A Henrietta Hughes flashback
Before making a nationwide media splash with her savior President Barack Obama at the Ft. Myers revival rally, Henrietta Hughes had garnered public attention before. In 2004, she was living with her unemployed son in Rochester, NY. Good-hearted private citizens offered them help then, too, to supplement the government checks (reprinted with permission from the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and Cynthia Benjamin, social networking editor):
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY) – Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Author: DC, Cynthia Benjamin, Staff
Doctors and other medical staff volunteer time to treat patients
BY STAFF WRITER
CYNTHIA BENJAMINCorey Hughes ‘ thyroid gland was bothering him – again. He needed medical attention, but had no money to get it. Hughes , 33, a computer programmer who lives in Rochester, has no steady job, no health insurance, no doctor.
So, when Dr. Carolyn Mok examined him June 2 at Mercy Outreach Center on Webster Avenue, not only did Hughes get necessary treatment for his thyroid condition, he also took comfort in something else: the service was free.
Mok, 51, a medical doctor who has a practice at 175 Lyell Ave., is among hundreds of medical professionals in Monroe County – no exact number is available – who give their expertise, pro bono, to people such as Hughes – people whom physicians commonly call the underserved, the working poor, the uninsured.
In all, medical professionals – physicians, dentists, radiologists, nurses and others – devote thousands of volunteer hours each year, treating people in need, charging nothing because the patients have little or nothing to pay.
In their volunteer work, medical professionals treat everything from toothaches to heart disease.
Some volunteer on the staffs at places that serve people in need, such as St. Joseph’s Neighborhood Center, 417 South Ave., run by Sister Christine Wagner of the Sisters of St. Joseph.Others see patients in their offices at no cost or at a reduced fee.
Art Streeter of the Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency says about one in 10 people in Monroe County does not have medical insurance, so volunteer medical professionals are vital.
“Most of the physicians look at this (volunteering) as part of what being a physician is,’’ says Nancy Adams, executive director of the Monroe County Medical Society, a group of more than 1,700 doctors from Monroe and six other counties.
“In the old days, it was just common practice (for physicians) to give back. That philosophy didn’t just go away because there are programs available to patients,’’ such as Medicaid and Family Health Plus insurance plans, Adams said.
Making ends meet
Hughes , who has not had a steady job for two years, recently took on temporary work for Superior Staffing Services, 26 Corporate Woods.
It’s tough, says the Monroe Community College graduate.
“I can’t even get a job at Wendy’s (after applying more than once),’’ he says, but “I feel good. I’m thankful to God.’’
Though Hughes wouldn’t reveal his salary, he says he doesn’t earn enough money in his temporary job to pay a doctor.
He helps take care of his mother, a breast cancer survivor who says even with Medicaid, she hasn’t seen a doctor in more than a year because she can’t afford to pay any percentage not covered by her insurance plan. Having Medicaid disqualifies her from pro bono services.
Yet she was thankful that Mok examined her son, who otherwise would not have received treatment.
“There isn’t many doctors that will see you if you don’t have insurance,’’ says Henrietta Hughes , 56. “There’s doctors, just out of the compassion and goodness of his heart, that will give his service or her service, and I’m very grateful to God.’’CORRECTION Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY) – Wednesday, June 16, 2004 Author: DC, Cynthia Benjamin, Staff
Henrietta Hughes , 56, of Rochester has Medicare insurance. A story on Page 1F in the Our Towns section Wednesday described her health coverage inaccurately.
Since one of our commenters doesn’t understand the point of publishing this information, here’s the point:
The White House and the press are holding up this woman and her son as symbols of how the economic downturn has rendered people homeless and jobless.
Mrs. Hughes and her son have been jobless and receiving government assistance since at least 2004.
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Yes, there is now a Henrietta Hughes website.
Via Dan Riehl, some more information:
Corey Hughes, who left his job in New York in early 2008, said he had been trying to take care of his mom. Both have searched for jobs and have come up empty, as have so many other Southwest Floridians. Henrietta said the family came here due to the expensive living costs in New York.
“So, I borrowed quite a bit of money to come down to Florida,” she explained.
And more: How many homes?
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Sure. FilmLadd said
I’m not sure who in the government is forcing him to work (although my guess is that it has something to do with the Collective)
The fundamental need of survival.
That’s not the government forcing him to work.
Obama and his democrat enablers wan to turn us all into Henryetta Hughes.
bluesoc, I think he is talking about taxes being a form of slavery. I disagree with that since taxation is needed to maintain ANY society. But OVERTAXTION certianly qualifies as an injustice.
When the government starts overspending and demands that we pay for it, there is a problem. When they overspend and DON’T pay for it. There is an even worst problem.
From MSNBC:
From henriettahughes.com
Dave, neither of those things were cited when MM posted the original post and when I made my comment on it.
Ususally its a good idea for an author to do due diligence before making an assertion.
Are you in denial of basic reality?
GEES!
Spoken like a Lawyer. Now if the MSM would listen to you Chappy.
Chap, How do you know what Michelle knew, and when? Your jumping down her throat or stompinng on her fingertips is why Web posting can become such a maze of useless information.
I honestly don’t know what you’re arguing with me about.
