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In reply to the discussion: Fucking Welfare Queens [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)mentioned in the OP. And they have failed to make this safe we are told.
As far as I am concerned, the amount of money going to help the poor, the disabled, the elderly and children in this country is shameful, nowhere near enough which is why we have so many children in this country going to bed hungry every night, so many homelesss, so many of the homeless who are veterans "Support the Troops"! Right!
We have a worse rate of infant mortality, eg, due to lack of pre-natal care, than any other civilized country and worse than Cuba where HC is free.
Your obsession with the relatively minimal amount of money spent on the most vulnerable people in this country, is not often seen here, where people do have the facts.
44,000 Americans die each year for lack of Health Care. That is a national security issue. And it is a disgrace. That is more than half a million dead Americans from something that could have been easily fixed, since 9/11. So it's clear saving American lives is not the reason for those trillions of dollars.