[MonroeDNA]

Your husband's job sounds like luxery, comapred to many I have had.

Try climbing swaying telephone poles in the Korean winter, at -10, with 40 MPH winds blowing, 90 feet up in the air, in combat gear. Making $9,300 a year.

Try digging ditches in
Texas, summertime in Houston, 20 feet underground, at $5.00 an hour.

Try living in your car.

Don't lecture me, lady.

[codercpc]

Actually, I don't want to get into a flame war. I just wanted to point out that just because some jobs pay in benefits as opposed to extremely high wages, these people are not part of a socialized system. By the way, we have been married for 15 years, and the first year of our marriage, combined income we made just over $11,000.00.This was in 1987, not exactly the dark ages. You see my husband was a Private in the Army, and we lived in a town that was extremly hesitant to higher military wives (they tend to move) so I worked a couple of part-time minimum wage jobs.

Don't play who works harder. Have you ever lived for two weeks on Ramon Noodles (only 15cents a package on sale) because you couldn't risk even bouncing a check to pay for groceries. If my husband bounced a check he not only got in trouble at the bank, he had to face his seargent the next day.

So you see sir we all have our stories. All I am trying to say is that sometimes things like health insurance are part of a wage package and not a free ride.