"If we can pay 3 billion dollars a week for an endless and pointless war, we can surely afford to help our own people."
Except, of course, that we've been putting the war on the credit card so far...
That's true, and it places my child and yours thousands of dollars in debt before they even get started. It's also a big factor in the declining dollar, which regularly dips behind the Canadian dollar for the first time in 30 years.
I wonder what type of health care parish priests have, or any religious order for that matter? Just curious if that is something catholic school teachers could tap into.
Imagine these teachers are willing to make a stand--even to the Pope. And Randi couldn't stand up to Mike. Maybe she thinks he has higher connections.
Consider: Pope Benedict and his predecessors have long been the loudest, clearest and greatest proponents of reducing poverty. They're left of any reputable party on social reform.
Health care, as you say, isn't an issue over in Europe, so it's hardly a major issue to most Catholic nations. Support for universal coverage or opt-out-but-otherwise-universal coverage is implicit in their previous stances on just about every social issue.
Have some patience for the Pope and the Catholic Church. They've been to the left of America for longer than John McCain's been alive.
(That's a long time.)
I was a teacher in a Catholic school, and we had to pay 50% of our health care costs. Given that I was being paid $10K a year, I didn't have health insurance.
News flash: Nuns no longer staff most Catholic schools. These are real people who have to support themselves and sometimes their families, and the Church needs to treat its workers according to its own professed doctrines, for starters. Like the one on a living wage.
(And that's one big reason why I didn't convert to Catholicism.)
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