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Not just a "one time" thing: merely a recent example of my elected officials doing what they (and the special intrests they're beholden to) feel is right instead of what the public has made clear they want.
I'm certain it's not a universal problem, but writing a letter to a Florida elected official just now is so much pissing into the wind.
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quote:While the bill does not deal with parents' eligibility, separate budget cuts that are moving through the legislative process would lop off 68,219 parents by reducing the income cutoff to about 24 percent of the federal poverty level.
That means a single mother with two children could earn no more than $308 a month to qualify.
Wow. Makes my asshole Republican reps seem like a swell guys by comparison.
FUnny how this fucks over the people more likely to vote Democrat. Oh wait...no it isn't.
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In a nutshell: The autopsy revealed that Terry was irreversibly brain damaged and her body had only autonomic functions (breathing, heartbeat, etc.), and she was blind. And the parents don't believe the autopsy.
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That's even more terrible, to know he lived for ten years with a breathing corpse. I'm so used to seeing movies about people like this that I thought there was some small glimmer of hope.
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quote:He [the parents' lawyer] said the parents continue to believe their daughter wasn't in a persistent vegetative state, and that they may take some unspecified legal action after discussing the autopsy with other medical experts.
Unspecified legal action once they confer with their medical experts. I've been thinking about who they could possibly take legal action against. Considering that the parents are still flogging that "he beat her" story they came up with a few years ago, I'm willing to bet that he's firmly in their crosshairs. The autopsy report clearly favors Michael Schiavo in this case, but the parents have always managed to find a medical professional to look at things and give a completely opposite opinion.
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A paid medical "professional" of course. The autopsy said the Shiavo would never even have been able to swallow food it was so fucked.
What bugs me is the numb cunt that came forward to try to have the feeding tube re-inserted by saying that Shiavo told her "I want to live" while she was watching her.
That bitch should be brought up on charges- giving a false statement to police if nothing else.
It's terrible that Shiavo's parents still cant let things rest (her daughterin particular) now that the autopsy's concluded. I guess it's easier to find someone to blame than to accept that bad things happen to good people all the time and that death is often senseless.
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