[thechat] Why would a conservative vote for a Republican president?

[Erika Meyer]

Isaac wrote:
>I vote Food. I ate 8 tacos for lunch and every Rice Krispie in the
>house.

  8 tacos, huh.  I remember the days when I could put away 5-6... but 
8, that's quite impressive... are you on some kind of exercise 
program?  What kind of tacos were they?

It's just, I'm thinking, dang I get $460+ worth of insurance for only 
$160.  It seems like a such a good deal... wish I could just split 
the diff and maybe come home with an extra $230...

>Babies. Fun to make. Fun to eat.

I could probably have eaten 8 tacos when I was pregnant.

I am not hungry enough to eat babies, though...  ick.

The only times I know of westerners resorting to cannibalism were 
times when people were actually starving to death, and the remaining 
people had to choose whether to eat the dead or risk starving to 
death themselves.  For example, the Donner Party, or during the Siege 
of Leningrad.  ugh.  Awful.

No, not anywhere near that.  The kids eat first. I just get to the 
point where I can't look at another Ramen noodle (or similar).  It's 
like, why bother.

Portland is actually not too bad in terms of vegetable gardens to 
raid.  This is a pretty good time of year for vegetables.  At work, 
we share our harvests.  I trade grapes for zucchini, like that.

>Normally I have no private health insurance, but over here having NI
>(National Insurance or something) ripped out of your pay is compulsory,

How much do they take out?

>and not being the type of person who goes to see a doctor.

that's the thing... you might never need to go to the doctor... or 
you might suddenly become sick or injured... it's a gamble.

But I guess life is that way.

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