The American Eldercide

This blog will eventually become a turn-on-a-lamp, check-out from the local library, open and read BOOK...or perhaps it will become illegally banned, legally banned, or somehow "disappear" along with its author.

There are societies who view their elderly as national treasures. Ours is not one of them. Our society begins "culling" its elder population by demoralization at about the edge of sixty-five.
When a child is demoralized, he grows like a stunted tree, unable to bear good fruit. When an elder is demoralized, he does what is expected of him - he dies.

Our society has not yet learned that, inside the eyes of a ninety-year-old, is a person who would still be aspiring to his own greatness if the slightest aspiration were encouraged.

Many will not want to hear what I have to say; moreover, they will not want others to hear what I have to say. Through a tragic set of circumstances, I have become privy to knowledge that a private citizen of the state of Arizona was not meant to have - the loss of one hundred eighty-one million dollars - most of it school funds and Medicaid accounts receivable - through the Local Government Investment Pools (LGIPs) by way of the Arizona State Treasurer's office.

This loss has greatly deteriorated our already bad Medicaid delivery system. Many of our elderly will die from wounds incurred by the shot fired from Dublin, Ohio on November 2, 2002, but none of them will have heard the gun fire.

Most taxpayers in the state of Arizona are not aware that their counties are running on "ticky-tacky" - investments made without being voted on by the people of these Arizona counties. It was okay as long as it made money for the counties, although many of the newly-knowledgeable wonder, "what did the counties do with the profits from these covert investments?"

We never heard what they did with the profits; the only secret more closely guarded is the losses.

This I know: Those being served under the ALTC (Arizona Long Term Care - Medicaid Title 19 program) are being served, at best, inadequately, and in the worst-case scenario, not at all. When they beg or complain, everyone (all the way up to the Governor's office) treats them disrespectfully and rudely.

I have also discovered that our government in Cochise County and our Arizona State Government is IMMUNE FROM THE LAW.