Last Living Titanic Survivor Selling Ship Mementos for Senior Care

It wasn't Joe the Plumber that McCain should have been talking about in the debate, it was Millvina Dean! Come on guys, get with the program! She lived through the Great Depression, survived the sinking of the TItanic, and the crappy movie that was made about it, only to fall victim to the global credit crunch.

Dean, who was two months old when she was pulled from the icy Atlantic ocean along with her mother and older brother, is now auctioning the clothing that was donated to her on behalf of New York City in order to pay for her nursing home expenses. According to an article by Associated Press, the clothing and other mementos are expected to fetch over $5000 on Saturday.

The story is sad and telling all at the same time. A woman who has endured so much should not be made to suffer the loss of her life history to pay for 4 more weeks of housing and care in her nursing home.

It's telling because England's socialized medicine program offers free nursing homes and health care for the elderly. The quality is so poor however that a 96-year-old woman would choose to sell such precious mementos from the Titanic just to live elsewhere.

Isn't that the same kind of healthcare that's being pushed for in Washington right now?