I think congressman should be paying 100% of their own GD premiums. As I recall this got started during WWII. I don't recall the exact details but it went something along the lines. Government had frozen wages in part to keep private sector firms from recruiting government workers with higher wages. So the private firms offered health insurance as part of their compensation instead. In short, unintended consequences of government meddling. And it's yet another example in a seemingly endless list of examples of why people like me remain convinced bigger government just equals bigger problems. I'm a big believer in states rights and local government. BUT I cannot imagine why the insurance industry would necessarily need 50 different regulators either. Oh it's flawed alright and not one bit better than what it's replacing. But then you only have to consider the source of the legislation to have seen that coming. Maybe you need to wait, I don't. It's already a cluster fuck. Oh sure, they'll slap one band aid remedy on top another in a never ending effort to fix what they never should have fucked up to begin with. But in the end it'll only be more lipstick on the pig. I believe it was Churchill who once said, you can always count on the Americans to do the right thing. After they've tried everything else.
Veteran Suspended from CT College for Asking Governor Questions About New Anti-Gun Laws http://www.tpnn.com/2014/04/04/vete...g-governor-questions-about-new-anti-gun-laws/
I love that quote. There's a lot of truth in it. And I agree whole heartedly, our Congressmen ought to pay the full amount of their health care coverage, assuming that's what other folks with the same income have to do. Your comment re how employer linked health insurance got started I found very interesting.
ABC's Dan Harris Denies Any Conscious Liberal Bias; Claims There Are 'Very, Very Powerful' Conservatives at ABC Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gr...ral-bias-claims-there-are-very-#ixzz2y4ZRBAdj ======================================================================================== NY Times: Mozilla CEO's 'Anti-Gay' Stance 'By Definition Disqualifying,' He Needed 'Rehabilitation' Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-gr...inition-disqualifying-he-needed#ixzz2y4Zq4gVU
From the link you posted "Saucier followed Malloy to his car after the governor finished speaking at a public forum at Asnuntuck Community College." That sounds like harassment don't you think Lucrum? "Saucier was found guilty of all charges. His suspension was lifted, but any further trouble from him and he will be expelled, administrators said."
NO not necessarily. You left out the part where the board who found him guilty refused to let the defendant play his recording of the incident, exculpatory evidence. It was in effect a kangaroo court.
NY Taco Chain Bans Putin Until He Stops 'Picking on People' - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/curti...-he-stops-picking-people#sthash.SJTGLFLQ.dpuf The western New York Mexican restaurant chain 'Mighty Taco' posted on its Facebook page this week that it was banning Russia's leader Vladimir Putin from stepping foot in any of their 23 locations.
Bloomberg Businessweek, WaPo Claim Too Many Jobs is Bad for Economy Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-c...claim-too-many-jobs-bad-economy#ixzz2yJUmrmSN ================================================================================ #WarOnWomen Update: Senate Democrats Pay Women $5,500 Less Than Men http://www.tpnn.com/2014/04/08/waronwomen-update-senate-democrats-pay-women-5500-less-than-men/
Remember the extreme discomfort Senator Chuck Schumer displayed recently when pressed by Joe Scarborough on MSNBC's Morning Joe as to whether he agreed with Harry Reid's description of the Koch brothers as "un-American?" After much evasion, Schumer finally agreed with Reid that the Koch brothers were un-American due to the political ads they are running. It now turns out that Schumer's uneasiness with calling the Koch brothers "un-American" didn't have as much to do with casting aspersions upon their character as it had to do with something in his past that he probably knew would expose him as a hypocrite. And that something was a 2009 letter from Schumer thanking the Koch brothers political organization, KOCHPAC, for a contribution to his campaign. Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2yJwk1MnE ================================================================================ NY Democrat Congressman Charlie Rangel, who was convicted of violating 11 House ethics rules in 2010, didnât pay any monthly rent in 2013 for his office. When asked why the rent had not been paid, Rangelâs office did not deny the charge, but rather blamed Republicans.