Reply #221: My sore spot is our social safety net in case of job loss.

[HughBeaumont]

UI that doesn't even cover poverty level wages (IF you get it, that is), it's only available for a certain time period (during a decade in which the average time between downsizing and new job increased from 6 weeks to 20), you get no re-training, the job banks are terrible, never kept current and woefully outdated systematically . . .

See, this big cycle of failure is why the middle/working/poor classes get tossed out into the street/forced to move back home with their parents.

And yes, I would LOVE to be overtaxed if it meant I get to keep the money I'd otherwise be paying for lousy insurance and I wouldn't be disqualified for major surgery due to a "pre-existing condition" . . .