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Life & Events > The Human Cost of Sequestration
 

The Human Cost of Sequestration

I seldom get on my soap box but sequestration is more than
a political football. It hurts most those who are the
homeless, the poor, the migrant workers and the children who
are in need of head start programs to catch them up to other
children who have had more advantages.

We did not see the immediate results because most of the cuts
take place over months. Head Start programs are losing
class rooms, medicare patients are being refused treatment
at cancer centers, research is suffering and we are not meeting the basic needs of many of our people.

We live in a town centered around Tinker Air Force Base.
There are a lot of deployed parents. The children and the
spouse left behind to cope need services although the Air
Force is supportive in many ways.

Low Income Housing is suffering. Section 8 housing services
have shrunk. Those left on Section 8 have to pay a greater
portion of their rent. Since 2007 there has been an increase greater than 32 percent in the number of families
with children living in shelters.

Children, our future citizens, who are living this way are
more likely to be malnourished and in poor health. This
leads to developmental delays and less productive adult lives.

I grew up with the pull yourself up by the bootstraps
mentality. It doesn't work any more.

Why are Senators and Congressmen being penny wise and pound
foolish? We deserve better.


posted on May 6, 2013 5:29 AM ()

Comments:

i,m afraid to say the same thing is happening over here , there never seems to be enough money to go around , those with the loudest voice seem to be the biggest winners
Am yet to hear of anyone being refused cancer treatment

comment by kevinshere on May 6, 2013 10:48 PM ()
It happens. I envy your health care.
reply by elderjane on May 7, 2013 8:23 AM ()
Love your new avatar. You look like a movie star.
comment by nittineedles on May 6, 2013 2:50 PM ()
I was complaining about the old one and Laura put up a recent one taken with
my children.
reply by elderjane on May 6, 2013 2:55 PM ()
I just hope voters unelect these selfish, cowardly SOBs when they come up for re-election. I don't have much faith that will happen tho b/c most voters are so stupid and inattentive. After all, this is the country that elected George W. Bush... TWICE!!
comment by steeve on May 6, 2013 9:16 AM ()
I don't either. They are ignoring the will of the people that elected them.
The plight of migrant workers is even worse. They can't get their children
into decent daycare while they pick our vegetables. They either have to
take them into the fields or put them in a sub standard facility that just
has them watching tv all day.
reply by elderjane on May 6, 2013 2:59 PM ()
yes,agreed on all counts.They are cutting way back and most of these are losing everything.
Something need to be done about this.But they have deaf ears.
comment by fredo on May 6, 2013 8:24 AM ()
All they think about is the perks of office and the vacations they can
score from the lobbyists.
reply by elderjane on May 6, 2013 3:00 PM ()
Totally agree, Jeri! And you've just touched on the cuts. The crazed congressional gerrymander of right-wing ideologues who support this have to be sent out of office at the first opportunity for the majority of citizens to get into a voting booth.
comment by marta on May 6, 2013 6:38 AM ()
I know it because I live in this gun toting state that is so stupidly right
wing. I am more worried about nourishing the children we have than future
taxation. Get this! The tea party chairman in this state recently tried to
blackmail one of the men in the state legislature if he didn't vote the
"right way".
reply by elderjane on May 6, 2013 3:03 PM ()
The elected representatives no longer represent the people who elected them, and they are in the deep pockets of the corporate world. They no longer care much about being defeated in their next election because they will be well taken care of by the corporate 'persons' whose cash they take.
comment by jondude on May 6, 2013 6:38 AM ()
They are so greedy. I wish they had to live on minimum wage and see how
that plays out. And just think, they will always be cared for financially.
reply by elderjane on May 6, 2013 3:07 PM ()
I agree Jeri -- it's a mess and the only part of it Congress was at all concerned about was airport delays that affect them personally. Did you mean Medicaid patients, not Medicare, being denied cancer services? I think the whole concept of how our representatives and senators has to be re-thought. The founding fathers, bless them, never thought we would evolve into a self-centered, greedy bunch of "leaders".
comment by tealstar on May 6, 2013 6:27 AM ()
Cancer Treatment Centers of America will not accept medicare patients. we
had to watch Henry cope with his wife's death. She got nothing but pallative care.
I don't know if she was too far gone but I do know she got no
surgery and just one dose of radiation when the pain got so agonizing. She
passed away just after Christmas. I think the richest country should have
a universal health care system that works.
reply by elderjane on May 6, 2013 3:16 PM ()

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