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Originally Posted by Excaliber
Then you believe in health care rationing based on one's ability to pay, regardless of the reason they can or can't pay. A classic I've got mine, screw the rest mentality. That worked well for the cave man, it is unreasonable and ethically just plain wrong in a civilized society. Need a liver transplant? If you have enough money there is a way to get to the front of the line. We don't like to admit it, but it's true. Your money means you live, someone else dies. OK, evolution at work I guess. Were better than that, morals and ethics have a place in all this.
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Yes, I've got mine,let me tell you how I got it.....
Being I'm just a dumb cajun from Louisiana with NO rich relatives, I've had to work for mine.Started my first "real" job at the ripe ole age of 14 back in 1969, working at the local T,G&Y (remember those stores), rode my bicycle to work everyday after school and worked till 7:00pm and all day on saturday and one sunday a month doing the floors. Did that till I graduated from high school, upon graduation, I had bought and paid for a used trailer house which I had set-up on some property outside of town dad owned and had a saving account and a nice checking account,all by hard work, and it didn't kill me either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Went to college for 2 years all the while holding down a job and doing small engine and outboard repair out of my grandfathers shop at night and on the weekends........
Then went to vo-tech for 1.5 years all the while still working....
Finished that and went to work offshore in the
oil industry, till I married in 1978 and came home to "settle down" with my new bride.
I had a full time job as well as still doing small engine and outboard motor repair till 1994 when I went in business for myself..
Within 2 years business was real good, and I didn't have to work all hours of the night and weekends in my shop "on the side"...
Since 1994, I average working 60 to 70 hours a week in my own business and love it, making a good living for my family....
As off my last bank statement, I'm paying in just a tad over $858.00 per month for health isurance for myself/wife/daughter and we only have major medical, cause that's all I can afford. I/we pay for all medicine/dental/eye care/doctor visits out of MY pocket.......
Now YOU want to tax me more so some lazy fat a$$ed welfare reciepents can have FREE health care???? The same people that never have held a job and never will and never will contribute one penny in the form of income taxes all the while living off my tax dollars while driving an Escalade and eating steak and drinking beer all day while I work 12 to 14 hours each day??????? and anytime they have the slightest little pain in the a$$ or a hangover they drive to the nearest emergency room and get free care........
In the imortal words of Al Borlan to Tim Taylor on Tool Time, "I DON'T THINK SO TIM"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
David