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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (64648)	3/9/2008 3:55:35 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 90947

I stand by Peter's statement.

To: Bill who wrote (64648)	3/19/2008 10:41:16 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Hatr tip to Bill: From the end of the speech: ========================================== "And Ashley said that when she was nine years old, her mother got cancer. And because she had to miss days of work, she was let go and lost her health care. They had to file for bankruptcy, and that's when Ashley decided that she had to do something to help her mom. She knew that food was one of their most expensive costs, and so Ashley convinced her mother that what she really liked and really wanted to eat more than anything else was mustard and relish sandwiches. Because that was the cheapest way to eat. She did this for a year until her mom got better, and she told everyone at the roundtable that the reason she joined our campaign was so that she could help the millions of other children in the country who want and need to help their parents too." ========================================== So, a woman gets cancer, gets fired for missing a few days work, loses her health care, files bankruptcy, and then gets cured of cancer, all within a year? That's the story? No unemployment insurance? No welfare or food stamps? Or Medicaid? Barack is telling us that Ashley ate ketchup sandwiches for a year because they couldn't afford other food, and that her mother recovered from cancer without the help of health care. Tell me how this could be a true story. If the rest of the story is that she did in fact utilize the unemployment system, the welfare system, the emergency food system and medicaid, not to mention the handy consumer bankruptcy laws and the outstanding US medical system, then the real story is one of tremendous triumph for the safety net that currently exists in this nation.