I wish I was actually living instead of just surviving. Don't get me wrong. Surviving is good. It's much better than the alternative to surviving which is not surviving. I will occasionally complain about continuing to breathe, but I do appreciate continuing to breathe. But I do wish I was getting to live my life and not just survive it. I would love to be able to travel, meet new people and experience a little more fun. I do not enjoy living in a country that is all about living to work instead of working to live. I took a $95 hit to my tax return this year because I didn't have any health insurance all last year. I didn't think that was fair.
I think health care for the most part should be like public education and police. It should be covered by taxes. We certainly pay enough taxes that it should be covered. And now trying to find a full-time job is an issue because they don't want to help provide your health care coverage. When is someone going to get smart at our White House and say, you know, big companies and corporations like tax breaks. Let's give them a tax break based on the number of full-time American citizens work for them with the highest tax break going to the ones that have 100% of their employees working full-time. We can also give another tax break for providing health coverage for those employees with the best tax break occurring for paying for 100% of an employees health coverage.
Okay, I'm not a politician and I'll never be president. But I do have above average intelligence. I wonder how many politicians actually have above average intelligence. They should have to pass an IQ test to get their jobs. And there should be a cap on how much they can make. They're public servants after all. They shouldn't be getting paid better than school teachers and police officers who have way more important jobs. And they should be required to have spent several years living in poverty so they know what it's like and have a clear idea of what people really need.