I was simply trying to say that the government does not force anyone to work. As you aptly pointed out, it is the nature of man that forces him to work.
Blue said; it is the nature of man that forces him to
work.survive.On February 12th, 2009 at 9:03 am, bluesoc said:
When the government takes money that I have earned through my own labor, it is taking my labor, you collectivist slavemonger.
And no amount of obfuscation changes that.
Just because modern slavery is done at the IRS’s gunpoint in a “civilized” manner (through the medium of money) doesn’t make it any less evil than, say, forcing me to work at a plantation picking cotton for four-five months out of the year…
Which is, I think, about the average amount of time that the average taxpayer must work to meet his burdens to your collective.
I apologize for the typo. I’m still not sure why you were arguing with me.
On February 12th, 2009 at 9:56 am, bluesoc said:
No, not all men are forced by their natures to work.
Some of them like to spend their time figuring out ways of tricking and forcing others to work for them.
And it is the nature of collectivists to force Man to work for the State, to turn all free men into slaves for the greater good of the collective. Meanwhile the slavemongers take a piece of that pie as it’s being redistributed.
Just get a gun and a whip and be done with it, instead of peddling propaganda to make us willing slaves. I don’t think you’re going to convince anyone here that our slavery to these collective “needs” is a good thing.
Survival is the fundamental need. Those who wrote our constitution deferred the understanding of our rights as coming form God. They wrote that document, which is this countries legal foundation with that belief. Those fundamental needs did not include confiscation of a person labor for others to use with the exception of the common good. Our constitution does not say the common interests.
From the book The New Intellectuals – there are two types of coercion; from the witch doctor, and from the Attila.
in·ter·est (ntrst, -tr-st, -trst)
a. A state of curiosity or concern about or attention to something:
good (gd)
1. Being positive or desirable in nature; not bad or poor:
com·mon (kmn)
a. Belonging equally to or shared equally by two or more; joint:
One could look at it as if one has “choices”:
1) One can not work:
and earn no money with which to pay for food, clothing, shelter, etc;
or, leech off funds that the government has forcibly taken from others who are working, and is distributing as it sees fit, after taking a monstrous cut for itself.
2) Or, one can work:
and have a large amount of the “fruits of one’s labor” forcibly taken away by the government through taxes, fees, phased-out deductions, etc; or,
3) One can work, and try to hide income by not reporting it, and face a response from the government, which ultimately can mean the point of a gun.
Essentially, the government is telling us that we are allowed to work “in peace” only if we agree to allow the government to extort from us much of our labor’s fruits; only then will we be free of riots and vicious looting (and what else?) caused by those who feel “entitled” to a large part of those fruits; only then, the government is essentially telling us, will we avoid the chaos, brutality, and savagery of the jungle.
It’s sort of like the “choice” a victim of organized criminal thugs would have in the situation:
“You have a choice: you can either sign the paper; or get a bullet in the head.”
What does that mean for the 16th amendment?
Also, I’m not sure of the distinction between “common good” and “common interest”
Interest is a mental state of curiosity.
Good is a judgement derived from an observation.
Those who needed control, used the 16th amendment to modify the original intent of the constitution. They need to collect form the personal labor of it citizens. To do this they modified the word good into interest. Interest has infinite possibilities. The word good is a finite judgment. Our constitution delineated only limited rights, with the purpose of protecting the intent. The 16th amendment destroys that intent.
Look who’s assuming now…
Don’t second guess Henrietta or her son, but please feel free to do so on another poster here…
Late, but 2 cents anyway… Worked for GUV AGENCY in the 80s… Was SUPERVISOR… To be fired one must be convicted of a FELONY (major), or CAUGHT STEALING from the GUV AGENCY… No other reason will get you fired… THAT’S A FACT!!!
bluesoc – Good grief…. When our wages are STOLEN by the government and given to someone else we are being FORCED to work to support that person.
Obtuse… leftists are so obtuse…
As to taxes, I clearly stated in an earlier post that I don’t mind paying the taxes needed for Constitutional items such as National Defense. But my money being given to someone else means I am being forced to work for their benefit instead of my own. Slavery.
Chap – I am not a Statist either. No government entity has the right to take my money to give to someone else. As Family Man pointed out, that is slavery.
southsomebody – Or whoever compared me to Daschle… more genius democrat moral equivilency. I am opposed to taxes, yet pay them. Daschle has worked to enact laws that force people to pay taxes and he tried to get out of paying them…
obtuse… I just can’t get over how OBTUSE Dems and leftists are…
Unless, of course, the Constitution says it can?
I am confused by what standard you are applying for when taxes are okay and when they are not.
Satisfaction of Mortgage. Henrietta and Corey Hughes. Lee County, FL. $124,000 Paid off in TWO YEARS. Hmmm…. Is this the Henrietta and Corey Hughes? Where’s the home now?
Quitclaim Deed. August 2006. HUGHES HENRIETTA.
My husband is in the military and he has civilian employees that work “for him” and it is a nightmare. The union won’t let him move a copier without permission because it might make someone walk further to the copier and that would be unfair. He has employees who do nothing all day and others who are downright rude and insolent. I have never heard of anyone being fired. I can’t imagine what she did to get fired.