Real Obama stimulus is an old social agenda
By Jim Wooten, AJC
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Since you posted this, why don't you give us your opinion on this editorial. I would be nice to know where you stand, instead of throwing this out there and just sitting back and watching the fireworks. Do you have a big enough set to do it????
as for our schools, at some point we have to expect students to make the grade or take up a skill. there is nothing wrong with being a welder. not everyone is cut out for college although, if colleges continue to concentrate heavily on remediation, they will be the 'new' high schools.
i have mixed emotions about socialized medicine. the current system is screwed up, no doubt. i would prefer to be able to choose my own physician/surgeon.
as for the stimulus package as a whole, i don't think barnesville-lamar county will benefit at all. i hope i am wrong.
so, for the most part, i agree with my friend jim wooten.
now, how big is your set?
Right now a guy who "worked" for me who decided to have four kids has free full health care. He gets health care for him and his family because because he only showed up when he wanted, often vanishing for months at a time in the middle of improtant jobs.
I'd like to have the same advantage instead of paying over $1500 a month for my health care out of my own pocket, and I'd like to see people who show up for work be able to get health care instead of begging for basic minimal mantainence or doing without.
I'd also like the see the government encourage science and technology and schools to start those old welding and auto-body classes. More than half the people in the world are not fit to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, or brokers. Many are only capable of being skilled labor. Instead we pay big money to people who push to spend millions of dollars on a stadium for games while dropping courses that actually teach useful skills for lack of money.
The school systems worked pretty well back when was in school, and that was back when people who wanted to go to private schools paid their own way instead of taking money from the public system. We need to look back at when out school systems fell apart, and undo the mistakes we made.
While we are spending billions of dollars in Iraq, an area where tribes have been killing each other since before Jesus was born and an area that had nothing to do with 9/11, we are losing control of the area where the terriorists actually came from. I suppose I should rejoice in that wise way for fighting the war on terror, but I alway think it is better to go fight where the real enemy is instead of making new ones.
We are supposed to defend the ex-president that helped push this mess along, including giving billions of dollars to rich people without daring cap their salaries or even ask or control where the money went, because stopping them from buying a jet with the bailout money or going to a milion dollar spa would be socialist.
We can't teach a kid to speak understandable English, count change, or use basic logical thought in dealing with problems while we spend millions on a stadium, but we now bitch about some proposed programs that actually might turn out some useful talented citizens.
We give bad managers and common thieves billions, we give people who can work but refuse to work health care. It's only socialized if we suddenly decide to control what they can actually do with the public money we have given them for years.
I want some socialized programs. I'm about to go broke from all these conservative agendas.
For example, Joe the welder checks into the hospital and finds that he needs an operation to save his life. Joe has group medical insurance and procedure cost $250,000. The first thing the hospital does is to run a credit check, determine his level of coverage and evaluates his financial situation to see if Joe can pay what the insurance will not. If it is determined that he can’t the hospital frequently refuses treatment. This is also very common in nonprofit hospitals, as well. Now, if Joe was the CEO of the company that provides this group coverage do you think there would be a problem? This is only one obstacle Joes has to over come before he receives treatment. The Insurance provider then examines every possible loop hole in an effort to refuse coverage. Joe becomes not a human being but a number on a spread sheet.
I believe the most irresponsible act I could commit, would be to bring a child into this world while lacking the required financial means or parental commitment which would keep the burden from falling on society. Unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect world.
To provide a disadvantage child with every possible opportunity, whether it be the availability of affordable housing, government assistance or to insure a quality education is the only viable option I know to help prevent the child from committing the same irresponsible act of the parents. Many times all this effort is not enough because of social/ cultural ideologies that are never addressed.
When examining the average SAT scores per school district throughout the state it is obvious the economic level does factor the scores. A deeper tax base for the district to draw from does make a big difference. Lamar county schools have made dramatic improvement since I graduated there some 35 years ago, but still, compare Lamar Co. with Peachtree City and you’ll see what I mean. As far as, increased public spending, the improvement is more evident in the schools that are in need of the assistance. Especially, for the average student, many times, remediation in college can be directly linked to where a student had graduated.
Jim Wooten was right. As a result of the last eight years, in Washington, there is much pent-up frustration and it is rightly justified. It has been estimated, just at this point, when all the direct and indirect cost is captured, the war in Iraq will easily exceed 5 trillion dollars. The lack of regulation in Wall Street is what has gotten us in this mess and not the welfare cheaters. The $700+ Billion in corporate welfare didn’t seem to raise as much stink with the GOP as the money in the stimulus package that will directly improve the quality of life for the average citizen.
This is the size of my pair. Thanks Walter for providing this forum. You do our community a great service.
Scott
My opinion is the free market should be allowed to exist, without the rules and regulations that cause this problem.
Always remember "Cavent Emptor" Let the buyer be ware.
The TVA that brought electrification and good paying jobs to our nation's poorest region and was a major contributor to us winning WW II was a failure.
What an interesting take on a such a successful program.