Reply #29: I agree with you [View All]

That we need a strong advocate for poverty issues. It saddens and disgusts me that not enough care about it, even in our own party. But, I don't agree with you that the health care issue doesn't address that. Yes, people here on DU have advocated things that do nothing for the poor, but that is nothing new. There are people here who buy into the poor are lazy myth. As reprehensible as I find that argument, and as much as I've argued stridently against it, there is a broad spectrum of political beliefs here. That doesn't change the fact that most people who advocate for national health care, here on DU and elsewhere, have the poor in mind. I have never seen ONE person who advocates for single payer health care make an exception for the poor. The argument is that NO ONE should go without decent health care. How many times have I seen people say here on DU that they think it is disgusting that anyone in this country live without basic, preventative health care?

So, because it was about factory closings means it doesn't address poverty? Why do you think he was discussing them? That is why most of the people in his film were poor. They lost their jobs, and couldn't find ones to replace them that pay as well. I grew up in Flint. I know all about poor. I've seen it. A majority of my friends were poor and they were poor because GM screwed the city over, and they all lost their jobs. Addressing how corporations leach off of communities by demanding huge tax breaks so they don't haver to help establish the infrastructure that allows them to to business, in exchange for jobs for that community. And then snatch away those very jobs they promised. A lot of people flocked to those areas and were left high and dry, living in a broken city. And poor.