Hospitals in Wisconsin are advocating for a tax on their services so that they can get a larger subsidy from the Medicaid program! Have you ever heard of a business advocating for a new tax on itself? And who’s going to pay that tax? Not the hospitals — Insurance providers and patients will. It’s a straight up scam orchestrated by the Healthcare segment and Wisconsin state government to exploit the ‘war on poverty’. The war is a ruse for easing the pain just enough to keep the poor on their side. I complain about the weather here but the #1 reason I want out is because of how this state runs itself.

Before I forget, just want to commend you for sticking to your principals when so many other lefties are riding Obama’s wake to the center.

As far as the history of the war on poverty,(from the liberal lefties at NPR) Lyndon Johnson “in his first State of the Union speech, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “War On Poverty.” Johnson’s declaration came just weeks after succeeding to the White House upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Making poverty a national concern set in motion a series of bills and acts, creating programs such as Head Start, food stamps, work study, Medicare and Medicaid, which still exist today. The programs initiated under Johnson brought about real results, reducing rates of poverty and improved living standards for America’s poor.”

As far as the cost of supplies, the poor do pay more for food and medical care and goods. Food costs more when there aren’t grocery stores around, which there aren’t in poor neighborhoods. At least not in San Francisco, and I doubt it’s any better elsewhere.

Poor people buy basics with very slight profit margins, so it isn’t profitable enough for big stores to go in. If you’ve ever bought a weeks worth of groceries at a liquor store, you know how expensive that can be.

Health care costs more when you aren’t insured, and poor people aren’t insured.
The cost of goods is more for the same reason food is.

The war on terror costs the middle class a hell of a lot more than it does the poverty stricken and less terrorism = more stable middle east = cheaper gas = cheaper food and other resources. Supplies don’t cost any less for poor folk than they do for rich folk. So I guess we are fighting the war on poverty!

How’s that for some spin?