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cimiron

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Let me get this straight.... We're going to be "gifted"
with a health care plan we are forced to purchase
and fined if we don't, which purportedly covers at
least ten million more people, without adding a single
new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,
who have recently demonstrated their objective and
professional integrity; written by a committee whose
chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a
Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves
from it, and signed by a Dumbo President who smokes,
with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't
pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years
before any benefits take effect, by a government
which has already bankrupted Social Security and
Medicare, Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, and the Post
Office all to be overseen by a surgeon general who
is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!!

JOE L

Are they going to raise the salaries to make up for the lost wages? If 30 hrs. will be made the work week will the employers drop the hrs. that they hire to 28 hrs. ? Why not just make it 1 Hr. per day. Then every one can just sit on their butt and really become lazy and less productive. The government can take care of all our needs. In fact why bother working at all?

cimiron

JOE L wrote:

Are they going to raise the salaries to make up for the lost wages? If 30 hrs. will be made the work week will the employers drop the hrs. that they hire to 28 hrs. ? Why not just make it 1 Hr. per day. Then every one can just sit on their butt and really become lazy and less productive. The government can take care of all our needs. In fact why bother working at all?

I doubt it the reason for the cut is so they don't have to provide health care insurance

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Let's see, 30 work week CHECK, forced medical at double the fees CHECK, middle class disappears five years later CHECK and now we have the masters and surfs CHECK. What could possibly go wrong?

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Loki Loc: Georgia

cimiron wrote:

Let me get this straight.... We're going to be &qu... (show quote)

Loki Loc: Georgia

I think government employees should be required to increase their work week to 30 hours. Or for that matter, one hour. Other than that, you pretty much have it nailed down. We have a Congress that has abdicated it's responsibilities, delegating their authority to overpaid and underbrained bureaucrats who are accountable to no one. Meanwhile, our elected charlatans posture and attempt to look busy and knowledgeable, to at least sort of justify the 170 to 180 thousand dollar a year salary they voted for themselves. How long would a private business last if the employees got to vote for their own salaries?

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

How long would a company last with this countries debt?

banjojack wrote:

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Comment Loc: California

banjojack wrote:

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$170-$180, plus: another $100 per diem, free travel expenses, free limos, free parking, free hair cuts and shoe shines, Cadillac health insurance and a fat pension after only 8 yrs in office and can draw it upon leaving office. All the while working folks are slaving away to pay for it all.

Loki Loc: Georgia

Billhuggins wrote:

$170-$180, plus: another $100 per diem, free travel expenses, free limos, free parking, free hair cuts and shoe shines, Cadillac health insurance and a fat pension after only 8 yrs in office and can draw it upon leaving office. All the while working folks are slaving away to pay for it all.

I believe that is pension after 5 years in office, I will have to double check.

Skptk

Already being done, thanks to Obamacare.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

They are vested after five years. At 62 with the 5 years they can retire and at 50 or older with 20 year. They'd never make retirement with two terms.

banjojack wrote:

I believe that is pension after 5 years in office, I will have to double check.

Loki Loc: Georgia

bmac32 wrote:

They are vested after five years. At 62 with the 5 years they can retire and at 50 or older with 20 year. They'd never make retirement with two terms.

Okay, I wasn't sure.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

I knew the vesting part but not the rest. 2 or 3 terms is all that should be allowed anyway.

banjojack wrote:

Okay, I wasn't sure.

JerryMac

OPP Newsletter wrote:

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Of course. Employers are cutting the hours from full time to thirty hours or less because of the extra expense and/or penalties of Obamacare. So let's consider 30 hours as full time now so we can suck them back into the black hole.