I've made about $1000 from various articles on business subjects published on line. I picked up some more money from other work on the internet. I've got a small publisher looking at a novel right now. I don't expect my writing to do more than supllement my social security.
Posts by JeffT
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6you writers might be interested in this
by Hortensia inhttp://www.alcs.co.uk/about-us//news/news/what-are-words-worth-now-not-much.aspx.
according to research from alcs, professional writers earn about $18k per year.
i don't think i ever earned that much.
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How many things did you toss out in the name of Jehoover
by love2Bworldly ini had a flash back yesterday.
my non jw husband and i went to disneyland and bought my young daughter a set of 7 dwarf toys.
after a few months i felt guilty and threw them away, thinking they were demonized.
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JeffT
I tossed a lot of records, now mostly replaced although the King Crimson is hard to find. I also tossed about $500 (in 1973 $$) worth of astrological reference books. Probably some other stuff. I wouldn't use the astrological books now, but it was part of who I was way back when, I'd like to have some of it for the nostolgia. Oh well.
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Fake letter to the BOE.
by karter ini'm thinking of scaning a letter to the boe and useing the letter head to make some fake letters and sending them to alot of congros.. it would read something like this.. "dear brothers we are writing to inform you about all the child abuse casers the wts is now in court about and the ones we have quietly settled outside the courts".
ill name them all and give them links to the courts.. .
anyother idears??.
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JeffT
Learn to scan stuff with spell check before you send it.
Also hire a lawyer, I think you will need one.
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How do you feel ethically about the Governing Body?
by runForever inif something terrible were to happen to the members of the current gb would you feel bad?.
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JeffT
If something terrible were to happen to the members of the current gb would you feel bad?
Why would I? If they're right they're up there helping Jehovah run the universe. If they're full of it, they're getting what they deserve.
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How Accurate Is JWN In Your Opinion?
by minimus inwould you say this board gives accurate information, overall?
if someone started reading the comments here, do you think they would find this discussion board as accurate?.
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JeffT
JWN is not an organized entity for disseminating information like say, a school or The New York Times. It's a collection of people who like to talk about a common interest. Individuals bring varying levels of knowledge to the table. We also have our own experiences and consequently our own point of view on whatever subject we're talking about.
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US Supreme Court: Hobby Lobby wins we lose
by designs inthe old guys sided with hobby lobby today in denying birth control coverage to its female employees based on the owners religious views.
intact- is viagra for the guys.
funny how the far right evangelical owners of hobby lobby didn't want to touch that one.... read judge ginburg's scathing counter argument and opinion.. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf.
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JeffT
I read today that Hobby Lobby is self-insured. That is, it is there money going to directly pay for employee healthcare, rather than buying an insurance policy. That's why they can make their own decisions about not covering certain kinds of birth control and why its important to them.
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US Supreme Court: Hobby Lobby wins we lose
by designs inthe old guys sided with hobby lobby today in denying birth control coverage to its female employees based on the owners religious views.
intact- is viagra for the guys.
funny how the far right evangelical owners of hobby lobby didn't want to touch that one.... read judge ginburg's scathing counter argument and opinion.. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf.
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JeffT
Workman's Comp is one name it goes by. Here (Washington State) everybody calls it L&I, Labor and Industries the state department that runs it. I also forgot Unemployment Insurance which employers will consider an employment cost.
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For those who have been out for 5 years or more.......
by Phizzy in........... do you find you are now far more relaxed about things ?
things in general, and things wt/jw related ?.
i find i am much more relaxed and pragmatic about life in general, mrs phizzy and i do what we can, but we don't get overly upset at what we cannot do.
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JeffT
I've been out twenty-five years. Except for the influence it has on some of my writing, I'm done with JW issues. My presence here is mostly about research on something that interests me (I go to a bunch of history sites for the same reason). As an example of how things have changed a couple of days ago my wife and I signed as witnesses to our daughter's marriage - to another woman.
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US Supreme Court: Hobby Lobby wins we lose
by designs inthe old guys sided with hobby lobby today in denying birth control coverage to its female employees based on the owners religious views.
intact- is viagra for the guys.
funny how the far right evangelical owners of hobby lobby didn't want to touch that one.... read judge ginburg's scathing counter argument and opinion.. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf.
