well, kat, i do hope you get to feeling better. this
is a hard time of year, turning cold and damp after
being hot. easier to catch a virus, but with the
flucuation in the weather, one can't seem to shake off
the virus. the virus can be the common cold or another
giving about the same symtoms.
again, kat i hope you'll be better soon.


--- kat <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Per the US Census Bureau:
>
> 2.4 million more Americans are without medical
> insurance this last year as
> compared to 2001.  The number of uninsured rose by
> 6% as more jobs were lost
> and the unemployment rate rose.
>
> Last week another press release from the bureau
> reported that more people fell
> into poverty and median income declined in 2002, and
> 2003 won't probably be
> any better.
>
> This in spite of the fact that the recession
> 'officially ended' in November,
> 2001.
>
> On the other hand, there was an uptick in consumer
> spending last month as well
> as disposable income (what's left after taxes, which
> makes sense due to the
> tax cuts Bush pushed through).   However the uptick
> in spending won't last
> long if manufacturers and service industries keep
> laying people off.
>
> Bush keeps talking about tax credits, etc., but how
> can you take advantage of
> things like that if you can't pay for medical care
> in the first place?  I
> know I said I deplore people in social welfare
> programs who don't belong
> there, but with so many people out of work with no
> work to be found, it's
> worrying me how these people are going to fare.
>
> I have two good friends who are facing dire straits
> - one more so than the
> other.  The more dire situation is a neighbour in my
> building who is single
> with a little girl who has just lost her job; since
> it was a temporary one,
> she doesn't have coverage and is worrying herself
> sick over how she's going
> to provide for herself and her daughter.  The other
> is an old work mate of
> mine who was just told she'll be made redundant
> after 20 years with the
> company; fortunately she'll be 55 and eligible for
> early retirement but the
> timing will be far earlier than she and her husband
> had planned and they will
> be short on money, too.
>
> I am not happy at all with the economic situation.
> It affects all of us,
> whether we work or not, as this increase in the
> uninsured puts a strain on a
> welfare system already strained to the max.
>
> I can tell you again, I've never been happy with
> Bush's ecnomics and I am even
> less happy now, and you will never see me support
> him in his economics.
>
> (and if you're wondering, yeah, I'm still home with
> that cold and am even
> cranker than ever, as if you couldn't tell!)
>
> Kat


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