10-22-2008, 09:57 AM
It never ceases to amaze me, reading some of your posts! Yes, there are people that abuse the systems, that happens in all aspects of life. There was an excellent series that ran in West Hawaii Today, May 7-12 2006 if you are interested you can pull up the archives and read the rest, I am only posting 3 of the articles.
(http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/articles/...ocal02.prt) (http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/articles/...ocal03.prt)
Can you imagine what it is like now, with the downturn of the economy. The director of the Kona Food Bank when we lived there, said at that time, it was many middle class families coming in for help with food because they couldn't make ends meet! The East Side of the Island is worse, if you are LUCKY to find work, most jobs are paying minimum wage, or employers are only looking for part time help, that way they do not have to pay benefits.
So certain people abuse the system, do you blame them! My understanding of certain posts is you expect people who are barely making it, to pay for their own health care.
The system needs to change, create jobs, where people make a decent living wage, then maybe they will have pride in what they do, and offer affordable housing, then perhaps attitudes will change.
(http://www.cwla.org/advocacy/statefactsh...rage.shtml) (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/health...ml?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y)
If you can read these articles and still say that programs like Hawaii's Universal Health Care for Children is not needed, then I am sorry, you have tarred everyone with the same brush, not understanding the hardship many families are going through, again it is the children who lose!
(http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/articles/...ocal02.prt) (http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/articles/...ocal03.prt)
Can you imagine what it is like now, with the downturn of the economy. The director of the Kona Food Bank when we lived there, said at that time, it was many middle class families coming in for help with food because they couldn't make ends meet! The East Side of the Island is worse, if you are LUCKY to find work, most jobs are paying minimum wage, or employers are only looking for part time help, that way they do not have to pay benefits.
So certain people abuse the system, do you blame them! My understanding of certain posts is you expect people who are barely making it, to pay for their own health care.
The system needs to change, create jobs, where people make a decent living wage, then maybe they will have pride in what they do, and offer affordable housing, then perhaps attitudes will change.
(http://www.cwla.org/advocacy/statefactsh...rage.shtml) (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/health...ml?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y)
If you can read these articles and still say that programs like Hawaii's Universal Health Care for Children is not needed, then I am sorry, you have tarred everyone with the same brush, not understanding the hardship many families are going through, again it is the children who lose!