And yet I’m willing to bet that I make twice as much as you and between my wife and I, make 4-5 times as much as you. I feel like we work our asses off too. Why should my hard earned insurance premiums go to pay towards your health insurance (if we actually shared insurance plans)? Why should I pay for your social security? Don’t you aspire to be anything more than a worker at your current place of employment?
Making a career out of working at the local Lowe’s where you provide me with nails, paint, and fertilizer may seem as foolish to me as you think those working two part time jobs to make ends meet do to you.
It’s so easy to demean those who make less than you. So maybe try to empathize with others more?
* I have great respect for people who work in grocery stores, department stores, and restaurants. If that’s what they want to do with their life more power to them. I recognize how fortunate I’ve had it in my life yet also believe everyone should be entitled to health care. It’s the moral and economically correct decision. I wouldn’t think about withholding health care because I felt like they didn’t deserve it.