Day: October 8, 2020

Social Security and Medicare are on the ballot this November

Ever since President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s son, Rep. James Roosevelt, Sr., founded our organization to protect Social Security and Medicare in 1982, we have not endorsed presidential candidates, focusing instead on congressional races. Until now. For the first time in 38 years, we are throwing our weight behind Joe Biden for President of the United States. As an organization rooted in the social insurance policies of FDR’s New Deal — and after observing relentless attacks on lifeline programs like Social Security and Medicare — we could not in good conscience remain neutral this year. 

For us, the straw that broke the camel’s back was the president’s reckless payroll tax cut, which he unilaterally imposed in an executive order last month. Without hesitation, he interfered with the funding stream for Social Security, going so far as to pledge to “terminate” payroll taxes altogether in his second term. Social Security’s chief actuary estimates that if payroll taxes were to be terminated (without replacing the lost revenue), the program’s trust fund would run dry by 2023. A president who promises to cut off the revenue for one of our most cherished and successful social insurance programs should not be re-elected. 

“There’s a reason Social Security and Medicare have been around for 85 and 55 years. Americans value and depend on them,” says FDR’s grandson and vice-chair of our advisory board, James Roosevelt, Jr. “Joe Biden is the candidate who can be trusted to protect seniors’ earned benefits from any attempts to undermine or privatize them.” 

CLICK HERE TO READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE

GIVE US YOUR FEEDBACK.  CLICK ON “COMMENT” TO TELL US WHAT YOU THINK or use one of the alternative methods for providing feedback.

click here to CLOSE THIS PAGE

CORONAVIRUS INFO PROVIDED BY DR. JIM HARRIS – 10/8/2020

October 8, 2020

This is an unprecedented editorial from the best medical journal in the world. If you want to know what virtually all good doctors think, read this editorial. As a political conservative, I regret the need for this message, but, …”truth is neither liberal nor conservative.” Jim Harris, MD

CLICK HERE TO READ THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE ARTICLE

From the MNM: Harrison County reported 3 new Covid cases. “The county judge reminded that free walk-up testing will be offered, again, this weekend, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday, at Marshall Convention Center, located at 2501 E. End Blvd. South.”
Cases at Marshall Independent School District are also climbing with six new active cases reported, on Wednesday.

“We have six new active cases to report, which gives us a total of 11 active cases currently in MISD,” David Weaver, MISD’s pubic information director, indicted.

Weaver said three of the new cases were at Marshall High School; the other three were at Sam Houston Elementary.

“With 13 recoveries overall on the year, we now have had a total of 24 cases throughout the district this year,” he said.

The county judge reminded that free walk-up testing will be offered, again, this weekend, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday, at Marshall Convention Center, located at 2501 E. End Blvd. South.

Dying in a Leadership Vacuum

Editorial from The England Journal of Medicine

Covid-19 has created a crisis throughout the
world. This crisis has produced a test of leadership.
With no good options to combat a novel
pathogen, countries were forced to make hard
choices about how to respond. Here in the
United States, our leaders have failed that test.
They have taken a crisis and turned it into a
tragedy.

The magnitude of this failure is astonishing.
According to the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems
Science and Engineering,1 the United States
leads the world in Covid-19 cases and in deaths
due to the disease, far exceeding the numbers in
much larger countries, such as China. The death
rate in this country is more than double that of
Canada, exceeds that of Japan, a country with a
vulnerable and elderly population, by a factor of
almost 50, and even dwarfs the rates in lowermiddle-
income countries, such as Vietnam, by a
factor of almost 2000. Covid-19 is an overwhelming
challenge, and many factors contribute to its
severity. But the one we can control is how we
behave. And in the United States we have consistently
behaved poorly.

We know that we could have done better.
China, faced with the first outbreak, chose strict
quarantine and isolation after an initial delay.
These measures were severe but effective, essentially
eliminating transmission at the point where
the outbreak began and reducing the death rate
to a reported 3 per million, as compared with
more than 500 per million in the United States.
Countries that had far more exchange with China,
such as Singapore and South Korea, began intensive
testing early, along with aggressive contact
tracing and appropriate isolation, and have ….

READ COMPLETE ARTICLE BY CLICKING HERE

GIVE US YOUR FEEDBACK.  CLICK ON “COMMENT” TO TELL US WHAT YOU THINK or use one of the alternative methods for providing feedback.

click here to CLOSE THIS PAGE