Subj : Re: 3.5 weeks to being la
To   : ACMEBBS
From : boraxman
Date : Tue Jul 19 2022 23:54:23

 AC> This is what goes through my mind whenever I hear anyone moving here.
 AC> Want to read some scary stuff about labor here in the US...do some
 AC> reading about "Right to Work" laws. 
 AC> 
 AC> In my particular situation...at my age (60)...I am on Medicaid here in
 AC> Oregon & have been for several years in order to get the health care I
 AC> need. Means I keep my hours around 20 a week to be able to keep my
 AC> medical insurance. Don't like it...but have been on company health
 AC> insurance policies & almost lost everything I would ever have/had to
 AC> just see the doctor. The reason is that I would need to pay several
 AC> thousands before the insurance would cover anything at all.
 AC> Previously...you would pay a co-pay and the insurance would cover 80%
 AC> until you spend a large amoung of money.
 AC> 
 AC> Had a co-worker from Australia who got married here to a woman with
 AC> kids. Wants to move back there...but he doesn't have custody of her
 AC> kids...so he's stuck here. Even asked him in a joking manner if he had a
 AC> chest big enough to fit me. ;)
 AC> 

Americans seems to have been conditioned by means of fear, to be skeptical of any economic change which might benefit them.  Mostly the Conservative Right. There exists a similar train of thought in the Australian Right here like that, that if we do something which makes life better for the average guy, something more than a small tax cut, the world will collapse.  As if you're supposed to live a hard life and if we give people a better deal, the world will fall apart.

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