Stoney, you do realize that health care costs from 1999 to 2009 have risen 130% right? Our insurance contributions from the co. is now damn near 300 bucks a week. This is part of our compensation and if they didn't have to pay that much, we would have more in our paychecks.
On the gas issue, when was the last time ya remember the big oil co's having gas wars? They don't because they figured out that if they get together and “fix” the price instead of competing, they all win, making billions of dollars plus getting subsides from the government and who pays for that? We do.
The average working family’s income is finite, in other words, you can only make so much money. Now, there are certain expenses that have to come out of that income; housing, food, utility’s, transportation, health care, etc... When something in this chain increases, something else has to decrease so, when the oil co's decide to increase the cost of gas, just because they can, we have less to spend on other essentials. The same goes for health care, as it increases, somethings have to decrease.
I'm not saying that the liberals are right and the conservatives are wrong or vice a versa, what I am saying is that at best, there are damn few elected officials that understand this and are willing to step up and look out for OUR (the middle, working class) best interests and like a good friend of mine said, “When they kill off the middle class, who's gona pay the bills?”.
