Bangkoktraveler

I am surprised it got reported. Anything over $10,000 is fair game.

With several countries having coups agitated by facebook, do the the overthrown countries have to still pay the debts the 'older' government had acquired? If they don't have to honor previous debt, this would be a great way for the USA to get out from under her debt load.

[color:red]In the South, foreign auto plants are all non-union.[/color] So they don't have to provide UAW benefits, including their health insurance plans. WRT the Canadian trade agreement, that is old news. What is not old news is how quickly medical costs have risen at US based UAW plants, and how it is still at zero in Canadian UAW plants. Worth close to $20k per worker in cost savings. So while Detroit dies on the vine, factories in Windsor continue to not only do well, but expand I'd say "back to you HH", but I have obviously offended his California pension-sucking chicken shit ass, and he has put me on ignore. Gee, i am soooo offended. The foreign plants on US soil also make profits which get shuffled back to the homeland, not the USA.

Your logic behoves you Master HH. Before our manufacturing base disappeared, the mining base disappeared. Have you ever run your logic on former miners and machinist?

And another thread for Darth Vader.

Does that mean you can put another notch on your gun?

I have not seen of these policies worth the paper they are printed on. One of the problems with these policies is they do not cover much and are for the most part expensive. Small businesses really get the screw in this area.

I did have employees. I had so many employees that I didn't have to work but under the Bush realm, one employee after another employee had to go. Right now it is me and my wife. We also have some people who rent from us so that helps. Right now an individual policy is very expensive to get and to get such a policy for my wife is not worth it because the coverage is crap. Under Obamacare, good coverage would be obtainable. As for the cost, from what I have read if you don't provide the policy the government will levy a 'fine' of about 2.5%. Now if that is based upon your net profits, that would be not much money - [color:red]a super bargain.[/color]

I don't think you realize the repercussions of the 1099 fiasco. If I buy gas, I would have to send out a 1099 to the gas station. If I buy some jewelery in Bangkok, I would be expected to send out a 1099. Ascertaining an EIN from either business would be an almost impossibility. This truly was a crazy law. I am glad it looks like this crap is being repealed.

Passing out 1099 to every vendor was one part of the health bill I really hated. Can you imagine passing out a 1099 to a Thai vendor? In order to give the Thai vendor a 1099 they would have to have a Federal Employee Identification Number.

Real world: Restaurant owner has to provide health insurance to all employees if he is over a certain number. (25 I think' date=' not sure.) Lowest quote came in at about $1.5k per person per year. At that level, if 30 people are employed, restaurant pays 45k off the bottom line for ins that it was not paying before. Result: If this is a small establishment, restaurant fires enough employees to be below the standard. One guy I know said he thought he might be able to do it and survive but was not willing risk it so he fired 10 people and became his own cleaning crew and host staff.[/quote'] REAL WORLD: Do you have insurance thru your employer? Don't you think others should get the same type of benefits? REAL WORLD: If an employer doesn't pay for the insurance he will get penalize. The last I knew the penalty is about 2.5%. Exactly what gets penalized I am not sure. If it the net profits of the business for the month, quarter or year, that could end up being a super bargain. I think people should actually find out what the rules will be then restructure the business to the rules. I got a feeling this might be a great deal for small business owners who can not afford insurance. They could end up with coverage and depending on how the rules can be manipulated, may come out further ahead.

I know of one person who checks the medicare website each year and picks the medicare plan that best suits him. He spends very little and gets relatively good medical care.

The USA tax rate probably is higher. It was easy enough to look up. Germany is much higher due to the VAT. How can you compare apples with oranges?

The USA tax rate probably is higher. For example, if a person claims to be in a 35% tax rate in the USA, in all actuality he probably is in a tax rate over 50% (slave class). The reason for saying this is that most people forget to include Socual Security and Medicare as a tax. That rate is 15.30%. If you include sales tax, property tax, etc., we probably all are paying over 50% in taxes and getting shit in return.

From what I understood the USA system was suppose to be similar. i.e. Person works in a restaurant: NOW: They get sick, they generally don't have health insurance and end up running a lot of medical bills. They get rid of the medical bills by filing bankruptcy. The medical bills are unbelievable high because the person gets charged at the highest rate possible. Everybody takes a loss. WHAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN UNDER O'BAMA CARE: Small restaurant without much profit or any profit at the end of the year. The employeers cost would be almost zero if not zero. Employee gets sick. The employee gets medical care and doesn't have to file bankruptcy. The insurance company is charged one of the smallest amounts for the service.

Don't need to. Most of our water comes from the Colorado but our drinking water is bottled. Why do you ask, have you been having problems with your water?

I would say the Patriot Act has more devastasting aspects then Obama Care. Why didn't you bitch about Obama Care?

I thought the GOP was 100% against any socialized medicine.

If Obama care is out does that mean we don't have to pay for American Indian healthcare, VA healthcare and Iraqi health care? Or will stuff continue as ususal?

Some Gopers hate Obama but voted for Obama in the primaries.

Why is it the Democrats fault for California's failures when a Republican govenor just legt the office? Your logic doesn't make any sense. Oh that is right, Republicans are not fiscally responsible.

Dake was able to circumvent the The Posse Comitatus Act right after it went into effect. Probably the same goes with all the other Federal laws regulating the CIA and FBI.

Nope. None of it was "virtually impossible." Re read your Sun Tsu. [color:red]No one was even looking for an attack like that.[/color] That makes it very likely Hijacking had been done in the past, so why not on 9/11/2001? There had been talk off retrofitting a jet into a missile, why not on 9/11/2001? People had been checked before for box cutters, why weren't the terrorist of 9/11/2001 checked for box cutters? Hours can be spent pointing out such peculiarities. . History will probably record the events of 9/11/01 as one of the greatest military acts ever committed in history.

Naaaaa.... Mathematically?? Huh? Please show me this math. Absolutely it could happen. Everything that does happen... could. (And a lot that just has not... can.) The probability of one terrist getting thru was very slim. The probability of two terrorist getting thru is a lot slimmer. When you look at 19 terrorist getting thru, the probability of the event occuring is so slim the number would be approaching zero. A number so close to zero is for the most part looked at as being zero or virtually impossible. When you look at some of the other variables, each variable such as the probability of 4 planes being hijacked in one day, is so close to zero it is like being virtually impossible. Group all of these virtually impossibilities together and the conclusion is the event really can't happen but in this case it did.

Mathmatically, 9/11/2001 couldn't really happen, but it did. The probability of 19 terrorist getting thru security was statistically so small it would register virtually zero, but it happened. The same goes for 4 planes getting hijacked, 2 skyscrapers being missiled, and the list goes on and on. For all of this to happen, a lot of people must have been looking the other way, not doing their job, etc. The sad part, as far as I can see, nobody ever got chewed out for not doing their job. Figure it out.