215 "NO" Votes- Go Buy Your Own Health Care!!!!

15.7 million of us are out of jobs. 10.2 % of our nations citizens.
Think about it.
If 15.7 million are not employed, those people have no health insurance.
It doesn't stop there.
If 15.7 million of us are unemployed, each of us, 15.7 million, also have families which no longer have health insurance.
We are well beyond 15.7 million US citizens which have no health insurance.
 215 members of congress voted no for Universal Health Insurance.
39 Democrats and 179 Republicans voted no.

Let us put ideology into practice.
Since every one of them HAS Universal Health Care through a federally funded insurance program-throw them off the plan.
All 215.
Make them put their money where their mouths are-
Make them buy their own health insurance-through privately owned companies.
No Federal on the dole health for them.
Or better yet, make them join the more than 15 million US citizens and their families -with no health insurance.

Accountability.
If the 179 out of 180 Republicans believe their representation of us translates into not one of almost 16 million US citizens and our families do not deserve health care because we are unemployed, let us demand that Republicans live our lifestyle.
Unemploy them
Unemploy them so they understand the lifestyle of those of us who worked hard all of our lives, paid our taxes and paid through our employers our fair share of health costs-
Let us force them to live the lifestyle.
Those who believe money is far more important than the lives of our citizens in this country, let them become unemployed and without insurance.
As we unemployed know, money to support our families is essential but no profit and loss sheet ever replaced those we love, cherish and  hope will have the chance for  healthy, productive and joyous lives.

The bottom line? We love our families. Health care is a right and our lives should never be perceived as one big profit and loss statement.
We citizens are not and will never be considered as a liability for greedy, monolithic health care corporations and/ or other businesses in this country.

Welfare to Work-Ignoring The Root Problem

1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation ...also known as The Welfare Reform Act shut everybody up.
Those who believed people were driving around in pink Cadillacs living the life of Donald Trump got their lust for punitive measures satiated.
Those who liberally believed everyone needs to have a job, we just have to help a little, had their little golden souls appeased by the efforts to put those less fortunate in the workforce.
Lobbyists were out in full force for this juicy morsel of legislation. Money allocated for education and support totaled 16.5 billion dollars. That money in the form of block grants is given to the states to allocate it how they wish. Most allocate the dollars in grants of minimal assistance, for example Florida provides 240.00 a month to individuals with one children, and requires  at least 20 work or volunteer hours weekly  to continue receiving the monthly income.


Most states contracted with other agencies to implement the program. Many of the programs contracted with are concerned with one set of numbers.
The amount of time a client is engaged in activity for a month.
States require 20 hours  per week for single parents with children under age six.
Many private programs require 35 hours a week regardless of a child's age.
In addition, it doesn't matter how those hours are allocated-volunteer work, schooling, work experience and job search. The rules set by the state and the managing agency implement and enforce  the documented hours. Women who do not comply are sanctioned by the managing agency personnel.


Without providing an entire lesson on the Welfare Transition Program, (read the Act) a few events occurred which made this program look very successful. For awhile an abundance of minimum wage jobs existed. Clients moved on and off the welfare programs depending on the low wage job availability. Clients were hired at McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's with little effort. In fact, prior job  and criminal histories mattered little. Educational levels were ignored.
Poor women with children weren't seen or heard from, voila! the program considered a success.


The unemployment picture today reveals a different picture.
1. Poor women can't get those fast food jobs anymore. They are turned away and told they need a high school education, or their criminal record makes them ineligible.
Internet applications don't give them a chance to get in the door. One look at their record and the application is often kicked out of the system.


2. The Welfare Transition Program is perceived as the bottom rung of social welfare thus the people hired to counsel, guide and draw from resources and community expertise are often making little more than a living wage. Many are hired from career /human resource fields and consider any behavior not associated with the quest for employment irrelevant and ignore the needsof the clientele-single mothers with little or no support systems, impoverished, uneducated and not prepared for the competitiveness of the marketplace0
in fact, not only unprepared but torn between the message that you work no matter what and the needs of the children.


3. The majority of the women who remain on the welfare rolls the full four years are ones who cannot obtain employment because of a criminal record. Many of these crimes are not serious, or a one time event, or years past-but they cannot obtain employment. 
These women are ignored by the system. It is the dirty little secret of welfare reform. There is no reform set up for these women. They cycle in and out. 


4. Keeping working women poor
The women are pushed into training programs which will still keep them at poverty level. Schooling and training classes offered are at service level-nurses aides, phlebotomy class certificates(no license), home health aide, clerical or data entry classes. The colleges run fully funded welfare programs to train poor women to work low wage jobs and tell them it is only a "start" they can go on with the education as they work" 
5. Bad Bad fit
Women are referred to these classes and when completed find out they cannot even take the state licensing test because they either do not have a GED or have a criminal record. The women are not informed of this.


6. Child Care. The fallacy of childcare. Women are forced to place children in state paid childcare. The rest of the world tells them they are getting a great gift. Their children get to go to "school" 40 hours a week while mom builds skills. The message? You are poor, you have children out of wedlock, you are in dependant circumstances, you don't have a choice about your children. You want this little bit of money?
Put your kids in daycare. Get a low paying job or volunteer fulltime.
Parenting is not as important as showing the state you are "productive" Parenting is not considered a productive activity. Women have no choice if they want to survive.


