re:eboone sucker post
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I have only replied to eboone once in the past,but I couldn't let this go by without the opportunity to say that his head is in the sand if he thinks that big corporations pay for employee healthcare through negotiated contracts.While on the surface it may appear so,the fact of the matter is that the corporations would undoubtedly have had to make paycheck concessions otherwise(meaning increased pay).Corporations recieve hugh tax incentives for providing healthcare to employees(trust me,I have negotiated enough contracts in the past years to know this is true).If the corporations had to give the value of the healthcare to the employee in the form of wages,the corporations have lost the tax deductibility and increased their own tax liability for wages.I suggest that you review corporate tax structure before making such an outlandish statement again.
As far as negotiated contracts, they are indeed becoming fewer, because union membership is declining right along with the manufacturing jobs.
As we move more into being a service, rather than a manufacturing economy, union influence wanes. What is laughable is how many people identify with management rather than labor. You may not swing a pick-axe all day, but chances are very good that you ARE labor, just the same. If you're not an owner, or major stockholder, you're LABOR, folks. And that means expendable.
What concerns me most in all this is that many large employers like Walmart not only have no negotiated contract, they also don't offer health insurance, or if they do, it takes too big a bite out of the tiny paycheck their average worker gets.
More and more people are doing without insurance. The numbers increase every year.
(AKA Bush Broadcasting) :P
I will say it. He is a liar and he tells the truth occasionally to mix things up. He is not here to listen to or diseminate reason, only to distract.