You know what they did if someone got cancer in the 60's? They just sent you home to die. Heart problems? They sent you home with some pills you could put under your tongue that might stop a heart attack.
It's a lot easier to afford health care back when they had no expensive treatments for chronic conditions.
Argentina is a latin america shithole with a government that pulled people off the street and tortured them to death, and an economy based on a hereditary caste system.
Yea. It wasn't until the late 60's early 70's that all the factory jobs left.
On the other hand, no technology. No advanced media. Most people didn't even have a color TV. No remotes. No internet. A personal music system was a four by 8 inch AM radio with a tinny 1 inch speaker. No internet.
There's no one under 50 today who could even imagine living under those conditions.
A hell of a lot better than the early 80s. 12% inflation, 22% mortgages, corporations weren't hiring and there was no technical small business market where you could get a job if the fortune 500 wasn't hiring. And higher unemployment.
The economy isn't as bad as it was in the late 70's, early 80s'. There's actually a lot more ways to make a living now there was then. Ebay, computer support, they didn't exist back then.
So? Now it's some claim manager bureaucrat dictating care. The only difference is that Obamacare doesn't pay according to how many claims are turned down, like the insurance companies pays it's claim managers.
This wasn't hush money, this was a shakedown. Her big mistake was letting him call the cops. That gave him the chance to call a cop he knew. He probably would have backed down if she had offered to call the cops.
No, I can see the logic behind the idea that people who don't work full time are betraying society and must be made to work. I just don't agree with fascist ideas.
Isn't that true of most jobs? As they cut job benefits you're going to see more articles like this, claiming that people who don't work are hurting society, and should be made to work.
Detroit. I had a job up there so I decided to see the sights. Took one of the first exits into the city. Started seeing lot of people in Muslim clothes. Suddenly all the signs were in Arabic script.
Finally got out of there into a burnt out area of town. Burnt out houses just standing there. I felt much safer tho.
It's not that easy. A lot of those jobs are very specialized. QA specialists, document editors, mainframe support, jobs that just don't exist outside of a few very large companies, many of which have already been outsourced.
