Two bugaboos - hunger and health insurance

"Good flipping grief! If we can't get our health insurance fixed, if we can't feed the least of us because certain immigrants are robbing us blind, how can we make this work? We have some smart people in our country. Where are they when we need them?"  

Houston, we might have a problem. Now that we are almost a month into our Schumer shut down, some of the rocks in the harbor are being exposed (so to speak). As good as things are getting investments coming into the country, as well as passing the BBB (which will at some time help the middle class), we have two major bugaboos which need to be addressed. Hunger and health insurance. In fact, the health insurance is the only reason Chucky Schumer shut down the government. Why? Broken Obamacare needs fixing. Somehow Schumer is blaming the Republicans for this Democrat program which does not work anymore (actually, never did work).

A more immediate concern is food. The BBB narrowed down who could get food assistance. The libs are up in arms saying the war on hunger has now become the war on hungry, just because the people who are footing the bill expect healthy people to work just a bit to qualify for free food. The conservatives are saying food assistance programs run by the government are ripe for graft. Hello, feeding our future, and what a mess that turned out to be. Churches should be the ones who dishing out the charity, NOT the government. I have worked with churches and private non-profits. Many are run well and do good things. Government, on the other hand, especially Minnesota state government, is chalk full of graft and theft.

Back to health insurance. This is a mess - a hot mess. Obamacare is now dead and needs to be buried. Unfortunately, neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have a runner-up idea. Soon, all the Medicare Advantage plans will be underwater, and then terminated. Is it important to get this fixed quickly? Sure is, as the citizenry will not accept the status quo. The good news is our healthcare is second to none worldwide. The bad news is more and more people are falling off the edge of affordability.

How do we fix these two vexing problems? First off, the other side needs to quit hating on Trump and his supporters. This hatred is so toxic, that even when the government is open, it might as well be shut down. Next, the government needs to reopen. NOW. We can't fix problems when we talk over each other rather than to each other. And - this is for the Minnesota crew - GET RID OF THE GRAFT! NOW!

Good flipping grief! If we can't get our health insurance fixed, if we can't feed the least of us because certain immigrants are robbing us blind, how can we make this work? We have some smart people in our country. Where are they when we need them?