Speakout

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Can't afford a toothache

I just want to tell the taxpayers in the state of Missouri that I'm sorry I draw disability and stuff. I have to go to the hospital at least once or twice a week for pain shots and antibiotics and medication for my teeth because a dental clinic that gets paid by the federal government raised their co-pay up to $100. When you live on a fixed income, you can't afford that. I think we need some kind of dental plan for the poor. We are willing to pay whatever we can. I just want to say to the taxpayers that I'm sorry that I have to do it, but the pain of my tooth, I can't take it anymore. I just want them all pulled out and I just think it's a shame. I've seen hundreds of people in the waiting room of the hospital because of their teeth. It would maybe cost the taxpayers $80 for a root canal if we had low-income dental. But when you have to go to the emergency room four times a month, that's $4,000. The state could help out by getting the dental back for the poor or have us pay 50 percent or something like that. I'm not the only one going to the emergency room for my teeth, but that's the only way to get the pain relieved.

Teachers aren't babysitters

The topic is CBS just reported about the students and the teachers out there in California and they said 241 teachers, or something like that, that can't do their job properly. And the union and all that and back and forth. Then again, you can't get the students to do anything because they got a chip on their shoulder and attitudes. If they've got time to put spikes in their lips like this one person, I will not say what gender, if they've got time to do that then they have time to do some studying and listen to the teachers. Sure, we've got some teachers that need to be corrected. Sure we've got students that need parents to guide them in the right way. Teachers across the United States and here are not babysitters. So parents, don't push them off on your parents. You are the one that brought them into the world so why don't you have the guts to bring them up right because we taxpayers are tired of paying for your mistakes.

Sent home to die

This is been on my mind awhile. I lost a brother back in 2007, and he was a veteran. He was at the Veterans Hospital at Poplar Bluff, and they turned him out to send home to get hospice in to let him die. The boy was headed home and he was screaming with pain. They took him to the Veterans Hospital in Marion and put him in and he died there. I think they need to investigate this hospital in Poplar Bluff and investigate why they are turning these