Re: MSNBC (Oberg) - Deadly space lessons go unheeded

From: Fred J. McCall (fmccall_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 01/29/05

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    Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 04:19:45 GMT

    JazzMan <No_Spam@airmail.net> wrote:

    :Jim Oberg wrote:
    :>
    :> "JazzMan" <No_Spam@airmail.net> wrote
    :> > I have what's considered fairly decent insurance through my
    :> > employer, coverage that I could in no way afford on my own
    :> > since it runs upwards of $6,000/year,
    :>
    :> You can't afford it? Or you prefer to spend the money on something else,
    :> and expect somebody else to pay your medical expenses? Like your big
    :> house, your cars, your vacations? Can't afford to pay for life-saving goods
    :> and services, for other people's wages?
    :>
    :
    :Can't afford it. I don't have a big house, or even a small
    :house. In fact, I rent a lot for my mobile home because that's
    :what I can afford. Even still, my rent has gone up by almost
    :one hundred percent in the last five years and it's really
    :hurting. I don't have a fancy new car, I drive an eighteen
    :year old GM that I can keep running without spending a fortune
    :on modern tools and diagnostic aids. I haven't taken a real
    :vacation in years, well, actually, never. Not in my whole
    :twenty five year working career. Why? The places I'd like to
    :go (Scotland, Australia) cost too much to go to and stay at.
    :Paying for my health coverage would consume enough of my
    :after tax income that I would have to abandon my home and go
    :homeless.

    Yet you can afford a computer and internet access.

    Yeah, right. 

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 soul with evil."
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