We are responsible. We are hardworking. We are doing the very best with what we have. We are also being fucked over.
My little boy is starting school next year. He is required to have immunizations. Our health insurance does not cover well visits. It covers 80% of illness and emergencies and my copays are 50 dollars and we have NO maximum out of pocket. I know what you are thinking. Get better insurance! Um, have you priced family plans? We can't afford more than the rate we pay monthly now. How do you think we can afford to pay FOUR HUNDRED for a policy and STILL pay copays and deductibles? Anyway, so now that I no longer work, I was very excited to save money and be able to go downtown and get his shots. Oh was I wrong.
Last week I took my boy to his doctor to get his annual check up. The shots he required were an ADDITIONAL FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS up front. The sweet nurse urged me to take him to the health department. The shots are free. Great! So I call the health department. "Come on down! The shots are free!" Great! So I drive down there today WAY downtown in the damn ghetto, pregnant and toting a 4 year old. I fill out the form with our info and make the mistake of being HONEST and checking the box that says "Has insurance that doesn't cover vaccines." So I get up to the window after a short wait, hand over my sons immunization record, tell her what I understand he needs (5 shots) and she informs me I will have to pay for them today. I was surprised, since I'd been told they are free. She calculates the total. I'm thinking 50-100 bucks since this is a federally funded establishment. Nope. "That will be $320" I almost fell out of my chair. She then informed me that I was free to make an appointment with pediatrics and then I could just pay my $50 copay and they shots would be free. Great! So I shake off the fact that I've wasted half a day and 10 bucks in gas driving all the way down there and call the number she gave me to make an appointment with a pediatrics clinic closer to home. I do that. That lady then proceeds to tell me that I will have to pay for the shots because my son has insurance. Yes....he has insurance but it doesn't cover shots. "I'm sorry. Its policy. The shots are only free if you are on Medicaid or uninsured."
This is the point where I started crying and lost my shit (hormones). That poor woman on the phone God bless her. My tear filled rant went something like "So what you are telling me is because I am a white stay at home mother who planned my children and sticks to a budget I get to pay premium prices I can't afford? You are telling me I'm better off divorcing my husband, cancelling my health insurance, applying for Medicaid, food stamps and wic? You are telling me my reward for being responsible is to pay for everybody who isn't?" She agreed with me. Said she was sorry. It wasn't fair. Blah blah. I hung up and had a panic attack.
Please understand. I do not mind paying for my sons immunizations. But why the fuck do I have to pay 300 fucking dollars for them??? Why did the bitch with the hair extensions and fresh fake nails get to march into the health department toting FOUR children, whip out her Medicaid card and get ALL their shit for free? I heard her conversation. There were 2 daddies of those 4 kids. They don't pay shit. She ain't married. She can't work because she ain't got nobody to take care of them kids. She laid down and made babies with deadbeats and gets all her shit for free. No wait, not free. MY HUSBAND paid for that shit. MY HUSBAND has his paycheck raped to pay for HER babies while HIS babies go without. I'm furious. WHY should I pay 300 and she pays nothing??? Why can't ANYBODY go down there and get the REQUIRED BY LAW shots for free or for a small fee per child? We pay fucking taxes. Why can't we get something that we technically already paid for?? Sweet Jesus I'm so angry I could light something on fire. I was so furious I temporarily lost sanity, threw my hands up and said "FUCK IT! We are cancelling health insurance and applying for food stamps and Medicaid! We may even just get divorced! I can claim you are a deadbeat and get us some money. I can cancel the life insurance and auto insurance policies. If you die I'll collect social security and get the policy from your work. If we get in an accident I'll just file bankruptcy! What good is credit anymore anyway? They give that shit to anybody! Then we can just quit paying for the house, let the bank take it and I can get section 8! Hell houses in OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE WE CURRENTLY LIVE are being run by the government. We can use the section 8 to pay $80 a month rent based on my income (EBT) instead of this fucking 650 we pay now and not have to fuck with insurance AND still have a comparable home! I'll just say you ran off! We can get reduced utilities! Then we can get free lunches for our kid when he starts school! The sky is the fucking limit!"
THIS ladies and gentlemen is the reason for the disappearance of the middle class. Because we are sick and fucking tired of getting punished for being honest, responsible and hard working. We can't fight anymore. We are tired of struggling paycheck to paycheck and living hand to mouth. We are tired of being the in the same grocery line with mooches buying gourmet shit with EBT while we buy great value cheese. People are actually doing what I just said above. They are giving up and jumping on the very government train they have LOATHED for so long. The entitlement programs we've sneered at. The lowlifes we've abhorred, judged and ridiculed. With this new government taking more from us and giving more to them we aren't about to keep working when they don't have to. Fuck it. If they don't we don't. Lets all just jump on the bus the hell without seat belts.
THIS, is what I'm TRYING to say but am just too damn emotional to word properly.
"An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. (substituting grades for dollars – something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
It could not be any simpler than that.
There are five morals to this story:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation."
::BANGS GAVEL::
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