Here in Southern California, Jean Eisen has been without work since she lost her job selling beauty salon equipment more than two years ago. In the several months she has endured with neither a paycheck nor an unemployment check, she has relied on local food banks for her groceries.
She has learned to live without the prescription medications she is supposed to take for high blood pressure and cholesterol. She has become effusively religious — an unexpected turn for this onetime standup comic with X-rated material — finding in Christianity her only form of health insurance.
“I pray for healing,” says Ms. Eisen, 57. “When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got to go with what you know.”
Well, sad for many reasons, right?
Of course, in the world of the Loon Brigade, this is just the consequences of the "free market", and any sort of government assistance is "socialism". The Loons have no real connection or empathy to those that are in desperate circumstances..
But hey.. religion is ready to step in and "save them", right? Of course, it's just a money making opportunity for the leaches of religion, but whatever.
The obvious point is that this catastrophic failure of conservative economic policy has left many with no real hope beyond an indigent life. It also demonstrates the failure of Obama and the Democrats to do anything about it.
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