Transterrestrial Musings

1. 
   Karl Hallowell

   March 18, 2013, 7:31 am | #

   From the article

   Now unions are expressing the same fears for the same reasons. Yet again, unions want a special dispensation for their own low-wage workers. The AFL-CIO, Teamsters, Unite Here Health, and other powerful unions are lobbying to let low-wage union workers remain on their existing insurance plans, while also collecting an Obama-care subsidy that is supposed to go only to low-wage workers without employer coverage.

   The Obama administration hasn’t ruled the idea out. “These matters are the subject of pending regulations,” a Treasury spokesman told the Wall Street Journal.

   And we see once again the more odious side of this particular law. It’s supposed to be for the good of us all, yet the supporters of the law continue to lobby hard to evade its effects. The rest of us will pay for that, should the unions in question get their way. This is how prosperity is turned into economic cannibalism.

   • 
     Larry J

     March 18, 2013, 8:15 am | #

     And we see once again the more odious side of this particular law. It’s supposed to be for the good of us all, yet the supporters of the law continue to lobby hard to evade its effects.

     There is precedent for this. We’re told that Social Security is the greatest thing ever, and yet members of Congress, the president and many government employees have other retirement programs exempt from SS. At the state, county and local city level, there are programs like CalPers (in California) and PERA (in Colorado) that give public employees a much more generous pension system than what we proles have.

     • 
       Jim Beeding

       March 18, 2013, 11:14 am | #

       Not true, at least at the Federal level. Politicians and Federal workers have been paying into SS for 30 years or so. Reagan fixed that.

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         Larry J

         March 19, 2013, 4:09 am | #

         Members of Congress and the President still have their own pension system. Anyone who has served 6 years or more in Congress or who has been president get a pension for life.

         Not all public employees have separate pension plans but many at the state, county and local government level do. When my wife was a nurse for a city owned hospital in Colorado, she didn’t pay Social Security. Instead, that money went into a 401k-like program called PERA (Public Employees Retirement Association). Other states have different programs to handle public employees such as CALPERS in California. How do you think so many cops, firefighters and sometimes teachers can retire in their 50s?

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           Jim Breeding

           March 20, 2013, 11:22 am | #

           What part of “at the Federal level” did you not understand?
2. 
   Gregg

   March 18, 2013, 7:40 am | #

   I dunno…I’ve been waiting for the thousands of lies to catch up with them for 4 years….lies that are obvious to even the most casual of observers.

   But the drines just continue to cover their ears and scream LALALALALA at the tops of their voices….
3. 
   Gregg

   March 18, 2013, 7:40 am | #

   drines = drones

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