Instead of politicans playing he said, she said, it would be nice to get the impression that they are keeping in mind the their inability to come to a compromise is potentially keeping food of the tables of people in their country, including their military families. Meanwhile millions of Americans are beginning to lose unemployment because extension of benefits is ending after tier 4, and here we sit at risk of more people going without food and more people unable to afford their housing. I would say regardless of your political affiliation and REGARDLESS of who you voted for we have some major issues here. My family is living some of these issues, which only heightened today and I am so beyond frustrated.
The main issue (from my reading anyhow) is Planned Parenthood, and the issue of abortion. I wonder if many people realize that ending Planned Parenthood also ends the ability of women that have no health insurance to get low cost to no cost annual examinations that can detect STDs, pre-cancer, and cancer; this saves lives. This saves the spread of STDs by detection and treatment, and education.
I never get political, but as of today, and the fact that millions more could potentially find themselves financial crisis, I wouldn't wish this worry and stress on anyone.
Might I add the STD testing planned parenthood provides INCLUDES HIV testing for people who cannot afford this testing otherwise and NEED to know for themselves AND for others. This service provides birth control to people that cannot afford it, and this includes providing birth control to those men and women affected by layoffs.
I would never wish any of this on anyone, but I wonder what each of these politicians would think if it was their family died while serving in our country's military or their family member was injured in war and needed constant medical care, or their child couldn't eat dinner becaues they had no money for food, their wife ended up with cervical cancer because of lack of access to screening, or were faced with where do I live because I now have no unemployment to support my family even minimally? It seems common sense to me since these topics are mostly governed by the nation and not but the state that politicians need to learn real quick to put their biases against one another aside and face the reality of what their decisions entail.
