[JDW11235]

The fact that the writer expects someone else to pay for, and care for, his/her ailing mother tells you what that means...Having worked in the healthdare field, I am familiar with these types of children. It’s part of the communist plan to make everyone part of the welfare states. Separate parents from their children by indoctrinating people to believe children are a burden, then when they grow up, reinforce to children that their parent’s aren’t worthy of their time or money. There’s nothing new about this, once upon a time it was referred to as Corban.

[sauropod]

I don’t get that from the article at all. Ms. Chavez is simply stating that a solution must be found.

She is a moderate-to-conservative commentator, not a friggin’ communist!

[JohnBovenmyer]

If her mother had been allowed to keep, save and invest all the unnecessary taxes the government took from her and her husband over her long life, which the government then wasted on things it shouldn't have been doing, she'd probably have had enough left to afford the kind of care she now needs! The proper strategy to pay for long term care is to accumulate personal wealth while you can, which can be spent if and when you need it. Wasteful spending, either personally, or via government mandate, defeats that. Government is an inefficient spender so needs to be minimized. Do that and much becomes easier. Ask that inefficient government to take over things and things go to... Obama.