To date, I have not heard anyone mention the strain that cuts to Medicaid will place on children in the foster care system.
On behalf of those children, a few words are in order.
For the last 25 years, around 800,000 American children spend time in the foster care system every year. While about 400,000 children remain in the system, the other 400,000 are coming in, or leaving the system each year.
While in the foster care system, children’s medical, dental and mental health services are covered by Medicaid. When children turn 18 and leave the system, they retain their Medicaid coverage until age 26.
Thanks to the wicked thinking of billionaires and their politicians, the government keeps the survivor benefits that social security pays the children of dead parents, and disability benefits (SSDI) that social security pays the children of disabled parents.
To get an idea of how much money these foster infants, toddlers, children and teenagers contribute to the government, consider this… In 2025, the average SSDI benefit is around $1,580. – while the maximum monthly SSDI benefit is $4,018. The average monthly survivor benefit for a child is around $1,100.
Nonetheless, 10, 15, 18 years after a kid enters foster care, billionaires and their followers scream bloody murder because foster children are allowed to remain on Medicaid until they turn 26.
A phone call, email or letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the Health and Human Resources Department that oversees the nation’s foster care system would be easy enough – right?
The GOP hypocrisy is not lost on me. The party that claims family values are the ones who do everything possible to harm them, especially the innocent like children and elderly. It is sickening. They have the nerve to tell me I can't care because I'm nit GOP. Not only am I not, I never want to be. I care to much and they are cold and unfeeling. Thanks, Walter!
Smirky religious people are sociopathic. They always have that ready answer, likely an all-purpose Bible verse meant to put you in your place. They do this so you don't notice that they have not a shred of logic in their reponse.
That hoary argument about more cars killing people than guns do is non sequitur. A car is a tool. A gun is a weapon. One is transportation (and often a status symbol). The other has an entirely other purpose. Their uses cannot be compared.
My unsatisfying conversations with both sociopaths and Bible-quoting smirkers has caused my BS radar to be ever on high alert. I avoid them as I also avoid Mr. Policeman. Same reason.
Oh, Walter, you are sounding a bit too discouraged today. I know it looks bleak. We need your encouragement to resist this madness.
The excess of the billionaires and the ultra rich is on display every day, everywhere. I ask myself how long will it be before the masses come to realize this is unacceptable.
MAGA will never come to their senses even when their children die in front of their eyes because of this administration’s thoughtless attitude towards the population of this country. The progressives are all shouting as loud as they can but are ignored, marginalized and laughed at.
So where are the centrist (Republicans and Democrats alike)? Where are the liberals? Where are the disenfranchised? Why are they not shouting every day? Do they need to see their children die? And then what? Will they be like the parents of the children at Sandy Hook? Ignored? Laughed at? Marginalized?
The billionaires and ultra rich will say “we can’t hear you!” Too busy throwing and attending a $50 million wedding in Venice, which was generously covered by all of the mainstream media.
let’s see how much coverage the signing of this bill gets. Let’s see how much coverage the loss of Medicaid gets for millions. Let’s see how much coverage the loss of ACA to millions more gets. Let’s see about the coverage the death of the first child gets.
Thoughts and prayers? Yeah sure. That always works.
Now I am more depressed than I was when I woke up this morning. Hang in their, Walter, we, and this country, will get through this worst of times.
Absolutely! Then again, we have kids and grandkids to think about! But I know you're doing your part.
I'm trying everything I can think of right now, it's a period of creative desperation. When this reign of terror is over, I'll sleep for four years (maybe).
Good luck with that. Once you have a chance to get to read my book and see the chapter on religion you will see the way i distilled it all into an equation (I am always a STEM guy):
Yes, I absolutely think they're complicit. We don't have to sit and let them get away with it though. We need to engage religious people in conversations and let them know the bill the Republicans are pushing down our throats is going to kill people. We can just ask them for prayers to ease the suffering of the laws their pushing through. It might get through to a few of them :)
You forget, I live in rural Kentucky. Everyone is talking about it.
To date, I have not heard anyone mention the strain that cuts to Medicaid will place on children in the foster care system.
On behalf of those children, a few words are in order.
For the last 25 years, around 800,000 American children spend time in the foster care system every year. While about 400,000 children remain in the system, the other 400,000 are coming in, or leaving the system each year.
