He found the opposite of a desperate woman itching for a new entitlement. I don't accept charity and I don't get food stamps. I qualify, but I don't get them because I don't want the taxpayers to support me. Skinner s children are financially comfortable, but she won t accept any help from them. The real tragedy of this spectacle is how emotion is all that counts.
Most seniors already have prescription drug coverage.
These trends occurred without a big federal program, so they just don t register with the networks. They want a new universal Medicare benefit, one that would pay for every prescription no matter how rich the elderly people are, at the expense of younger taxpayers who are already buried in tax bills. Worse yet is the yammering from network reporters that Mrs. Skinner s supposed cry for government help is the ideal of democracy in action victims coming to town meetings clanging their cups for another helping of other people s money. That s not the ideal of democracy. Don t cry uncle when the media twists your arms with their emotional manipulations.