Bobert, I hear you but respectfully disagree. Over half the House and Senate are filled with millionaires. Sorry, buddy, but I don't think millionaires really have much understanding about poverty, and that's where the rubber hits the road. I recall when Martha Mitchell (the wife of AG John Mitchell under Nixon) decided to prove that people on social assistance didn't have it so tough. So, she lived for a whole month on an average welfare payment.Yeah. She could comparison shop in her chauffeur driven car and not account for the gas, or household electricity and she ended the month with a few bucks left over. What an airhead.

She didn't take into account dental or medical expenses because she was well provided for under her husband's health plans, covered by tax payers, and the Mouth of the South blandly reported that social assistance payments were more than adequate. Fawk, spare me.

I don't know that Democrats are deserting the ObamaCare plan in droves though. That sounds alarmist to this ol' boy. But neither do I think that Democrats are the answer. For sure the Republicans aren't.

Democrats used to be the party of working people, but with the new capitalism--read 'the old capitalism run by psychopaths'--I have no idea what the real answer is. IMO, shoot the fuckers and start over, but we know that won't fly. I fully expect the charade to end and that the USA will become a de facto police state before too long. I guess whoever has the most toys will win, and your country will be able to dispense with the play-acting and murder a hundred million or so of its citizens, either under the guise of responding to a natural disaster or one they manufacture. I hope not, but I think so. Keep yer powder dry and take a few with you, because I don't think the re-education camps will emulate a spring picnic.

We see similar thinking and have from every administration since.