charcat13
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I have a SIL like this. She's also never wrong.:glare:
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We don't think it's necessary. I was pregnant (and have asthma) when the swine flu hit. You'd have thought I'd be dead by all the media hype, but I and my two oldest(2 and 5 at the time) got through it just fine and now have natural immunities.
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Congrats on your new tech. My 5 yo son loves the HWOT Wet Dry Try app. My kids also like the crayola apps.
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:grouphug:Praying.
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I understand that any job is better than no job. The problem I'm seeing as I read through ths thread is how is someone supposed to move if they are barely able to put gas in the car and feed themselves. It's not cheap to move. Just driving to a new area with your family and belonging costs a small fortune that many just can't manage. I'm in the camp that does not see the improvement in the economy.
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Sounds fun! Well, maybe not fun, but the results will be nice.
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That's ridiculous. Good for you for standing up to them.
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We've been praying or this family as well and will continue to do so.
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All I know is that I wish the government could give me the $37,000+ amount that would be my kids' per pupil allotment if they were in school here. Alas. I mean, I know it doesn't work that way... and I don't mind that we pay taxes for the schools. I believe all people should have access to education. But... oh... the waste and the cost and... oh.
Imagine the field trips abroad, all kinds of science equipment, any curriculum you want.
Our share shows up on our property tax but that doesn't include local sales tax or the extra fee on my electric bill every month. I'm sure there are more.
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Come on guys. The way politicians behave the only classy thing is the name of the event. If we don't call it a debate we'd have to call it " Grown Men Behaving Like Children."
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The same side has had more time on the clock at every single debate this year.
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My daughter took my mom (the phone) "swimming" in a pot I was soaking in the kitchen sink.
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It was the Lincoln/Douglas debate. No, I don't think most people these days have that kind of attention span. It's a shame. I also don't think many politicians could articulate their position for that long or that well now.
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This is us.
We have children with rare medical issues. (DH says we will never win the lottery because we already did in diseases lol!) It is very difficult but I am glad that we have insurance through DH's job (Forbe's 500 company). He purposely applied to get in at a big company to better protect our health coverage and he puts up with a ton of crappy policies to keep the coverage. Even with a better-than-most-insurance, everything is going up more than normal this year and I don't know how we will pay for everything we are going to need: medical formula for feeding tubes, procedures that are necessary, etc. My only hope is that we just keep going more and more in debt but that the doctors and hospitals allow us to keep coming.
Prescriptions are where we will be screwed. They won't give them to us unless you pay up front and since some of them will be my child's food... We don't qualify for any help because we "make too much." Never mind that we spend most of our disposable income on healthcare. Each of my children has several hundred dollars in RX alone. I agree that if all, or even most, of my family was healthy, we would "make too much." That isn't the case however.
:grouphug: That is such a terrible situation. Is there a resource in your community that can help? Church outreach or similar assistance.
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Yeah, my husband was warned before the last election that if it went a certain way they would have to lay off a bunch of people to prepare for the changes coming. In March of 2009 he was laid off with a lot of other people. They've been steadily laying people off since. It was a pretty big insurance company. It's also the insurance company my mom retired from and now, as I mentioned earlier, her premium has gone way up as has her deductible. This is the most dramatic increase she has seen and her buddy, a VP for the company said they are having to raise costs across the board this year and slash even more employees and it's because of the AHCA.
I'm not a big fan of insurance companies because they do over charge the doctors and other healthcare providers, but it's not pretty in the insurance industry right now.
That really stinks. I think the system could be better, but the average person working for the insurance company is simply trying to feed their family like everyone else.
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I didn't take it that way at all. I took it to mean apparently some people don't get it because they don't have to deal with it, but maybe if they did, real change would happen.
I don't believe most people with decent insurance are thinking, "oh we'll, I've got mine." Again, IMHO statements like these set up an us vs them rather than a let's get this fixed mentality. I just don't see how dragging some people down makes the situation better.
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Maybe if everyone has to put up with what many of us have to deal with every day, some real reform might happen?
This mentality seems sad to me. It comes across as,"if I have it bad everyone else should too." How is it better to have access to insurance you can't afford or have insurance that has such high deductibles and copays it's unusable? Isn't that basically the same as having no insurance? So we get to say everyone has coverage, but no one really gets care. I don't understand how this has fixed anything. Just because we're all equally miserable doesn't mean anyone is better off.
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My daughter hated the tiles but it was an easy fix. We just use a small whiteboard.
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I like Notability. It allows you to write on the document.
But I have no experience with CPO.
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:grouphug: So sorry you're dealing with that.
Just saw an article
in General Education Discussion Board
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They are probably going by who requested the ballots and their party affiliation.