[Tfug] Down Memory Lane II

[keith smith]

John,

I am truly sorry to hear of your illness.  Your situation is case in point for my argument that the Church is not doing what it was called to do.  I am a Christian as you might already know.  I believe in the Bible and all it has to offer.  I also must tell you I am a sinner and fall short.

Your case is an example of how the Church is falling short.  We are all called to tithe.  Few do.  I tithe.  I do so because God commands it.  If we all tithed the Church could do great things.  

Recently a pastor told me we could stamp out world hunger with a one time investment of 30 billion dollars.  If we all tithed that would easily be possible.

As you might not know 41% of the money collected by the Federal Government goes to Medicaid/Medicare and Social Security retirement.  SSI is constitutionally illegal.  It may bankrupt our country and crash our economy.

This is another short coming of Christian Church.  If we were doing what God called us to do then our Government would not be making a mess of things.

In your case I wish the Church was doing it's job and then you would have little to worry about and you would truly be able to take the career path you desire and become who you were created to become. 

Basically I'm for less government and more community.


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Keith Smith

--- On Mon, 1/24/11, John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu> wrote:

From: John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Down Memory Lane II
To: "Tucson Free UNIX Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Monday, January 24, 2011, 1:25 AM

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 08:20:01PM -0800, keith smith wrote:
>
>John,
>
>I'm self-employed and have no insurance because it is prohibitively
>expensive.  Catastrophic insurance for just my wife and I is a minimum of
>$500 a month.  HMO would be about $1200 a month.
>
>I choose to not have insurance.  I pay out of my pocket as I go.  It cost
>less and requires some negotiations.
>------------------------
>
>Keith Smith

Keith,

And more power to you for taking the decision into your own hands.  And how I
do wish that I could do something similar, but it ain't gonna happen anytime
soon, I'm afraid.

I'm young, which is nice (you can probably tell from my statement about the
TI-99/4A).  I also have metastatic cancer, which isn't so nice.  I've been
dealing with it since my first semester at the UA.  As you can imagine, it
changes a lot, especially your outlook on the world of insurance.

You don't gain much from it besides knowing scores of doctors on a first name
basis.  Beyond that, not so much.

The losses side is a bit longer.  While I can easily see myself as a
self-emplyed contract programmer, that's simply out of the question, as is any
job where I must be self insured.  I'd have to find somebody willing to insure
me and then hope I can pay to have my eyeballs reattached after seeing the
premiums.

Realistically, from here until retirement, whenever that is, I'll be working
for some company that offer's group health insurance.  On the upside, that's a
decent pool to work from, but I'm sure you can see how that leaves out a great
many smaller businesses.

Uhh, anyway, all hail Obamacare.
"Taking a small step into the future.*"

* Void where prohibted.  Future not available in Arizona, Texas, and portions
of "The South".


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