4 comments

• Comment Link Tuesday, 18 December 2012 14:03 posted by Ranjith

  Unions are like politicians; they're good for a while in bringing troubled issues to the public light, but then they always become corrupt and further burden the system. The several unions in the US Postal Service are a prime example of management and the union eating up the company profits, a percentage of which could have been passed down to the people who actually work for a living had upper management been paying attention to their business. When you take care of the employees, they will take care of you. When you treat them like cattle, they'll just shit everywhere, and looking at how Washington has been treating our population lately, their solution is to up the spending for FEMA/DHS and build more "Relocation Centers", as if the 850+ they have now isn't enough. I worked for an employer one time who put up a suggestion box. After he kept getting four letter suggestions about where he could relocate that suggestion box, he took it down. He didn't address the problem of WHY he was getting those responses, he just assumed that his workforce wasn't worth interfacing with. For all the big bucks he was making, his managerial skills couldn't figure out how to deal with the rampant apathy; not unlike the caliber of "managers" we have in Washington. They can't figure out how to solve the problem, but they positively refuse to relinquish any control to people who might possibly have a different plan.

• Comment Link Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:00 posted by Kim

  Unions are like politicians; they're good for a while in brniigng troubled issues to the public light, but then they always become corrupt and further burden the system. The several unions in the US Postal Service are a prime example of management and the union eating up the company profits, a percentage of which could have been passed down to the people who actually work for a living had upper management been paying attention to their business. When you take care of the employees, they will take care of you. When you treat them like cattle, they'll just shit everywhere, and looking at how Washington has been treating our population lately, they're solution is to up the spending for FEMA/DHS and build more "Relocation Centers", as if the 850+ they have now isn't enough. I worked for an employer one time who put up a suggestion box. After he kept getting four letter suggestions about where he could relocate that suggestion box, he took it down. He didn't address the problem of WHY he was getting those responses, he just assumed that his workforce wasn't worth interfacing with. For all the big bucks he was making, his managerial skills couldn't figure out how to deal with the rampant apathy; not unlike the caliber of "managers" we have in Washington. They can't figure out how to solve the problem, but they positively refuse to relinquish any control to people who might possibly have a different plan.

• Comment Link Monday, 15 October 2012 11:01 posted by Joe Song

  I'm amazed that this point didn't come up, but the fact of the matter is that we already have universal healthcare. If you go to an ED, you will be seen, regardless of ability to pay or whether you have insurance. The problem is how we pay for the visit and the lack of primary care coverage.
  
  right now, people without insurance are showing up to the ED with preventable illnesses that are much cheaper to treat through the primary system-- things like obesity, diabetes, heart disease. but they don't have insurance or are underinsured, so these problems reach crisis points and they end up receiving urgent, life saving care which doesn't solve the base issue. these people are getting care. just not the right kind.

• Comment Link Sunday, 09 September 2012 10:57 posted by Anurag

  Unions are like politicians; they're good for a while in brgiinng troubled issues to the public light, but then they always become corrupt and further burden the system. The several unions in the US Postal Service are a prime example of management and the union eating up the company profits, a percentage of which could have been passed down to the people who actually work for a living had upper management been paying attention to their business. When you take care of the employees, they will take care of you. When you treat them like cattle, they'll just shit everywhere, and looking at how Washington has been treating our population lately, they're solution is to up the spending for FEMA/DHS and build more "Relocation Centers", as if the 850+ they have now isn't enough. I worked for an employer one time who put up a suggestion box. After he kept getting four letter suggestions about where he could relocate that suggestion box, he took it down. He didn't address the problem of WHY he was getting those responses, he just assumed that his workforce wasn't worth interfacing with. For all the big bucks he was making, his managerial skills couldn't figure out how to deal with the rampant apathy; not unlike the caliber of "managers" we have in Washington. They can't figure out how to solve the problem, but they positively refuse to relinquish any control to people who might possibly have a different plan.