What If It Were Your Parents?

Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts, with his rather outspoken views of the handicapped and elderly,
is making it okay to discriminate against them.
He has openly said that he believes that the cutbacks on health insurance are justified because some of them have cable television.
Give me a break!
Of course they have cable television -- what else are they supposed to have?
What would he have them do with their time when they are elderly and incapable of working or discriminated against to the point that they are not welcome to work?
What would he have them do with their time, when they have so many health conditions that the only topics of conversation that they are able to have is about what is wrong with them?
What would he have them do when they receive on average from Social Security or Disability,
$800. or less a month?
Could you live on $800. a month? More importantly, would you want your parents to live on $800. a month?

Now I don't know the status of Mr. Romney's parents, but if they are both alive and well right now, do you think that they are living on $800. a month?

Some of these people have worked their entire lives to receive the government's pittance of income and they are barely able to survive. Although, some of the federally funded programs enable the rents to be conducive with their income, it still leaves them on an incredibly tight budget. Food stamps are necessary for survival and the amount that they are allotted is pathetic and sad because if you are earning too much money from Social Security or Disability, you can't be awarded too many food stamps.
How on earth can it be determined that they are earning too much money?

Isn't it bad enough that the elderly and handicapped are treated with such degradation, that they are overlooked, forgotten and discounted?
They work hard for their entire lives, our parents -- they make a life for us, they prepare us for the life that we are currently living, they sacrifice and love us unconditionally, they give us all that they can in the way of wisdom, nurture and love. They protect us from the dark elements of life, they give us lessons and discipline and then when they get old, we discard them because we can't be bothered?

Is that how you feel about your parents? Because if it is, then you need to take a long hard look at yourself and search your soul for some better answers.
There are extenuating circumstances in many cases and not all parents are like those I've just described, but many are and because of their age and condition, they are left to scramble for the few crumbs that are left behind for them.

People who are working, that are not elderly and that earn regular incomes can afford to work a few extra hours, can afford to cut back and they don't have to have the $60,000 vehicle. Can you imagine -- some people will pay more for a vehicle than what they are willing to give to an elderly person in their own family who already paid their dues and paid taxes their entire lives?

This is unfair and Mitt Romney is making it legal and okay to discriminate against the people that gave us our life and shaped us so that we can make the differences in the world. Do we want our children to treat us with the same disdain?
Do we want to be left to figure it out and asked to do without the extras like cable television because the state needs to cutback?
Should we plan for our future only to find that we will be forced to curl up in a corner and die because there is nothing left for us to do because we can barely afford to live and our health will mean nothing because health insurance shouldn't be available for the elderly and handicapped?
Should the elderly and handicapped be blamed for the states lack of proper fiscal management?

Is that really what you want for your parents? Because that is what they are getting. Already, they aren't entitled to dental coverage or eye coverage. So if they go blind, so be it?
If their teeth rot out -- Oh well, they are old anyway?
If they can't afford all of their prescriptions, well too bad, because they got to live their lives and I don't want to pay higher taxes?
Is that how you feel about your parents and is that what you want for them?

Perhaps not all parents will be forced to suffer these types of consequences, certainly not people like Mitt Romney who is afforded the luxury of money and privilege in his life, but many of our parents, despite how hard they worked in their lives will have to suffer as a result of these types of cutbacks.
No, we don't really want to pay higher taxes, but can we afford to pay for their healthcare?
We still end up paying in the end, for a nursing home, for a nurse, for their healthcare, material items and food, and money to supplement their income. Aren't we paying more in the end anyway trying to take care of our parents because the state wants nothing to do with it?
So what if we pay higher taxes? It isn't going to cost anywhere near as much as taking care of our parents because they state doesn't like the elderly and the handicapped, because the state doesn't think that they are worthy, and because the state has forgotten that they had parents too just like the rest of us.

Therefore, search yourselves, look deep within your hearts and decide if a few higher taxes is worth the pain and suffering and nothingness that your parents will have to suffer if Mitt Romney continues with his crusade to make our elderly and handicapped extinct.
Check your priorities and ask yourselves, what if it were your parents?