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PatrickforO

(14,516 posts)
7. This will be grist for me to call my US Rep and Senators tomorrow.
Mon Dec 25, 2017, 10:34 PM
Dec 2017

We can give out massive tax cuts for billionaires but we're too 'poor' to upgrade water treatment?

What's this about?

Hookworm?

This is AMERICA, for God's sake. We're better than this.

Disease - the product of a lack of regulation eleny Dec 2017 #1
I'm not dlwickham Dec 2017 #2
Many states. nt marybourg Dec 2017 #3
K&R MustLoveBeagles Dec 2017 #4
It is only a major epidemic or pandemic that will stop these morons runningn the country malaise Dec 2017 #5
I'm not entirely sure volstork Dec 2017 #12
A major depression or world war not fooled Dec 2017 #20
These days I'm not sure you're wrong malaise Dec 2017 #28
Only if USPravdaInc. doesnt tell them it Obamas fault. BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2017 #31
True malaise Dec 2017 #32
Thanks malaise, BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2017 #33
k and r....right here in the U.S.A. very sad... Stuart G Dec 2017 #6
This will be grist for me to call my US Rep and Senators tomorrow. PatrickforO Dec 2017 #7
Don't get your hopes up talking to them. Hookworm is a feature, not a bug (No pun intended), of ck4829 Dec 2017 #10
Reagan, Bush and then Trump NewJeffCT Dec 2017 #8
Freedumb Martin Eden Dec 2017 #9
The US is only wealthy for the wealthy... Locut0s Dec 2017 #11
So true. Sophia4 Dec 2017 #16
Big Kick & Rec for exposure. Disgraceful in this uber wealthy nation.. appalachiablue Dec 2017 #13
It seems MsLeopard Dec 2017 #14
Well put not fooled Dec 2017 #21
Where are you planning on going? nt Susan Calvin Dec 2017 #24
Still researching countries not fooled Dec 2017 #25
Amen. nt Susan Calvin Dec 2017 #27
Not hard for me to believe the report. Sophia4 Dec 2017 #15
I'm shocked this wasn't all over the place during the Alabama election. Ninsianna Dec 2017 #17
My thought exactly.........nt Heartstrings Dec 2017 #18
I posted on other platforms, I assumed it was posted here as well, Ninsianna Dec 2017 #19
I had an acquaintance do a walking tour of the country a few years ago gratuitous Dec 2017 #22
My brother purchased a purebred dog and recently found out it had hookworm. Vinca Dec 2017 #23
Bound and determined to be a third world nation. democratisphere Dec 2017 #26
We are living in a Randian paradise thanks to republicans workinclasszero Dec 2017 #29
LBJ really tried to make America great with his war on poverty. Nitram Dec 2017 #30
The federal govt ran a program to eradicate hookworm during the Great Depression perdita9 Dec 2017 #34
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