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JeffT
Employer provided health care began during WWII as an end-around to wage control laws. It was a tight labor market and employers could not just offer more money. So they started paying for health care as a bonus. Now its turned into something everybody expects to get at anything like a decent job.
We've created a monster and we need to kill it somehow. Try to imagine what it would look like if auto insurance worked the same way. You're interviewing for a job that sounds great until you find out the company plan doesn't cover your car, or requires you to pay for one you don't own. We should be able to buy health insurance the same way, get what you need at the price you can afford. How many commercials do you see every night claiming to reduce the cost of your auto insurance? Compare that to the number of commercials you see offering to save you money on your health insurance.
BOTR, you're smart to make that calculation, its what your employer does. You should also add in the cost of on the job accident coverage (I don't know what they call it in NY), and the portion of social security and medicare paid by the employer. All of those items
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US Supreme Court: Hobby Lobby wins we lose
by designs inthe old guys sided with hobby lobby today in denying birth control coverage to its female employees based on the owners religious views.
intact- is viagra for the guys.
funny how the far right evangelical owners of hobby lobby didn't want to touch that one.... read judge ginburg's scathing counter argument and opinion.. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf.
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JeffT
Here's another inconvenient post y'all can ignore.
The Illogic of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
JULY 1, 2014
Uwe E. Reinhardt
Imagine yourself in a bar where a pickpocket takes money out of your wallet and with it buys you a glass of chardonnay. Although you would have preferred a pinot noir, you decide not to look that gift horse in the mouth and thank the stranger profusely for the kindness, assuming he paid for it. You might feel differently, of course, if you knew that you actually had paid for it yourself.
Persuaded by both theory and empirical research, most economists believe that employer-based health insurance is an analogue of this bar scene.
The argument is that the premiums ostensibly paid by employers to buy health insurance coverage for their employees are actually part of the employee’s total pay package – the price of labor, in economic parlance – and that the cost of that fringe benefit is recovered from employees through commensurate reductions in take-home pay.
Score it 1-0 in “Supremes v. Economists.”
In the ruling, the owner of Hobby Lobby, a chain of craft stores, gained the right not to include certain contraceptive goods and services in the insurance bought for employees, because use of these services conflicts with the owner’s Christian beliefs. Although the justices argue that their ruling is narrowly confined to contraceptive services, one must wonder what other items other business owners in the future may seek to jettison from benefit packages on the basis of this or that professed religious belief.
The ruling raises the question of why, uniquely in the industrialized world, Americans have for so long favored an arrangement in health insurance that endows their employers with the quasi-parental power to choose the options that employees may be granted in the market for health insurance. For many smaller firms, that choice is narrowed to one or two alternatives – not much more choice than that afforded citizens under a single-payer health insurance system.
Furthermore, the arrangement induces employers to intervene in many other ways in their employees’ personal life – for example, in wellness programs that can range from the benign to annoyingly intrusive, depending upon the employers’ wishes.
And what kind of health “insurance” have Americans gotten under this strange arrangement? Once again, uniquely in the industrialized world, it has been ephemeral coverage that is lost with the job or changed at the employer’s whim. Citizens in any other industrialized country have permanent, portable insurance not tied to a particular job in a particular country.
Nor has this coverage been cheap by international standards. American employers can be said to have played a major role in driving up health spending per capita in the United States measured in internationally comparable purchasing power parity dollars, to roughly twice the level found in other industrialized populations. As a recent article in the health policy journal Health Affairs reported, a decade of health care cost growth wiped out real income gains for the average American family during the period from 1999 to 2009.
The Supreme Court’s ruling may prompt Americans to re-examine whether the traditional, employment-based health insurance that they have become accustomed to is really the ideal platform for health insurance coverage in the 21st century. The public health insurance exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act are likely to nibble away at this system for small and medium-size business firms, especially those with a mainly low-wage work force.
In the meantime, the case should help puncture the illusion that employer-provided health insurance is an unearned gift bestowed on them by the owners and paid with the owners’ money, giving those owners the moral right to dictate the nature of that gift.
Correction: July 1, 2014
A previous version of this article misspelled the last name of the Health and Human Services commissioner originally named in the case, and gave an outdated name for the case. It is Sebelius, not Sibelius, and the case is now known as Burwell v. Hobby Lobby.