EDIT: I posted this as its own thread, hoping to start a discussion...

My circumstances are somewhat different now that I am married, but when I was single:

I was living in an apartment alone making $26,000 a year. I had crushing consumer debt, a car payment, utilities, and rent. Not to mention rising food and energy costs.

I had just enough to squeek by each month, sometimes having to skip a payment on one bill to pay something else.

Not to mention, according to the insurance actuaries, I am a helath risk. At 6'2" and 300 lbs, I am morbidly obese and apparently just waiting to keal over from a heart attack or stroke. Despite the fact that every battery of tests I have ever had run show I am perfectly healthy with great blood pressure, great blood sugar, fine cholesterol and good heart condition, my insurance would have run $300+ per month!

Through it all, I managed to come out on top. But if I were subject to this plan the Democratic "leadership" has cooked up, including the president, I'd be bankrupt. There is no way I could have paid my bills and paid an additional $300 to private insurance. I work for a small business with three employees, and they will surely be exempt from having to provide insurance to me.

According to the government, $26k for a single person is making plenty of money and makes me eligible for no government assistance. I find it highly unlikely that I would qualify for the public options they are offering.

I chose not to have health insurance because I ws a 25 year old healthy adult with no history of health problems. Under this plan, I would have had to go bankrupt, or pay a penalty on my taxes. I still do not have health insurance, and I am fine with that. The likelyhood that I would suddenly get sick is highly unlikely.

This plan is going to ruin the lives of millions of Americans with its glaring deficiencies.

Lets get single payer and quit deciding who gets screwed over.

I call it disenfranchisement, you can call it disillusionment, disconnect, or just plain fed up with party politics. But the bottom line is that if you deny the delegates from Florida and Michigan a seat at the table in Denver, the Democratic voters of those states are not going to be pleased, particularly if Obama gets the nomination and their votes were not counted. Many of those voters will stay home in November and there will be a price to pay for that.

As for Super Delegates, that was an action put into place by our party because after 1980 they couldn't "trust" we the voters to make a coherent decision on our nominee. Take that for what you will, but thats the way the system is set up, not a BS policy to protect IA, NH, and SC having the first primaries.

If there were no SDs, then we'd be stuck with 2 candidates who aren't to the threshold, and there would have to be a brokered convention. OR, the threshold needed to gain the nomination would be lower and Obama would be the nominee.

BUT HE ISN'T, and the purpose of the SDs is to pick a nominee who can win. Obama has not carried (in the primaries) OH, TX, NY, CA, FL, MI, or PA. Statesa that the nominee NEEDS to carry in November to win.

His elitist attitude is going to get us slaughtered among blue collar workers, and I for one will not be responsible for our wholesale slaughter by McSame because we picked an elitist snob who is completely out of touch with common men and women in our party's base.