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If you don't have health insurance, many of the big companies have plans that aren't that expensive. Your deductible will be a couple thousand (which isn't tha
by rick888 15y ago
If you don't have health insurance, many of the big companies have plans that aren't that expensive. Your deductible will be a couple thousand (which isn't that much compared to having no insurance) and it will only cost you $80 or $90 per month. This is the cost of many cell-phone plans.
"He appears to have no empathy for people who lost everything by doing the safe thing: buying a house, working a job, and living the dream."
How is buying a house the safe thing? A house is an investment and there is risk associated with all investments. If you aren't willing to take those risks, you shouldn't buy a house. Renting is still a viable option.
"Wall Street getting a bailout while average people are told it's unpatriotic and un-American to ask for help"
So two wrongs make a right? By wanting help you are just legitimizing the bailouts.
- terrywilcox 15y agoHow is buying a house and working a job a safe thing? I'm Canadian. We Canadians grow up extremely aware of our behemoth neighbour. We watch your TV, your news, your movies. Your culture permeates our culture. And your culture celebrates home ownership and working a job as the American dream. From Leave it to Beaver to Desperate Housewives and Weeds, your culture (and ours) is all about having a job and owning a home. It's part of the American dream. How many people pursuing that dream lost their job and their homes? If you're unemployed and homeless through no fault of your own, how do you feel when you see bankers, who are at fault, getting bailed out by the government? The Occupy Wall Street movement is about pointing out how unfair it is to bailout the rich without doing a thing for the middle class. As for health insurance, does the author sound like he has a few extra thousand dollars kicking around to pay the deductible?