Posted on 09/05/2006 1:16:11 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
THIS IS NOT THE AMERICAN WAY, people! NOT AT ALL!!! We are losing our way by leaps and bounds!!!
FO never said that and never would.
Bravo! Arnold! You are precisely right.
Yes bich! There was a "transparent" system in the USSR, too!!!
Your experience exactly mirrors nearly everyone I know who has Kaiser. The only one I know who had a great experience with Kaiser was a San Francisco Firefighter. Ah, a union member.
Now this here ain't what I remember you screamin at us night and day like some kind of banshee, FairyOpinion!!! Were you perhaps lyin to us somemore???
Whether or not it's "socialism", Fur Shur it's theft on a grand scale. No doubt some interesting things would happen when the California tax collectors went to Uncle Sam to tap federal employee's health benefits.
Not exactly. According to the bill, he can adjust the deadlines for implementation for a period not exceeding one year... in the event of extraordinary circumstances, catastrophic events, or threat of significant economic harm.
The ability to suspend the regulations offers little appeasement to most businesses (who strenuously oppose this law). Think about the major manufacturing firm that completely revamps its painting process, making huge new investments, to try to comply with the arbitrary CO2 limits established by the law. If it doesn't reduce emissions enough, it spends more money through the cap-and-trade scheme to buy carbon credits. Over a period of years, it has reported poorer and poorer earnings and laid off employees in the process. At what point is a Governor going to say "this is causing significant economic harm"?
Or the ABC Cement Co., who views the law and concludes that it cannot continue to do business in California and decides to do expand in Nevada instead of California or--worse yet--closes down it's California operation and relocates. Does this qualify as a catastrophic event? Nope.
Why wait to see the impact? Mandating arbitrary caps, implementing more onerous regulation, and imposing new financial investment requirements on business to fight windmills based on junk-science is BAD POLICY on its face!
This is TERRIBLE law. Period!
For everything else there was Gray Davis!!!
Keep 'em comin!!! This one's perfect, too!!!
We'll take what we can get.
I suspect the Global Warming thing is so complicated it can't be implemented -- Arnold tossed it out as a rose to the Socialists we Californians keep electing.
I forgot to ping you to the above.
No one is perfect, and I don't agree with him all the time, but Gov S has made some rather bold moves that have allowed me to remain in CA on the hope that someday, somehow, rational thought can be restored in this wonderful golden land I call home. This is the kind of law that, if passed, would cause a mass exodus of people and businesses. The state would find itself in the kind of financial ruin that was narrowly averted by the recall of the former socialist in chief. Yet, somehow, someway these idiots down south keep sending up these pie-in-the-sky bills without any actual knowledge as to how governmental economies work or what the people of this state really want and need.
I sell Kaiser and many other health plans to Employers, Individuals and Families. (along with numerous other HMO's/PPO's and Health Insurers.
Don't you think the Globular Warming Bizzaro Baloney will impact CA's economic picture just as much? Seriously!!!
That's the third time this week. At this point, there's no avoiding it coming up in your next performance review.
2004: "That’s one of the issues I want to address next, is how do we provide health care for all the people in California." (Panetta Institute Interview, Nov. 18, 2004)• 2004: "We have too many people that are uninsured in this state. We have to really address this once and for all." (Panetta Institute Interview, Nov. 18, 2004)
• 2006: His goal if he wins this fall is "to create health care for every citizen" (KQED, May 31, 2006)
...we intend to redirect that money where it belongs - to trial lawyers, state government bureaucrats, and our own campaign coffers." ;)
ROFL!
Are you serious?
Do you have any idea of the cost to business and inflation that would be generated by socialized health care?
I might have found the Global Warming bit a tad silly, but the overall cost impact is going to be pretty low. This bill would be the kind of catastrophic socialist experiment that is putting entire countries in economic ruin. The other problem is that it becomes an entitlement, which as we know, is just about impossible to revoke once instituted. This is a now and forever expense.
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