I must say I'd vote for almost anyone over Hillary Clinton. Her health care plan scares the snot out of me. Any government operated health care of any kind will result in badness. I've seen how unemployment benefits, and worker's compensation, and disability benefits, and other forms of welfare, earned or not, always favor the people willing to lie to work the system, while screwing over honest and deserving individuals.
Of the last five unemployment cases to cross my desk, all five have been decided by the government in a way that I consider unfair. One, a woman with two children to support, who was fired for her boss for blatantly unfair reasons, was initially given her unemployment, only to have it taken away in an appeal. The government is now demanding that she pay back this money, which was used to support her family, by an extremely unreasonable deadline. On the opposite end of the spectrum we have Drunk Forklift Operator. He was fired by his employer after he arrived at work intoxicated, swore at a female coworker, grabbed her boob and called her a whore, drove a forklift through a plate glass window, and then spent the remainder of the day sleeping it off in an employee bathroom, blocking access for others, until the police came to cart him off. He then offered fellow employees a cut of his benefits if they'd lie for him, and those that refused repeated this at a hearing, but he was still granted benefits, which he seems to be spending primarily on booze. Until the government can get their act together enough to tell apart these two individuals, and get it straight which one to pay and which one to dump, I have zero confidence that they can handle health care.
No, neither of these examples was Clinton's fault, but these are by no means isolated cases and in my experience all government-controlled anything works pretty much like that. Our health care system is messed up enough without making it worse. The notion that it'll save us from paying $800/month for insurance we're afraid to use sounds nice in theory, but it'll just come out of the working class in the form of hidden taxes. Like, for example, Unemployment Insurance, which the government makes us feel good about, since only "wealthy business owners" pay for that, when in fact it reduces what those business owners can afford to pay their employees.
Every week, I do a report for each of my clients, breaking down their payroll costs. Of the total they're shelling out each week, only 45% of the money is actually ending up in their employees' net paychecks, while the rest goes to various taxes and other taxes disguised as "insurances" and the cost of processing all the government paperwork related to them.
As for Hillary personally, I don't think she's ever adequately explained a number of shady business dealings, such as Whitewater and that thing with the cattle futures. I don't consider her trustworthy, and I don't consider a single term as a senator to be enough experience in public service to qualify her over Obama in this race. People call him inexperienced, when she's really not done that much more.
And I didn't mean to turn this into a rant, or accuse you of being wrong or anything. I'm just mildly baffled by your support of Clinton when I generally agree with your political positions.
As for making America healthier, I think the first step is to stop putting corn syrup in the coffee creamer. If a candidate suggests that, I'll vote for them.
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Date: 2008-04-15 07:54 pm (UTC)Of the last five unemployment cases to cross my desk, all five have been decided by the government in a way that I consider unfair. One, a woman with two children to support, who was fired for her boss for blatantly unfair reasons, was initially given her unemployment, only to have it taken away in an appeal. The government is now demanding that she pay back this money, which was used to support her family, by an extremely unreasonable deadline. On the opposite end of the spectrum we have Drunk Forklift Operator. He was fired by his employer after he arrived at work intoxicated, swore at a female coworker, grabbed her boob and called her a whore, drove a forklift through a plate glass window, and then spent the remainder of the day sleeping it off in an employee bathroom, blocking access for others, until the police came to cart him off. He then offered fellow employees a cut of his benefits if they'd lie for him, and those that refused repeated this at a hearing, but he was still granted benefits, which he seems to be spending primarily on booze.
Until the government can get their act together enough to tell apart these two individuals, and get it straight which one to pay and which one to dump, I have zero confidence that they can handle health care.
No, neither of these examples was Clinton's fault, but these are by no means isolated cases and in my experience all government-controlled anything works pretty much like that. Our health care system is messed up enough without making it worse. The notion that it'll save us from paying $800/month for insurance we're afraid to use sounds nice in theory, but it'll just come out of the working class in the form of hidden taxes. Like, for example, Unemployment Insurance, which the government makes us feel good about, since only "wealthy business owners" pay for that, when in fact it reduces what those business owners can afford to pay their employees.
Every week, I do a report for each of my clients, breaking down their payroll costs. Of the total they're shelling out each week, only 45% of the money is actually ending up in their employees' net paychecks, while the rest goes to various taxes and other taxes disguised as "insurances" and the cost of processing all the government paperwork related to them.
As for Hillary personally, I don't think she's ever adequately explained a number of shady business dealings, such as Whitewater and that thing with the cattle futures. I don't consider her trustworthy, and I don't consider a single term as a senator to be enough experience in public service to qualify her over Obama in this race. People call him inexperienced, when she's really not done that much more.
And I didn't mean to turn this into a rant, or accuse you of being wrong or anything. I'm just mildly baffled by your support of Clinton when I generally agree with your political positions.
As for making America healthier, I think the first step is to stop putting corn syrup in the coffee creamer. If a candidate suggests that, I'll vote for them.