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I am known for my word and that means something to me.
then I don't know why you would want your government to do otherwise.
Everyone wants to save someone so they feel better....
I just want to show someone how to save themselves....they feel better about themselves that way!
maybe the ultra wealthy who are getting those nice tax breaks should learn to "save themselves". But I'm being sarcastic... it's not about saving anyone. It's about our government living up to it's promises and it's about a sense of community. It's about everyone having affordable health care and not about the pharmaceutical companies making big profits.
If we could all make it completely on our own we wouldn't have cities, counties and countries... we wouldn't have churchs and communities. People band together because we all lift each other up.
yeap. most work for a company that puts restrictions on what they can do and pressure them to make money by making sales. So even if they seem like a nice person... want to be a nice person... their hands are often tied. The clients best interest is not number one.
another great example!
or pretend to run but fix the electronic voting machines
Maybe they should not have made the obligations in the first place...
so you think it's okay for our government to have "made the obligations" and then renege? do you make obligations and then years later after someone had planned on your word renege?
I don't think anyone said you won't get your S.S., it make be just a pile of "shit" but you'll get something.
I'll get something? a pile of shit won't pay the bills... at the rate health insurance premiums are going up, it probably won't even cover that much less food, utilities, etc.
Baby boomers are in for some serious problems. These could be mitigate to a degree by some good financial planning by our government which is not currently happening... Bush's current budget case in fact. Do you like his plan? Approve of his over estimating revenue and underestimating expenses so he can look good on paper but even then admits to rising deficits after 2010?
about financial experts... they are definitely not a guarantee that you'll have a good plan for retirement... a lot of bad ones out there.
ROFL!!! The person who wrote that probably did have teachers that were overpaid! But then again, we all need to take responsibility for our shortcomings.
People make choices......
I don't think anyone here is saying people shouldn't try to plan and prepare for retirement if they are able. And yes, people make choices... and guess what... people make mistakes too. But I guess in your book, anyone who makes some poor choices, even if it was 30 years ago, are not entitled to health insurance or a decent retirement. And that's the whole point. Reality is that people are human and make mistakes. Young people don't think to the future. I'm all for educating our young to do better than our generation is doing in that regard. But we've been paying into social security for 30 something years and now were told we are shit out of luck and... btw... health care is going to be completely unaffordable... so whatever you do, don't get sick or try to retire early.
great quote! don't think I've ever read the whole thing before.
:) it does fit nicely :)
What has really failed is that the government and the corporations can no longer meet their obligations.
that really sums it up nicely.
great point!
I read the books... three of the series. I read them along time ago. There were some criteria for those who were successful and I believe on of the main ones was a stable marriage. How many get divorced at least once in this country? How devastating is that financially? I've had friends who were wipped out by an ugly divorce. I made a pretty good salary... but I didn't plan on raising my kids on my own with zero financial support. My youngest is just now 19... I have some set aside for retirement, but not nearly enough. A good friend of mine has worked all her life and never had kids... she's never been able to buy a house or save much towards retirement... she'll have to work til she drops. Is that because she wasn't a hard worker? no. Is it because she's not intelligent? no. Could she have made some better choices if life? of course. Does she deserve to rot in retirement? no health care? work til she drops?
I wonder how many of those who don't have enough for retirement are single parents (mostly women), widows and minorities?
it's kind of ironic that those who on the surface say they are upset at the costs are really spending more in order to deprive others of basic services. the need to feel superior and punish others overrides reason.
what a snake in the grass... maybe he was hoping he could get it passed without anyone reading it... like he originally did with the Patriot Act
they should have been over when he was fired by Bush senior for his unscrupulous behavior.
I saw people at GTE being forced into retirement well before they were ready (still had kids in college etc) after working there for over 20 years... not like there was another job just like it right around the corner.
excellent post and right on the money (pun intended)
pretty heartless and it's not like that does cost us anyway in terms of law enforcement and general public safety.
it's less about math than it is about life circumstances... what if someone is in an accident and breaks their neck? tough luck? they should have done the math? what if someone retires at 65 but only has worked 5 years vs someone who retires at 51 who worked 30 years?
regardless of all that, I believe the elderly should be cared for in our society. I'm not saying give them enough to golf every day, but health care is a basic necessity that everyone should have.
so do you think that's why his threats aren't being taken as seriously? I hope that's true!
I heard recently that in SF they are trying a new program to take those kinds of cases to a clinic rather than an ER... sounds like one possible solution to the problem... although I have a feeling some would rather these guys just die on the street.
Some folks like me can do basic math calculations and have planned for retirement
it isn't that simple and you know it. nothing about my stance on this discriminates against anyone.
my mother retired at 65 and died at 67... you can't assume that each individual is going to live long enough to even have a chance to enjoy retirement.
this country is cheap (like you) when it comes to vacation time, health benefits and retirement. the masses have been brainwashed into thinking it's all necessary for the health of the economy when in fact the ultra weathy are benefiting at the expense of the average person.
I'm lurking :)
the funny thing is that many of those now ignoring what you are trying to point out will be the ones caught in this kind of situation or have loved ones in that situation. As long as it isn't them right now, they don't care and cannot empathize... they only want to villianize (as they were taught to do by "compassionate conservatives")
and the robber barrons who are in power will be sipping margarities on their yachts laughing their ass off at the stupidity of the masses
I think the story behind this one was that the original guy that owned it had passed away... his widow took over... she remarried some younger guy and was not long after found dead (suspicious circumstances)... so those who might have had a personal interest it are gone.
