Americans with decent earnings are suffering

Who would have thought an American earning $60,000 a year would not be able to afford health care? 47 million Americans are currently uninsured, and this number continues to grow. Cut-throat free-market policies of radical conservatives, which started during the Reagan years, are slowing destroying the working class. The New York Times has a good story of a woman in the $60K income bracket who cannot afford health care.

It seems it is becoming impossible to be self-employed in America. Self-employment used to be a great way to earn a living outside of the civil service and corporate world. However, with the rising cost of health care and a laissez-faire government, which favors HMOs and big drug companies over the little guy, it seems there will soon be no way to live comfortably in America.

Right-wing union-busting efforts are killing civil service workers' right to collectively bargain; you can guarantee there will be a rise in private health care costs for civil service workers. Meanwhile, if you work for corporate America, you will pay huge monthly payments out of your check for a lousy HMO plan. Never mind that the reality in corporate America now is that it's perfectly fine for a corporation to renege on your pension, so that, once you're done feeding the corporate machine years of your life, it won't owe you a thing, even though you've paid into that "privilege."

How can you raise a family in a country that only cares about 3% of the population?