I'm not buying the 33% of the check, are you? Mine is 5.6% for me + spouse. It's your standard issue Blue cross blue shield. Nothing gold-plated, nothing chintzy. If he has something similar, he would make $8K per year. There are often state programs for people that poor.
One has no idea what the sensitive lad's up to, what sort of job he has.
My only connection with the sensitive lad in real life is that I met someone who once heard the sensitive lad pounding the keys of a piano, some sort of concert or something, and that person said the sensitive lad is actually a pretty good pianist.
It's a very odd case, that of the sensitive lad, who is about the same age as the maudlin waif primitive, "Mythsaje." The maudlin waif primitive came from poor parents, while the sensitive lad came out of an affluent family.
The sensitive lad went to a high-class private piano-playing school, and did well.
The sensitive lad was probably on his way to Carnegie Hall when he got infected with politics. For many of the primitives, getting political is much like getting gonorrhea or venereal disease; it infects, poisons, and ruins.
The sensitive lad for a few years worked in a musical-instruments store in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, and then got fired. I disremember why he got fired, but he got fired. And emulating his anti-hero franksolich (who however was never fired), the sensitive lad got a wild hair up his ass and went to the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, in his case one of the Baltic states.
The sensitive lad played the piano there, on the shores of the Baltic, for a while, maybe a year or so, and hung around some dubious characters who used and abused him.
At that point, I lost track of him until this past week, when the sensitive lad showed up on Skins's island again, allegedly living in southeastern Ohio somewhere, and working. His wife/girlfriend/whatever is expecting an infant in some months. I have no idea what sort of work the sensitive lad's doing, but it's reasonable to suspect it's not the greatest sort of work, lesser than professional piano-playing or selling musical instruments.
It's unfortunate the sensitive lad got infected with politics; better had he been infected with syphillis, as the damage to his potential would've been less.
