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Chris
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All the problems you mentioned are real problems in our country and not only prohibit people from buying health insurance, they hold them back from buying homes and cars and clothes and going on vacations and educating their children etc. etc.
Those problems are what we as a country should be looking at and it is what has changed from the 50s thru 80s. The insurance issue is just one of many things a country that has ran out of speed will suffer from. We remember the good old days and we apply the good old days model to some parts of today when there is something we dont like and say see how things have changed. Why do all these people have to work 3 or 4 part time jobs to still lose ground is the big question. I go to Walmart and people are buying flat panel TV sets like they are giving them away. As a kid every family also wanted a TV in their home and every single TV you could buy was made in the USA and every part inside the TV was made in the USA. Every car you went to buy the TV in was made in the USA right down to the tires. Everyone that wanted a good job and was willing to work had one and most got health insurance as part of that job.
It is hard to not see there was a winning formula for this country once upon a time.
The question is what happened and why?
Going back to the first post in this thread here is Chris a guy we all know wanting to recapture that winning formula for himself and his family and his then workers.
The question is what happened then to now and why? He correctly sees the deck stacked against his efforts in a lot of ways. Take that one guy times a million guys like him with the drive to put in play the winning formula would make big changes and allow things to start snowballing in the right direction.
Everyone in business and working under the principals of free enterprise are not greedy people. Sure he wants his piece of the pie. Thats the thing about the way this country was before all this everyone could have as much pie as they wanted. It wasnt one pie to be sectioned up for everyone as we now think it was a growing pie where the bigger the slice you earned the pie got bigger for everyone else.
I think you are correct, it is not just healthcare but everything has changed. We are now raised to live in a throw away society where all the things you used to work hard for in the 50's should be given to us or at least discounted and the ones in charge of them are evil or crooks and then all the throw away crap that everyone buys then re buys and buys again and again over and over because it is either junk made in foreign countries or the the lemmings are following the new fashion or trying to keep up with their neighbors is what has become priority.
I listen to stories my grandfather tells me. He came to america after the second world war, he had to join the Swedish army then apply for citizenship then had to join the American army in order to apply for citizenship. He came here and worked like a slave to get ahead. He did several odd jobs the landed at Firestone making tires and later jumped over to Aerojet until he retired. He would tell me how they only had one car for the whole family and they kept them for 20-30 years. He still has and drives his 1971 Chevy station wagon with 350,000 miles on it but in great condition. They had one TV and one radio. They used their credit card for larger purchases and paid it off before buying anything else on it. They saved up and paid cash for everything as to not pay interest charges. When things needed fixed they learned how to do it themselves and as a last resort hired someone to come in. Maintained everything they owned in top not conditions and in return it lasted them for years and years. It was a simple idea he says, buy quality and take care of it and it will last you a lifetime. None of this is taught to todays youth and we don't see it hardly anywhere. just think of it, how many TV's have you bought over the last 20 years? how many different cars have you owned over the last 10 or 20 years? People say its just a different time now but I see that as being the problem. We buy trash and then bury it a year later. No wonder China is number one.
I find myself over the last few years in buying older quality made tools that are rebuildable because a 40 year old tool can easily be better than any brand new one. We still make quality on America if you can find it.