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Some one very dear to me watched a local news clip today about workers also losing their health insurance when they get laid off. It was asked, "Why can't there be sort of a slush fund held by the insurance companies to allow for continued (free) medical care during these hard times?"
I asked, "So where would this slush fund come from?" I was told that a small part of every one's premiums could be set aside by the insurance companies for the hard times. Yeah, just tax me more (raise my premiums) to support the less fortunate ones.
Holy Crap! The Thought Dock is now in danger of being conquered by the over whelming and ever growing liberal socialists in my very dear family. It seems America is rapidly approaching the position that most Americans are entitled to be supported by those who work, and pay for their welfare and desires while doing nothing to earn anything (I borrowed this sentence from another published article).
I need that cannon now more than ever, or at least a 50 caliber gattling gun. I'll hold them off as long as I can. Never Surrender!!
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and then....there's the story of Chicken Little.
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much more magic in the eyes of a child who has seen "The Princesses!"
now, THAT's life.
Yeah, but what if you got laid off and had a family you needed health benefits for? There's a difference between getting laid off and refusing to work, don't you think? For some of us, and by us I mean those who do want to work, the unfortunate reality of getting laid off gets closer and closer every day. I don't think that a slush fund for the "less fortunate" is the same thing is socialism. Helping those when they need it is being humble.
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I recently did a Bible study on the book of Ruth. You can read the book of Ruth yourself in about half an hour or less - it's just 4 short chapters.
ReplyDeleteWhat I found interesting in the book of Ruth is that it illustrates for us the plan God designed to take care of the poor: In the Old Testament God's provision for the poor was that they should work, and that the wealthy should enable them to work. For Ruth, that meant hard, back-breaking, menial labor - walking behind the people harvesting the fields and picking up what was left over to provide for her family.
My problem with many people who get laid off is that they sit on their butts and collect their checks because they cannot find another job that is as wonderful as the one they lost. Case in point is a friend's sister and brother-in-law. He got laid off, can't find an "equal" job, and refuses to pick the grain up off the floor so to speak to feed his family. There *are* jobs out there, and even ones with benefits... but people are too prideful today to work at McDonald's or WalMart.
Then again, why should they? They can sit at home and collect those checks. They will make more money doing nothing than they will doing something, anything, honest. There is value in hard work, and I respect the man who is willing to work his a** off delivering pizzas to feed his family a heck of a lot more than a man who does nothing for more than 6 months, and oh yeah, has another baby on the way.