Not a citizen? No toys for you!

In a year when more families than ever have asked for help, several programs providing Christmas gifts for needy children require at least one member of the household to be a U.S. citizen. Others ask for proof of income or rely on churches and schools to suggest recipients.

The Salvation Army and a charity affiliated with the Houston Fire Department are among those that consider immigration status, asking for birth certificates or Social Security cards for the children. [...]

The Outreach Program requires parents to show photo identification and birth certificates or Social Security cards for the children. [The Outreach Program's Lorugene] Young said she makes an exception if parents can show they have applied for legal status or that a child is enrolled in school.

source: http://www.chron.com...ries/6746254.html

essay re. other current neurasthenias compounding the chronic affluenza symptoms--

http://www.salon.com...source=newsletter

Republicans play Scrooge, minus the change of heart

The truth of Christmas -- rejoice and show mercy to the poor -- is tested as we move toward universal healthcare

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A new study, "Health Insurance and Mortality in U.S. Adults," published by the American Journal of Public Health, tells us what everyone already knows -- the uninsured are in a dangerous place. An estimated 45,000 deaths a year are associated with lack of health insurance. Uninsured Americans of working age run a 40 percent higher risk of death than those of us who are covered. If you have diabetes or heart disease, and you can't afford to see a doctor, you're in deep trouble.

The big lie that Republicans have inflicted on us, starting with St. Ronald, is that government is a morass of inefficiency, and private enterprise is the Enlightenment. (Republicans have practically disappeared from the Snow Belt. I just point this out.) My own experience is that when I go to get a new driver's license in St. Paul, or deal with the city inspector when a sewage line breaks, or walk into a post office to mail letters, or talk to the police when our house alarm goes off, I find public employees to be cheerful and competent and highly professional, and when I go for blood draws at Quest Diagnostics, a national for-profit chain of medical labs, I find myself in tiny, dingy offices run by low-wage immigrant health workers who speak incomprehensible English and are rude to customers and take forever to do a routine procedure. An hour in a Quest office will ruin your whole day.

If the government took over this miserable operation, paid the people decently and trained them to smile and speak softly to the clientele, civilization would be advanced. If we simply extended Medicare to anyone who wished to sign up for it, the vast Kafkaesque bureaucracy of for-profit insurance would come crashing down, and the public would be healthier.

Instead, Democrats fashioned a patchwork plan, trying to meet the objections of Republicans, who then opposed it anyway as socialistic. As long as any sort of reform is going to be attacked as socialistic, why not go ahead and be socialistic, just as Social Security is. It is Big Government and runs pretty well, and I don't see many Republicans calling for it to be privatized. Mr. Obama needs to learn that it is a foolish goose who attends the foxes' church. Don't worry about bipartisanship, please. Just do what's right.

Need CPR? umm SSN please, photo ID Idon'tcareifyou'reinaswimsuit

The shouting has become so crazy with the loudest megaphones reserved for sociopaths:
is it too early to call, ~~FAIL~~ er, Failed State? -- when this little report is just one of thousands of similar stuff -- so despicable you couldn't even lampoon it.

This year has proven so deadly for living things that I plan to celebrate Dia de los Muertos a few months early - on Dec. 25th. Guess I'll have to make my own candy skulls..
Manfred should be the appropriate accompaniment, as Mahler is just too al punte to be bearable.

Amerika - in Intensive Care (but can't afford the necessary therapy, for all those wars + the impending Iran/Israel-as-proxy detonations.. just about guaranteed.

Post #318,059 by lincoln 12/2/09 12:38:51 PM Reply	Not a citizen? No toys for you! In a year when more families than ever have asked for help, several programs providing Christmas gifts for needy children require at least one member of the household to be a U.S. citizen. Others ask for proof of income or rely on churches and schools to suggest recipients. The Salvation Army and a charity affiliated with the Houston Fire Department are among those that consider immigration status, asking for birth certificates or Social Security cards for the children. [...] The Outreach Program requires parents to show photo identification and birth certificates or Social Security cards for the children. [The Outreach Program's Lorugene] Young said she makes an exception if parents can show they have applied for legal status or that a child is enrolled in school. source: http://www.chron.com...ries/6746254.html "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #318,060 by boxley 12/2/09 12:46:02 PM Reply	that is just flat out wrong in so many ways
Post #318,062 by mhuber 12/2/09 12:56:54 PM Reply	Check Joseph's papers Gah. What can they possibly be thinking?
Post #318,072 by Ashton 12/2/09 8:28:11 PM Reply	It's a biz-logic extrapolation; see Garrison K's Xmas essay re. other current neurasthenias compounding the chronic affluenza symptoms-- http://www.salon.com...source=newsletter Republicans play Scrooge, minus the change of heart The truth of Christmas -- rejoice and show mercy to the poor -- is tested as we move toward universal healthcare [. . .] A new study, "Health Insurance and Mortality in U.S. Adults," published by the American Journal of Public Health, tells us what everyone already knows -- the uninsured are in a dangerous place. An estimated 45,000 deaths a year are associated with lack of health insurance. Uninsured Americans of working age run a 40 percent higher risk of death than those of us who are covered. If you have diabetes or heart disease, and you can't afford to see a doctor, you're in deep trouble. The big lie that Republicans have inflicted on us, starting with St. Ronald, is that government is a morass of inefficiency, and private enterprise is the Enlightenment. (Republicans have practically disappeared from the Snow Belt. I just point this out.) My own experience is that when I go to get a new driver's license in St. Paul, or deal with the city inspector when a sewage line breaks, or walk into a post office to mail letters, or talk to the police when our house alarm goes off, I find public employees to be cheerful and competent and highly professional, and when I go for blood draws at Quest Diagnostics, a national for-profit chain of medical labs, I find myself in tiny, dingy offices run by low-wage immigrant health workers who speak incomprehensible English and are rude to customers and take forever to do a routine procedure. An hour in a Quest office will ruin your whole day. If the government took over this miserable operation, paid the people decently and trained them to smile and speak softly to the clientele, civilization would be advanced. If we simply extended Medicare to anyone who wished to sign up for it, the vast Kafkaesque bureaucracy of for-profit insurance would come crashing down, and the public would be healthier. Instead, Democrats fashioned a patchwork plan, trying to meet the objections of Republicans, who then opposed it anyway as socialistic. As long as any sort of reform is going to be attacked as socialistic, why not go ahead and be socialistic, just as Social Security is. It is Big Government and runs pretty well, and I don't see many Republicans calling for it to be privatized. Mr. Obama needs to learn that it is a foolish goose who attends the foxes' church. Don't worry about bipartisanship, please. Just do what's right. Need CPR? umm SSN please, photo ID Idon'tcareifyou'reinaswimsuit The shouting has become so crazy with the loudest megaphones reserved for sociopaths: is it too early to call, ~~FAIL~~ er, Failed State? -- when this little report is just one of thousands of similar stuff -- so despicable you couldn't even lampoon it. This year has proven so deadly for living things that I plan to celebrate Dia de los Muertos a few months early - on Dec. 25th. Guess I'll have to make my own candy skulls.. Manfred should be the appropriate accompaniment, as Mahler is just too al punte to be bearable. Amerika - in Intensive Care (but can't afford the necessary therapy, for all those wars + the impending Iran/Israel-as-proxy detonations.. just about guaranteed.

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