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PJ,

You are indeed in a tough situation, but you are in a situation that I think causes another problem for Americans. The health care situation. Everybody wants to live forever, yet they think this is a right. They think they should have the best insurance and the best medical care, even if they are poor just because they live in America.

35 years ago, a year before I was born, my grandfather was diagnosed with a condition that required surgery. The alternative being death. He had no health insurance and his family, my father included, could not afford the cost of the surgery. So, he packed his backs and went back to Italy to die. My dad doesn't sit and p!$$ and moan about the situation. It was what it was.

LIFE IS NOT FAIR. The rich get cancer, the poor live long lives. The cost of health care goes up because the quality goes up and the cost of gas goes up because too many people rely on gasoline. We are all dealt cards and have to live with them.


Lilred,

I agree completely with your post. Seven years ago, if I knew house prices were going to more than double to today's prices, I would have bought then. I didn't so I am dealing with the situation I have now. If you think land is expensive in your neighboring county, it is about $250,000 an acre around here.

As far as what makes people happy, I agree with you too. Some people need $500 purses, others need the stars, and yet others need both to be happy. I read a sign outside a church once that said, "Make money less of an issue by having less wants." From my previous posts, you can see it is kind of tough for me to do that, but I do believe in that statement.

For everybody, the gas prices have hit me too. For instance, my dog is at my parents right now and my dad was supposed to bring him up here because we were going to work on my garage. However, he made other plans while I was in New York this weekend. So, if I want to pick my dog up, I have to jump in the truck and burn about $15 of gas to pick him up and I do miss him. So, I feel the pain of the gas increase. I just don't see how my complaining about the gas increase, the cost of health care (which I used to pay $257 a month for health insurance before I got married), and the cost of housing is going to change anything, but I guess we all feel better if we complain about things.

I don't know how many of you watched the Matrix, but in that make believe world, the machines created a world for humans that was a utopia. No pain, no want, and supposedly humans could not deal with it. Sad but true.