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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRead This Heartfelt Letter From the Daughter of Uninsurable Mother With Breast Cancer
To Tea Party Senator Mike LeeDear Sen. Lee,
Im writing to introduce you to this lovely lady my mother and your constituent.
Angie_Welling Shes a 16-year breast cancer survivor and a true member of the middle class. She has worked hard her entire life, having more jobs than I or even she can count. (I know because we tried one time.) Shes always followed the rules, paid her taxes, volunteered her time and given what disposable income she could spare to people and causes that make her country and state, and yours, a better place.
Shes raised three wonderful children (if I do say so myself!) who are also hard-working and contributing members of society. None of us are wealthy, but we are financially stable. And we, too, follow her example to share what we have with others.
Mom is also and Im sure you saw this coming uninsured. And uninsurable. Her pre-existing condition (the cancer that took her right breast) prevents her from obtaining health insurance.
About once a week, Mom wakes up in the middle of the night, choking and gagging. She usually spends the rest of the night vomiting, and the entire next day recuperating. She thinks she has something called a hiatal hernia, but isnt sure because the diagnostic tests are too expensive. And forget about treatment.
(My grandma had a hiatal hernia. As a federal government retiree, her insurance covered surgery. I suspect yours would do the same, if you were similarly afflicted with this unpleasant condition.)
Please Read the rest here~
http://progressivepopulist.org/2013/10/06/read-this-heartfelt-letter-from-the-daughter-of-uninsurable-mother-with-breast-cancer-to-tea-party-senator-mike-lee/
Cha
(297,655 posts)constituent.. it seems impossible to get through to sociopaths. Who knew there were so many from all parts of our country.
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)They are heartless Cha! Mike Lee has his, and the rest be damned!
Cha
(297,655 posts)"Policy experts say Arizona appears to be the only state in the nation so far to have withheld welfare checks because of the federal shutdown, a move key state lawmakers want Gov. Jan Brewer to reverse.
The shutdown halted funding Tuesday for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, which states use to provide cash assistance and other support for low-income children and parents. Arizona officials announced this week that 5,200 eligible families would not receive payments, which average $207 a month.
It basically means that families who already have very low income, who are approved and expecting their payments, didnt get them. And with very little warning, said LaDonna Pavetti, vice president for family income support at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, D.C."
More..
http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20131004arizona-welfare-checks-shutdown.html
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)The country was seeing such progress under Obama. Yet the GOP just can't handle that. They hate him and they hate us. We are not worthy of anything but there contempt.
The party of family values and pro life are hypocrites , they hate families and they damn well hate that we are alive.
Cha
Cha
(297,655 posts)these hard working activist Dems creating graphics for us and going Viral around the internet. We not only have to fight those terrorists in Congress but the US corporpmedia that is pushing the false equivalency that it's both parties.
I thought I should let more know about what's going on in Arizona..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023797809
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