Reply #23: My issues often lie with corporate greed. [View All]

[Kerrytravelers]

A perfect example is the latest Bankruptcy Bill.

It is estimated that approximately 95% of bankruptcy in America is due to a medical crisis or a surprise unemployment. Approximately 5% of America got into a financial crisis because they were irresponsible.

Personally, we have had both a medical situation and unemployment in the past two years. In fact, my husband's job went overseas to India. Thankfully, the medical one turned out not to be as bad as first reported to us. And also, thankfully, my parents are capable of tossing some money our way to help us make it. We did not have to declare bankruptcy. This year, we made 75% less than we did just two short years ago. My husband and I are both college educated with Master's degrees. We are not lazy nor big spenders. We just can't seem to catch a foothold. And, I am finding as I talk to more and more people, we are quite typical of the current American situation.

A very dear friend of mine, my matron of honor, is married with a young son. She is 29 years old. At five, she suffered from leukemia. At 20, she was diagnosed with brain tumors. For nine years, she has suffered and undergone 7 brain surgeries. Sounds unbelievable, but true. She is a fighter.

Her husband works and she works, when she can. Then, she got pregnant. The baby caused a regrowth of tumors.

Personally, I believe she deserves health care. Her husband's job dropped carrying health care. Her husband went to a trade school, not a four year college. He never was extremely academically inclined and had some learning problems in school. But he is a good and honest man who only wants the best for his family.

She is from a military family (I am too, by the way.) He made the decision, after speaking with his in-laws, that in the military, he would have a stable job and his wife would get health care. He joined the Navy and received special permission to stay in their home area (a Navy town) so his wife could stay with the same doctors she'd always had.

I think it is terrible that we are in a situation where good, honest people can not stay in their chosen careers because they have to find a place- any place- where they can make an honest living, provide for their families and have affordable health care.

We have become a nation of corporations, not culture. The poor is indeed getting poorer and the rich are getting indeed richer.



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