pastorjonward

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Sadly, it is inevitable. No one wants to be responsible, so everyone will have to be. From the man who made a mistake, the company that filed the claim, the insurance co. that filed the lawsuit, the lawyers who made the case and the jurors who awarded the claim. Each person along the way was just doing his/her job. Insurance by absolute necessity makes the ill-effect on the country worse, but the ill-effect on the individual far better...so every individual signs up. To pay for any damages, one also has to pay for the insurance companies' reasonable cost of doing business as well. The very fact that this case made it to court added to our costs as a country, let alone the verdict that was reached; however, a country where you couldn't file a lawsuit would be far worse. Each and every system is flawed, and over time those flaws accumulate.
I plan on buying a Sawstop saw because it is a saw of comparable quality and comes with a reduced risk of personal injury. There are so many sides to the actual issue that the decision that should be made is unclear: everytime someone gets injured, we all pay (even if it's only an infintesimal decrease in the value of the dollar due to decreased production as a country), our insurance premiums go up so that the insurance can continue to be solvent, and if the individual was on medicare, we pay for that as well. We either pay as individuals a grisly price (with reduced risk to those who are careful and/or can afford the available technology), or we pay as a community in an ongoing way (manageable for a while until so much of our lives are "insured" that we can no longer afford the system itself).
I am afraid that didn't sound very hopeful, but there it is.

I am eagerly awaiting the airing of this new series. Excited about fine woodworking that shows the authenticity of mistakes and hopefully a pace that allows the viewer to follow the project step by step without falling asleep.
On the preview, I thought the soft lighting and calm music was overdone...felt like an introduction to a romance where the leading character was a "young, attractive woodworker" who was soon to fall in love with a "distracted young female", etc. I much prefer the intro. to Ask This Old House.
As to NYW. Hats off to Norm for building a base of passionately interested woodworkers for Tommy to take to the next level of craftsmanship. It's not an either/or but a both/and. Without NYW there might not be enough of a woodworking base to make Tommy's show viable economically. I loved NYW, and hope to love Tommy's show as well.
In Christ,
Jon

I love the constant learning evidenced in this piece, and i quote, "this project was a study in joints". Thank you for sharing your passion with us.