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#5189 of 5324 Re: POP QUIZ [steve_]
by Mr_Shiftright HOST
Jan 27, 2013 (11:16 am)
If you're looking for corporations that are as pure as the driven snow, well good luck.
#5190 of 5324 Re: POP QUIZ [Mr_Shiftright]
by Stever@Edmunds HOST
Jan 27, 2013 (11:24 am)
There are usually alternatives though.
#5191 of 5324 Re: POP QUIZ [steve_]
by houdini1
Jan 27, 2013 (11:28 am)
Kind of the way I feel about AARP after their stand on Obamacare.
I have a feeling that a lot of people won't be so happy about Obamacare starting around October this year when the implementation starts up. All I can say is hold on to your wallet.
#5192 of 5324 Re: POP QUIZ [houdini1]
by imidazol97
Jan 27, 2013 (12:18 pm)
Wife's insurance has gone up greatly: higher payment to her retirement plan, higher deductible (doubled), and a higher number for the amount of copayment's after the deductible before she hits the 0% payment level. Can't wait for next year's new rates.
#5193 of 5324 Re: POP QUIZ [steve_]
by imidazol97
Jan 27, 2013 (12:23 pm)
>That outfit lobbies against bike paths. No thanks.
I lobby against walking paths and bikeways paid from gasoline tax funds, too.
Ironic that government pays for bike paths and green stuff out of gasoline tax payments, but doesn't want to pay to build a new bridge in Cincinnati on I-75 for all the people from other states as well as locals to travel across the Ohio River. The planners are talking about TOLLS to be collected there from the Michiganders and others to travel to and from warm Florida... :grin
Is the Mackinaw Bridge toll to the Upper Peninsula on I-75? It's been too many years ago that we went across to remember...
#5194 of 5324 Re: POP QUIZ [imidazol97]
by Stever@Edmunds HOST
Jan 27, 2013 (12:54 pm)
lobby against walking paths and bikeways paid from gasoline tax funds, too.
All the old guys in AK fought them too. Then after they'd have their first heart attack they would write the paper saying how nice they were instead of walking on the road shoulders.
AARP exists to sell insurance. While I'm ranting, check out Duckduckgo sometime too.
Yeah I-75 crosses the Straits of Mackinac.
#5195 of 5324 Re: POP QUIZ [imidazol97]
by houdini1
Jan 27, 2013 (1:06 pm)
I think everyone should be planning on med coverage at least doubling in cost over the next couple of years... and then skyrocketing from there. No one will be able to understand the coverage...they will just know it costs 2 to 3 times what it used to and the coverage is worse. Plus a doctor's visit will be worse than dealing with your local tag agency.
I hope I am wrong about this, but that is the way it looks to me.
#5196 of 5324 Re: POP QUIZ [steve_]
by imidazol97
Jan 27, 2013 (1:07 pm)
>Yeah I-75 crosses the Straits of Mackinac.
But is it toll?
#5197 of 5324 Re: POP QUIZ [imidazol97]
by Stever@Edmunds HOST
Jan 27, 2013 (1:16 pm)
Oh yeah, went up to $4 last year for passenger cars.
No extra charge if you want someone to drive you and your car across.
#5198 of 5324 We subsidize bike lanes and
by euphonium
Jan 27, 2013 (2:39 pm)
inter island ferries throughout Puget Sound with gas taxes revenue. Now we need a new bridge to cross the Columbia on I-5 & some progressive crazies want light rail to be included - and paid for by gas taxes.