I spoke with a real estate agent yesterday to see whether we have any realistic prospect of selling our house in this economy. I mentioned to her that we would be leaving the area, so of course she wanted to know our plans. “We can’t afford to retire here,” I explained, “so we’re looking at moving south of the border. We’re considering Mexico, Panama or Ecuador.”
There was a silence at the other end of the phone line. “Oh,” she said, “you’re about the fourth or fifth person who’s told me that in the last couple of months.”
Then today, I watched various news and comments on the health care debate in Congress. It is a sad fact that the US is the only Western democracy which does not provide health care for all its people. Alan Grayson summarized the Republicans’ health care reform plan – “Don’t get sick, and if you do get sick, die fast.”
