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Originally posted by Munchkin03
Dude, you live in Oklahoma. Try living in a state that charges more for their insurance. It's not as easy as you might think.
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Oklahomans are also paid far less on average than in other states. The median income here for a household is only 38K.
In Florida, it's much higher. I certainly support tax incentives to keep jobs in the US, I support a higher minimum wage, etc. I'm more liberal than y'all probably think
True there are millions of shades of grey in the system. It's just that working where I do, usually on the side of divorces that has the money, I see the other side abusing social programs like hell. They lie to social workers who don't have time to see research what they're being told, they claim abuse just to get free stuff, they know all the ins and outs of the system (if many of these people weren't such wastes of space, I'd say they'd make good social workers). I grant you that what I see is mainly the abuse, when the system doesn't work, how it protects the abusers, etc. It ticks me off to no end. I'm sure they don't have that in Florida.
I'm not saying that society should turn its back on people in dire straights who are not there because of their own laziness/stupidty/ignorance, whatever. We should just know when to cut them loose.
and as for this by amycat:
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But that's the point, isn't it? The world revolves around Oklahoma, didn't you know?
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Are you trying to be funny? Or do you think you're better than me because you're in California and not in someplace that you look down upon as some kind of provincial wasteland?
Have you even been to Oklahoma?