[quote=briansd1][quote=flu] while this bill isn’t the only issue driving up cost, anything that is driving up cost doesn’t help us to be more competitive.[/quote]
I can accept that.
But if we recognize that health care is a priority, we can work together to reduce business costs in other ways.
We’re talking about $100 billion per year here, and all the costs are not borne by small businesses.[/quote]
What’s your proposal of reducing business costs? With all due respect, have you run a business yourself? Have you been responsible for managing a project with a large X budget, Y deadline, and Z results, for which if you don’t deliver you and everyone that works for you eat a pink slip? Have you had to decide between hiring domestic, which arguably produces better quality,versus hiring foreign, which cheaper (though with cost)? Inquiring minds want to know?
Because with our current government/american situation, there definitely seems to be several “experts” on
1) how banks should be run
2) how automakers should be run
3) how healthcare should be run
4) how technology companies should be run to be more competitive, the best way to cut costs, best way to co-exist with an extremely competitive world.
These so called politician “experts” claim to have a fix for just about every aliment in our economy, it doesn’t matter whether it’s Republitards or Democraps …they have no fvcking clue..If they did, they wouldn’t be politicians, but CEOs running real companies running the real show. (though some CEO’s have attempted/are attempting to become politicians). And now there seems to be a lot of folks from mainstreet that are “experts” all the sudden.
The issue I have with the current approach to what our government is doing is not because I’m opposed to helping people out in need. My idea of helping people that are in need is to give them the incentive to get out of their predicament. Suppose, for instance, that $1Billion from ATT could have been used to fund temporary call center workers in the U.S., hiring folks who are unemployed. Yes yes, I know one time writeoff doesn’t tally that way..But heck, if the government is making shit up as it goes along, it might as well bend a few accounting rules too. At least you give those people who are unemployed a carrot: here’s your chance to work (albeit not great…But you can pick between this or nothing)…I don’t know, but if I have a family to feed and was in this predicament, I’d swallow my pride and take what I could get.
However, our government isn’t taking this approach..It’s more like…Oh, well, shit we understand you’re unemployed. We understand if you didn’t save. We understand that these are challenging times. We understand you are about to lose your home…For you 20-25% of the people, we’re going to give you a break…by radically disrupt the remaining 75%-80% of you, and this disruption will be permanent. We’ll just expect the remaining 75-80% to eat these costs, and expect everything else to work honky-dorry. Yeah, probably and additional 10-15% of those people will end up unemployed, and the remaining working class that still depend on a paycheck will have leaner times to go through, but shit it’s not about personal responsibility, everyone MUST pitch in and help. Meanwhile, we’re not going to touch the real rich people..Like Steve Jobs. For one, he doesn’t even need health insurance 🙁 Sigh..
There comes a point when our government becomes hostile to a business environment. I’ve think we’ve reached that point, if not already…Enjoy higher unemployment soon….
