“and he’s so worried about the cost ...But for God’s sake, do the honorable thing and pay the debt.”
I don’t think he’s worried about the cost.
He wants to make a statement.
He wants to do something.
He wants to tell the moochers and the commie rats that they can’t have any more of his “life energy” in the form of the $300. Part of the reason why insurance and medical costs are high is to cover those that can’t pay, don’t pay, won’t pay.
Starve the Beast.
Toss the Tea into the Bay.
Throw snowballs at the Guards.
I think though that earlier posters had it right. Send them the $300 which is what was agreed to at the purchase of the policy. And spend your energy elsewhere fighting this battle in perhaps more productive avenues.
Great. You say he should become a moocher because he hates moochers. Somehow that is supposed to be “making a statement”. To me it just looks like mooching.
Not sure this really fits, but maybe!? (So fight on!)
Hamlet:
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: ‘tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th’oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th’unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere’d country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
thanks for all the suggestions....
this post hit the nail on the head...can I pay it? yes
do I feel I should pay it??? yes...
can I use the $300 for another bill?? yes- but my anger is saying why should I continue to pay my bills and pay for others when the slugs on Capital Hill don’t give a flying eff about me...
and btw- I’ve been an conservative activist since 2003 with many of the Freepers here as well as those at Protest Warrior, taking to the streets to take on the left....I plan on getting more involved through the summer...
I wonder how big a pile $300 worth of pennies would make? Loose of course, so someone would have to count them...
THAT would make a statement!