Rush calling the system, "dandy" sparked a huge debate in the car between my boss, his wife and my myself during an hour long car ride. He believes we have the best health care in the world, which may or may not be true, but SO isn't the point. He thinks that controlling or getting rid of unions is the answer to everything nationwide. I tried to explain to him that unions here are different than they are in other places and wouldn't really solve anything where I grew up. He said I don't know what I am talking about and maybe that's the case, but I don't know anyone in a big union in Tennessee. (I do know unionized guys here who get paid to sit in their truck all day, bitch when asked to step onto the job site and then get paid 10x what I make..) I know I don't understand the union thing, but private contractors are the way things are done in Tennessee so getting rid of them wouldn't help much there. He bitched about teacher's unions being a huge problem and how pay next to nothing for health insurance. In Tennessee, teachers start out making 24k per year. I guess he's living in his NY/NJ bubble and not aware that things are different elsewhere.
When I spoke of people who couldn't afford health care, he said that he had never had a problem paying for it because he worked hard and went to college. I argued that he lived with his parents while in school. Many people have to start working full time right after high school and pay rent and health care and real bills that he didn't pay until AFTER college. There's also the fact that many college grads can't FIND work now. He said anyone who can't afford it is lazy and he shouldn't have to foot the bill for anyone else. I told him he couldn't understand because he had never been poor. His response was that when he and his wife first married, money had been tight. I again said, "But you've never been POOR." He said, "Well, I have never been dirt poor trash." If I survive the next four months without ending up in prison, it will be a miracle.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than
f**ckin' perfect!
