See that low-income-program-cuts graph?
Daughter is on SSI – Supplemental Security Income. My tuition is covered by Pell Grants, with secured loans and grants making up the rest. We both are on Medicare-Medicaid. We live in low-income housing. We get Food Share.
We got into all of these programs WHILE I WAS WORKING FULL-TIME, just so you don’t think I’m some low-life slacker.
So. If Paul Ryan has his way (poor people are not suffering enough) I will be homeless. Maybe my daughter will be too, I don’t know. I’ll have to quit school, but all that – homeless, out of school – will be moot, because without health insurance I’ll be dead. My prescriptions run well over $500 a month. I get one of them, the $350/month one, through low-income support programs that the pharmaceutical companies run, so their drugs will be covered on some federal insurance programs. Do you think that will continue when Medicaid gets cut? I don’t.
But rich people will pay less in taxes.
I’m taking it pretty personally. You would be too, if somebody thought you didn’t deserve to be alive.
9 comments
Comments feed for this article
August 14, 2012 at 12:03 pm
kmkat
If it is okay with you, I would like to link to this post in my post to go up on Thursday. It is a bunch of links to interesting articles; the link to yours says, “A few words from one of those people Paul Ryan thinks haven’t suffered enough.” Okay with you?
August 14, 2012 at 2:22 pm
k
Yes, ma’am. Thanks for asking.
August 14, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Batshit Crazy Fuzzarelly
I, too, am going to link this on my facebook page, and on my blog later.
August 14, 2012 at 2:56 pm
k
Okay.
August 15, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Pam J.
If I could vote several times, for Obama of course and preferably in North Carolina and Virginia which he needs to win, I would do it to help you out. I live so close to Virginia that your post has inspired me to do what I’ve been thinking about all summer: I’m going to be one of those volunteers who drive registered voters (Democrats only) to the polls on election day. People who don’t have any other way to get to there. Thanks for the push I needed.
August 15, 2012 at 7:56 pm
k
Wow, that’s really great. Thank you! I am truly grateful for the support you all are showing – both to me, and to the other invisible people.
August 21, 2012 at 6:22 pm
Steve
got here from Crooks and Liars… I’m posting this on my FB page too if it’s OK with you.
August 21, 2012 at 6:44 pm
k
It’s all right with me. I hope it does some good.
August 21, 2012 at 9:29 pm
Pluege
republicans are disgusting beyond words. To go after the disadvantaged and downtrodden while sitting as fat toadies passing judgement and doling out disparagement has to be one the foulest things a human could do – republicans don’t even qualify to be called hunan.