Reply #89: The way I see this... [View All]

[windbreeze]

and I have read everything posted here...is that Chavez is pointing out to us...the failures of OUR gov't..in regards to it's own people...while at the same time, responding brilliantly to a very prominent RELIGIOUS RIGHT EXTREMIST leader of OURS, that called for him (Chavez) to be assassinated...
As for the numbers of poor people in this country...anyone live in a city? do you see those people standing on street corners, or sleeping in the streets, they're poor and most likely medically unfit to hold any job, that is if there were any. Anyone visited Appalachia recently? We do have our poor...in far larger numbers than we care to see...and there are more of us every day...
My husband wants to retire next year...do you know what it's going to cost us to keep our health insurance? $700 a month...$700!!! while we try to survive on SS...so we have a choice, it's keep health insurance and starve...or eat and have no insurance...in this country? What's wrong with that picture?
I have a neighbor with lung cancer, from asbestos......he's on medicaid...and SS...recently thrown completely out of the medical system, and the Dr. he was seeing won't even return their calls...hasn't had chemo for 3 months now, because he can't come up with $330 a WEEK...the amount HE has to pay, out of HIS pocket for the treatments, which his entire SS check wouldn't cover...oh, and...all those companies he worked for...BUSH has protected from law suits...so the money he thought he could count on for his wife, after he passes...and the hope it brought, is GONE...so even though he worked and paid taxes all his life...and served in the military...now in HIS time of need...there is nothing, no HOPE...and no help...but we can spend BILLIONS killing our own young, and innocent people of another country, who did nothing to us..
Yes, Chavez made a point...a very clear point...and I believe that was exactly what he intended to do..and perhaps IF this country would leave him alone...HE would have accomplished a whole lot more for HIS people, by now...money/effort/time he's spent defending himself from our intimidation tactics, could well have gone to benefitting his own people...
windbreeze