Looking at the front page of the RJ this morning almost fooled me.
The recent letter from Donna West, calling it ridiculous for Gov. Jim Gibbons' to try to cap the Nevada Check Up plan for low-income children, gives me pause every time I read this liberal bleeding heart blather. I really wonder how many of these 23,000 to 32,000 children are just in "temporary need"? Doesn't Ms. West realize that these types of plans were designed to merely be a "safety net" for those in sudden need of assistance -- much like welfare and food stamps? All of these programs were designed to be for "temporary assistance," not a way of life.
But because so many people decide to shirk their own responsibility in taking care of their financial problems, children, etc., they expect the government to do it for them -- and have no qualms at all. After all, they can't afford it. Period.
So why is that my responsibility? Does everyone realize that when they make the conscious decision to have children they should be responsible for all of that child's care until his is grown? That includes, but is not limited to food, clothing, shelter and, yes, medical insurance.
Our government's entitlement programs have vastly become a way of support for those who choose not to take care of themselves or their offspring. Compassionate forms of temporary assistance have been so overly abused that it is a sickening decay on this society -- and nobody cares.
I personally know of several families who continue to manipulate the system so their children have this "temporary" health care.
If placing caps on programs such as the Nevada Check Up eventually makes people become more independent, then it needs to be done.
In response to an letter from Harry Reid-honestly! The most powerful man in Congress and Nevadans hate him-is this for real???
Cherie S. W Common Sense wrote on May 30, 2009 06:29 AM:"Hundreds of millions of dollars in recovery funding are flowing to Nevada, creating jobs where they are so desperately needed." Yeah, the "funding" creates make-work jobs for politicians, like the 12-hour-per-week gig that the R-J exposed.
Senator, your letter is a day late and a trillion dollars short. But, hey, what do you care? You got your visit from the campaign finance fairy this week. It's all good.
Discouraged Nevadan wrote on May 30, 2009 06:26 AM:There's going to be an opportunity to vote out some of the do-nothing state politicians in 2010. I recently applied for a job in Secretary of State Ross Miller's office and was treated so incredibly disrespectfully, I still can't believe my tax money goes to fund such an operation.
wade wrote on May 30, 2009 06:06 AM:Reid is a lying, corrupt pig, period.
Mike26 wrote on May 30, 2009 06:02 AM:Harry Reid, a good example of what is wrong with Congress
t wrote on May 30, 2009 04:59 AM:Hey Harry Reid, do you "smell" us coming to the polls to vote for you?
ted wrote on May 30, 2009 04:57 AM:HARRY REID....
wasn't the solar panels at nellis built in 2007, long before anyone ever heard the name "Barack Obama?"
Wasn't stumping for you Obama's only reason for coming to vegas, with Nellis an afterthought to take the heat off you and him?
Will you publish here in the letters what it cost US citizens for Obama to come here and try to help you?
Your assumption people will come to vegas to look at Nellis solar panels is smoke and mirrors, or another "the war is lost Reid"?
Is it true Nevada is the lowest state in US for stimulus funding?
Did you have a hand in ACORN coming to Nevada to implement their fraudulent voting practices?
Can you name just one job, (with the exception of your buddie weekly to get a "green job he was not qualified for" that Nevada has gotten, just one job Harry?
Want me to go on Harry? Do you really think you are fooling anyone?
