Taking from the least of us
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Letter to the editor
Published: July 24, 2008
As some enjoyed the stimulus check, it seems the government gave with one hand and took with the other. From an article in the paper, the federal government will no longer help the poor with their health insurance —more than 15,000 in Alabama alone.
Whenever President Bush and the Republicans think spending cuts, it’s the working poor, the children, the old, the sick and the disabled who suffer.
How a government treats the least of its people shows its true character. Most who receive Social Security can only afford the basic needs of life.
The loss of $96 a month is cruel and unfair to people who live below the poverty level. The only hope is for some in the Legislature see that this is taking from people with little left to take.
Alabama’s 15,000 and tens of thousands elsewhere can’t afford this. People should write their representatives and let them know that at election time, they can’t afford them, either.
Robert Barnes
Dothan
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Posted by ( jorod74 ) on July 27, 2008 at 5:10 am
Thank God and both parties, then. i know
handicapped people who won’t ever have to suffer the shame of Social inSecurity because they don’t qualify for it.
i got bad news for some: Social Security isn’t supposed to be a lifestyle. But thanks to our government taking all the elements of shame from it, welfare, and food stamps, some believe it is.
I have met people that had to live off Social Security, and the first thing they did was work their way off it.
You want more money from the good old S.S.? tell the next president to stop spending money, stop printing it to lower our dollar and lower taxes on the 20 percent that pays 70 percent of our
nation’s taxes.
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Posted by ( Local Yokel ) on July 24, 2008 at 7:48 pm
I agree with you! This is not a partisan issue. We have Social Security Recipients living on about $650.00 a month on the low end of the scale. Minimum wage will not raise a family and only allows a single person to live in poverty. This is also not a faith based issue but, a moral issue. Where are our local, stats and federal elected leaders with the morals, character and strength to keep these injustices from happening?
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