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"Dave Stadt" wrote in message ... "Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Newps" wrote in message ... Morgans wrote: You and Gary deserve each other. Pot - Kettle - Black. You seem to be quite good at slmming goups of people too, such as midwesterners. See ya. Not. Plonk Hey, plonk me too. I also think the French are morons. Second that! Been there, saw them in action, they are a disgusting lot, make me number three. Agreed! That comes from my experience there in/through 1974, 1977, 1989, 1998 and 2000. |
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"Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message 1... "Matt Barrow" wrote in news Kinda like getting car insurance to cover oil changes, but limiting coverage to $1000 and getting waxed when your $25,000 car gets totaled. 20% of employed Americans do not have health insurance. But they have all sorts of other toys. I know a few myself. Of course, they have cell phones that cost $60 or more a month, but not catastrophic health insurance that costs around the same amount. Many small employers do not provide any kind of health coverage. Those of us fortunate to be employed by large organizations may not appreciate this. Fortunate? You get a job based on fortunes of life? If those people buy insurance, the high premiums will drive them into bankruptcy with greater certainty than taking a chance without insurance. Either way they are doomed. Evidently, you have no clue about various forms of insurance and what it costs. I won't even mention other aspects, as evidenced by the previous paragraph, such as maturity. |
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in
: "Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message 1... "Matt Barrow" wrote in news Kinda like getting car insurance to cover oil changes, but limiting coverage to $1000 and getting waxed when your $25,000 car gets totaled. 20% of employed Americans do not have health insurance. But they have all sorts of other toys. I know a few myself. Of course, they have cell phones that cost $60 or more a month, but not catastrophic health insurance that costs around the same amount. Many small employers do not provide any kind of health coverage. Those of us fortunate to be employed by large organizations may not appreciate this. Fortunate? You get a job based on fortunes of life? That is exactly kind of arrogance that the rest of the world dislikes about us. Ask any nobel laureate, and they would admit that luck and good fortune had as much to do with their success as hard work and intelligence. I am quite well off in life myself, and I have been educated by the best, but I have never been conceited enough to ignore my good fortunes. If those people buy insurance, the high premiums will drive them into bankruptcy with greater certainty than taking a chance without insurance. Either way they are doomed. Evidently, you have no clue about various forms of insurance and what it costs. I won't even mention other aspects, as evidenced by the previous paragraph, such as maturity. I will let others decide your comment about maturity. I measure maturity by how well one can contain himself when faced with opposing views, not by their political opinions. YMMV |
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Matt Barrow wrote:
Fortunate? You get a job based on fortunes of life? Yep. According to the NY Times (the job market section of which I check every Sunday), roughly 80% of all the professional positions never get advertised. The people who land them get turned onto the position by their friends. The PC term for this is "networking." Another way to put it is that you can land a decent job if you're lucky. George Patterson There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the mashed potatoes. |
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Gary Drescher wrote:
Imagine that the above quote had gratuitously invoked the ethic or religious identity of the person in question ("ignorant xxxxx yahoo"), instead of saying 'mid-west'. The implied stereotype would be obvious, even though just one person is (nominally) addressed. Same for 'mid-west', I'm afraid. I disagree. I'm unaware of any stereotypical behavior which might be associated with mid-westerners. Perhaps I'm simply uninformed in this matter. George Patterson There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the mashed potatoes. |
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You speak with the wisdom of a cosmopolitan traveler. I suspect that
Mr. Honeck has never stepped foot in France or anywhere else in Europe, else how can his provincial attitude be explained? I own and operate a hotel in a city that is home to a world-class university, with 35,000 under- and post-graduate students, and 15,000 faculty members and staff. As such, I am fortunate to interact with people from all over the world on a daily basis. As you can see, I needn't fly to France, as the world comes to me. :-) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Yep -- in *my* family, nobody talks about the Schwarzwalders. At least,
not since WWII. War criminals? My parents talked about the anti-German prejudice my grandparents (and others) experienced during World War I. But there was apparently no such backlash during or after World War II -- at least not in the (admittedly predominantly German) Midwest... -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Yep. According to the NY Times (the job market section of which I check
