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Bush Cares about the ones struggling more than Obama?
I have seen in many questions and answers people saying Bush does not care about us poor people well i disagree very much!
My husband and i are poor we make about 20,000 a year, before taxes of course, LOL. along with haveing 4 kids. We were very loyal workers for the company we worked for, and busted our bums for quit a few years. President Bush use to give all of us working families a stimulus check, that way we could go out and spend some money, because after all that is why it was called a "stimulus check" it was to be used to "stimulate" the economy, so that way we could help people keep their jobs, and businesses stay open. Of course that was the 1st thing Obama took away from us "POOR PEOPLE." and gave it to the big businesses instead, MILLIONS! my husband and i were living in a 2 bdrm. trailer trying to save up to get a house and a car, but Obama's 1st month in office took that away from us, in the approximate amount of 6,000.00 over 4 years we would have gotten
Now lets move on to the 2nd thing. My husband worked in a steel mill for 12 yrs, Then he went to college for 3 years and got an associates degree. W/ that degree he went to work @ a hospitail for 4 yrs, before they had to make cut backs, instead of getting unemployment, he went right back to work a week and a half later. We went and got a job together since we only had 1 car and kids, well we had worked there for 5 yrs. we got laid off November 8, 2008, I was team leader, and quality control. My husband was a machine op. he made 8.25 an hr. I made 8.50 an hr, and of course they took out for medical insurance, and eye insurance plus 401 k and life ins. So THANK GOD FOR MR. BUSH!! before he left office he signed the bill for the extensions for unemployment, because he knew that all the businesses were not going to be up and running so quick. Well Obama signed to extend unemployment for 6 more wks, and now there is a deadline & if you do not exhaust the benefits you have on your current tier before april 4, 2010 you will not get your next tier. There are people who are only on there 1st, and 2nd tier & they will not even get the 3rd & 4th. There are 4 tiers in unemployment, & as far as i can remember, Bush signed for 3 out of those 4. The people who are on their 1st & 2nd tiers have just got on unemployment. so bare that in mind when you want to say that George Bush did not care about us poor people.
As for the Health Care reform they passed! let me tell you this before i continue. Since we got laid off we had to go get medicaid insurance for our kids. & of course we got to keep our insurance from work till the end of the month that we got laid off. unless we wanted to pay 500.00 a month to keep it. So now my kids have medical, I just started getting medicail, & that is only because i found out that i have a terminal illness. As for my husband he has NOTHING! you know why? because they say his income(unemployment) is an UNEARNED income, even though he has worked for a little over 20 years all together with his 3 jobs he had in his whole life. Now that being said, Health Care Reform is not a good thing. It is going to tax everything to pay for this, includeing budget cuts from our kids schools, and probably the police and fireman services. It is going to give us the crappiest Drs. in each State, County, or City you live in. I am talking about the Drs. that normally us poor folks wouldnt even take our dieing dog to. Also, if you are in need of a specialist,(like me) you are going to have the crappiest 1 in your area, and on top of that you will be put on a waiting list, due to the amount of people who are also haveing to go to the specialist, Do you know how many people that is going to be how many people who are going to be put on this HCR? Let me give you an example of how this is going to be in the future. In France, if you are on the National Health Coverage aka (frances' Health Care Reform) if youre a patient w/ heart failure, the waiting list is so long for a transplant unless you're rich, or a youg child. People like us, you know what the DR does for you? He gives you a chair, You know why he gives you a chair? to sit in & die! Thats why the french come to the USA for medical, along with other countries also.
Sorry this is so long! I apologize. But these are my opinions. Obama is on the verge of turning this into a Socailist Country! Next, he is going to be takeing away our guns, which is also a bunch of crap. I also heard he is doing away w/ all welfare services Again these are my opinions. It is not to offend anybody, I apologize if i have.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Obama's "stimulus" for you is coming in the form of tax credits--you've filed your taxes, yet?
refund will be pretty.
oh--and bush posted the bailouts for the bank and auto industries...waited until the last 60 days of his 8year tenure as president---
so obama had the duty of carry them out.
we would have been in the great depression # 2 if they had let the people working in those jobs add so many to the unemployment roster.
think of it as getting stitches to close a bleeding wound.
i am so sorry to hear about your medical problems...i really do believe that Obama's health care plan may have been just in time for you. insurance companies find reasons to drop paying customers when they have terminal illnesses--or hold up benefits for 2 and 3 years while your family suffers with no care and no money.
now you won't have that worry.
i don't think we will have a shortage of specialists in this country. there are more doctors here, more facilities, more research. you won't see lines and waiting lists.
i know change is scary. but status quo was scarier.
remember, an improvement to our healthcare system does not mean we are going to have the Same system as another country. we are intelligent enough to adopt the good and not the bad attributes to create our own better healthcare system.
anyway--best wishes to your health and better luck to your family.
- American GLv 41 decade ago
I'm so glad you posted this. Unfortunately, the people I'd want to read this probably won't bother because you started off saying that Bush did something good, and to them that is impossible. I hope things get easier for you, you and your husband both work very hard and you deserve well. Unfortunately, hard work simply doesn't pay off like it used to.
- giannas42Lv 51 decade ago
I feel for you girl!! The people have no idea what is coming.
It is time for this country to rise up and trust me it has already started. Join the tea party movement which is getting larger by the day. Just be sure to vote in November 2011