The Baptists did the same with their retirement years ago. I know people who are missionaries who chose that private religious route. When it crashed they were without Social Security or retirements. People supervising themselves locally without "adult" supervision have a very poor record. At sixty five both the minister and his wife had to go to work cleaning toilets in the National Park to build up a Social Security and make he and his elderly wife eligible for Medicare. Good thing because they both have severe health problems now. I believe what this is all about is a lack of personal connection nationally and a desire for control when the reality is that local control is inadequate.
The Picher experience that I had and Spence refers to in another post was filled with such folk myths like freezing and cooking heavy metal contaminated food would de-toxify the food. I heard so many folk myths perpetrated by Eagle Picher mining and other companies to keep their workers from knowing how dangerous everything was for their families that I don't trust the local at all and private enterprise is about making money and your health be damned. These religious folks should be professional at religion and acknowledge that they are amateurs at finance. That's my opinion. REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 10:32 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] One way to solve the US Healthcare Crisis http://p2pfoundation.net/Health-Care-Sharing_Ministries _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
