MrRodgers
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From various news reports:
1. 24 million will lose healthcare as Medicaid is defunded.
2. Urban and rural poor women will lose healthcare as Planned Parenthood is defunded.
3. Trump will sign a resolution requiring drug testing of unemployment insurance recipients.
4. Iowa Congressman, Steve King, promotes a race war between Blacks and Latinos.
5. Regulations are being lifted for coal mine safety inspections.
6. Last year the FCC approved the addition of nine broadband companies to participate in the Lifeline program, which was originally tasked to extend telephone infrastructure to rural communities. The new Trump FCC chairman has dropped the buildout of broadband.
What’s going on here? Are these the unsurprising manifestations of the GOP war upon the poor? Ronald Reagan railed against "welfare queens." Are current day Republicans carrying on the same biases more quietly? Is there something in the drinking fountains of classical liberal, right wing, and free market ideologies that holds the poor to be lower forms of humans who deserve there stations in life?
Your thoughts . . . .
1. I do not think that Medicaid is being defunded. I think they are looking at some sort of block grant thing.
2. Do you actually think rural women have good access to PP? They don't. I do not consider the town I am in to be rural, but it would still take about 90 minutes to drive to the nearest PP. For a pap smear, an abortion, or std testing. And they charge for those or bill your insurance. Now, if I lived in a rural area, the drive would be longer. For less care than I can get at a doctor's office. Now, the county health department that offers all the same services EXCEPT abortion, has a free program for those who income qualify, and is not that far away. Even when I was living at the edge of the county, I would not have had to drive an hour and a half. So, no, I do not buy the premise that PP is necessary for women's health reasons.
3. I have not read anything about that. However, I am not so sure you should receive unemployment if drugs were the reason you were fired. I would need more information on this. If it is the same as the drug testing of welfare recipients, then I would not be for it.
4. There is already a race war between blacks and latinos.
5. What were the regulations designed to do? Were they just intended to make the coal mines go out of business?
6. What have they dropped it in favor of? More cell phone towers? Is it because of monopolies? I would need more information.
I don't think that there is a war against the poor. I do think that the well-intentioned liberal programs for the poor do not work. Along with not working, it is nigh impossible to transition of the programs into a job and home of one's own. Heck, most of the programs will allow you so few assets that you really are not allowed to save money at all. The programs themselves hinder people from improving their lives. It is sad really.
The Cancer Detection Programs: Every Woman Counts provides free clinical breast exams, mammograms, pelvic exams and pap smears for age-eligible women who do not have health insurance and meet the program's income guidelines.
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Many women and men depend on PPH
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