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I am at school in native American regalia, yet most students did not bother to dress for the holiday.

Second part of the report. Get this, corporations spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to belong to this organization, legistlators spend $50. The corporations spend $$$$ entertaining the legislators and their families at three conferences per year. One week for the kids they spent $138,000. The corporations write "model legislation" for the elected reps to take back with them. and this is amazing this is NOT considered lobbying and does not need to be disclosed what a bunch of bull s*** from our elected leaders. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...oryId=130891396 Of course I am certain there are dozens more just like ALEC and we'll find this s*** on both sides of the aisle. They pass laws against this and then open f***ing backdoors to circumvent. Make it look like they are doing something about ethics, then b.s. ing around it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 28, 2010 -> 02:41 PM) Honestly it has gotten to the point where I ignore all advertising for the most part. The worst are infomercials for school board races How is the campaign going?

pretty good appraisal by my administration today.

I assume that several people here have already bought their Glen Beck™ endorsed food insurance, Yeah SS2k5 and Kap, I'm looking at you

I'm not happy when Unions do it either.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 28, 2010 -> 12:32 PM) That makes absolute sense to me. I also agree with the "lose it" part being exactly why I have never signed up. Any money you don't spend is a 100% loss, versus whatever you would save on taxes. Unless you have significant and regular expenses, the plan doesn't make a lot of sense. I believe that is part of the rational for the program, it isn't for everyone. I have maintanance meds that I take every month, so calculating several hundred dollars is easy. The use it or lose it wasn't so much a bother as long as I could load up on OTC in December. I'd replenish my first aid kit, pick up some Advil or whatever, maybe some cold meds. Basically I added up a couple Doc visits, meds, annual physical, etc and put in a little less than that.

and this . . . Isn't it wonderful that private corporations, who stand to make billions, can write legistlation for us!

Dumb ass kids drive me crazy

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...oryId=130833741 Follow the money . . .

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 26, 2010 -> 12:01 PM) I did have a good sized bull male chase me away from his girlfriends a couple of days into the trip. I was told the big boys shouldn't be messed with during breeding season. That is cold, c-blocking a dude who only gets some once a year

monsters would have been cool also, but they haven't evolved yet

How many years in the past 50 has Afghanistan *not* been at war?

They have taken steps in that area. If a vendor proves that 90% of their sales are in areas that are approved for FSA purchase, receipts are not required.

Jim's vacation photos are cool.

IIRC the flexspending plans were put in place to help with medical costs. The threshhold for deductions has been so high that most people never reached it. The paperwork has been zero for me with my plan. By using certain vendors (Walgreens, Walmart, a local medical supply company, my Doc) I have never needed to submit any documentation. Spending pre tax money is always better than taxed income. I wrote to my Senators, Congressman, and the White House. I'll share any responses. It will be from 2 ®s and 2 (D)s Finally, it's the slippery slope argument.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 27, 2010 -> 06:50 AM) TEx, enlighten me. I didn't see anywhere in what you posted where this change is something that was asked for or done by the insurance companies. So if this was brought about because of the Dems, why is it wrong for the companies, who already face criticism every time things change, to point out 'hey, this time it isn't us, it is them!'? The same way it is wrong in my eyes for Unions, for example, to blame stuff on the GOP. The Legistlative branch passed this and the Executive branch signed it. This is all part of the finger pointing that hurts out country. We have reached a point that Dems want GOP policies to fail so we they can say "told you so" and Reps want Dem policies to fail so they can say I told you so. Sad that at any time half the country wants to go down the toilet as if it is the same as a football team losing. Also, in this case, are you certain the Dems wanted this provision changed, or was it the GOP? We really don't know, but it sure is easy for the insurance company to take a shot.

At my school everyone is in costume on Friday. I will not be in a costume, instead I will be in correct Native American medicine man regalia.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Oct 26, 2010 -> 07:18 PM) Yea. And your point? It was a throw in, and it was lobbied for so that they could start the process of doing away with tax free medicines, i.e. they collect the tax revenues on this - welcome to yet another tax in this bill going up. It was a plank to "raise money", yet another misnomer and lie perpetrated by the whole damn sham called "health care reform". The difference is paying for it with pre tax or post tax income. I feel the same way about insurance companies taking gratitudes shots at one political party, the same way I feel about unions doing it, which is it is basically wrong. But I can see where some people will agree with the insurance companies and attack the unions.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Oct 26, 2010 -> 07:12 PM) WTF is the last part of your post? You think the insurance company made these rules? And I don't want to hear that they lobbied for this. No, they didn't, because they lose money on this. Big money. Don't make this partisan other then the assholes who voted this crap in ... and I do believe the majority party who set the agenda on this is Democrats. I meant this by the insurance company.

For those of us with Flexible Spending Accounts for health care expenses, I just came across this which makes me a little unhappy. Time to write to my elected leaders. OTC drugs should be covered or else patients will begin pestering Socs into writing scrips for this stuff. BTW, is there any doubt that the insurance industry is doing anything they can to slam the Dems?

unbelievable, some of my students are just unbelievable, and not in a good way.

Can't wait to see what you post for X

And once again Balta forgets the order

Zealand would be older than New Zealand, yet I cannot find it on a map.