When Obama gave his speech last week and said the American people are tougher and stronger than the times we now face, he must have been talking about the people who are employed, have a savings and can survive day to day. What about the people who are unemployed, have no savings and wonder how they will survive tomorrow? How are they suppose to be tougher and stronger and take care of their families? This country needs to wake up and take care of its citizens instead of slamming them into hard ground and then stand idle as they watch them struggle to their knees.
NYT letter to the editor:
All governments owe police and fire services to their citizens. But equally, health services are owed to all citizens. This is why every major developed country except the United States has a system of socialized medicine. That the United States does not and even that the recent health care reform legislation is widely opposed is a sad commentary on the state of the American polity.
Only in the richest country in the world do parents have to wonder if a child is sick enough to take to the doctor because of the cost of doing so. Those who favor cutting back on Medicare or Medicaid can only be described as cruel. --Anthony Ralston, CA
NYT letter to the editor:
All governments owe police and fire services to their citizens. But equally, health services are owed to all citizens. This is why every major developed country except the United States has a system of socialized medicine. That the United States does not and even that the recent health care reform legislation is widely opposed is a sad commentary on the state of the American polity.
Only in the richest country in the world do parents have to wonder if a child is sick enough to take to the doctor because of the cost of doing so. Those who favor cutting back on Medicare or Medicaid can only be described as cruel. --Anthony Ralston, CA
