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Today, 06:42 AM
sumas

Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 221
Would not surprise me. Lived in a flat in GPP. The neighbor upstairs owed money. The utility company wanted in to turn off the power but I would not let them in. I told them legally I could not give them ingress and they should call the landlord for access. They told me they would shut down the whole house. Called my state rep's office and that was the end of that threat.

sumas
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 221

This is a serious reply to your questions. I am mid fifties, my husband, slightly older. Seven years ago his employer canceled health care insurance and six years ago my employer canceled mine, due to "costs". Costs we could not absorb in our budget.

No dental, no health care...period. It is a different kind of genocide.

My Mom will be ninety in January. She is in great shape due to good health habits and great and I mean great health care insurance.

I feel like the elephant in the closet. It seems to me that federal social services just want to see us fade away. No old folks, no pay outs.

Bitter, you bet.

Doctor Detroit wrote:

sumas
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 221

This is a serious reply to your questions. I am mid fifties, my husband, slightly older. Seven years ago his employer canceled health care insurance and six years ago my employer canceled mine, due to "costs". Costs we could not absorb in our budget.

No dental, no health care...period. It is a different kind of genocide.

My Mom will be ninety in January. She is in great shape due to good health habits and great and I mean great health care insurance.

I feel like the elephant in the closet. It seems to me that federal social services just want to see us fade away. No old folks, no pay outs.

Bitter, you bet.

I feel like the elephant in the closet.

Unread Today, 07:24 AM
sumas

Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 249
Welcome to Detroit. Sorry we could not be there to meet and greet. Just not in the budget at the moment.

Doctor Detroit wrote:

Unread Today, 07:24 AM
sumas

Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 249
Welcome to Detroit. Sorry we could not be there to meet and greet. Just not in the budget at the moment.

She had mentioned on another thread both her and her husband are smokers. When Mrs. D and I quit, we were at about $400 a month for the two of us to buy smokes. If you find your budget is too tight to include a couple of drinks with friends one night, it's time to seriously think about whether you really want to continue paying someone as much as a car payment every month to slowly kill you. I know how hard it can be for some people, but at some point you've got to draw the line.

As one DYesser knows, you've got to come up with a lot of scrap metal per month these days to support the habit.

Doctor Detroit wrote:A bit over a pack a day each for two people. Was basically a carton a week each, and cartons were approaching $50 each.

The law will have the greatest impact on the price of loose cigarette tobacco, which is used for hand-rolled cigarettes. The previous tax rate for loose tobacco was $1.10 per pound. But, after Apr. 1 that rate will increase to $24.78 per pound.

Doctor Detroit wrote:There was a time I rolled my own to try to save money as well, but now loose tobacco is no longer the safe haven it was.

The law will have the greatest impact on the price of loose cigarette tobacco, which is used for hand-rolled cigarettes. The previous tax rate for loose tobacco was $1.10 per pound. But, after Apr. 1 that rate will increase to $24.78 per pound.

http://www.michigandaily.com/content/20 ... be-enacted