Seniors getting screwed again

[nam78_two]

Dough-nut hole time:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/29/AR2006072900800.html

[Monkeyman]

1. Now lets hear the spin

[snowbear]

2. I wonder how many of those seniors voted for Bush....

...because of his Rx plan that they didn't know anything about until 2+ years after the election?

[silverojo]

3. But, by God, gays can't marry!

That was their main concern, remember?

[snowbear]

4. And they never did explain exactly how it threatened their marriages...

[Ian David]

7. And the Democrats were going to take away all their guns!

But now, thanks to Bush, everyone is selling their guns to buy perscription drugs and gasoline.

Pawnshops see spike in pawning as gas prices rise

ast Update: 04/22/2006 3:12:42 PM
By: Todd Dukart
Video

“They're pawning anything they can just to get gas.”

Jeff Shepherd of Old Town Jewelry and Loan says he has seen more people coming in to pawn their stuff for gas money. He says four or five people each day come in for gas money.

So has Jay Johnston of Albuquerque Pawn Shop, who says many of his customers need just some gas money just to make it to pay day.

Gas prices are among the highest they’ve been in recent memory. The average gas price submitted to AlbuquerqueGasPrices.com is $2.90 – more than 70 cents higher than a year ago. The national average, according to AAA, is $2.88 a gallon.

Those prices have people pawning anything from tools to jewelry – even guns – to help fill the tank

More:
http://www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=25403&cat=CONSUMER

[nam78_two]

8. come now..

whether they voted for Bush or not its still pretty sad if an elderly or infirm person has to choose between drugs and food :-/


And I personally have never seen any polls indicating they voted for Bush in disproportionately large numbers :shrug:. I always welcome new info. though :).


I have to admit though, that whatever they do, senior citizens getting screwed always makes me sad :(....
Scrounging for food/drugs in your twilight years must suck :(


(Not that I don't feel like doing this in general to Bush voters:

:spank:)

[Ian David]

5. I have an idea

Set-up a booth outside someplace where lots of old people go:

BINGO Parlor
All-you-can-eat buffet
Pharmacy
Shopping Mall
etc...

On the booth, put up a big sign that says, "Free Prescription Drugs and Health Care for the rest of your life!"

Tell them that all they have to do is sign a petition to allow gay people to get married.

Because that's what happened to them.

The reason why they don't have free prescription drugs and health care is because some people hate gay people more than they love their own grandma.

If that doesn't work, put a plastic bag over their head and tell them you'll let them breathe if they sign a petition to legalize gay marriage.

Because that's also what's happened to them. Some people hate gay people more than they enjoy having clean air to breathe. And after all, "CO2 Is Life," right?

Their may be legal issues involved with these methods. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know. I think some states might have laws against suffocating the elderly, for example.

[snowbear]

6. Bingo, buffets and free refills for life !!!

Ian, you need to be over at the DLC helping to run things!