THE SECOND ORDEAL
Place the Abomination that Maketh Desolate
The SECOND Round: Desolation comes in waves
As a percentage of household income healthcare is around 30%. If you’re making $15 dollars an hour for 40 hours that’s $600 dollars a week before taxes. That’s $31,200 a year gross pay. Now 30% of $31,200 is $9360.
Are you following where this is headed? Desolation begins at the foundational principles of life. I’m going to expound, a little, on the pillars of Spirituality, wages, family, and community. That’s not the complete list although desolation strikes everywhere all at once.
Now the average employers provides 8 sick days a year. There are around 11 vacation days a year. Now the total number of work days a year is about 260 to 262. Imagine one long term illness and how quick the money runs out. I was desolate for many years when I was young working minimum wage jobs with no skills, so I was like a hawk flying above my head helping me avoid any possible sickness or injury that would bring ruin to my life before it even started.
I’m sure there are millions of Americans still alive today because the Affordable Care Act was passed in the first term of President Obama. Don’t act like you don’t know this because you do.
Go back to those days of taking a ‘THIRD’, a ‘3rd’ of your paycheck out for health insurance. Do you really not see what President Donald J. Trump and his merry band of Republicans are doing to you? A ‘tapestry of pillars’ that governs life itself is being cut down with ‘scissors’! Not ripped apart with Republican hands anymore, but with fucking scissors!
Desolation is coming when families are sicker because breadwinners, well they do not work when they are struck by illness. Companies suffer and die from a lack of strong competent dedicated healthy workers. Without workers earning paychecks that mom and pop store will have a cascade of events stemming from a lack of paying customers. Communities will start to be abandoned.
How do you think those businesses got to be vacant and boarded up in the center of town? Talk about a hit to the supply chain then. Desolation happens when orders dry up literally. Do you hear me now!
A healthy workforce is vital to the ‘STATE’! Why can’t the Republican Party get that?