About the phone ad - what do you REALLY worry about?

[hedgehog]

Me - I worry whether my kids will have jobs waiting for them when they graduate. I worry about paying for their college bills. I worry about having the money to replace my leaking roof. It's be nice to replace the kitchen linoleum, too. It's tough to keep clean when it has holes in it. And the worn out kitchen counter with the delaminated Formica...

I figure sooner or later one of those nuclear weapons rolling around loose in the old Soviet Union is apt to turn up in an American city. Truth is, the odds are that me and mine won't be directly involved, and I can't do anything about it.

On edit - I also worry about whether my kids will ever be able to buy a house.

[Kittycat]

1. I'm going to have to say...

First, my family/livelihood - food on the table, roof over our heads, clothing on our back. I'm fine with the minimums, but we do have extras right now.

Second, my community and other families in need around us.

Third, my country and keeping us economically viable and healthy.

Fourth, everything else in the world. With a big lead on environmental impact, globally.

On each scale, I include environmental awareness and opportunity in those goals (first at home, then community, then nationally), to help protect our future.

I guess in the end, if we don't take care of our own (as in country) - we won't be there to help take care of others (globally). We really should consider leading by example as well.

[hedgehog]

4. OMG- you can't possibly mean that a human enhanced

natural disaster like Katrina might mean more than the odd terrorist attack, can you?


Not to trivialize the pain of the Trade Center survivors, but in point of fact, New York City barely missed a beat. Compare that to the ongoing slow death of New Orleans!

[Vinca]

2. I worry about dying a slow, agonizing death from the terrorism

that is no health care. Yesterday I got an ad from BC/BS in the mail offering me a great deal in case I want to take early retirement. That, by itself, was funny enough, but the rate they quoted was so high I'd have to stop heating the house and turn off the electricity or give up food, clothing and transportation to afford it.

[hedgehog]

3. I view ads such as the telephone ad as attempts to distract us

from our real problems. I guess if you have $5 million ready cash, you don't worry as much about tricvial things like getting the roof fixed or paying for prescriptions.

[Vinca]

5. Exactly. That's really the problem, isn't it?

Most of the people who represent us - there are a few exceptions - are so fabulously wealthy they're clueless when it comes to ordinary people leading ordinary lives.

[Angela Shelley]

6. I worry about the US continually battling unemployment

by sending young men and women to attack, invade and occupy other countries.

[NEOhiodemocrat]

7. What I loose sleep over

Will my husband's pension plan go under? Our health premiums just did a major jump in co payments, and he has had two heart attacks in the last three years. With two kids in college, can add paying for that. I feel if the US is hit again it will be localized, I refuse to live my life obsessing about that. And my one daughter lives in Arlington Virginia, very close to a possible target, but why should she give up her dreams out of fear? Also add a bit of insomnia about the possibility of McCain winning in November. That about covers it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. $6 Gas, $4 eggs, and the really big disease

that will empty the savings account.

Dying homeless, hungry, cold, and broke just has to suck, even in a great country like this.