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Talullahhound
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Al Medicaid Benefits
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1/26/2010 5:28:40 PM
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Very generous indeed.
Lotowner, my grandparents on my father's side were farmers. They lived through the depression too and never went hungry. In fact, they fed a good portion of the extended family too, every Sunday.
My mother's parents were Irish immigrants, but they both worked until the day they died -- both of them way too young.
Being "on the dole" used to be an embarassment.
I don't know if we can lay it all at the feet of Lyndon Johnson. Yes, he pressed for the legislation when he was in office, but since these things don't happen overnight, I suspect there was support for it well before his Presidency. I don't know that the original intent of the legislation and the programs were what it has evolved into. Keep in mind too, that at the time the majority of women did not have the job opportunities that are open to them today -- back then, if your husband died, became disabled or left you, there weren't a lot of options. Of course, that has changed now.
I still believe that in a land of plenty it is wrong that people go hungry, but I don't believe in long term welfare, and medicaid. Of course, I also don't believe that people should be able to declare bankruptsy with the ease that they are currently able to do it, either.
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