Critical Mass building in MO?

[loyalsister]

JEFFERSON CITY — Protesters dumped a large trash bin full of prosthetic limbs, discarded walkers and empty prescription bottles in the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday to demonstrate their disdain for Medicaid cuts proposed in Gov. Matt Blunt’s budget for fiscal 2006.
http://www.digmo.com/news/story.php?ID=12160

In all, his proposals would cut 89,046 people, about half of them elderly or disabled. The rest are working parents.
http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/resources/frontpage.pdf

I hope so. It's getting serious. There need to be more people involved. He threw that stuff out of the budget, thus throwing people away. This is something people need to take seriously or it WILL happen and they will have friends who will wind up in nursing homes. Sometimes people just don't realize that their friend is diabetic and that the state used to cover that testing equiptment.

[Desert Liberal]

1. Yes, Baby Blunt wasted NO TIME wasting

the poor and disabled and elderly of Missouri. I am a single mother with two boys. I make less than $8/hr, no child support and am on food stamps and daycare assistance as well as Medicaid. We barely keep our heads above water. Now what is going to happen to us when I get sick? A huge doctor bill because I will have to go to the emergency room; time missed from work because I waited so long to go to the emergency room that it takes 2-3 days to recover.
Screwed, we are. Doomed to remain poor. And all you trolls out and about, don't think this won't affect you; particularly when it goes nationwide.

[loyalsister]

2. That's right

It won't take long for that to hit the insurance premiums of the beloved "middle class."

[Ladyhawk]

3. Raise your hand if you went from middle class to poor.

:hi:

[loyalsister]

4. here

:hi:
Soon after my disability became a problem.

[Ladyhawk]

10. Me too! :) Gotta love being poor and disabled, huh? :) n/t

[Desert Liberal]

9. me! me! i did!

:hi:

[lapislzi]

6. Hah! GOP's so-called concern for the middle class is a canard

They are concerned only with concentrating wealth. Their precious middle class will one day be little more than a distant memory. The ones that remain will be mid-level corporate bots. Doctors, lawyers, and other professionals (I include teachers in this group) will be reduced to serving their multi-tentacled masters; civil servants will be sent to the ranks of the "working poor." Any other lingering small business types will be absorbed into franchising or run into the ground.

[loyalsister]

11. Oh, but it has so many meanings

“Taxpayers are generous to maintain such a program,” Blunt said.
Whether the state can afford to continue such services even at reduced levels depends on economic growth and the creation of new jobs, he said.
“Missourians,” he said, “want the dignity that comes with labor.”

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/10918559.htm

In this context, they are talking about the poor and disabled and then the "tax payers" those who are taxpayers, are "middle class" since they know they pay taxes and for damn sure don't want to be among the "poor and disabled."

This is a very nasty quote. This guy is a piece of work.

[put out]

12. In Friday's edition of the Star,

It seems that many rural voters who supported Republicans in great numbers are dismayed that...get ready for it

The social programs and subsidized medical care and home health care which support and help them are due to be cut. They just didn't have any idea. They didn't plan on this. They don't know what they will do. They need the in-home health care and the assistance with buying their medicine and they need fully staffed local clinics. They don't have much money. They can't afford the loss of services and the increased cost of care and medicine. Very sad, truly. Just now coming to realize that gays, God, and guns, really aren't but a little tiny bit of the big picture.

And the mean part of me thinks, "You voted Republican. They are in the business of hurting people. You just flat didn't give a rip until you realized they were going to hurt you, too."

[Igel]

5. Oh. It's not about the bicycle activists. Nevermind. n/t

[BrotherBuzz]

7. Soon come, the bicycle activists will have to expand....

their platform to include more issues than just public transportation. Know what I mean, Vern?

[Haymare22]

8. Cant believe how many

...people Ive run across lately sick of 'doctors' as DRUG DEALERS.
Most make $150 for six minute patient visit and all they do is DEAL script DRUGS.