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hfojvt

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21. even when I was employed, and self-employed working 70+ hours a week

Reply to McCamy Taylor (Reply #13)

Wed Dec 21, 2011, 01:08 AM

Dec 2011

I had no health insurance.

It would have been a huge waste of money if I had.

Even now, after four days in a hospital, an EGD, and knee surgery for a torn meniscus, my employer has paid far more into insurance for me than I have received in beneftis over the last seven years or so.

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They are doing everything right, but still one bad break away from poverty [View all] Starry Messenger Dec 2011 OP

The quotes from this woman made me want to throw something at the screen. Gormy Cuss Dec 2011 #1

Seriously. Starry Messenger Dec 2011 #3

it's called despair. barbtries Dec 2011 #9

+1 Solly Mack Dec 2011 #26

Why is the scale unrealistic? Abin Sur Dec 2011 #2

Perhaps "unrealistic" was the wrong word to use. Starry Messenger Dec 2011 #4

And since you have stated that you dont care about anybody but yourself, others' answers don't rate CreekDog Dec 2011 #14

What a fascinating assertion. Would you care to document it? Abin Sur Dec 2011 #15

Apparently you *don't* wish to document it. Why do you suppose that is? Abin Sur Dec 2011 #16

i had a thread on poverty and you never once expressed any concern for the poor CreekDog Dec 2011 #17

Not expressing concern for the poor on one particular thread hardly equates with "stating that Abin Sur Dec 2011 #19

it doesn't help to make you look like a progressive hfojvt Dec 2011 #20

You're right, it doesn't. So what? Abin Sur Dec 2011 #22

it has broad support - so what hfojvt Dec 2011 #28

The point is that you criticized me for not sounding progressive. Abin Sur Dec 2011 #29

Same as mine - very much so (look at profile). alittlelark Dec 2011 #23

The OP said "take steps to balance the scale" is pretty cold and unrealistic". Abin Sur Dec 2011 #24

Uh, Yeah.... Like getting a Stanford MBA and marrying someone alittlelark Dec 2011 #25

Yeesh. Chill. Abin Sur Dec 2011 #27

As long as ordinary people have to work to get money in order to lay claims to goods and services mbperrin Dec 2011 #5

Well said here: Starry Messenger Dec 2011 #6

+1 xchrom Dec 2011 #7

OMFG. "Take steps to rebalance the scale." hunter Dec 2011 #8

+1 Starry Messenger Dec 2011 #10

k&r n/t RainDog Dec 2011 #11

The newly poor are also used to being self-sufficient meow2u3 Dec 2011 #12

When I was unemployed, I took out a mortgage to pay for health insurance. McCamy Taylor Dec 2011 #13

At least you were able to do that. Avalux Dec 2011 #18

even when I was employed, and self-employed working 70+ hours a week hfojvt Dec 2011 #21