The Youngest Victims of Wall Street Greed [View All]

[Puppyjive]

James is my son. He is in the 1st grade and just completed a two week wrestling class. He really enjoyed the class and decided to join the wrestling club. The cost to join the club was $15.00. Everything was set. He would go to wrestling 2 nights a week. Then came the news. We just lost our health insurance. You can't wrestle without health insurance. My husband's job is hanging on by a thread and his employer had no choice but to cancel health insurance for all employees. When I picked James up from school yesterday, he asked me if we got the health insurance yet? I had to tell him no. As I was wiping away his tears, it broke my heart. Why have we lost our health insurance? What happened to the fruits of my husband's labor? And the more I think about it, the more I get angry. We don't have a 5 car garage. We have one bathroom. We have never missed a house payment or a car payment. Our only luxury item is a used travel trailer. Our son's college savings is half gone. We didn't have much to invest for him, about $1850.00 to begin with. It is now down below $900.00. I want to find someone who works in the financial industry and take something from them. I don't care what it is, I just want to take it away from them and see how they feel. I get sick to my stomach when I see a Lexus, Mercedes or BMW commercial on tv. I won't watch sports, that industry needs to tank too. I am no financial genius, but I saw the writing on the wall a long time ago. Houses kept getting bigger, but wages remained flat. Our two class society is now imploding before our eyes. But long live the King. HMO's are now the ruling party. We will get insurance for our son. Even though he is only 6 years old, everything must come at a price. We will hand over what money we have left so that some HMO's CEO can drive a Lexus, live in a house with a 5 car garage, and gloat about how dumb people are to pay such high prices for health insurance.