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From: bknight on 14 Feb 2010 15:52 On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:18:00 -0800, "dene" <dene(a)remove.ipns.com> wrote: > If people wait until they are >sick, then buy guaranteed health insurance, then naturally they will buy the >"best bang for the buck." The chosen insurance company will receive a few >hundred and end up paying thousands. > >This business concept means nothing to liberals. They have no issues with >spending other people's money. So, only liberals wait until they get sick and then buy the "best bang for the buck." ? BK
From: Don Kirkman on 14 Feb 2010 15:54 It seems to me I heard somewhere that assimilate(a)borg.org wrote in article <VQNdn.87262$BV.64399(a)newsfe07.iad>: >On 13-Feb-2010, bknight(a)conramp.net wrote: >> >Bobby, individual policies are a very small percentage of the market. >> So? These raises will certainly make some difference. >it affects 3% of Californians I can't vouch for the accuracy, but one LA area TV station reported that one family's premium would be more than their mortgage payment if Anthem is allowed to implement the raise. The average increase seems to be around the 30% level. For a working class family, that's a significant hardship. -- Don Kirkman donsno2(a)charter.net
From: Howard Brazee on 14 Feb 2010 18:43 On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:33:00 -0500, Jack Hollis <xsleeper(a)aol.com> wrote: >I was watching "Norma Rae" the other day. I had to laugh when Reuben, >the union organizer, talks about years ago when his grandfather >organized the textile workers in NY. Of course, he didn't mention >that this was the reason that the textile business left the Northeast >and moved to the South giving all the people he was talking to their >jobs. Yep. But people in New England still are much better off than a century ago, and the people in the South are much better off than when they had textile jobs. Industrialization does create the kind of wealth to make those jobs undesirable. (Except for mining, which apparently doesn't work that way). -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison
From: Jack Hollis on 14 Feb 2010 21:10 On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:43:25 -0700, Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote: >On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:33:00 -0500, Jack Hollis <xsleeper(a)aol.com> >wrote: > >>I was watching "Norma Rae" the other day. I had to laugh when Reuben, >>the union organizer, talks about years ago when his grandfather >>organized the textile workers in NY. Of course, he didn't mention >>that this was the reason that the textile business left the Northeast >>and moved to the South giving all the people he was talking to their >>jobs. > >Yep. But people in New England still are much better off than a >century ago, and the people in the South are much better off than when >they had textile jobs. Industrialization does create the kind of >wealth to make those jobs undesirable. (Except for mining, which >apparently doesn't work that way). One of the things that has made the US great is the ability of American business to make adjustments when necessary. The big cities in the Northeast didn't fold up and die when manufacturing jobs moved out. If you can't compete in labor intensive industries then fold up shop and do something that you can compete at. And you're correct about the undesirability of having manufacturing. I don't know anybody who likes to live near a factory.
From: William Clark on 14 Feb 2010 21:41
In article <jg8hn557o7qlv06fc1b358bqj6dlls04f9(a)4ax.com>, Jack Hollis <xsleeper(a)aol.com> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:43:25 -0700, Howard Brazee <howard(a)brazee.net> > wrote: > > >On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:33:00 -0500, Jack Hollis <xsleeper(a)aol.com> > >wrote: > > > >>I was watching "Norma Rae" the other day. I had to laugh when Reuben, > >>the union organizer, talks about years ago when his grandfather > >>organized the textile workers in NY. Of course, he didn't mention > >>that this was the reason that the textile business left the Northeast > >>and moved to the South giving all the people he was talking to their > >>jobs. > > > >Yep. But people in New England still are much better off than a > >century ago, and the people in the South are much better off than when > >they had textile jobs. Industrialization does create the kind of > >wealth to make those jobs undesirable. (Except for mining, which > >apparently doesn't work that way). > > One of the things that has made the US great is the ability of > American business to make adjustments when necessary. The big cities > in the Northeast didn't fold up and die when manufacturing jobs moved > out. If you can't compete in labor intensive industries then fold up > shop and do something that you can compete at. You mean "adjust" as in Anthem putting off the rate increase when the public reaction gets too hot for them? |