Thank you, Janie and TIA...

Yes, Medicaid is kind muddy because it has been linked in as an "entitlement" giving the wrong impression that folks with financial means are taking advantage of it... Actually, what is little known is that it is a last resort program where folks have to have exhausted their resources... The house sold, the savings wiped out, the Oldsmobile sold, etc... And most of the Medicaid recipients are folks who without it would be on the streets... Might of fact, most of the Medicaid $$$ goes to pay for older people in nursing homes where there are no family members able to take them in and care for them...

As for TIA's chart, this is something I have pointed out over and over... The Repubs would have *US* think that the National Debt began the day Obama was sworn as president... Then when that BIG LIE doesn't stick they go to BIG LIE #2 which includes Bush's little last boobie-trapped budget deficit of $1.4T for '09... Bottom line is that almost 95 cents of every dollar of today's national debt was wrung up by Republican presidents!!!

But doe BIG MEDIA bother to let that information see the light of day??? Hell no, it doesn't...

We have an information crisis more than any other crisis because well meaning people are voting on the right wing propaganda that its BIG MEDIA is shoving down their throats...

What we need is the restoration of the "Fairness Doctrine" in the media... Someone (maybe a foreign country, for all we know) is now spending tens (perhaps hundreds) of millions of dollar$ on a major smear campaign against Obama that anyone who watched even a little TV has seen... This is media... This effects how people will vote... The fact that this smear campaign contains no facts but just some woman (who deserves an Academy Award) and picture of her sleeping child (think Willie Horton here) effects those who watch it and then we wonder why these people go out and vote for LIARS who will turn around and stick the voters in the back???

Garbage in = garbage out...

In the words of the late Waylon Jennings, "We need a change"...

B~