Who Can Beat Trump?

[Eric the Green]

(09-23-2018, 05:42 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(09-23-2018, 11:50 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(09-22-2018, 10:51 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Show me a welfare recipient who isn't dependent on the welfare system. If you find one then explain to me why they're still on it.

I am for now. I had a bad back that created all sorts of subsidiary problems, including clinical depression. Medicaid will take care of my teeth, an ugly subcutaneous cyst, and the depression from a back pain. It will also solve some behaviors that created family problems. Physical therapy has started to solve a really-bad back problem that practically crippled me and pain that made me a miserable person to be around.

Without question, work is more satisfying than welfare even in a depressed area. I may have to move, but at least I will have a month of payments to facilitate a necessary move to some place where the jobs available better suit my talents. Hollow as consumerism is, it certainly beats poverty.

You're most likely are for the rest of your life. You remind me of a brother in law. He always feels as if he's getting the shaft. He talks big about himself. He talks as if he's the best at whatever he does and talks as if he's the most important person who works where he works as he's bounced around all over the place from company to company to job to job when his back ain't hurting or his sickness is cured or his finger feels better or his mind is back into it or his personal issue is resolved or the economy is better or whatever excuse has is better or he runs out of money and has no other option but to get over it and work. 

Hey, look at the bright side, you could be like me. You could be dealing with your back issue, seeing  the medical bills you owe for your treatment while shelling out 1500 hundred dollars a month to keep your insurance policy. Oh yeah, I think Obamacare is great for the fortunate poor person but I don't it's so great for the more fortunate people who used to have insurance that was about half the price.

And we can blame the Democrats-in-name-only (DINOs) in 2009 for that. If we had medicare for all, our low medicare taxes could be raised to cover everybody, and the pool of contributors would be much larger, payments to medical providers would be lower because of the regulations and common market, and payments would not just be going to sicker older people. 

With no public option, and now with no mandate, premiums for Obamacare have risen. And red states cut off medicaid programs, so they got no money to cover it, and that may have had the effect of raising rates too in the exchanges.