Just another example of how screwed up our gov is.
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Relief workers ate steak, Navajos scraped by
98 comments Feb. 15, 2010 09:07 AM
Associated Press
FLAGSTAFF - Some emergency workers charged with helping Navajos stranded by a snowstorm last month were dining on $22 steaks and $40 meals at taxpayer expense.
The Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff reports that a group of 12 people listed as hay deliverers rang up a bill of $519.86 at one meal, ordering 10 steaks at a Tuba City restaurant. That's the most expensive item on the menu.
Meanwhile, stranded Navajos were eating air-dropped freeze-dried food.
Coconino County Supervisor Lena Fowler also allowed her county expense credit card to be used by the Navajo chapter president and dozens of tribal police officers for free meals.
Nearly $3,000 was charged to her account. Fowler says in emergencies, government needs to step up and take care of business.
The spending in many cases exceeded the maximum allowed for a day's meals.
This reminds of what gov run healthcare would be like. Every Politician and including Obama and his family would not have to live under the same system that they wish to impose on me and you.
Relief workers ate steak, Navajos scraped by
98 comments Feb. 15, 2010 09:07 AM
Associated Press
FLAGSTAFF - Some emergency workers charged with helping Navajos stranded by a snowstorm last month were dining on $22 steaks and $40 meals at taxpayer expense.
The Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff reports that a group of 12 people listed as hay deliverers rang up a bill of $519.86 at one meal, ordering 10 steaks at a Tuba City restaurant. That's the most expensive item on the menu.
Meanwhile, stranded Navajos were eating air-dropped freeze-dried food.
Coconino County Supervisor Lena Fowler also allowed her county expense credit card to be used by the Navajo chapter president and dozens of tribal police officers for free meals.
Nearly $3,000 was charged to her account. Fowler says in emergencies, government needs to step up and take care of business.
The spending in many cases exceeded the maximum allowed for a day's meals.
This reminds of what gov run healthcare would be like. Every Politician and including Obama and his family would not have to live under the same system that they wish to impose on me and you.
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this has nothing to do with Healthcare and you know it...
Also, I'm sure those for-profit businesses that served Some emergency workers were all too happy to take the money...
Just curious,what do you pay for taxes? I was,and still am, against universal health care, but I have to wonder when I hear from people that have it and have many good things to say about it. I believe universal health care in america would eventually raise my taxes to 40 to 45%. That is what scares me the most.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I'm sure that's true for lots of people but not in my case. I don't pay hefty premiums.
Who pays for your Health Care? My guess... your Employer... due to contractual agreements with your (Socialist) Union.
Hail, Hail!!!
You sure are in a bashing mood tonight. What's the matter? Forget to take your meds or something?
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
No. I am just saying... SOMEONE is paying for your Health Care Insurance, right? I know my company is paying a hefty sum for mine. My co-pay is rather modest for the level of service I am entitled to.
yours is the same way... your Union is probably paying or a portion, with your employer taking on the heavy lifting. Your Health Care isn't free.
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And by the way... Unions are socialist. No problem for me... I have discovered that without Unions... companies would shit all over us.
Hail, Hail!!!
How are Unions socialist? I'm not questioning your judgement, I just don't understand it that much. Haven't been with them all that long. All I know is I pay a due and they make sure i'm paid right with regular raises and give me good benifits. Not sure how that ties in to socialism.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Oh really :roll: I hope you are never in need of a major operation or want cutting edege medicine. Then you can tell us how great N.I.C.E. is.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healt ... tland.html
There is no such thing is Free health care. Did you ever think that maybe that's why evrything is so expensive where you live?
Like health care in the U.S.? Your awful dog-gone right about there not being free health care, though some do not pay. Somebody somewhere is picking up the tab and in the U.S. it is the insured paying for the uninsured. Is government run health care the answer? I don't know. It might be okay if we were smarter and more conscientious as citizens and as a result elect better people but as it is right now, with 95% of politicians being douche-bags and all, we would only get the crappy government run health care system we deserve.
"With our thoughts we make the world"
Let me ask you this... You are obviously against socialism, from the things you have written. Now, what would happen if you decided... as an American... who has freedom and all that jazz... to quit participating in the Union at your job? You have no choice but to be in the Union, right? How is THAT freedom?
As for the socialist aspect... you are guaranteed raises. By contract, not by your work performance. You don't have to work harder to get a raise, your Union negotiator got that for you. Me? I have to perform my job to EARN a raise... which I do... and am recognized for it.
And you are protected by the Union... it takes an act of Congress to fire a Union member... even someone that sleeps on the job. How is THAT Free Enterprise?
Finally, seniority. The longer you are on the job, the more seniority you earn... the tougher it is to fire you.
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Again.... I am not anti-Union... far from that. But, I know what they are... a form of socialist workforce. Nothing wrong with that and i hope the union busting Conservatives that pray at the alter of Reaganism don't go after your union.
Hail, Hail!!!
I don't know how some people live with themselves.
I'm still a student, so I don't work so much. But last year I made about 27000 dollars (used a currency calculator), and throughout the year I paid 32% in taxes. When I get a full time job I will probably have to pay about 40%.
Expensive to foreigners, maybe. It scales nicely to what most of us earn, and then when we travel abroad everything is extremely cheap
From what I've heard universal health care in Norway doesn't work exactly like the UK, so I can't comment on your link. All I know is when ever I've needed health care, I've gotten it - and that includes a couple of operations, though I can't say if they were major or not.