Comments on: I Got A Raise

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:20:40 +0000

Those are going up too, Hipparchia, while the economy stays in a ditch.

The GOP in the House just reneged on another ‘deal’ that was made with the Senate, and tried to divert attention from what they did. No one is buying their excuses anymore. They are screwing people over for blatantly political reasons, and don’t even have the humanity to be ashamed of themselves.

The only people who would believe that 89 Senators would vote for a bill that they didn’t think would be passed by the House, needs their meds adjusted. Even some of the Republican Senators are complaining about the House.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:00:20 +0000

as someone else who buys a lot of cat food [i just left $140 behind at the pet store tonight, but at least that included cat litter and extra special expensive sensitive tummy dog food too], i can remember when that raise actually bought a noticeable amount of cat food and it wasn’t all that long ago either.

probably you’re better off thinking of it as an extra bit of catnip instead. we’re all going to need more happy pills to survive this economy.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:05:47 +0000

In reply to Dave.

Ah, yes, the wonderful ‘cost plus’ contract, the least efficient and most wasteful system ever devised. If you can do a job for $100, you make $12 dollars, but if you can figure out how to spend $1000 on the exact same job, you make $120. Lots of incentive to be efficient in that model [/snark]

“Cost plus” are the type of contracts that big defense corporations get to supply the military.

BC/BS used to be non-profit mutual insurance companies, but they were turned to ‘the dark side’ during the 1980s and ’90s, becoming for-profit corporations.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:43:45 +0000

I always have to laugh when people say that BC/BS is a non-profit company. BS/BC is allowed to make a 12% profit. The have offices full of bean counters to ensure that they expense out all but the 12%. That’s a pretty damn good margin when your talking about billions of dollars of income.