Uni Health Care

[binny]

@binny.

ME? I have prostate exams.

A question Binny:

I read that a great many [even middle class] Americans are something like three paydays from being on the street. Yet I would suppose that a goodly number of those same people would be of the same view as our Libertarian Tory.

Is it possible that so many people REALLY believe they are financially bullet proof? That they will NEVER find themselves say unable to afford (or get) health insurance? As far as I'm aware,at any given time over 40 MILLION Americans have no health insurance at all. As an outsider,I find that appalling* and inexcusable period. However, I think I understand a bit better after reading some of DLF's posts.I suspect her callous indifference towards her fellow citizens is quite common. Here and in the UK,that attitude is called "The Jack Principle". ("Fuck you Jack,I'm OK")

Cannot these smug objectors understand that solid social justice programmes (health,education and welfare) are actually in their best [long term] interest?

A few years ago,some one coined the term "culture of envy" to describe the Australian middle class.Their main concern seems to be that some one may get something they do not.Their life goal may be summed up in one word; "more". I'm neither surprised or shocked by DLF's general attitude,merely as contemptuous as I am of those I meet here just like her..



*I think my horror is in part due to the fact that the entire population of Australia is only 21 million.

Well I will try to answer your question. I do think most Americans are a few paychecks away from pushing a shopping cart and those are the ones who will cry loudest 'what happened? why me' when their world comes crumbling down around them. People here do think they are bullet proof. Most people I know live paycheck to paycheck, including myself. Our middle class is shrinking every day. If things don't change America will have the poor and the rich with nothing in between. I would like to think that dlf is in the minority thinking that things can keep going the way they are and 'f u' if you can't get an education and get a good job. I believe the majority of people that I know personally know that that attitude is unrealistic, especially in this economy. I'm hoping that the town hall nut jobs are only a handful of the population that actually thinks this way. I may be wrong, who knows. Unfortunately the smug objectors are uniformed and are listen to people from special interest groups and TV adds. They have little to know interest on getting the facts right, they just here what they want to here if it suits their agenda. They think it's their way or the highway. I heard a radio personality say that the baby boomers are going to ruin this country. They are a generation of post war spoiled brats used to getting what they want if they cry loud enough. That radio personality was Howard Stern. He was making a joke, but I think there may be a ring of truth to what he said. Culture of Envy does seem right. We call it 'keeping up with the Joneses'. We always have to one up someone else.