Student financial aid/healthcare

[Ramsey]

Next time, try some sarcasm. Or at least ad the sarcasm tags to your post. Ya putz. :wave:

why do that, my way i can see you get all worked up on it

 

[Glenn B]

why do that, my way i can see you get all worked up on it

Judging by some of your posts.... you would like to see me all worked up. :guitar:

 

[Glenn B]

I was never an officer, I apologize for using that term once. I did, however, enforce laws! I even wrote a couple of tickets and got to testify in court! Was at the same time you were riding your bicycle around the island with a 3lb ABC giving the neighbors a hard time for having a BBQ.

It wasn't a BBQ, it was a Ramsey Roast! Get it right

 

[Ramsey]

:kissyou:

 

[ECKSJAY]

It wasn't a BBQ, it was a Ramsey Roast! Get it right

A Ramsey Nut Roast, nice!

 

[Glenn B]

A Ramsey Nut Roast, nice!

Well, it would be quick. :chef:

 

[Ramsey]

i hope yall arent too hungry

 

[goodburbon]

The University Of Louisiana at Lafayette

yes, a comedy. Yes many errors.

I am human after all, and not as perfect as you must be.....

weigh the alternatives please....

1. Continue to work, make a decent living for the next 10 years, then go on disability one day because I can no longer walk. and the job I had didn't pay quite enough to allow retirement at 37.

2. Take a few semesters to get a degree, work a less physically straining job, pay more taxes into the system over a lifetime that will more than make up for what my medical expenses are for a year.


the job I had was very physically tasking, from climbing a 100' derrick 5 times in 2 hours, to crawling on expanded metal for 100 yds, to carrying 5 seperate 100# boxes up the equivalent of 3-4 flights of stairs, and I once calculated that on one job I climbed over 4000 steps in 8 hours. or driving 10 hours to do a 3 hour job then driving the 10 home. never being home, being on 24 hour call...even when you were on vacation. plus extensive electronics knowlege all for $30000 a year....... and no dental.

you're GAWDDAMNED right I wanted a career change, and if all I need is to be covered in case I become deathly ill during my time in school, I feel that if I am making the grade, then I should be entitled to that, every student should be, because none of them/us can afford health insurance!

 

[Glenn B]

I hear you on the need to make a change, as well as the desire. I just question why Taxpayers should pay for it.

Nothing personal.

The University Of Louisiana at Lafayette

yes, a comedy. Yes many errors.

I am human after all, and not as perfect as you must be.....

weigh the alternatives please....

1. Continue to work, make a decent living for the next 10 years, then go on disability one day because I can no longer walk. and the job I had didn't pay quite enough to allow retirement at 37.

2. Take a few semesters to get a degree, work a less physically straining job, pay more taxes into the system over a lifetime that will more than make up for what my medical expenses are for a year.


the job I had was very physically tasking, from climbing a 100' derrick 5 times in 2 hours, to crawling on expanded metal for 100 yds, to carrying 5 seperate 100# boxes up the equivalent of 3-4 flights of stairs, and I once calculated that on one job I climbed over 4000 steps in 8 hours. or driving 10 hours to do a 3 hour job then driving the 10 home. never being home, being on 24 hour call...even when you were on vacation. plus extensive electronics knowlege all for $30000 a year....... and no dental.

you're GAWDDAMNED right I wanted a career change, and if all I need is to be covered in case I become deathly ill during my time in school, I feel that if I am making the grade, then I should be entitled to that, every student should be, because none of them/us can afford health insurance!

 

[goodburbon]

I agree that taxpayers should not have to pay for it....the main beef I have is the fact that my health insurance costs more per year than I would spend on 5 years worth of healthcare, if I were to break my collar bone every other year.


I very simply cannot afford it. I could barely afford it when I was working, and the job would pay 200 of the 650/month.

I absolutely hate asking the government to help, and the only way I can sell the idea to myself is to remind myself that other taxpayers, not just myself will benefit in the long run from me being a bum in the short term.

 

[ECKSJAY]

I absolutely hate asking the government to help, and the only way I can sell the idea to myself is to remind myself that other taxpayers, not just myself will benefit in the long run from me being a bum in the short term.

I'll be waiting for my check, then.

 

[5-90]

Frankly, I have less trouble with him being a student and wanting to be covered than with him going on PD, or just going on welfare - and we're paying for nothing.

I also think that welfare recipients should take a "pauper's oath" and should have to do some sort of public work for their public assistance - but that's just me.

Of course, I don't understand the trouble either - but I've eliminated half of it by being married to a woman with a decent job and good benefits. The rest I have to work out for myself (which is largely how Works in Progress got started...)

5-90

 

[old_man]

You say your insurance costs you way more than you would pay each year. So then you need the insurance for big ticket items only. Get a policy with a $2000 deductable. Then pay your own day to day bills.