OT: [TheForge] Re: Marginal Blacksmithing Question

[GHS]

Once you eliminate the "grass is always greener" factor this discussion 
gets real quiet.

The system is broken with a number of factors haywire.

One is the transition of  medicine from a vocation to a profession.
Another financing of medical care from personal, to assurance 
associations, to  insurance companies.
Another is the change in our expectations.

We, at least in the baby boom US, do not expect EVER to get old and die. 
We certainly will never get SICK and die. Medicine can cure all, for a 
price.

Whenever we are set to accept paying anything to obtain the 
unobtainable, or avoid the unavoidable, we are setting ourselves up to 
get screwed.

With so much of the world still hankering after clean water and toilet 
facilities that do not involve the surface of the dirt road in front of 
their homes, I wonder about our focus.

Keep in mind that this is coming from one of this lists conservative, 
Republican types.

Mike Graf / Who also remembered to add the OT with the : <G>


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