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I sent the following to my senators, congressman and the president... I also sent it to my emailing lists:
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The Elite euthanasia insurance cartel, through their puppet George Felos, just sucked the life out of Terri; with this bill they will do the same to us, and those we love.... especially our elderly who are in nursing homes and who will have to be moved to inferior facilities because their families are now bankrupt.
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Published on Thursday, March 31, 2005 by the BlackCommentator.com
Debt Slavery: What The Bankruptcy Bill Could Do To You
by David Swanson
The U.S. Senate has passed a dream bill for credit card and financial service companies that, if passed by the House, will land millions of American families in debt slavery. Rather than being able to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and make a difficult new start, families and individuals will be placed on long-term payment plans to credit card companies, companies that will take their houses, their cars, their child-support payments, and their paychecks.
If you think you're unlikely to land yourself a share-cropping position in this new feudal system, ask yourself if you can be sure that no one in your family will get sick, be injured, die, lose a job, or get divorced. More than one in every 100 adults in America files for bankruptcy each year. If you're a child, the chances of your family filing for bankruptcy are about twice that. (Kids cost money.) These rates have doubled in the past decade. The basic reason that bankruptcies have increased is that personal debt has increased. In fact, in proportion to debt, bankruptcies are actually down.
About 50 percent of all families who are forced to file for bankruptcy do so as the result of medical expenses. And three quarters of those have health insurance. Another 40 percent have suffered a death in the family, lost their job, or gotten divorced, or suffered some combination of these factors and medical costs. Almost everyone who files for bankruptcy does so as a last resort. Sixty-one percent of those who do so have gone without medical care that they needed but could not afford. Fifty percent have failed to get prescriptions filled. A third have had their utilities shut off. Twenty-one percent have gone without food. Seven percent have moved their elderly parents to cheaper care facilities.
Read the rest at:
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0331-33.htm
