http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/rick-scott-pays-360-year-state-health-insurance

I love Mother Jones! Where else can you get such astonishing stories for so little effort?

oh, i see the high school debate team is having it's members practice their techniques here. avoidance of the issue probably works among the underclassmen, and maybe a few of the "duller" seniors. sadly, we're all a bit brighter here.

by the way, gov. scott's company paid millions in fines. surely, a good christian like you must have something to share about gov. scott's sins. no?

the free market place (sic) is good for the little people, i know.

( i predict an evasive and or non - sequitur response from our "libertarian" intellectual. or nothing at all. he'll just take his ball and go home. )

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

What is the surprise or the problem.

He's the CEO of a multi-billion dollar entity.

His compensation package should be viewed from that perspective.

When I made $10 an hour I had crappy benefits.

When I made $100 an hour I had superb benefits.

The lesson I learned was to as quickly as possible make $100 an hour.

Apparently the message that others have learn is to degrade those that make $100 an hour.

Parasites (this is not directed at ANY individual on PP) need to be careful. You can't take too much or you'll kill the host.

He is a public servant living off public means and not a CEO. Mostly he does not create a product or money and he like the president is a figure head and a facilitator who can with luck save his employer, the tax payer, some money.

Couldn't agree more. Scott is a parasite living off the public tit.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

parasite . . . what does that connote? I wonder . . .

Luke 16:19-31

There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day.
At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores,
and longing to eat what fell from the Rich Man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The Rich Man also died and was buried.
In Hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.
So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire’.
But Abraham replied, ‘Son remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.
And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone else cross over from there to us.’
He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father’s house,
for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.
Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’
‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead’

ah, the good book, perhaps you need to reacquaint yourself with it, brother sjh

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

That's how you do it, have the mother sign everything over to the kids and become "poor" so they can live off the state.

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1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I'm surprised he pays anything.
There's certainly a number of respondents to this forum that pay nothing for their healthcare insurance.
10 years ago I payed $375 a month for a piddling HMO policy.

I love this American system of equility

I love spell check.

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We've had a number of threads on healthcare over the years. I don't remember anyone getting it for free.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

I second that; I love the American system of educashun. BTW, your premise started out all wrong; America has opportunity, not equality. And while you're at it, how about naming me a country on the planet that does have a system of equality?

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1989 500SEL Euro
1966 250SE Cabriolet
1958 BMW Isetta 600

I believe many receive healthcare insurance as part of their employment.
Not only do they not pay for it, but do not pay payroll taxes on its value or cost to the employer. The employer will deduct the cost of insuring employees as overhead.

Personally, I don't know anyone who gets it as a part of their benefit package that doesn't have to kick in additional $$ themselves.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13