With Karl Rove reported to be threatening Election Day revenge against anyone who breaks ranks on this issue, Ms. Wilson deserves support for a principled stand.
interesting they said "Election Day" given the GOP still has control over the voting machines...
in many ways, he is... Bush is mostly the front guy.
okay, you made me check and now I'm not happy lol note the last paragraph were they were bought by Knight Ridder...
Contra Costa Newspapers was founded in 1947 by the late Dean S. Lesher, whose early vision of population growth and business potential in the San Francisco East Bay led him to build one of the country's most successful suburban daily newspaper networks.
The Contra Costa Newspapers is comprised of four daily editions: Contra Costa Times, San Ramon Valley Times, West County Times and Valley Times. In addition, the Times produces twelve weekly newspapers that focus on local news: Ledger Dispatch, Brentwood News, Walnut Creek Journal, Concord Transcript, Contra Costa Sun, Pleasant Hill/Martinez Record, West County Weekly and the Hills Newspapers (Montclarion, Piedmonter, Alameda Journal, Berkeley Voice and El Cerrito Journal).
Located in one of the fastest-growing markets in the United States, the company attributes its success to the belief in the value of community newspapers, competitive spirit, and strong commitment to quality, innovation and new technology.
In November 1995, the privately held newspaper group was purchased by Knight Ridder, Inc., a company renowned for journalistic excellence. Applauding the suburban group's top editorial quality and strong local focus, Knight Ridder also recognized the opportunities for growth and expansion in one of the state's most prosperous regions.
A Trillion Little Pieces
The point of all these imaginary financial projections is to give the president leeway to cement in place hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts the nation can ill afford and does not need.
Published: February 7, 2006
President Bush's $2.77 trillion budget is fiction masquerading as fact, a governmental version of the made-up memoirs that have been denounced up and down the continent lately. The spending proposal is built around the pretense that the same House and Senate that are set to consider a record deficit of $423 billion will now impose a virtual freeze on everything other than Pentagon and homeland security outlays. The budget writers even fantasized an end to Social Security's lump-sum death benefit — a whopping $255 per recipient — as if Congress would dare to do something so heartless and easy to exploit in an election year.
The point of all these imaginary financial projections is to give the president leeway to cement in place hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts the nation can ill afford and does not need. The cuts were made temporary in the first place because there was no way to even pretend that budgets could be balanced in the future with such an enormous loss of revenue.
Now, to pay for his top priorities — the military and tax cuts — the president is relying on proposed spending cuts. While Congress will never make some of them, it may make others, but only at the peril of the poor and the middle class. Those cuts include basic needs in education, environmental protection, medical research, low-income housing for the elderly and the disabled, community policing, and supplemental food for the needy.
The budget is steeped in campaign-year pretensions, billboarding $65 billion in "savings" across the next five years — more than half of it in Medicare — even as tax revenue is further choked. A Congress up for re-election should be wary of taking that path, particularly as the open-ended costs of the Iraq war dwarf all promised savings.
Mr. Bush was praised last week for calling for an end to dependency on oil imports without dragging out the ill-advised — and meaningless — administration fixation on oil drilling in protected parts of Alaska. Yet there it is, back again in the budget. There is little new in the plan, except for small but worthy initiatives that would be paid for with cuts in equally useful programs already on the books.
The president's plan was, on the whole, depressingly familiar. The administration that produced shattering deficits is at it again. Even the fiction was plagiarized from failed budgets of the past.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/opinion/07tue1.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Comedian are one of the few groups benefiting!
great quote.
last time I checked, our local paper is locally owned.
what happen to anti-trust and anti monopoly laws?
raising taxes week kneed? ROFL! Bush lost touch with reality a long time ago. How can you listen to him without laugh or crying... one or the other.
chart is lookin good...
nice chart... looking better than it has in a long time!
Tolerating Death in the Mines
The deaths of coal miners in West Virginia have laid bare the pro-industry bias in the Bush administration's stewardship of the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
Published: February 5, 2006
Federal safety officials, faced with the death of two more West Virginia miners, are asking the coal industry to "stand down for safety" tomorrow to check the nation's mines for lethal working conditions. This smacks of public relations more than worker protection. The safety agency, notorious for its political appointees from the coal industry, is also suddenly finding more inspectors for West Virginia, which has suffered 16 miner deaths recently.
The tragedies have laid bare the passivity and pro-industry bias in the Bush administration's stewardship of the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Last month, the chief of the now-galvanized agency cavalierly announced more pressing business and walked out of a Congressional hearing into the initial West Virginia deaths, even as shocked lawmakers still had key questions unanswered.
We're glad that West Virginia's government has finally enacted laws requiring that miners be equipped with wireless communication and location devices, better oxygen supplies and faster, more organized rescue crews. Five other states are considering similar steps, but the crying need is for the administration to make this a national issue. In Canada, 72 miners were rescued after 20 hours thanks to underground "refuge stations" required by law to be stocked with oxygen, food and water. No such protection was at hand for the West Virginia victims.
The administration should join West Virginia lawmakers calling for tougher inspections, penalties and safety equipment under federal law. The deaths showed that companies have too much leeway in running rescue efforts, and too little concern for crackdowns by the federal mine agency.
A pro-industry bias by government should not be tolerated. Yet, at a hearing for the administration's latest choice of still another company veteran to take control of mine safety, Republican lawmakers shamelessly praised the industry for lowering fatality statistics across time — as if those killed in West Virginia were a tolerable cost of Big Coal's doing business.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/opinion/05sun2.html?th&emc=th
I just hope the trend doesn't put local papers and smaller outfits out of business... we don't need more monopoly when it comes to news.