“Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance. Or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risks, but not be job-locked because a child has a child has asthma or diabetes or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it, any condition is job-locking.”
THANK YOU.
xoxo,
LBB
This is also why average wages are coming down, across the board. They know if you have health insurance, you can’t afford to leave, so they don’t need to give raises to keep you.
Yes. This.
I have a part-time job. My parents pay for my health insurance, which is through my job. Because my job is half-time, though, my employer only pays for half of it, so my parents help out. (The amount is almost a whole paycheck every month.) They don’t like this situation and neither do I, and I’m trying to find a full-time job or even part-time with full health insurance, but y’all know how easy that is.
I can’t go without health insurance. I just can’t. I told my mom I didn’t know what kind of job to get, and she said some people make their own job, and I was like “uh… still need health insurance.” And she was like “…oh yeah.”
Dream of being a writer, I can’t follow you right now, but I’ll ask where you’re going and hook up with you later.
Czechoslovakian poster for Papillon via www.terry-posters.com
World’s Happiest Places
report reveals where people feel most positive about their lives.
oh socialism, LALALALA I still fear you, LALALALA
“But Melissa’s book brings up another issue that I like to call the “Good Sex Worker.” White, educated women who do or did sex work, and then write about it. This has a strong feminist history—Gloria Steinem went “undercover” as a Playboy Bunny, Diablo Cody, Lily Burana, etc.—but I also find it a little troubling. We are expected to cheer The Good Sex Workers on because they are subverting paradigms and confounding out expectations of what a stripper is. But while the media loves this story, it marginalizes all of the women who aren’t doing sex work to put themselves through college, or to pay for art supplies. The women of color and trans women and men who are forced into prostitution or who “choose” it because of a lack of other options. I feel like the more I read and hear about privileged women who really did chose to become sex workers, the more invisible those who didn’t have such a clear choice become.” —
The Educated Dominatrix and the Good Sex Worker (via kimberleecline) (via clingtomymouth)
I can’t read the rest of the article, but this I agree with.
(via robot-heart-politics)I’m glad someone is saying this. The “sex worker as apotheosis of feminism” thing bothers me on a lot of levels — this is one of them.
“You can’t show up at a ‘tea party’ rally and claim that the entire budget deficit happened this year.” — Eric Massa to Glenn Beck’s audience (via realitychex)
“I’ll just tell you this, if [health care reform] passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country.” —
Rush Limbaugh, single handedly providing sufficient reason to pass HCR (via allezla) (via brooklynmutt)
Well! I guess he’ll have to go somewhere other than Afghanistan, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. Because they all have universal healthcare too.
I bet they’ll love Rush in, say, Madagascar.
Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care -
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care — admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada’s single-payer system.
“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada,” Palin said in her first Canadian appearance since stepping down as governor of Alaska. “And I think now, isn’t that ironic?”
…are there any Tumblrs left that aren’t named “FuckYeah [such and such]”?
(Yes, it’s a rhetorical question.)
“Censorship is not failing to publish something, it is forbidding something to be published, which is not at all the same thing, though the difference is sometimes ill-appreciated.” — Theodore Dalrymple, “Thank You for Not Expressing Yourself”
