Today's brew: Community Coffee's Columbia blend. Making a mental note to myself to increase the amount brewing. Not quite strong enough this morning.
The guys were hogging the computers yesterday so I am catching up today. We had a fun evening Saturday. We enjoyed the evening at the dinner theatre. "Smoky Joe's Cafe" was the play. All music, no dialogue. The music was of the 50's and early 60's so it was blues and early rock and roll songs.
I read this morning that a new Federal crackdown will begin July 1 on requirements for Medicaid. Low income people will be required to show documents proving American citizenship. Well, that's a start, I suppose. I thought that was already in place. Seems like for everything else these days a person has to show a birth certificate or something official proving she is who she says she is, whether it is to register for school or a drivers license and right on down the line. The usual people are complaining, like La Raza, the Hispanic rights group. Now, I wonder why they would be upset?
La Raza complains that poor people will feel discriminated against and shut out. What they mean is illegals will be shut out. I think that is the point.
O.K., the mystery is solved. I know why Congressman Jefferson took the bribes and was caught in the sting by the FBI. Turns out he was raised in a very poor family, one of 10 children, and "his perceived flaw among his peers has always been that, shaped by his humble beginnings, Bill loved money and desperately wanted to be a rich man," said Allan Katz, a New Orleans-based political consultant who has known Jefferson for more than 30 years. Early on Jefferson earned the nickname "Dollar Bill". Jefferson is the son of sharecroppers and made his way to Harvard thanks to his parents emphasis on education.
The article enlightening us about poor Mr. Jefferson goes on to say that those who know the congressman are shocked, shocked I tell you, by the allegations made against him. Jefferson demanded a larger stake in a Nigerian venture - from 7% to 30% - for his children. What a thoughtful father. There had even been talk that one of his five daughters may follow in his footsteps and take his seat when he retired. Looks like that seat will be open a little sooner than expected.
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for." - Epicurus
3 comments:
Your right the new requirements for Medicaid is a start, but we have a loooooooong way to go.
Poor Congressman Jefferson, (snicker) he got caught!
Geez!
"Dollar Bill"! ha! Thats a good one.
My grandpa was a sharecropper in Mississippi too and had 9 children. Honor was what - and sometimes all - they had. We've got some *stories* in the family but bribery isn't among them.
I don't get the brouhaha over having to document yourself for benefits. I have to give quite a bit of personal information at Radio Shack just to buy a battery and to buy sudafed now, you have to show id.
Yes, please make it harder to get the medicaid.
THEY HAVE TO GET RID OF THE "BORN IN THE USA, AUTOMATIC CITIZEN" THING OR NOTHING WILL WORK!!!!!!!
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