US Government Shutdown

[plastroncafe]

You know what I'd like, Sofistocat? To have my healthcare not dictated by my employment status. You know, the way things used to be before the wage freezes that followed WWII. If I wasn't so damn dependent on having health care through my employer, and could feasibly buy it on my own, I could do what I really want to do for a living, and not what I have to do to make ends meet.

I'm quite glad you have the Cadillac of insurance plans offered by your employer. That means I'm far less likely to have to bail you out should you find yourself ill and unable to make your health care payments. If there's one thing that chafes me so it's having my hard earned tax money go to people who insist that the word "entitlement" is somehow a slur.

I do agree with you though about the voting thing. I just hope that when people go to the polls they remember that the GOP is the one that left 800,000 hardworking American Government employees out in the cold because they decided playing at politics was more important to them than the health and well being of the people who put them into office in the first place.

I just hope they don't listen to you and show up at the polls on November 4th, because...that's not when elections are this year. They're on the 5th. They're always on the first Tuesday of the first full week in November. I know because I work a 16 hour day that day, at my third job as an Election Warden.