Attitudes toward poor saddening

To quote Bill Maher, Americans are dim-witted and easily distracted. I would like to add that they just, when push comes to shove, don’t care about poor people.

With half of the nation intentionally turning down Medicaid expansion, it’s very hard to imagine that the majority give more than a passing thought to the millions of Americans suffering from very poor health care. They know people are dying unnecessarily in large numbers. Lives are destroyed and, especially among poor, white, Southerners, suicide rates are markedly up.

But hatred of Obama and the liberals and anger about God knows what is far more emotionally important to these people than the abhorrent way we treat less successful people in this nation.

Rick Walker

Snohomish