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Title: Nursing Home Industry Unleashes Scathing Advert Decrying Governor Kasich's Proposed Cuts
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clevelandleader.com
URL Source: http://www.clevelandleader.com/taxonomy/term/13
Published: May 15, 2011
Author: Eugene McCormick
Post Date: 2011-05-15 12:25:50 by Ferret Mike
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Views: 7055
Comments: 70
Remember when the Republicans were talking about "death panels" during the national health care debate last year? That seems to be the message of what the Ohio Health Care Association is depicting in their new television advertisements that have been popping up around the dial in response to gutting skilled nursing care, aka nursing homes, by $470 Million dollars. The scary thing about it though, is if the cuts do come, not only jobs will be lost but likely lives as well as senior citizens will need to find new options for long-term health care. With the loss in funding, facilities such as Metro Health Center for Skilled Nursing Facility here in Cleveland would either close or services down to a bare minimum level. Laughably, Kasich says he is being bullied by the group telling the Plain Dealer: If there is someone who knows a thing or two about bullying, it is Kasich himself who famously said following his election. 
"For them to get their way would continue a precedent of bullying, intimidation and the power of special interests in our state."
"We need you on the bus, and if you're not on the bus, we will run over you with the bus. And I'm not kidding.".
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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
Maybe the taxpayers can get some of their money back and save for their own retirement instead of someone elses. Maybe the taxpayers will be able to take their kids on a vacation. Maybe that will have to pay less taxes giving them the opportunity to send their kids to college. Maybe if they spend less people will have more money in their pocket to buy granny a mobile wheel chair. The possibilities are endless. I'm excited.
Maybe if we can get corporations to see that without spending power, no one will buy their goods and keep them in business. Maybe if we can get these corporations from using globalization to move their factories to the most desperate place in the world willing to tale pennies on the dollar for the value of the labor people do there, people will have money for those amenities like a vacation. Right now the disparity of wealth, where a few percent of people own and control a huge portion of property and capital assets, there is naturally going to be the problems in the economy we are experiencing now. All these people who have money and power want is more money and power, so naturally there are going to find scapegoats to hide their lack of good ethical behavior, greed and megalomania and to try to provide cover allowing them to keep sucking the people dry and to further dis-empower and destroy the middle class. Your sentiments are noted and your frustrations are actually understood, but you miss the cause and effect for the problems we are facing economically and politically in Ohio and the rest of this country.
#5. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
This article wasn't about corporations sending jobs overseas. But I will bite. The solution to that isn't to keep stealing from taxpayers to give to someone else. The solution is tariffs. Very simple. You move your company overseas. Fine to that. But when you send the good back across our border we are going to more then make up the difference you saved on slave labor.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThe scary thing about it though, is if the cuts do come,
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