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Originally Posted by Robbie
All this talk on GFY about stuff that most of us don't have a real insight into (the real business world).
I watch CNBC every afternoon...the real business leaders and analysts are all saying that this is a big problem.
Walgreens taking all their employees OFF of their health insurance is a big problem.
Home Depot doing it as well.
Other companies cutting hours.
47 out of 50 states with insurance premiums going UP is a big problem.
California possibly rising by as much as 300% is a big problem.
The UNIONS (which as you know, vote big time Democrat) are wanting to be exempted.
Congress has given itself a subsidy to "help" it's own ObamaCare (but we the people don't get that)
People who already are unemployed or underemployed and can't pay for insurance being FORCED to is a big problem.
The U.S. govt. so far in debt that we will never be able to pay it off is a big problem
Those are the facts of what is happening.
I'm watching MSNBC and even THEY are saying that it needs to be "fixed".
I have to wonder what planet some of y'all live on.
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But this is the problem. You watch CNBC, I watch something, Baddog reads the newspaper (oldschool), and Minte sits around in his country club and they discuss politics.
Yet honestly, not one of us is really able to debate any of this. Does anyone of us four have a degree in higher economics? If not, we aren't qualified to understand the basics of running a country, an economy, or even a state or a city. I've become "somewhat slightly" involved in our local city government, and it's thirty rounds of "what should we do".... Should we keep the city park open and maintained because grades 2-8 use the big park daily for their sports, close down one of five fire stations, or lay off yet more police officers? (At this point we've cut back on all three, plus more city services.)
We've laid off way too many police officers, and vandalism spiked. Every morning we woke up to find a dozen cars hit. There is no right answer at this point.
And none of us are really qualified to debate any of this at any serious level, although all of us - and the general population does.
Out of the above list, when it came to finances... I would vote for Minte.