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We are the 99%
Submitted by pale on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 12:15.
Want to know the ONE thing that separates us from our U.S. brothers and sisters? The one thing that is keeping us partly solvent and off the streets?
The ONE thing that if we lose it will dump us into the toilet personally and collectively as a country?
Healthcare.
This drum is one I have been beating for a long time. And I have a hard time understanding why it is not talked about more often.
There are still a few around who will tell you straight faced that the Harper Administration would not dare touch this sacred cow. Those are the Naive ones.
Because incrementally, piece by piece with a mahjoritay, and a rubber stamp senate? With Provinces who are getting more and more strapped for cash, and with the apathy of a sleeping public, this is an easy agenda to slide in.
Businesses in Canada do not have the same responsibilities as US ones. They do not have to supply health benefits, if they do give us extended medical and dental, it is always going to be cheaper for them. And for us. Hard to get any benefits today even with this basic truth.
When we do get sick, no one is turned away. Cancer and deadly items go straight to the top of the list. There is disability to carry through for a short haul so that not as many lose everything.
Wait lists are of concern of course. But just think of all that money that is going to prisons while the crime rate drops. Think of the money they are spending for jets that come with no engines.
If we added that money instead to healthcare and education and our social safety nets?
I posted the link to this site the other day, Wearethe99percent.
What we have in common is a horrendous jobless rate, and student loans that are growing each year. What we do not have in common, is the medical bills. Reading through only a few pages, and there are people in medical debt, or suffering through because they simply cannot afford care. Many make too much to qualify for medicare. As low as $13,000 a year. Here in BC, premium assistance kicks in if a family makes under $25,000.
Occupy your streets, wherever you are.
Wake them up. The hockey game will wait. Demand to be heard.
Use your voice, or lose it forever.
Collectively conscious and in solidarity.
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This is it. Do or die.
Or, as par Chris Hedges:
The idea of actually removing road space is kind of an outrageous one. But we're finding that when traffic facilities *are* removed, most of the traffic actually disappears. (From PBS e2 webcast)