Hi Carl,
You ask why the workers bow down to their financial superiors?
Three schools of thought here.
1. The workers are so beaten down that they hope that a bit of groveling will
mean they get treated less badly.
2. The only hope of bettering one's lot as a worker is to engraciate oneself
with a member of the ruling class so that one gets to act as a relatively
well-paid lackey.
3. My religion requires that I respect my superiors.
Bob Hachey
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No surprises here. What is puzzling is how so many working class Americans buy
into the attack on single payer health insurance.
I know that many folks argue that we can't afford such an expense, but they
don't seem to have a problem with the huge profits creamed off by the
"protectors" of our nation's health.
Currently the life expectancy for USA is, as of 2012, 78 years for females and
74 years for males. Now that's pretty good when compared to the average back
when FDR signed Social Security into law in 1935.
Women lived an average of 67 years and men an average of 63. Notice that the
retirement age of 65 was two years higher than the average life expectancy of
men? And remember, FDR died at the ripe old age of 63, still too young to
collect his first SS check.
But compared to the life expectancy around the world, the USA is, if memory
serves me, around 34th. We're nestled just below Costa Rica, and just above
Qatar.
More than 30 nations are doing something better than we are. And for the most
part they are doing it at less of a financial drain. Even our once highly
regarded Veterans Care has fallen on hard times.
Okay, so if I were born with a silver spoon in my kissable baby mouth, I'd
understand growing up believing I and "My People" were simply brighter than
the Riff Raff. They were placed here by God Almighty to serve and pleasure me.
But where, in all that is sane, is the thinking of working folks who go along
stooping and kissing the hem of the garment of their corporate masters?
This must be the great riddle that we must solve before we are freed from our
bondage.
Carl Jarvis
