Originally Posted by Grapesoda

this is interesting: my health care was canceled due to the new 'affordable health care act' pretty sure I could find a clip of obama saying 'you can keep your policy' with very little effort.... the new policy cost more with less benefit....you say that has nothing to do with Obama care?

I think you have no concept of how a business operates.... first thing for you to realize is that mega corporations clear anywhere between 2.5%-4.3 % of the gross... CEO's have their time slotted in 15-30 min increments from early am until late night... CEO's probably sleep 6 hours a night if lucky... when you see a Walmart what do you think? I think about all the personal time and effort it took on someone's part to set that up, and continue to run the organization... I'm very sure this has never occurred to you...from the things you state here at GFY I don't imagine you as a small business owner....


for me I start working at 4am and stop about 7-8pm on slow days... I do all the booking, all the editing stills and video and all the shooting stills and video, plus all the maintenance on the gear.... my gross is $xxx,xxx.00 and my net is low $xxx.xxx.00 and getting lower due to the condom laws in LA... my gross has dropped 34% per year the last 2 years and my tax bracket is 53%... I thought is was 43.7% but it's over 50%.

health care cost are not a tax write off until I spend 35K then I get a small % of a deduction. raising my health ins and prescription cost come directly off my net.... say another 10K-12K per year... that affect my daughter and her collage, my daughter had to drop out of collage this year due to my finances... (BTW I'm very sure you don't care about me or my family) basically the government has taken another 10%-15% of my income but will not call it a tax...

and yet you tell me I need to worry about some guys with no marketable skills with 10 kids.... what about my family.... I'm working +/- 80 hours per week.... why do they have 10 kids? were they thinking fuck it, I'll have all the kids I want and rich Americans will pay for them?

see what I mean? your position seems to that the responsibility of the responsible is to cover the cost of the irresponsible... and this seems to be Obama's position as well... in the long term this is not a sustainable policy.... you see that don't you?