I read this morning that the White House is upset over the poster featuring a little girl who asks: Obama’s daughters get healthy school lunches, why don’t I?
The first thought that popped into my head when I read that was the real answer to that question: Because they are rich and you are not. Because their parents can afford to pay $60,000 a year in tuition alone for their children–more than most parents earn in a year in the USA.
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Yes, I can see the Obama’s side of the argument that they don’t want their children drawn into this. And I can understand the argument that it is not the Obama’s daughters “fault” that their parents are rich. On the one hand, as a parent, I am sympathetic and in agreement with those arguments. On the other hand, those posters remind me of a HUGE PROBLEM that we have with those who purport to represent us in the USA: These people are rich while most of us are not. This is an issue. Wealth and class are HUGE issues in the USA. They are one of the 800 pound gorillas that we sit with in the living room.
MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO REPRESENT US IN CONGRESS ARE MULTIMILLIONAIRES WHO HAVE LARGE INVESTMENTS IN WALL STREET, WHOSE LIVES ARE SO FAR REMOVED FROM THE LIVES THAT MOST OF US LIVE THAT I AND OTHER AMERICANS ARE BEGINNING TO ASK HOW THE HELL THESE PEOPLE CAN REPRESENT US WHEN THEY HAVE NO IDEA THE WAY WE LIVE?
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These people are so out of touch with Americans and what is REALLY happening on Main Street that they, aided by mainstream media who also represent the minority of the rich in our nation, refused to even allow a discussion of Single Payer Healthcare–the only option that can provide healthcare to all the people in this nation is not even on the table for discussion?
AND WORSE! The man that President Obama selected to hammer out a healthcare solution in the Senate has no one on his team who is representative of the American people and they have come up with a plan that doesn’t even HAVE a public option?
THIS IS DEMOCRACY? PLEASE! THESE PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD!
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HERE IS PERHAPS A BETTER QUESTION FOR THAT POSTER:
DO YOU KNOW WHY MOST POOR CHILDREN ARE FAT AND RICH CHILDREN ARE NOT?
It is primarily because the parents of poor children can’t afford to pay for healthy nutrition and rich parents can.
It is more expensive to eat healthy fresh vegetables and fruit–Been to the grocery store lately?
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Rich people who can afford to send their children to private schools instead of public schools are not as vested in supporting public schools as those whose children and grandchildren do attend public schools.
Rich people whose children don’t have to eat the obese creating hot lunches dished up at public schools are not as vested in supporting good nutrition for all children.
Rich people who do not have to worry about health care insurance for themselves AND who also receive money from health care insurers are not as vested in seeing that all Americans (not just a few) receive affordable healthcare AND they are not as bothered by the abuse that is committed by every single one of these private health care insurers against their customers.
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