Supporting and Protecting Middle-Class Families
The promise of America is that with hard work, Americans can provide a solid, middle-class life for their families: find a good job, afford a home, send their children to good schools, receive high-quality and affordable health care, and enjoy a secure retirement in their later years. Americans’ drive and ingenuity lie at the heart of this promise and a growing economy makes it possible to realize these aspirations. Also critical are rules of the road laid down to make our markets and free society work, and remove barriers so that no one has an unfair advantage and everyone can have a fair shot to go as far as their dreams and talents can take them. To that end, we have a responsibility to one another as neighbors and as Americans to make sure that the basic protections are in place to enable families and businesses to thrive. These include keeping our air and water healthy for our children, providing fairness in the workplace and supporting those looking for work, ensuring that products are safe and are represented honestly, and protecting Social Security and Medicare to provide for citizens in life’s later years.
To add to this list, the Administration has undertaken two historic initiatives—health insurance and Wall Street reform—that will hold some of the largest companies in the country accountable and help give all Americans the security they need to ensure that an illness or ill-conceived financial decision made by a firm hundreds of miles away will not bankrupt them or prevent them from providing for their family. Over the past year, the Administration has worked diligently to implement these new reforms, and to protect them from efforts to undermine and de-fund them. In the appropriations negotiations both at the beginning and end of 2011, the Administration insisted on having the necessary funding to continue to implement health insurance and Wall Street reform, and stopped efforts to use policy riders to undermine both of these important initiatives, and their crucial protections for American consumers and families.In reading this I have realized that they wrote that these are aspirations. I believe in segregation of classes but not everyone needs to be punished for the stupidity of a few. There are a few ideals that need to be resolved before wall street will actually pay attention to the lives of americans again. ONE: Europe needs to become more economically stable. TWO: We need more importing from India and Latin America. THREE: Health care reform needs to start with those too sick to speak. Those who are bedridden and cannot defend themselves against the Health insurance companies that dont care whether the person recovers or dies. FOUR: Stop being so greedy and realize that not everyone in the world can be as savvy as the leaders who manipulate the weak and uneducated. FIVE: Promote education in adults as well as children. Not just a degree, but everyday economics and budget intelligence. Maybe we won't have so much debt if people knew how it really affects the world.
This is my view of just this paragraph of about 300+ pages of the federal budget for Fiscal year 2013.
I would like to know what you think and if you agree with me!!!
http://m.gpo.gov/budget/#granuleDetails
Ciao
Angie <3
