Today’s weather is calling for snow flurries and continued cold temperatures. Not promising for Spring Break week. My brother Craig and my husband John both will be celebrating birthdays in the coming week. What does this have to do with World Health Day? Everything! With cuts across the board in health care programs, rising food prices and prescription drugs, They may be in poorer health in the coming year. John and I can still afford our health care even if the co-pay increases. What about the millions of Americans that have little or no providers or can not afford medical care?
We use to have programs that help low income families. Medicaid and medicare are being limited or dropped. Programs initiated thirty to fifty years ago, are on the cutting board to appease the conservative agenda. I would bet that none of the proposed cuts affect this group of politicians. But the more disturbing policy concerns the overreaching of the executive branch to write executive orders and enforce them as if they are laws.
Where are the other two branches of government? Where are the checks and balances. How is democracy being tested? Meanwhile, people like your neighbor, the clerk in the grocery store, the family that is sitting beside you in church, even your family members will be affected. We must make a choice, to not take action or to rise up to uphold people in our community, state and our country.
If we don’t act, when the changes finally affect us, there may be no one to challenge the orders.
Our grandfathers and fathers rose to protect democracy, our grandmothers and mothers, taught us to treat others as we would want to be treated. Are we so apathetic to not care to make waves. I, for one, would start a tidal wave of concern. Together we can be a force for ourselves and our country.
Take your temp and choose your path.
poem
I pledge allegiance to to democracy
the building block on which we stand.
Many faces, different voices but one people
one nation, in love and peace
caring for the vulnerable we will rise
to protect all.
carolaspot@aol.com copyrighted 4/7/25
traveling up and down the blind highway 