Actually, “Breaking Bad” is what happens when a group of Hard Line Socialists try to write a TV program about someone they CLAIM is a Conservative individualist.
I watched the first episode and small parts of a few other shows.
The basic premise is that a cancer stricken teacher is terrified about the financial security of his family after his death.
What do the show’s creators fail to tell their gullible and poorly informed viewers?
The teacher belongs to a powerful union, and his family will be lavished with benefits after his death.
To begin with, his health and funeral expenses would be close to ZERO.
He would have a basic life insurance policy - probably equal to three years untaxed salary - plus the opportunity to purchase more insurance at an absurdly low rate, even AFTER he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
His children would receive educational benefits as they reached college age.
His Down Syndrome child would have been eligible for Social Security (SSI) and Medicaid from birth.
Most public school teachers are state employees who do not pay into Social Security.
Instead, the teacher would have a wonderful state pension plan, typically one that pays 75% of his salary after 30 years of service.
Most likely, that plan would pay around $40,000 per year to his wife, plus monthly benefits to the children until they reach age 22 or so.
His wife would receive lifetime health insurance, and his kids would be covered until their mid-20’s.
The wife would have to find a job in order to maintain the lifestyle they had before the teacher died.
If she did not work, her family could get by, without taking on debt, if she was really careful about spending.
In other words, the whole financial premise of this show is 24 carat BS!
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and there is nothing “conservative” about selling meth
But I bet a whole lot of people are now hooked on meth because they watched the show, cause meth is like, so cool now, you know.