So don’t you ever take a tone about Money issues with me till you walked a mile in my shoes?
Yet you can blithely advocate other people paying for your medical bills, without walking a mile in
their shoes? You don't have an idea of how much we pay in taxes, or how much less was left of my paycheck when I lived in a system with socialized medicine. All you know is that you want the people who make more than you to pick up the tab for other people's health care, simply based on the fact that they have more money left over at the end of the month.
Who are you to determine who deserves to keep their earnings, and who doesn't?
I tell you what: you pay for your own health care, and I pay for mine. Don't agree with that? Then tell me how much of my paycheck ought to go to your doctor bills, and why.
I am 34 years old with a B.S. in Architecture and should be living the American dream right? Welcome to WV! My clothes come from the Goodwill and second hand stores. Have cable TV but no digital for me and my TV is 19 inches. I drive a 1999 Neon that leaks a quart of oil a week!
So whose fault is that? And why does that entitle you to any of your neighbors' paychecks?
Yes it is!! It is the money of the people of the U.S that have to buy the prescriptions that pays this mans salary.
It's not
yours. it's the money of the people who buy the prescriptions, and then it becomes the money of the people who sell the product. It's not communal property. And who pays for the development of all the drugs they sell, and the salaries of the people who develop them? Should they all work for free, to serve the common good? Or do you want to cap their salaries and profits based on what
you think they should make? What was that again about "walking a mile in someone else's shoes"?
Read some of my other post, I can buy one gun a year with my Christmas Bonus, guess what, none this year went to Paying electricity bills. Along with my Dad's $100 he gave me, bills also. God Bless my family though, gave us a Stove / Range for Christmas so we have someplace to cook. Learned you can make a lot in a microwave and toaster oven.
Again, whose fault is that? Is it mine? If not, why should I be forced to contribute to your doctor visits?
Look, life is tough. There are no guarantees--nobody makes the food in my fridge magically appear, and the propane tank in the back doesn't refill itself automatically every other month. I can either sit here and bitch about evil Irving Propane, how their CEO makes a hundred times more than I do, and how they'd just let me freeze to death if I couldn't pay the propane bill because they value their profits more than my life...or I can get off my ass and work so I can pay the bill. This country offers lots of opportunity for employment, entrepreneurship, and self-improvement, and if my current job doesn't make enough to pay the bills, I can go out and take advantage of those opportunities.
That does require initiative, of course, and it's a lot more work than to sit and bitch about The Man keeping everyone down, and clamoring for the state to steal from my neighbor so I can get my annual check-ups. I'm too damn proud to take from others what I ought to be able to provide to my family with my own two hands.