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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat do you worry most about in your personal life; terrorist attacks or?
I realized this morning that what has been worrying me the most are my two kids out of work, my personal health and where I'm going to plant tulips so the deer don't eat them. I forgot all about the threat of terrorists.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)vt_native
(484 posts)But they'll take your freedom to keep you safe from the "terra"
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)She had a very bad Sarcoma in her knee 2 years ago which required a complete knee replacement and chemo. Her chances were rated at 50/50 to live. We go back in for a followup in October.
Terrorists rate below the fear of Crocodile attacks here in the foothills of the Cascades.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)Worrying about my husband retiring - he plans to retire this fall on the idea we can get health insurance under the ACA. If the Supreme Court says that the subsidies don't apply to states that didn't set up their own exchanges, we're screwed. Gov. Prick Scott and the Republican controlled legislature will never approve ACA exchanges or Medicaid expansion.
At least under the ACA we can get insurance - before we could not because of pre-existing conditions - affording it will be another thing if we can't get subsidies.
JustAnotherGen
(31,683 posts)Domestic Terrorists (KKK types scare the shit out of me) but they still rank much lower than the health and well being of my 13 nieces and nephews. And how I have to start Christmas shopping for them next month.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)in this country/world. I have 11 grandkids/step-grandkids and I worry about what resource depletion and climate change inaction will mean to their lives and whether or not they also will be able to care for themselves properly.
I'm not worried about terrorist attacks.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)That's fine.
Not sure where you are but my family (I used to) work in and near terrorist targets everyday.
So it can be both as well. It can be both or anyone in the military or family in the military.
It's not wrong to worry about terrorism.
eShirl
(18,466 posts)still waiting for the Tea Governor to cave on Medicaid or better yet, lose the election (both other candidates have promised to come through on ACA-related Medicaid as soon as they get sworn in)
One_Life_To_Give
(6,036 posts)More specifically the ability to pay for them. If everything goes to plan they are covered. Plan B is looking a little sickly still.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)as I spend worrying about being carried away by Bigfoot or Martians.
I lost my home on May 1 and am living in a decent shelter.
Seriously, ordinary people who worry about terrorists are the same ones who think that the paranoids are united in a conspiracy against them.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)I have less chance of being hurt or killed in a terrorist attack than I do of getting hit by lightning. Unless, of course, I get a job at an abortion clinic, in which case my risk will go up quite a bit.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)It is a daily struggle to not be killed by one of them. I've got to ditch the invisible motorcycle.
spin
(17,493 posts)However I remember 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombing well. I don't wish to see another such attack in our nation.
I believe that it's not a matter of if but when our nation will see another serious terrorist attack. Of course I realize that I can't stop such an attack so losing sleep over the possibility is foolish. Therefore like you, I tend to worry most about the things I do have control over.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)because most of the doctors who've treated me and my close family members don't have the slightest clue as to how to treat illnesses and don't care. I'm continually amazed about the fact that most doctors I run into are incompetent.
avebury
(10,946 posts)list of concerns. I am more concerned about the militarization of police departments and the obsession with the Tea Party and Republican Party to destroy this country. The destruction of this country makes it impossible to fix any of our problems.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)I say 'unreasonably' because in comparison with people in most of the world, just about any American has it better than a randomly chosen person anywhere else in the world.
Other than those two areas, I don't worry much. It's not a productive expenditure of energy.