not me

Posted By: sm on 2009-01-12
In Reply to: So you are better off now than you were - 8 years ago?

I have cancer and my husband was laid off - out of the blue - the first of the year. Since his company was changing insurance companies - we have to wait to see if we can afford COBRA. As it stands, it will be around $800 per month, and he can't count me as a dependent because my income is 28% of his gross. Daughter turned 18 in November - senior in high school - but since she's 18 - can't count her as a dependent. Don't think unemployment will cover COBRA and a $600 per month mortgage. In between treatments for cancer because I could not tolerate the last drug.....so, no care or insurance coverage at this point. Probably can't qualify for food stamps or medical card. So, lazy asses like us are proliferating all over the US. Unemployment phone systems are melting down (ours did last Monday) because they are designed to handle 80,000 calls and they received 800,000. Heckuva job. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!

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handicapped and mentally ill - sm
- And so helping them means just giving them a check and food stamps? SM - Lu
  - Actually most of those laws were NOT done by liberals but in the REAGAN ERA sm - CPW
  - You can't make mental retardation "go away." nm - Huh?
    - In this case......... - sm
  - Where are you going to institutionalize - Red Stater
  - You forgot one thing....... - sm
    - Mentally ill and Reaganomics - westcoastMT
      - I'm with you...... - sm
    - BULL! I'm not talking "funding" for federally run institutions SM - Lu
      - To Lu: - westcoastMT
      - BULL!! - sm
      - But your loved one will have to have - insurance to go anywhere
        Yes - sm
      - looks like less gov't to me - sm
      - Laws vary state-to-state - nm
        blame your state - sm
- Start with yourself - did you donate and what percentage? - jm
  - 'stop betting......you're losing..... - sm
    - yeah, sure you did. - jm
      - Nazi-cons? - sm
      - Get help................ - nm
        Cant' you stick to issues and not personally attack - those who don't agree with you.
        Yeah - what she said - stop calling - nm
        Actually, you didn't read the post then - jm/those who don't agree with you
        commute? - sm
        my point exactly - jm
        Old in the fact that you misunderstand - sm
        hahaha - sm
- um...you're thinking of Bill and Hill, walking out of the white house with everything - not nailed down.
  - Actually, they didn't take everything, just what they thought they - see inside
    - The Decider - sm
      - You're just prejudiced. That is not based in fact... - just your fantasy.
        What!!! - ditzil
        So tell me - what other atrocity on US soil has happened - jm
        Interestingly, other atrocities on US soil...(sm) - Just the big bad
        More - ditzil
        And what credible plots were stopped by - his policies?
        Give me one that was NOT! ! ! - NM
        How about these? - sm
        Why do you just ignore the hard - questions and stay in
        I answered your question. - Why do you not answer mine?
        I'll answer for her...it's called "classified information......(sm) - a conservative voice in the wilderness
        So instead of saying "that is classified information" - they brag during SotU addresses
        It is called more attacks like the one we went through - jm
        So you are happy to have traded your - constitutional rights
        I'm glad our country has been kept safe and - jm
        It's called national security. sm - ms
        So they only bragged about stopping the - attacks that turned out
        And what will you do, if on Obama's watch... - see inside
        I'll answer the phone!!!! - nm
        I will blame the Obama administration of course. - sjk.
        No, you don't see..... - see inside
        Honestly, it was the "please opine" comment - sjk
        Me too.... - see inside
        No need to for you to apologize at all. - sjk
        Yes, we needed the Arab Emirates... - sm
        Baloney...George W. did not keep us safe from anything! - sm
        I have heard and read about how he kept safe - Along with you
        That Clinton could've prevented... - give me a break
        But, it did not happen with Clinton and that is the bottom line - Along with you
        Riiiggghhhhtttt,,,,,,, - sm
        Errr...except for 9/11 - He ignored actionable intelligence
        How exactly did he keep us safe? - Very curious.
        What actual credible plot was NOT - derailed by him? How
  - that is an urban - ditzil
  - So you are better off now than you were - 8 years ago?
    - YES, YES, YES. My friends and family are all better - jm
      - Republican Congress came up with NAFTA - nm
      - Those tax rebates you received were - sm
    - Yes, I am better off than I was 8 years ago...(sm) - I am better off
      - Every time a Pub becomes prez - grams
      - I was much better off in Clinton Years - sm
        I actually made more money in the 90s - nm
      - Congress dems lowered your earnings? - sm
        Well, maybe the dem congress didn't lower my earnings...sm - I am better off
        Do you know how silly the libs sound by blaming everything - silly goose
        No confidence in a prez who will not - grams
        Nothing silly about stating obvious facts. - Bush was a bomb.
        Please tell me... - sm
    - not me - sm
      - Me neither. - It's a no brainer, Ms. Um.
- The operative phrase "due to no fault of their own" - Emily Ayn
  - did ya get the email about requiring a urine test to - get a check, as most employers can
    - yes, handicapped can work - sm
      - In our area, all the "Handicapable" work programs are - Kim
      - Absolutely not! I stated below that I meant no - disrespect - just making an
        2.6 million jobs lost in 2008 alone. - Might want to rethink your Rx.
        I think every one is just missing the point... - You all have your own agendas and cannot
    - Yours must be a - see message
      - I only posted about the urine test concerning those who - are not handicapped or mentally ill-sm
  - entitlement - sm

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