every Sunday), roughly 80% of all the professional positions never get advertised. The people who land them get turned onto the position by their friends. The PC term for this is "networking." Another way to put it is that you can land a decent job if you're lucky. In my experience, networking has very little to do with luck. Some people call it "schmoozing" -- but in real life, networking is a lot of hard, sometimes crappy, work, and is often associated with glad-handing people you would just as soon not deal with. In this way it's a lot like "customer service" -- except that *you* are the ultimate customer. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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How else
do you explain the fact that medical bills are a leading cause of bankruptcies in this country? You have pointed out something that needs to be addressed: It's all about personal responsibility. People in this country, for some strange reason, simply no longer feel compelled to pay for the services or goods they have received. Why, or how, this has evolved is irrelevant. However, it's become such a terrible problem in America that Congress has been compelled to enact legislation to restrict bankruptcies, lest the avalanche of defaults destroy our legal and economic system. Strangely, rather than blaming the people who have ripped off everyone around them, you seem to be viewing this phenomenon from the wrong end of the telescope. You seem to be describing the perpetrators as the victims, and appear to describe the problem as if it was somehow the fault of someone other than those people who have chosen not to pay their bills. Stranger yet, you don't seem to realize that Americans who truly can't pay their medical bills DON'T HAVE TO PAY THEM. If you are indigent, and sick, you have no worries, as the state will pay your bills 100%. It is only the people who have -- or did have, if they had exercised sound judgment and purchased catastrophic health coverage -- the ability to pay who now find themselves in jeopardy. And before you tell us how "unaffordable" health coverage is, do a little research. Catastrophic health care -- the kind of insurance that doesn't pay for your broken leg, but DOES pick up everything over and above "x" amount (you pick the amount) -- is easily affordable by the majority of Americans without insurance. The fact that some people choose to roll the dice and hope that they don't get really sick -- and lose -- has somehow been characterized as a "health care crisis" in America, when, in fact, these people should be put into the same category as the "victims" who for years kept building homes along the shores of the Mississippi River, not far from Iowa City. Even the Feds, after rebuilding these homes every other year with "emergency" tax money insurance bail-outs, grew weary of the flood scam, and have now forced local taxpayers in riverfront communities to build levees and dikes to protect their cities... Check out AFLAC insurance. It's affordable, very specific, and for the cost of a cable TV subscription will cover someone quite adequately in the event of a catastrophic illness or injury -- the kind that most often drives a person into bankruptcy. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" "Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message 1... "Jay Honeck" wrote in news:34A7e.14321$xL4.3090@attbi_s72: But I like to be brought to the ER after an accident ASAP and beeing searched for an insurance card _after_ the emergency treatment. Martin, I don't know what kind of propaganda they've been feeding you in Austria, but in America no one cares about who's paying for the bills here until after the emergency medical services are rendered. And, in fact, we *do* have nationalized health care in this country for the indigent. Those who deny this fact clearly have no concept of how our medical system works. (Mary's "other" job is doing statistical computer analysis for a major health care provider, and she spent 20 years as a Medical Technologist "in the trenches" drawing blood, etc. She analyzes budgets, and gets to see, first hand, how Medicare and other government programs pay 100% of health care costs for anyone who walks in the door without insurance..) Could the system be set up in a more efficient way? Hell, yes. But it *is* functioning, and our health care *is* quite excellent. |
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"George Patterson" wrote in message news:vbE8e.19229$Xm3.13107@trndny01... Matt Barrow wrote: Fortunate? You get a job based on fortunes of life? Yep. According to the NY Times (the job market section of which I check every Sunday), roughly 80% of all the professional positions never get advertised. The people who land them get turned onto the position by their friends. The PC term for this is "networking." Another way to put it is that you can land a decent job if you're lucky. Or if you're tenacious and willing to work "outside the box". The rest shower the job boards with resumes, probably 99% of which don't address a specific position and are boilerplate. Which traits would you look for if hiring someone? Matt --------------------- Matthew W. Barrow Site-Fill Homes, LLC. Montrose, CO |
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