nail, hammer.

[kaigou]

(Normally I would be more diplomatic and less partisan, but this is one issue that really steams me.)

This ad nails the one reason I just can't believe McCain has any comprehension of what it's like for those of us with mortgages, with incomes that pay for that mortgage with only just enough left over, let alone what it's like to know that your 401K is only barely going to be enough and that social security may not be much but at least it's something you can count on, eventually. Or what it's like to know that your choices are between paying off bills and having groceries or not doing that and being able to see a doctor. Or what it's like to buy disposable contact lenses in sets of six because that way you can wear one pair for six months and make the sets last for three years and save the cost of annual eye appointments -- you can see well enough out of glasses that are six years old, so it's not perfect, so sometimes you get headaches or your eyes hurt, the cash just isn't there so you deal and you know you're dealing but you deal.

I just cannot believe, deep down, that someone who says to be rich you're making "five million or so" is someone who has any comprehension of what the rest of us are facing, day-to-day, trying to make ends meet.

Okay, so maybe someone of the so-called "rich" (and I'd say, myself, that "rich" is a household income over 300K or so) might be able to sympathize with we of the lesser incomes, but I can't believe that someone could empathize. And frankly, I don't want anyone's goddamn sympathy. I'd just like some freaking health insurance that I can freaking afford.

Comments

[chibidrunksanzo.livejournal.com]

I'm just grateful for my job. Without my health insurance from there, well... I'm bipolar. Nobody will insure me.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

At this point, I'd be almost willing to settle for major medical -- at least then, if I were to ever (knock on wood) mess up in the workshop, I'd be covered for that much. But without even that? Sometimes, I'm not sure whether I'm (generally) healthy because I am healthy, or if it's because I simply refuse to consider that I could be anything but. It's like anti-hypochondria, or something.

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

So since serendipity says that your post connects to this post, I must give you the link: http://jer-bear711.livejournal.com/43044.html

You'll like.

Di

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

That honestly made my day, except for the part about septic tanks, which my staff reminds me is also on this house's to-do list. Sigh.

[windsorblue.livejournal.com]

I have gone from a mild distaste for McCain to a fervent and near-violent loathing in a matter of weeks. Having seven houses is bad enough. Needing a staffer to tell you that is just beyond the pale.

I would expound upon the point, but the feds might get wind of my feelings and toss me into the Gitmo for Badthink.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Follow the link from Di, above -- best reply on that thread, IMO, is the line, "I have one house, but I have to share it with the bank."

[whispurr267.livejournal.com]

What scares me is that the McCain ads shown recently are having a lot of effect on voters. Like the 'flip-flop' campaign against Kerry, these ads are ludicrous and way beneath the level I'd expect of McCain. I heard these ads defended not too long ago on a talk show as simply being 'attention-getters.'

The polls are saying that McCain is now about even. It is about time that the Democrats fight back.

[kraehe.livejournal.com]

No kidding.

And, speaking of insurance, from what I understand about McCain's health care plan, it would encourage employers to drop coverage for their employees, in favor of tax credits to allow individuals to buy their own insurance.

NOT good, especially for those of us with, shall we say, interesting medical histories. (I just got into an argument with USAA over my medical records because my IDIOT Gastroenterologist wrote that I had a history of cancer, which I DO NOT; he caught the polyp before it got to that stage, thank goodness, but still. I had to PROVE it by getting all the biopsy results sent to them.)

Oh, and foreign policy? Ugh. I'm really not happy with the sabre-rattling. We've been ignoring Russia for a decade now; we more or less backed them into a corner. McCain would push us into a new Cold War. We need diplomacy, dammit, not threats and escalation. Even Reagan knew better than the current crop of Neocon Idiots.