Our culture has changed over the past ten years. Many will say, "It's their choice."
"They don't deserve to be supported by the rest of us taxpayers""Lazy welfare moms"


The fact is most of the women on welfare rolls are  unmarried black women, with little education. Why haven't we addressed this plight before the road to welfare?
Black males have the highest unemployment rates in the country. Black males have had the highest unemployment rates in this country long before the 13% unemployment rate.


Most women applying for financial assistance in todays climate of unemployment, hostility and finger pointing express great shame at their perceived inability to move beyond their situation.
Sadly, with the poorly funded , uneducated workers, high turnover rates and misdirected counsel of clients, poor black women are doomed because we doom them.
Following the rules will not provide them with a decent paying job, it will only move them off cash assistance, where they lose food stamps and Medicaid for their children -to work low paying jobs until the next catatsrophe propels them back into the system.

Help Brandon find more friends? Does it look like he needs more Facebook?

It is just too tempting.
You know how facebook puts these little messages on the side of your page?
My son leaves his facebook open in perpetuity.
I shut my down.
Another ego driven narcissistic non way to communicate. Post your life to the world. Make short comments about others. Don't develop intimacy. Play with balloons and glitter. Poke people. C'mon grown ups-aren't we anymore?

Anyway here is a beautiful picture from my son's facebook.

 This Brandon and his beautiful son.
According to Facebook, Brandon needs help.
Brandon needs help-why?
Well, Facebook is asking my son to help him.
Did Brandon ask for help?
No.
Does it look like Brandon needs help to you?
He looks pretty sweet in this picture, I'd say.

Facebook doesn't think so.
They posted a little note on the side of my son's Facebook.

"Brandon needs your help.
Brandon only has 14 friends
Can you help Brandon find more friends?.


How pathetic and high school peer pressured moronic drivel is that?


Looks to me like Brandon is doing just fine.

Wachovia asks for Social Security # or Account # by phone recording???

Freak us all out about identity theft. Warn us that the security of our bank and credit card accounts is our own personal responsibility-
and then send me a phone message like this:

"Hello, this is Wachovia.
Please call 1-866-211-6980 between the hours of -------
Call the number-
I'm serious.

"Welcome to Wachovia Bank
You have reached the overdraft and recovery security department.
Please have your account number or social security number ready."

My account is not overdrawn. I have no unusual activity to note.
So I start enetering a bunch of bogus numbers figuring this must be a scam??
I finally get a real person.
"This is LaToya McKenzie, can I help you?
"How do I know this is really Wachovia, I ask?
"It is the recovery department."
"So if I check this number out with my local bank it is legitimate?
"You can call them" , she pleasantly answers.

I do. I call the 1800-516-4176 number.
"May I have your account number?" I am asked.
Maybe you can help me without it"- I reply.
I ask him if the number is legitimate.
He checks,
Yes it is, he states.
Why would I receive a recording, not identifying me by name-
and when I call it,, the first thing I am asked is to enter my social security number or account number?"
"Doesn't that seem like a breach of my security?" I ask.
"What if it wasn't you and I gave that information to some scam recordings phishing for my information?"
"Well, it isn't, he replies.

What do you think??

Mensa Activities for the Mensa challenged

Things to do in the dark:
1. Paint your fingernails
2. Sew
3. Shave
4. Put on your make up
5. color your hair
6. trim your nose hairs
7. hop backwards 20 steps

For Fun
1. Bake bread without a recipe.
2. Write the Pledge of Allegiance with your eyes closed on lined paper without going off them.
3. text your friends using numbers instead of letters.
4. Tweet using code your upper case numbers
5. check your mail at midnight

Ultra challenge
1. Attempt the sobriety test while sober.
2. Complete the Roschach test and look for results online
3.Compete with a friend- try to cry in thirty seconds or less
4. Write ten lists in 100 seconds. Start list one with the letter "A" and move on to "B"
5. Find twenty places to put a "?" in twenty sentences or less where they skew the intent

Are you really  doing these?
Send me the results, Mensa Challenged

Immersed in Time

this hour, this minute sometimes this second
time, I stand alone immersed in it,
time has control,
I do not.
whatever the moment pushed forward, resistant poof-
carried me.
My voice lost in the moving minutes,
yesterdays words,
tomorrows
now.
Words that flail, falling words,
 coursing through my brain,
pushing outward,
to the spans of  time.
Only my echo is heard
pushed away
this second,
this minute,
now.

More Opt Out Swindles-ATT&T

Your home phone is like a credit card. Unless you call your phone company, anyone who knows your phone number can call from your home phone and order services at social networks.
For example. IMVU and Gaia, social networks for kids will charge your home phone for any services purchased from them on the internet, with only the phone number!
No code, no password, no authorization code!!
Your kids, you may have already discovered, have free rein, with the permission of your phone company, to order additional services without your authorization!!
When I called AT&T they told me I had to order a block on additional services, even though I never gave permission in the first place!!
This scam of opting out of services you didn't order in the first place has got to stop!!
Just another way business screws the honest citizen, ordering services, just certain services, and gets screwed.