While in the foster care system, children’s medical, dental and mental health services are covered by Medicaid. When children turn 18 and leave the system, they retain their Medicaid coverage until age 26.
Thanks to the wicked thinking of billionaires and their politicians, the government keeps the survivor benefits that social security pays the children of dead parents, and disability benefits (SSDI) that social security pays the children of disabled parents.
To get an idea of how much money these foster infants, toddlers, children and teenagers contribute to the government, consider this… In 2025, the average SSDI benefit is around $1,580. – while the maximum monthly SSDI benefit is $4,018. The average monthly survivor benefit for a child is around $1,100.
Nonetheless, 10, 15, 18 years after a kid enters foster care, billionaires and their followers scream bloody murder because foster children are allowed to remain on Medicaid until they turn 26.
A phone call, email or letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the Health and Human Resources Department that oversees the nation’s foster care system would be easy enough – right?
Thanks Raffey. I think we have to talk to our neighbors about this too. It's such a cruel bill.
The GOP hypocrisy is not lost on me. The party that claims family values are the ones who do everything possible to harm them, especially the innocent like children and elderly. It is sickening. They have the nerve to tell me I can't care because I'm nit GOP. Not only am I not, I never want to be. I care to much and they are cold and unfeeling. Thanks, Walter!
Smirky religious people are sociopathic. They always have that ready answer, likely an all-purpose Bible verse meant to put you in your place. They do this so you don't notice that they have not a shred of logic in their reponse.
That hoary argument about more cars killing people than guns do is non sequitur. A car is a tool. A gun is a weapon. One is transportation (and often a status symbol). The other has an entirely other purpose. Their uses cannot be compared.
My unsatisfying conversations with both sociopaths and Bible-quoting smirkers has caused my BS radar to be ever on high alert. I avoid them as I also avoid Mr. Policeman. Same reason.
All I can say is the repugnant republicans are deplorable and should go live at Aligaror Alcatraz and take orange Mussolini with them
Oh, Walter, you are sounding a bit too discouraged today. I know it looks bleak. We need your encouragement to resist this madness.
The excess of the billionaires and the ultra rich is on display every day, everywhere. I ask myself how long will it be before the masses come to realize this is unacceptable.
MAGA will never come to their senses even when their children die in front of their eyes because of this administration’s thoughtless attitude towards the population of this country. The progressives are all shouting as loud as they can but are ignored, marginalized and laughed at.
So where are the centrist (Republicans and Democrats alike)? Where are the liberals? Where are the disenfranchised? Why are they not shouting every day? Do they need to see their children die? And then what? Will they be like the parents of the children at Sandy Hook? Ignored? Laughed at? Marginalized?
The billionaires and ultra rich will say “we can’t hear you!” Too busy throwing and attending a $50 million wedding in Venice, which was generously covered by all of the mainstream media.
let’s see how much coverage the signing of this bill gets. Let’s see how much coverage the loss of Medicaid gets for millions. Let’s see how much coverage the loss of ACA to millions more gets. Let’s see about the coverage the death of the first child gets.
Thoughts and prayers? Yeah sure. That always works.
Now I am more depressed than I was when I woke up this morning. Hang in their, Walter, we, and this country, will get through this worst of times.
I was trying to figure out a way for people to start spreading the truth in church. Get them awakened to what they're doing.
Luckily you are 25 years younger than me and have the time to see if it works. I do hope you are successful.
For me, I have decided to do what I can and just try to Live Aloha every day. So with that said, I will wish you Aloha to start another crazy week.
Speak with you tomorrow.
Absolutely! Then again, we have kids and grandkids to think about! But I know you're doing your part.
I'm trying everything I can think of right now, it's a period of creative desperation. When this reign of terror is over, I'll sleep for four years (maybe).
Good luck with that. Once you have a chance to get to read my book and see the chapter on religion you will see the way i distilled it all into an equation (I am always a STEM guy):
Money + Politics + Power + Religion = extreme corruption + outrageous hypocrisy + unbelievable atrocities
The churches are complicit.
Yes, I absolutely think they're complicit. We don't have to sit and let them get away with it though. We need to engage religious people in conversations and let them know the bill the Republicans are pushing down our throats is going to kill people. We can just ask them for prayers to ease the suffering of the laws their pushing through. It might get through to a few of them :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkD4xSqNVII&pp=ygUYdGhvdWdodHMgYW5kIHByYXllcnMgZGJ0