I don’t know. I do know that I didn’t have to quit my job, and neither did my (one of my) brothers. We did, however have to work together and do things that we otherwise wouldn’t have. Some of them pretty unpleasant.
No one wants to see the future when it involves senility and incontinence. We’d much rather pooh-pooh it away be declaring that we’ve earned a life of unperturbed complacency. So we put the old people away until their last few hours, then call in the cousins for a somber reunion with a dash of regret.
The we get on facebook and declare that a society is judged by the way we treat our sick and frail, as long as it is to impugn a system or organization and not ourselves. We’ll say just about anything to avoid touching some of those dark and icky parts of life.
The sentiment here seems to be that any government program is rife with waste. I work for a large company and the amount of waste and inefficient processes I see on a daily basis is staggering. Just because there are wasted dollars in governmental institutions doesn’t mean there is none (or even less) in the private sector.
This is admirable and surely tough. We did the same thing with my grandma though I was out of the house so I helped when back home. Many people would need full time care though which is tough to give especially if one has kids of their own to take care of and big bills already or a job that has financial strain even before it.
Never said there wasn’t waste in private enterprise. But if the head of Accounts Payable for Apple told the board that 10% of all payments cut were not legitimate, he’d be fired on the spot and likely brought up on charges.
“I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies."
–Sen Chuck Grassley
I give you the Grassley hierarchy of needs: Booze-> Women->Movies. Priorities, his are in line.
His speech writer face palmed real hard I’m sure. “Chuck… remember we talked about this. Rewarding saving is good. Implying that a major share of people’s take home pay is spent on buying hookers… not the best look.”
No sir, supporting the repeal of net neutrality would require a level of faith in my fellow man that I simply do not have. Not only that, but I find it very hard to put into words how little faith I have in my fellow man compared to what I would need to support a repeal.
FWIW, I also don’t support the complete privatization and deregulation of the electric gas & water industries.