So I am watching the news last night on one of the public meetings on the proposed cuts. This father is talking about how the cuts are unfair and will require his wife to get a job. This will mean that their daughter will not be able to have a parent to greet her when she would normally get home from school, and his daughter has been through enough and needs to have her mom there when she gets home. Really? This is where our sense of entitlement has taken us? The news folks then say that 1 in 5 Wisconsinites are on some sort of medicaid program. How in the heck can that be? Yep, obviously we need to tax folks more, bring the dems back into control so they can bleed us some more.
What happened to our family values?
not sure, but i know where our strawmen are
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Yes, once everyone has 3 jobs, including children, disabled and senior citizens, then we can once again bitch about how the military industrial complex gets a free ride - until then, shut the fuck up whiner
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you are a fucking idiot. why the hell should taxpayers support someone because they choose to stay home as a non-working adult? there is no reason. they want healthcare, get a fucking job and pay for it, don’t sit on your fat lazy ass at home and demand a free ride.
there, language you can relate to, it seems
hey my post agrees with you - when this guy and everyone in his household has three jobs - then he can bitch
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BTW, what’s the story on this family - why are they on Medicaid? handicapped children, senior citizens? It had better be juicy.
you can try and twist your response sarcastically, but there is no pink font
many folks seem to be tired of giving a free ride to the lazy self-centered portion of the public that expects to be taken care of just because
we are all aware that no middle class families have two working parents so they should keep their burden on society <= see how that works
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there is no story on them, just a fat guy at the mic complaining that his wife will have to get a job
oh the humanity
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I think you need more information on this family before you launch a tirade. Post back when you have background. Nothing wrong with staying home with kids. This country should provide health care for everyone, especially kids.
That 1 in 5 number is a bit dated. It used to be true, but, out of those receiving Badgercare, a ridiculously high percentage were actually IL (and some MN) people who questionably “resided” in WI for eligibility purposes. The benefits in WI far exceeded most other states and the eligibility requirements were very loose. Over the last couple years, the loopholes allowing this have been greatly restricted (or closed). Not completely shut yet, but, better.
Here, I did your work for you and it wasn’t that hard:
"Drew Hanson, 44, of Madison said he worried he couldn’t afford insurance through the state’s BadgerCare program for his 3-year-old daughter if premiums increased 5 percent as proposed. Hanson said he buys private catastrophic health insurance for himself and works part-time so he can be home to care for his daughter after his wife died two years ago. “We’re on a razor-thin family budget,” Hanson told Smith and Deputy Secretary Kitty Rhoades. Rising costs would force
him to go back to full-time work and not spend time with his daughter, Hanson said.
“With all due respect, I don’t think it’s fair to my daughter to suffer any more than she already has,” he said. "
http://www.twincities.com/…_19148862?source=rss
Let me guess: you’re a single white male about 34 years old?
What do you think child care for a kid costs? It’s more than the mom would make at a mcjob, that’s for sure.
sounds like a different story
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I think you just blew it
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that wasn’t the fellow on the news I saw, as he referred to his wife having to go back to work, that or they snipped pieces out
that said, single parent work too, they don’t need to stay home and only work part-time.
yeah, I am not feeling the love
having had two kids in daycare(unsubsidized, one of the few where they were), I am well aware of the costs. the story I saw was a kid going to school, ie come home from school to mom. yes, summer care for kids is expensive, I still am aware of that, for a few more years.
ie we only paid 420/week at one point
before folks have kids, they need to consider the reality of what that means
when i was 34, i was more tempted to vote for a dem, more often. not so much anymore
Two kids? Not 34? Hrm. Let me try to find something I was right about. This could be tough.
Anyway, $420/week. Without taxes taken into account, you’ve gotta make $10.50/hr to cover that on a 40 hour work week. Best solution would be to find a part-time gig that lets you leave early to pick kids up. I have some coworkers that do that, but that sort of flexibility is not common.
I agree that people need to consider what having kids means, financially and time-wise. But let’s face it, there’s no thought needed to have a few beers and not use a condom, so I don’t expect that to change too much.
and*** that*** can have other medical related consequences
but when kid is in school, there are no daycare costs.
i picture Peg Bundy sitting on a couch, watching Oprah, eating bon-bons, looking for a hand out to continue to do the same