And if you can't get a job doing what you know how to do you get job training and learn to do something else. You don't just sit in a corner and wait for the tax payer to write you check (Thursday | post #15)
So do we subsidize the construction worker too? And how long should the watermen receive checks for not working? Until the crab population rebounds? How long will that take? (Thursday | post #12)
The Alley helps keep violence off local streets
How did Squires editor let this get published. He should have sent him to the classified section to write ads. Apparently there are three classes of blacks according to Squires Blue collar ( read working) Professional, and Hip Hop (read unemployeed thugs) and we need to keep the Alley open so that the criminal element that goes there won't go around shooting up the city. So the Alley does attract a crowd that is prone to violence? I guess the logic in this article is keep the Alley open so we know were to go to arrest the ciminals of Newport News and Hampton rather than having to drive around looking for them. Like hunting in a baited field. (Thursday | post #31)
Al Jazeera may come to Phoebus for election
It's Al Jazeera English a division based in Washington D.C. If they were planning an attack I doubt they would leave D.C. to come to Phoebus to carry it out. But since when did Phoebus become a small town? It's part of Hampton which is part of Hampton Roads a large east coast market. If they want a small town then they should go to Crozet VA. (Thursday | post #35)
Family should pay for health care
No not necessarily an HMO I can go anywere and not need a referal either. But something like the vetrans have now with Tri-care. The reason health care is affordable through your job is that you are a member of a group plan so the company can negotiate with the insurance company as a group bringing a large amount of money with a lower estimated amount of risk for pay out. My problem with health care is not that the medical firms are making a profit but the insurance companies charging high premiums and not wanting to pay out. (Tuesday Sep 23 | post #217)
Family should pay for health care
But if you set up a system were you provide a government run insureance like the one in the private sector now you don't nessassarily limit profit you just negotiate a better price for those that are insured. You would take the burden of insuring employees from businesses and insurance would go with you from job to job. Also we would see some benifit from the money we pay into S.S. and medicare. (Tuesday Sep 23 | post #211)
Family should pay for health care
That is why we need some sort of regulation to limit the amount of profit these companies can make. The drugs they produce can make a life or death differance in peoples lives. So it needs to be affordable to those that need them. I don't understand why the government can't set up a program like I have at work. I pay a percentage I can afford and they use the money I pay in to medicare and social security to make up the rest like a noation wide group plan. leave the medical providers the way they are and negoiate the pricing as a group. They get their profits and everyone gets insurance as long as they are paying in to the system. (Tuesday Sep 23 | post #209)
Were is your proof that he was not a POW? I have a hard time believing that that is the case and it hasn't been all over the press as many times as he has run for office. Spreading lies only destroys your credibility (Tuesday Sep 23 | post #13)
Family should pay for health care
Thanks I appreciate it I just hope that we can get health care cost under control without de-valuing the system. (Sunday Sep 21 | post #183)
Family should pay for health care
I wish it were that easy. I have a side business but I get my insurance through my primary job. I would like to go out on my own but I can't get insurance and due to medical issues in the family I could never make it without insurance. (Sunday Sep 21 | post #181)
Family should pay for health care
So what drives the price down? The fact that people can't afford it so they go without until the price is resonable? Let me clarify I am deeply concerned about this issue and see no clear cut or easy answers. I don't care for the answers for the republican or democrats and a couple of months without insurance would break me. (Sunday Sep 21 | post #178)
So VP is not a place to test her mettle but President is the place to test Obama's? If you look at her record in Alaska she is fairly well proven. She won a republican primary upsetting the incummbant republican Gov. She was responsible for a 6.6 billion dollar budget. She ran the largest state in the union and reduced fuel prices to it citizens (Sunday Sep 21 | post #6)
If I lived in Alaska I would probably want a tanning bed too, with only 6 hours of daylight in the winter. That has to be depressing (Sunday Sep 21 | post #27)
'Race card' should be banished from the deck
Actually it's the other way around White is the presence of all colors. That's why when light goes through a prism you see all the colors of the rainbow and when the lights are turned out it is dark. (Sunday Sep 21 | post #40)
Let's get a 10-year plan to end homelessness
So the decision to buy a home you can't afford is Bush's fault? Is Obama going to buy all the homeless people homes? (Sunday Sep 21 | post #3)
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