>>Nonexistent?
Sure- there are neighborhoods where jobs are non-existent, and people are too ignorant or parochial to consider moving.
>>A little different, not sure I understand?
>>He left my pregnant mother with a baby in her arms (me). Sounds like 3 dependents to me.
>>In any case he made his choices and put his thumb out on the road hitchhiking.
Glad you turned out OK, and I'm not going to compare and contrast health systems at your dad's expense.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
