what do you fear most?

[onethatcares]

terrorist strikes or loss of your job/or a major medical problem?
I think this is something the campaign has to pick up on. We all care about security, but without a living wage and some type of health care the rest doesn't mean a thing.

[mongo]

1. That the US is actually run by a shadow government

and it doesn't really matter who we vote for.

Democrats make small changes to improve living conditions for all but slowly disarm us and create a nanny state.

Republicans tank the economy so that the wealth can be consolodated into fewer hands and force us into armed conflicts to enrich the military-industrial complex.

Hell, I own a barely profitable store, saddled with debt, that pays us less than we need to meet all of our personal bills. We have no health insurance, and both me and my wife have a history of major health problems. I just don't have the time to worry about all the mundane problems in my life. Those I can take one day at a time. It's my daughter's future I chose to worry about.

[Unperson 309]

2. I Fear Being Unable To Die Well.

I don't want to die outside. I don't necessarily need to be in a bed, but I do want to be indoors! I want to die peacefully, not in a shelter or on the street. I don't want to be alone.

I know that if they destroy Social Security Disability payments, Old age payments, if they destroy the safety net entirely, I will NOT die in my own home, rented or otherwise. I'll be on the street and I REALLY don't want to die out of doors.

I'll take whatever steps I can to ensure an easier death than the government wants for me. I know they want me, and ANYONE without money, dead.

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[CaTeacher]

8. your post made me cry.

I sincerely hope things work out for you. I know what it is like to be down and out--and there have been others in my family to be down and out.

Every person deserves their dignity and some hope too.

[medeak]

11. made me cry as well

unperson...you are a person. Took care of dying. Most fullfilling time of my life.

Your post reminded me of a lovely man living in a travel trailer someone had lent him...told me "I just don't want to die alone"

When he died (alone) it devastated me. Had to quit my job.

[zmdem]

3. The terrorist threat

Jobs and medical care don't matter to me if I am dead.

[maggrwaggr]

4. you are more likely to get hit by lightning than die by terrorist attack

time to become agoraphobic?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

6. Speaking of lightning

Getting hit by lightning actually is one of my biggest fears... and another reason why I think it sucks to live in Florida (too many t-storms).

[medeak]

14. awe it's nothing

grandfather survived being hit by lightning twice. One was while milking a cow and the cow died.

He wrote a lovely poem about it.

[0007]

21. Even as you live it shouldn't matter with junior in office, IOW

what jobs and what medical care?

[JSJ]

5. frightened people...

...they're capable of all manner of frightening things including doing nothing in the face of a real menace. Work hard, play hard, stay hard...and...NO FEAR, please.

[sandnsea]

7. Losing our country to fear

Of any type. I'm tired of fear as a political tool.

[Stockholm]

20. I hope your insight spreads.... n/t

[sandraj]

22. Speaking of fear as a political tool

I wasn't sure where to post this but just heard former Illinois gov Jim Thompson interviewed on a radio program. He was offering some new spin on safety/terrorism. He said "Bush has made our country 'safer' since 9/11, but we are not 'safe.'" And then he launched into several possible terror scenarios and highlighted the vulnerability of power plants, etc.

First, it is amazing how Orwellian our political climate has become and second, it seems that many fearmongering politicians like Thompson have some sort of involvement in corporate malfeasance (i.e., "who are you going to believe, your own eyes or a lying crook?")

Hollinger 'milked' of cash, suit says
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/chi-0405110149may11,0,2452441.story

The New York-based investment firm, which owns 18 percent of Hollinger's stock, said Monday that Hollinger's independent directors, including former Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson, should be held accountable for approving hundreds of millions of dollars in controversial fees to Black and other former executives.

[Columbia]

9. Deep water

[antigone382]

10. Reaching the last years of my life and feeling like I wasted it.

And cockroaches.

On edit: And my government, like everybody should (at least a little).

[Blayde Starrfyre]

12. My girlfriend cutting me off

That's a lot more likely than what you mentioned.

[Solly Mack]

13. fear

it's an emotion that can kill...it stops people from doing what's right...it causes governments to act stupidly...it turns entire groups of people into the enemy...and entire groups of people into monsters

so I fear most the fears of others...

[iangb]

15. The US and its lunatic Administration......

.....who've already interfered in our politics with statements from Bush, Powell and Armitage condeming the policies of our Labour opposition......especially Labour's policy of 'changing the focus' of our presence in Iraq from military to reconstruction.

Who knows what they'll do should the Australian people be foolish enough to vote for the 'wrong' candidates in our upcoming election?

......maybe they've developed a taste for 'regime change'.

[guitar man]

16. loss of liberty

Without the essential liberty laid out in our Constitution, nothing else about this country matters. The fear mongers playing to the fearful are so dangerous to our liberty.

<I much prefer 'Dangerous Freedom' to 'Peaceful" Slavery' - Thomas Jefferson>


We desperately need to heed Mr. Jefferson's words before it's too late.

[JackDragna]

17. Bush. 2004. He wins.

Oh, god.















The horror.







The horror.

[Marvelous_Smarty]

18. Chickens!

Chickens scare the shit outta me! I don't mean just scared. I mean I run away in a screaming panic from a chicken. I can tell myself, "Smarty, it is just a fuckin' chicken for Christ's sake!" I know how unreasonable it sounds. I know it is "just a fuckin chicken." But something comes over me when I see one close.

[WindRavenX]

19. I fear a loss of love

My first serious relationship (8 months long) ended over a week ago.
I have never felt such a powerful or glorious feeling as the feeling I felt; I radiated love for the man I loved. The feeling now, the feeling of lost love, terrifies me.
I want to love someone and I want someone to love me. I'll go further and say I want people to love other people. All this anti- gay marriage bullshit has me incredably depressed because I have felt the raging, intoxicating beauty of love, and I cannot fathom why what I felt should be legislated against simply because it is shared between two people of the same gender.
I fear a growing hatred in this world where people no longer love one another out of fear or terror.

[mopaul]

23. the ignorant and the hypnotized.................................n/t

[DaveSZ]

24. I've been hit by lightning indirectly

I'm still here.

:)