to work because your family needs your income to survive?

     Ask widows, divorcees or women whose husbands just disappeared, never to be heard from again.  Your husband supports the Paul Ryan budget which would cut social programs such as Head Start, Planned Parenthood, free healthcare and food stamps all of which help these women make ends meet.

     Your experience staying home with five children is singular in that you have always had the means to raise your children and help to do so.  I don't think you can compare apples to oranges.  The oranges of this world will surely object.  I was the mother of two and the stepmother of two more.  I dealt with daycare, budgets, unemployment, and uninsured hospitalization.  Did you have any of these experiences?  If not, you have no room to talk about your "hard" job.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The Paul Ryan Budget

Who do you think the new Paul Ryan Budget will take care of; certainly not seniors who will experience "the end of Medicare as we know it." What does that mean? It means vouchers to pay for our insurance but DOES NOT include any regulation of insurance carrier's rates.  It does not account for "pre-exsisting conditions." Nor does it account for an annual raise in rates when you age and your health deteriorates.

I have never know a private insurance company to be kind and gentle.  Where is their incentive to keep rates reasonable for the seniors they insure.  They have none.  Their motive is profits, pure and simple.  Paul Ryan and his Republican cohorts are the toy boys of K street lobbyists and corporate bigwigs. Paul Ryan isn't a budget guru, he is the puppet on the strings of every insurer, oil company executive and Wall Street raider.  This man is not fit to polish your shoes. But he intends to wipe his feet on seniors and Medicare using our backs as his own personal doormat.