Lines Blur as Texas Gives Industries a Bonanza

[GoldenRivet]

I don't have health insurance just because i choose not to.

I work hard, i work often and i earn good money and if i get sick i go and get treatment.

the amount of money i would have spent on health insurance vs the number of times i have needed it pretty much equals out.

I was treated for pneumonia last year... first visit to a health professional other than a routine aviator's physical in about 6 years and it cost me about $2500.

$2500 / 6 yrs = $416.67 per year

$416.67 / 12 months = $34.72 per month

thus any health insurance i would have paid for over the last six years would have to cost less than $34.72 a month to be worth it.

that doesnt account for anything like a motor-vehicle accident, but with the right coverage you have medical expenses covered anyhow.

There will come a day when i will buy health insurance (especially now that i'm a treasonous enemy of the United States if i dont have it)

but the thing about counting beans into a pool of statistics is that the circumstances of the individual bean are not taken into consideration. Just because someone doesnt have health insurance doesnt mean they are destitute.

Are people really implying that providing perks and incentives to do business in the Republic of Texas is causing people to get pregnant at 16? or causing them to drop out of high school?

these are social issues that every state has. some state will always be number one on the tippy top of that list, another will always be last. Thats the thing about lists. But i dont see the connection that trying to make business profitable and providing incentives to bring those 50,000 jobs to Whereverville, Texas is causing teens to get pregnant and drop out of high school.

Chase the pipe dream of utopia into oblivion all you want the one thing remains... there will always be those people who have, and those who don't and that will never be eliminated from any society unless you just take the unwashed poor to the incinerator at the end of every week.

want to blame something for homelessness or lay fault for unemployment? i think social issues almost always boil down to the individual. Try as you might some people just want to be crack head drunks. some people are just trashy and there's nothing you can do about it. You could give them $500,000 and they would spend $300 for a week at a motel $50,000 on a car and the rest on drugs and liquor and ass and be right back in the same spot in no time flat and while $500K would make for one hell of a great week, you havnt changed the person for the better. and the problem of unemployment is only made worse since we live in a society where it is often more profitable to be unemployed than to have a job

you want to blame something for teen pregnancy? we live in a society encircled by sex. its everywhere. I sat in the waiting room at a quick lube just the other day and there was a seventeen magazine or something on the coffee table and it featured articles on the cover "10 ways to give him the best orgasm" and "what your brests need in order to stay perky" and "7 things you can do to have a sexy ass"... young women are reading this crap... and we actually encourage teens to do it from a very early age with schools handing out condoms etc... we send these kids the message that its ok to start screwing whenever they want, we have this old enough to bleed old enough to breed mentality when it comes to our kids, so of course teen pregnancy is going to be an issue in a society like that, thats not lockheed martin's fault, thats not Samsung's fault, and no its not even "Dubbya's" fault.

So they want to give a tax break to a massive corporation that builds widgets. fine! who cares? bring it on! you need 25 employees for corporate? you need 300 for upper management? you need 600 for middle management? you need 1200 supervisors? you need 15,000 widget builders? great come to Texas and lets get you cranking out widgets son hell you can break ground on a new building tomorrow morning for all i care damn you can come over to my house and you can screw my sister because guess what thats going to mean umpteen hundred construction workers and electricians and demolition laborers and countless other people doing the work to build your factory.

yes, someone is going to become a billionaire in the process and for some reason thats villainous in today's culture. and it wasnt a tax break that got them there.

I dont understand why it has become vilified to be a wealthy person.