First AT&T rolls out the red carpet. Then the energy boys give the Azure Chupacabres some of that Texas Tea. No wonder Mitt, Rudy and Karl rode into town.

Now which one is the Lone Ranger, I mean McCain Pioneer, Rancher, Ranger? And how much does one have to give to achieve that status?

That’s what wakes people up. Saying McCain is ‘wrong’ is like saying “naughty naughty boy, wash your mouth and don’t do it again”. Nobody is impressed with that kind of talk anymore.

At the last place I worked my employer paid my health insurance premium in full. If someone hired in with health problems they had to work as an independent contractor (self-employed, of course). I have even better coverage now, but if I wanted to work for a small firm, I couldn’t risk it because of the health insurance I would give up. Oops, Dennis is on!

49erDem Says:

Nowhere is corporate media’s ability to make fools out of people more evident than in their opinions on labor unions.

As somebody who pays union benefits for their employess I can tell you this country cannot be competitive until a universal programs that lowers costs for everybody is enacted. I pay over $200 per employee per week to cover healthcare. Since we are a service industry people have to come to us. If we manufactured they could just buy cheaper stuff from China. Every other developed and many non developed countries have national healthcare programs. How will employers ever compete? Also, it makes every employer reluctant to hire another employee because the cost is so great.

GOP Mess America…

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I can’t imagine how anyone could even begin to argue with that statement. Detroit has to add over $2000 to the cost of every vehicle to cover healthcare. Toyota has decided to put plants in Canada rather than the deep south even though labor is more expensive in Canada, strictly on the basis of healthcare costs. Take healthcare out of employers’ hands and we may even be able to re-build our manufacturing sector which will rebuild our middle class.

But. I got very concerned when I heard Andy Stern, head of the SEIU, say the same thing as Denny Shelton, ex-CEO of Triad Hospitals.

“America cannot afford to keep employer sponsored healthcare and compete in a global economy.”

The head of a health care workers union should be the last person to say “employer sponsored health insurance is dead and not coming back.”

Next time you run into John Sweeney, please ask him exactly how he wants to address that threatened “health care and retirement security.” He didn’t make that clear in his comments.

Can you point out anything he said in the statement in this article you disagree with or are you just attacking the messenger?

Muck the fiddle class!