Tester is one of us

Apologies to F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The very rich are just different from you and me.”

We worry about the next mortgage payment; they paid cash for their home(s).

Without insurance, medical care is only “an option” for us. For the wealthy, when insurance won’t cover it, there’s always cash. We plan for our retirement, denying short-term pleasures for long-term security. Retirement? The wealthy are born “retired”. Our wallets are full of basic credit cards with too high-interest balances; their cards are “titanium” levels without balances.

Our values are forged from our experience coping with everyday challenges, and theirs are modeled by their wealthy parents, whose main concern is getting “decent help.”

Senator Tester is one of us.

Martha Humphreys, Noxon