(In response to an NBC article that says kids are in danger of losing their health coverage)
Kevin: I assume the rest of this article says, “If their parents don’t get decent jobs to provide for their needs.”
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Sure, because decent jobs which pay for everything are (as we know by now) an infinite resource that everyone who is not too lazy can get their hands on. ./s
No, just no. Someone clearly doesn't understand the point of public health coverage and how the world works.
Kevin: "I assume the rest of this article says, “If their parents don’t get decent jobs to provide for their needs.”"
Not Kevin: "What if both parents have jobs and STILL can't afford what the health coverage used to cover?"
Kevin (smugly): "Then their jobs aren't decent !!"
Dude, seriously? I was terrible at economics and all at school and even I know that easy-accesable, decent paying jobs don't grow on trees. And even if they do, the massive amount of discrimination and failing education system makes it even more difficult to get them.
Some of them have two decent jobs... each. If you can have any full time job yet go home to an empty table, sick children you cannot take to a doctor, and endless condemnation for doing that job because others deem it worthless - despite the fact that the job exists means it has value and serves a function in the economy - then something is deeply wrong because every possible reason you have to work at all goes unfulfilled.
Those who indignantly say to just get a better job don't take into account either the necessity of all jobs as part of a functional whole for industry meaning that if such a thing actually were an option to everyone the mass vacation of those "worthless" jobs for individual survival would negatively impact the entire economy or the fact that a better job is even more dependent on finding an employer that doesn't screw their employees over which is an increasing rarity and actively discouraged by extreme capitalists seeing that as just another handout than it is on a person's personal abilities, marketable skills, or work ethic. Marketable skills, by the way, that require financial investment to expand upon. And if you don't have the money to feed yourself how do you expect to get the skills to get the better job to feed yourself? Get a better job that requires those skills you can't afford? Or maybe go into debt like so many people do and still have the same problems only with a massive debt bogging you down even further that people will demonize you as being lazy and irresponsible for it existing?
How do these people function?
Confused?
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