I need to stop reading the news...

[conuly]

Nursing homes in Texas haven't had a rate increase in six years, according to Cheryl Killian, owner of three small nursing homes and administrator at the Sycamore Care Center in Fort Worth. "We're about 22 percent underfunded right now, per patient, per day," she says. "People are dying right now in Texas because of the underfunding. They're getting bed sores and laying in their own waste because we can't afford to keep on going. I've been doing this for 30 years and it's never been this bad."

Killian, one of the few on the street who actually voted for Perry, said her fellow Republicans would rather sit in a church than face reality. "It's not their issue. Maybe they're afraid of speaking out," she said.

Republican Kathy Holt says too much taxpayer money is being wasted on administration costs in education and nursing homes. "The church should be responsible for taking care of the elderly," she says. "I'd be more than happy to write that woman a check. In fact, I bet I could get that entire church to make a donation."

When I asked Janet Waterman to respond to Cheryl Killian's concerns about nursing homes, she said, "People have been dying for years. What about the babies who are dying from abortion?"

*screams*

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Do these people never stop to think that they will be the elderly and all they've done is foster a sense of apathy on those younger than them?