bripat9643
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No, you described an event where power wasn't returned for 30 days. That's all. Aside from being totally unlikely, it's not life threatening.Good god, Patty. As usual you just miss the point entirely. I am talking about a natural disaster scenario that would THREATEN THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE IT DIDNT INITIALLY KILL. Meaning, a poverty stricken family got to higher ground in time but their entire livelihood was destroyed by the disaster anyway. WHAT THEN?Okay let me put it like this: a family with multiple children have a cut-rate insurance plan, or maybe they don't have one at all because they can't afford it. What about those kids who don't have any power in their parents' financial decisions? What happens to them and 10s of thousand other children in poor families? Do we just let them suffer because their parents couldn't afford adequate insurance?And what if a natural disaster in the future extended your blackout by a few months instead? What if you only had enough resources for a month?I was without power for 16 days after Ike, had many trees blown down. I ran 2 generators 24/7 to run refrigeration, the well, the RV for the wife and mother in law so they had AC and took care of the downed trees myself. I'm in better shape now, I have a propane whole home generator and unless a tornado spawned by the storm destroys my house, I'm good to go. If that happens I have good insurance no need for uncle sugar, it's called being prepar
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That's what insurance is for.
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Do you think the federal government should buy them all new bicycles if their parents can't afford it? A swimming pool? Orthodontia?
God it's amazing this simple scenario would go completely over your head. It's so fucking stupid, you know that right?
Life is better for rich kids than poor kids. The only way government can fix that is by abolishing capitalism. Then life will suck equally for everyone.