Vice President JD Vance recently traveled to Bay City, Michigan to speak at a manufacturing plant to tout President Donald Trump’s economic agenda, and was welcomed by a crowd of protesters.

  • Miles O'Brien
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    494 days ago

    if I go jobless.

    LMAO I’m from the American Midwest and I HAVE a job and can’t afford a serious medical illness.

    I broke a tooth in November and I still can’t afford to get it fixed.

    • @SabinStargem@lemmings.world
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      73 days ago

      I have good health insurance, but still resist going to the doctor out of fear of debt entrapment. It is paranoia, but looking at other people, the fear takes hold of me. I fear poverty more than death, because life without the nice things ain’t worth living with.

    • rigatti
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      274 days ago

      Have you considered pulling yourself up by your toothstraps?

    • @SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net
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      12 days ago

      That honestly makes me feel a lot better about the cavity that has rotted through nearly the entire molar… it’s gunna need extraction which I can’t afford, because the alternative is like… losing my jaw or something…?

      I’ve been sitting on doing anything about it for years because I can’t afford to fix it…

      And sure sure I know dental isn’t covered by insurance because luxury bones… whomever can afford to have them has them…

      But like… I’d really like to get that tooth extracted.

      I’m sorry we are in a shitty boat friend. I hope eventually we can at least patch it so we can keep above water…

    • @balssh@lemm.ee
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      154 days ago

      Man this breaks my heart, I wish american people would wake up and stop voting against their own interests…