>> The industry that I work in is directly impacted by the health care >> bill. In addition, my health insurance premiums were increased by >> more than the anticipated amount once it was passed. My wife had to >> start working again after being a stay-at-home-mom (a job in itself) >> for 6 years so we could afford our medical insurance. > > You must have been surviving on a rather thin margin....?
Medical insurance costs went from $750/mo to $1100/mo. We had things budgeted to the penny, still do... there just weren't enough of them. >> attacks and that has borne out to be true. > > It has? Yes, yes it has: These were all in the days leading up to the pull-out: http://www.france24.com/en/20100825-insurgents-attack-police-iraq-string-bombings-security-forces - Iraqi insurgents target police in string of bomb attacks (8/26) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67O1EO20100825 - Insurgents attack Iraqi police as U.S. pulls back (8/25) http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2013729,00.html - Iraq Attacks: U.S. Mission Still Not Accomplished (8/26) And recently: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-09/19/c_13520161.htm - String of bomb attacks in Baghdad kill 32 (9/19) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/19/AR2010091904197.html - Bombs kill 37, injure more than 100 in Iraq (9/20) http://articles.cnn.com/2010-09-20/world/iraq.violence_1_car-bombs-roadside-bomb-iraqi-army-patrol?_s=PM:WORLD - More attacks rock Baghdad (9/20) http://www.rttnews.com/Content/GeneralNews.aspx?Id=1424303&SM=1 - 2 Iraqi Soldiers Killed In IED Blast (9/21) which includes the text: "Insurgents have been increasingly targeting security forces ever since the United States pulled out its combat troops a month ago leaving 50,000 U.S. soldiers in the war-ravaged country to train its security forces." > So I guess i'm just trying to question the perception vs. the reality. The > reality is...yeah, our economy is not as strong as it can be or should be. > But are we really "suffering" as a people, economically? I don't think > that's the word I'd use. Tell that to the 1 in 7 that the most recent census identified as living "in poverty": http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100923/ARTICLES/9231007/1002 - Census: 1 in 7 Americans lives in poverty http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/us/17poverty.html - Recession Raises Poverty Rate to a 15-Year High Tell that to the people that, just this past week, found out that their insurance carriers were cancelling all "Child Only" medical insurance plans in anticipation of the requirements placed on them by the health care bill. Tell that to the GM retirees that have had their pensions and benefits cut *after* the Obama administration took over. No, this is reality. Stark, cold reality that some people won't acknowledge because they bought in to a dream and don't want to wake up from it. Hatt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:327773 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
