Autism Votes
Submitted by Kaden's Mommy on Thu, 09/06/2012 - 23:23
"They also want to block grant Medicaid and cut it by a third over the coming 10 years. Of course, that’s going to really hurt a lot of poor kids.
But that’s not all. A lot of folks don’t know it, but nearly two-thirds of Medicaid is spent on nursing home care for Medicare seniors who are eligible for Medicaid.
It’s going to end Medicare as we know it. And a lot of that money is also spent to help people with disabilities, including...
... a lot of middle-class families whose kids have Down’s syndrome or autism or other severe conditions.
And, honestly, just think about it. If that happens, I don’t know what those families are going to do. So I know what I’m going to do: I’m going to do everything I can to see that it doesn’t happen. We can’t let it happen. We can’t."
-Bill Clinton on Wednesday night, in reference to the Republican Party
I have always been a Democrat and an Obama supporter, but now that Kaden is going through this, I am even more. Please, please, PLEASE- for all of the families affected by disabilities, vote for Obama this November. This is not to mention the position the Republicans will put our senior citizens in.
It is my wish for other autism parents to fully understand the effect Romney will have on our lives if he is elected.
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On the other hand, you've got
On the other hand, you've got the other party wanting "More children for the fit, less for the unfit"- and willing to federally fund aboriton up to and just after birth to get it.
Guess what? Autistics are, by neurotypical stupid politician standards, the UNFIT.
This is why I am deathly afraid of a prenatal test for autism- when we got the one for Downs Syndrome, live births of people with the 21st chromosome mutation went down 90%.
Note what I'm not saying- that the party dedicated to killing medicare over doing anything about abortion is the party to vote for. But neither is the party dedicated to using eugenics to make the entire human race "normal".
Like Catholics, autistics do not have a political home. Given the small minority status of our way of thinking, I don't expect to ever have one. How the homosexuals got one when they are only 2% of the population is beyond me- but you can bet if there is ever a prenatal test for homosexuality, they'll be back down to the .1% that we're at.