Thread: Warren Buffett: I 'Should Be Paying A Lot More In Taxes'

Originally Posted by GearsMcGilf

Mine is about $430 for family and it's pretty good. But, the effin premium has gone up every year. If the govt would get out of bed with the insurance companies and let us buy it competitively, just like life insurance, then the prices would come down. If I could buy from any company, anywhere in the country, without the govt protecting them from interstate competition, as they are now, that would go along way to lower premiums.

by government I hope you mean Congress because they are the ones who got us in the position that were are in with the corporate special interest groups, this problem has nothing at all to do with the POTUS.

Yes, Congress. That doesn't excuse our dear leader or any of his predecessors thought.

Originally Posted by GearsMcGilf

Mine is about $430 for family and it's pretty good. But, the effin premium has gone up every year. If the govt would get out of bed with the insurance companies and let us buy it competitively, just like life insurance, then the prices would come down. If I could buy from any company, anywhere in the country, without the govt protecting them from interstate competition, as they are now, that would go along way to lower premiums.

I think other forces dictate costs.... pharmaceutical companies....blah, blah...of course the fucking politician sleeping in bed with these crooks are to blame.

I worked for Motorola for a few years till they decided they would make more money not paying our benefits. Solution....have us work for a sub- contractor.
Low to no benefits at all.
The sad thing is that they cried about the high cost of employing us....well if they were to get rid of the fat in upper management they could have kept us.

We had 4 people in the garage,3 on the work bench, 3 on the road, 2 managers and 3 secretaries. In one shop.
We had decent benefits and PROFIT sharing.

Of course Bush sr. came into office and that all changed.

2 shops closed so we had to consolidate...in the end we had 4 people in the garage,3 on the work bench, 4 on the road, 11 managers and 6 secretaries. In one shop.

???Our workload went through the roof but it was too much, so we lost business....how do they solve this??? Instead of letting go of some of the managers or secretaries and hire people who actually bring in the money they let go of them.

So in the end we had 1 people in the garage,2 on the work bench, 1 on the road,5 managers[/B] and 6 secretaries. In one shop. The mamnagers and secretaries happily playing minefield or shopping online while the other guys bust their asses.

This was Motorola....

Don't get me started on health insurance.......crooks I say.

Originally Posted by GearsMcGilf

Yes, Congress. That doesn't excuse our dear leader or any of his predecessors thought.

it was the 92nd Congress '71-73 that passed the legislation that allowed special interest groups to originally infiltrate the US political system, this is when all the shit started with the economic problems in the US. It's been straight downhill ever since.

IDK what Bush sr. did you cause problems for Motorolla, but yeah that shit happens all the time, especially in govt. Look at the pubic school system. When budgets get tight, the newer, lower paid teachers get axed, where as the tenured administrators, who're making 3x what the younger teachers make, for coming to work and doing crossword puzzles half the day, would just about have to be caught sodomizing someone to get fired. This is courtesy of the teachers' union. What would we do without them?

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IDK what Bush sr. did you cause problems for Motorolla, but yeah that shit happens all the time, especially in govt. system.

He took over and it went to shit, the economy tanked. Like everyone here blames Obama for our current crises I blamed him....or was it the guy we had before him.
All I know is that we had a recession while he was in charge thus causing layoffs.

Look at the pubic school When budgets get tight, the newer, lower paid teachers get axed, where as the tenured administrators, who're making 3x what the younger teachers make, for coming to work and doing crossword puzzles half the day, would just about have to be caught sodomizing someone to get fired. This is courtesy of the teachers' union. What would we do without them?

I work for the city and my other half works for the state....this is true..

I do respect the seniority rules to an extent.

I worked at Motorola for 20 plus years and that meant nothing.