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Yet another waste of union member's dues....:D:D:D That idiot Boss Rose is just trying to move up in the world.I guess that all of the money she pockets from her vast union membership, 165,000 out of how many million nurses?:rolleyes:, just isn't enough anymore:yeah:Keep trying on the union movement. As we can see, union membership is falling rapidly with great leaders like Gov Walker and Gov Christie. We can only hope that the movement towards total eradication of unions keeps up its momentum:clpty::clpty:

Have a great day!!!!!

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Oh my god, I cannot believe what I just read! Some people really don't have any idea about how the world works. Let's review.

“This shared sacrifice stuff is a bunch of hooey. They haven’t given a thing,”
Um, actually, they have. They've given a lot more than you. The so called rich pay a much larger percentage of income taxes than middle class. In fact, the top 5% of income earners pay 53.25% of federal income taxes in our country. The top 10% pays 64.89% and the top 50% pays 96.03%. The lower half of wage earners pay virtually nothing and many actually get money back in the form of tax credits. If you ask me, I'd say the "rich" are sharing in the sacrifice and they are paying more than their "fair share".

A small fee per trade could generate up to $350 billion a year in the U.S., NNU says, which could save 1.75 million homeowners from foreclosure.

Why should people buying stock have to pay the mortgage of other people. My 7 year old son has bought some stock. Why should I have to explain to him that he has to pay a little more to help pay someone else's mortgage? I always paid my mortgage (and paid it off 22 years early on a salary less than an RN gets). Me and my family live within our means in an old, small house and I think it is just wrong that my son should have to pay a tax for people's mortgage that probably live in a nicer house than we do. Owning a house is not a right. There are plenty of rental properties around.

“They should be locked up,” ... “These companies speak dollars and cents, not compassion.”
Is it not compassionate to pay so much in taxes while half the country pays nothing? I would argue that companies shouldn't be compassionate. Compassion is not how to run a business. The second a business puts "feelings" ahead of profit, they will be out of business. The purpose of a business is to make profit. Without profit, you will not have a job and neither will anyone else.

Jacqui Fitts, a medical-surgical nurse in Taunton, Massachusetts, said she’s seen patients so desperate they’re taking pillows and linens from their hospital rooms.
Really? Really?:confused::confused::confused::confused:. Where I come from that is called STEALING. The way I see it is these patients get their free (to them) treatment and still have the audacity to steal the linen on the way out. Those patients have an entitlement mentality. I'm not saying we shouldn't treat people without insurance, but if they steal the linen they should go to jail. We all have to pay for that when we go to the hospital.

The first comment written by a reader is just as far out there.

It seems fair to me that since the banks crippled the whole global civilization, there should be a moratorium on foreclosures for a significant period-- say 5 years.
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Specializes in Critical care, tele, Medical-Surgical.

If you buy toilet paper you pay a tax. Why not those who buy bundled securities and hedge funds?

The banks were bailed out and the CEOs gor a bonus. Yet too many illegally forclosed. No one can even find who the owner is.

http://www.businessinsider.com/soldiers-get-22-million-for-illegal-foreclosures-2011-6

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If you buy toilet paper you pay a tax. Why not those who buy bundled securities and hedge funds?

The banks were bailed out and the CEOs gor a bonus. Yet too many illegally forclosed. No one can even find who the owner is.

http://www.businessinsider.com/soldiers-get-22-million-for-illegal-foreclosures-2011-6

Toilet paper is a good. Bundled securities are neither a good, nor a service. If we go down the road of taxing investments, what's to stop the government from taxing your 401k. Once taxes are implemented, they always find a way to creep way farther than what the original intent was. Look at the income tax, for example.

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Specializes in Infectious Disease, Neuro, Research.

Ignorance expands to fill the space it is allowed. Isn't is so sad, those who are unwilling to save and/or work to attain financial stability or possibly even accrue wealth are unhappy with the consequences of their choices? Better yet, they're doing their best to drag those of us who do work to sustain ourselves down the drain.

Home ownership is not a right.

Sustenance in which one does not self-invest is not a right.

Entertainment is not a right.

Real life is so fargin' brutal.;)

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Specializes in Infectious Disease, Neuro, Research.
what's to stop the government from taxing your 401k.

There is already a strong desire to do that(Federalize private 401s). It worked so well in Italy and Greece.:icon_roll Okay, to be fair, there was no "tax", their Gvts. owned the pension plans, they just bankrupted them on social-benefits. Oh, gee, that sounds like the use of Social Security as the security for 40 years of welfare-spending.

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There is already a strong desire to do that(Federalize private 401s). It worked so well in Italy and Greece.:icon_roll Okay, to be fair, there was no "tax", their Gvts. owned the pension plans, they just bankrupted them on social-benefits. Oh, gee, that sounds like the use of Social Security as the security for 40 years of welfare-spending.

The social security "withholding" is 12.4% of my income. That money is GONE. They spent it all. They are giving my retirement to other people. They spent those people's retirement buying votes to get reelected. I can only imagine how much money I would have if I was able to invest that money myself and keep it. Every time a lawmaker suggests privatizing social security, the media goes nuts. They claim we will have no safety net. Well, there isn't one now. Social Security isn't enough to really live off of. The real reason they fear privatization is because then you will be able to see how much money you have in an account that belongs to you. It's kind of hard to take that money without a fight then. I don't think anyone will succeed in going down that road. At least, I hope not.

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Specializes in Infectious Disease, Neuro, Research.

:D I bought my silver dollars at $18/each- they're up to $35.

If it comes down to the gang-bangers' baby-mommas not getting getting the baby-momma checks, and faced with the prospect of large metro areas burning, heck yeah they'll Federalize my fund as security for another loan from China.

Our middle-class hasn't fought for anything since the West Virginia Mine Wars. Strong performance bias for the GVt., why wouldn't they get away with it...?

But I'm somewhat pessimistic.:clown:

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