Rant for the Day (keep it clean)

[Amish Heart]

And they should have had to get the so called vaccines or get out of office!!

No one should be made to take a shot

 

[Pearl]

No one should be made to take a shot

I think those WHO KNEW how detrimental the shots are and excused themselves from them should have been given the SAME CHOICE as so many Americans!! Take your so called vaccine or leave your job!!

 

[Amish Heart]

Everybody really should of just left their job. If they were preppers, maybe they could have. I'm glad I had retired the year before, or I would have been told the same by our licensing authority.
If you can do for yourself and live out of the system, then you can't be forced to do things just to eat.

 

[Haertig]

Cuba sucks. That's all I have to say about that. Wouldn't want to be them.

yes!! But we are not too far off....

... and we'd be one step closer with universal healthcare.

But like I said earlier, I would tend to agree with some form of universal healthcare - for my kid's sake. But probably not complete universal healthcare totally controlled by the government. For those that want to be more self-reliant and free of dependency on government, universal healthcare would seem very scary. Forget your privacy and autonomy.

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

I got blessed by being appointed temporary lead hand on Monday. It means I am the dip stick that coordinates between the main dispatch/bus shop and the drivers in the satellite location.

My stupid cell phone is constantly beeping away in my pocket, now. Can't check the messages because I'm driving. Pull over and find they need a bus swap done, total 4 hr round trip between morning and afternoon runs and early dismissal today so not much time to get it done. Union drivers can't do it because we had a new contract vote today.

Found an outside temp driver who was willing. Sent her off in the designated bus and she comes back with the replacement plus the mechanic driving the original bus because he asked for the wrong bus and had to swap for correct one to take to the main shop.

 

[Mad Dog 1]

Sorry, I did not intend to offend anyone. There are always exceptions to any generalization. I was thinking of the people who spend every dime they make without even considering their retirement. My son is one of these people. My daughter is exactly the opposite.

e.g., I do not mind giving a helping hand to those in need. We donate lots of money through our church for this purpose. But I do not like giving money as free handouts to people who simply have decided not to work and prefer to live off of others when they could work for themselves.

It is people that are similar to this latter group that I was talking about in my post about retirement savings above. The people who buy themselves a Mercedes when heir finances are more along the lines of a used Beetle. The two family household with an 8000 square foot house. People intentionally living above their means. There is nothing wrong with spending your money on luxuries if you can afford them. But ignoring your retirement is not "being able to afford" these things IMHO.

Sorry do not know what i did here ,cannot see where to delete , lucky my finger is not on any launch button

 

[sonya123]

For those that want to be more self-reliant and free of dependency on government, universal healthcare would seem very scary. Forget your privacy and autonomy.

so you are never going to use medicare? It's funny, people say they don't want government healthcare but as soon as anyone suggests cuts to medicare they are hopping up and down crying usually. I seem to remember maybe Bush giving seniors more medicare benefits and nobody complained. ( could have been someone else but I think it was him)
Same with people on medicaid. I don't hear anyone complaining, including us.
Plus there is public utilities. They might not be great, but better than Cuba LOL
If you REALLY wanted a system that does not have government interference at all you would have to let people die if they have no money to pay for emergency care at the hospital. Most people do not want that either

 

[Haertig]

so you are never going to use medicare? It's funny, people say they don't want government healthcare but as soon as anyone suggests cuts to medicare they are hopping up and down crying usually.

That is because the government has been taking money out of our paychecks for our entire working life to pay for Medicare. It is paid for by Social Security taxes which are mandatory withdrawals. We had no choice about the government taking that money.

And now we want some rate of return on our money that was taken. So we use Medicare, since they won't give our money back to us in cash.

 

[sonya123]

That is because the government has been taking money out of our paychecks for our entire working life to pay for Medicare. It is paid for by Social Security taxes which are mandatory withdrawals. We had no choice about the government taking that money.

And now we want some rate of return on our money that was taken. So we use Medicare, since they won't give our money back to us in cash.

standard response there, only most people pay in way less than they get out
think about how many hundreds of thousands of $ just one major surgery cost, or cancer treatments and stuff
even if you invested well, you would most likely not save enough for major medical problems in old age. Do the math
I did it one time, and unless you die early , you get more than you pay in most likely
It's a pyramid scheme worse than social security.
The way universal healthcare is set up in other countries is NOT a pyramid scheme. Everyone pays in, everyone gets out. Hospital administrators are not millionaires either.

People are of course selfish. They want something for nothing but they don't want anyone else to have something for nothing. Most people do not want a fair system, they just want one that benefits them. So, the most fair system to me would be either A: nobody gets anything at all, or B: everyone gets the same thing

Like I said earlier, if they did that, the politicians could no longer play off different groups against other ones and the population might actually look at real issues and vote for who might be a better person to run the country

 

[Amish Heart]

Medicare doesn't take care of it all, you have to pay for a supplement and for a prescription coverage, and money is taken out of your SS benefit to pay for Medicare. I'd say we get less than we put in for sure. At least that's the case in our family.