Ed Schultz: "My God, what has happened to America?"

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2011-02-27 09:29 AM

Schmidt
Colorado Springs, CO
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Ed Schultz asked in a column he wrote for the Huffington Post in December 2009: "My God, what has happened to America?" The focus of Ed's column at the time was health care...his column was entitled, Senators Should Visit a Free health Care Clinic to Really See the America they Represent...and Deny.

At this particular time he had just hosted his MSNBC show from the Kansas City Convention Center where a free health care clinic was being held. He was overwhelemed by the experience and wrote:

"There have been few days in my thirty year broadcasting career that have moved me as much as this experience did. I saw the real America. In the middle of the country, two thousand miles from the beltway, I witnessed middle class Americans standing in line for hours waiting to see a doctor. Some had not seen a doctor in years. They have jobs, some working two jobs, but can't afford the cost of insurance and basically are on the GOP plan: pray you don't get sick.

"The stories were gut wrenching. I couldn't help but think this is where the Senate needs to do their business. Do it right in front of the eyes of the people in their own country who are struggling to make ends meet and live in dignity. The Senate should do business in front of the families that have played by the rules and have been dealt a personal set back for one reason or another. Have the guts to tell these people to their face that they aren't worthy of health care because they don't have money. They may see these faces briefly on the campaign trail, but they make no decisions in front of them when they are standing in line in pain, in agony and in desperate need.

"America has a heartless side to it as well. That is demonstrated when U.S. Senators put the God Almighty Dollar in front of people who put them in office.

"My God, what has happened to America ?"

Read the rest of Ed's column at the above link. When he speaks for America, no one can say it better.

I chose to post excerpts from Ed's column from 2009 because his words rings true today as he is championing the right of middle class workers to collective bargaining. As the middle class union workers are trodden upon by greedy Republican law makers in Madison and Washington DC, and few in the media and Congress are willing to stand proudly beside him as he draws a line in the sand for the middle class, one indeed has to ask:

My God, what has happened to America?

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