When I was growing up, healthcare was never an issue. I’m not super old, Gen X, but I know things were pretty solid until we started getting an influx of immigrants and people who would go to hospitals and not have health insurance.
When I graduated college (at 22), I was off my parents insurance. They did not allow 26-year-olds to still be on mom and dad’s policy like today. Heck, I was an adult! One of the first things I did while looking for a better job was get an insurance policy in case I got sick. I paid $78 a month. I didn’t make a lot, but I knew I needed to be covered just like I had to pay car insurance. I prioritized my needs and didn’t spend money on wants like expensive coffees-I don’t know that we even had any Starbucks around me at that time, technology, clothes and shoes. I worked. Paid my bills and did what I was supposed to do. Now people feel they should get everything free. They show up at an ER with a cough.
I am so exhausted with supplementing everyone else’s food, housing, healthcare.
My great grandmother used to tell us, “Those that work should live better than those that don’t.”
If people don’t want to live in poverty we need to stop encouraging bad choices. We need to stop rewarding people for their poor life choices. To avoid poverty isn’t hard:
Graduate high school 2. No children until your married 3. Work a full time job
No more illegal immigration. No more “free” visits to the ER that raise my premiums and deductibles to cover someone else.
This is the essence of libertarianism that I think the RNC should adopt. American exceptionalism means the principles our founding documents are based on are exceptional. This includes not merely limited government, but limiting government specifically because it's evil; but a necessary evil.
Our founding Fathers knew this. We should not forget it!
I don't mean to minimize the multiple evils associated with globalism, but in simplistic terms it's hard to go wrong with this: globalism wants bigger government, and that is evil. That's more than any civics class today teaches.
This is why I told my boys when they were mite hockey players to CARRY THEIR OWN BAG! None of those lazy, old lady roller bags for our family. My kids were packing and carrying those hockey bags by themselves. Some days, when the snow was high, it was a struggle. But today, they are better for it.
Giving people free stuff or doing things for people that they should do themselves doesn't help them in the long run.
When I was growing up, healthcare was never an issue. I’m not super old, Gen X, but I know things were pretty solid until we started getting an influx of immigrants and people who would go to hospitals and not have health insurance.
When I graduated college (at 22), I was off my parents insurance. They did not allow 26-year-olds to still be on mom and dad’s policy like today. Heck, I was an adult! One of the first things I did while looking for a better job was get an insurance policy in case I got sick. I paid $78 a month. I didn’t make a lot, but I knew I needed to be covered just like I had to pay car insurance. I prioritized my needs and didn’t spend money on wants like expensive coffees-I don’t know that we even had any Starbucks around me at that time, technology, clothes and shoes. I worked. Paid my bills and did what I was supposed to do. Now people feel they should get everything free. They show up at an ER with a cough.
I am so exhausted with supplementing everyone else’s food, housing, healthcare.
My great grandmother used to tell us, “Those that work should live better than those that don’t.”
If people don’t want to live in poverty we need to stop encouraging bad choices. We need to stop rewarding people for their poor life choices. To avoid poverty isn’t hard:
No more illegal immigration. No more “free” visits to the ER that raise my premiums and deductibles to cover someone else.
I could rant all day.
My first real job in high school was 2004 working at Arby's. Full time, benefits, 401k with a match, health and dental.
After the ACA...kids today probably wouldn't believe me. This was entry level fast food.
So now things are worse and the government that made it worse gets to bitch about it and tell us they can fix it.
Every time the government gets involved things get screwed up.
This is the essence of libertarianism that I think the RNC should adopt. American exceptionalism means the principles our founding documents are based on are exceptional. This includes not merely limited government, but limiting government specifically because it's evil; but a necessary evil.
Our founding Fathers knew this. We should not forget it!
I don't mean to minimize the multiple evils associated with globalism, but in simplistic terms it's hard to go wrong with this: globalism wants bigger government, and that is evil. That's more than any civics class today teaches.
This is why I told my boys when they were mite hockey players to CARRY THEIR OWN BAG! None of those lazy, old lady roller bags for our family. My kids were packing and carrying those hockey bags by themselves. Some days, when the snow was high, it was a struggle. But today, they are better for it.
Giving people free stuff or doing things for people that they should do themselves doesn't help them in the long run.
Life lessons via hockey! We should have a sketch series about this. It could be seriously funny and simultaneously true.
I never lost a game.
We never lost a game either...we just ran out of time! lol
That's a dumb hockey joke.