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  Layoffs

  by LV101 in

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  2. friends

  heard at dinner last night big corporations planning major layofffs/obama's healthcare.

  lockheed (and many of the others) provide phenomenal health coverage already.

  just when feeling optomistic and hopeful!.

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  Berengaria

  Dazed, I sincerely encourage you to read from many sources and do your own research, don't let the talking heads interpret everything for you. You will be more optimistic. Some wisdom from Jefferson

  "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." (as cited in Padover, 1939, p. 89)

  ". . . whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that, whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them right." (as cited in Padover, 1939, p. 88)

  http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/jefferson.html
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  Layoffs

  by LV101 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  heard at dinner last night big corporations planning major layofffs/obama's healthcare.

  lockheed (and many of the others) provide phenomenal health coverage already.

  just when feeling optomistic and hopeful!.

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  Berengaria

  RBIH, it's like letting the house rot from the inside out because you don't want to pay to have a leak fixed.
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  Layoffs

  by LV101 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  heard at dinner last night big corporations planning major layofffs/obama's healthcare.

  lockheed (and many of the others) provide phenomenal health coverage already.

  just when feeling optomistic and hopeful!.

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  Berengaria

  you do know how insurance works right?

  Oh RBIH, I was going to ask this exact question. Right now it is the law that if someone goes in to an emergency room they must be treated (Reagan I believe signed that in). That is an incredibly expensive way to care for people, not to mention those without insurance often wait until a problem is so bad it can't be ignored. Say cancer. Now they are in the emergency room, and we are all paying for it, and their chances are far worse than if they had had ongoing care and caught the problem earlier.

  Employer offered health insurance is basically part of your earnings. Because an employer is essentially handing over a block of customers to the insurance company they can get better rates. It's just like buying in bulk. Depending on the business, your wages, etc. etc. you pay a portion and the employer pays a portion. That is why states are due to set up exchanges for those who do not get coverage through work. They become a block of their own. Providing the Ins Co with customers, and getting reduced rates in return.
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  Layoffs

  by LV101 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  heard at dinner last night big corporations planning major layofffs/obama's healthcare.

  lockheed (and many of the others) provide phenomenal health coverage already.

  just when feeling optomistic and hopeful!.

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  Berengaria

  You are quoting a blog in The Washington Times, a right wing paper version of Fox News owned by Rupert Murdoch. And the information comes from Freedom Works. Are you aware of who they are? Just some of the Big Money behind GOP Superpacs. In other words they have a vested interest in this propaganda.

  The requirements on businesses don't even start until 2014.
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  Layoffs

  by LV101 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  heard at dinner last night big corporations planning major layofffs/obama's healthcare.

  lockheed (and many of the others) provide phenomenal health coverage already.

  just when feeling optomistic and hopeful!.

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  Berengaria

  Bull. Give us some facts. We didn't get in to the mess we are in in the last three and a half years. It's taken years and years of moving in the wrong direction to get us to this point.
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  Layoffs

  by LV101 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  heard at dinner last night big corporations planning major layofffs/obama's healthcare.

  lockheed (and many of the others) provide phenomenal health coverage already.

  just when feeling optomistic and hopeful!.

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  Berengaria

  This is just part of the list of expected layoffs

  Not a single one of which has ANYTHING to do with the President. Do you folks ever bust out of the Glenn Beck Rush Limbaugh Fox News hamster wheel and think for yourselves? Evidently not.
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  I grew up not fearing old age

  by Sour Grapes in

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  as a teenage jw, i grew up believing that i was not going to finish high school nor would i get old and have to die like my grandparents did.

  well, i did finish high school, as did my children and my grandchildren and old age has not been kind to me.

  i don't like to look at pictures from 40 years ago, from a time when i was healthy and i had the goal of "stay alive till 75.

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  Berengaria

  Hey Sour, do you ever get to the end of a long day, just lusting for that soft bed with the cushy pillows and the complete freedom to sink in to self indulgant sleep? Knowing it's the weekend and you don't have to get up to an alarm? That's how death will be.
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  My country is sick

  by sabastious in

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  this is a melancholy day for me.

  over the past few years i have been studying american politics and have enjoyed learning perspectives from different ideologies.

  i personally lean towards conservative values when it comes to creating legislature, however i am socially liberal.

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  Berengaria

  Did I say I hate people with money ---- ahhh, you do -- you hate capitalism and want the redistribution.

  You said "People hate people who have money". I assume you must hate people with money, otherwise how can you possibly make that determination??
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  So Do You Think The Economy Will Change For The Better, Remain The Same Or Get Worse?

  by minimus in

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  what's your prediction?.

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  Berengaria

  Worse much worse. There are no positive indications.

  Half the country has now learned that they can simply vote money from one persons pocket to their own.

  This is utter nonsense. Please provide sources to support this notion
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  So Do You Think The Economy Will Change For The Better, Remain The Same Or Get Worse?

  by minimus in

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  what's your prediction?.

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  Berengaria

  capitalism always works itself around and things will turn good if they just allow the market to work.

  Where is your evidence of this?