Why are people so excited about Universal Health Care?

Do they do any research into it? Or are they excited because its going to be free?

Universal Health Care is like having Universal Grocery Insurance:

Suppose you had grocery insurance. With your Government paying 100% percent of the bill, you would fill the cart with lobster and filet mignon. Everything would cost more because supermarkets would stop running sales. Why should they, when their customers barely care about the price?

Suppose everyone had transportation insurance. The roads would be crowded with Mercedes. Why buy a Chevy if the government pays?

People have gotten so used to having “other” people pay for most of our health care that we routinely ask for insurance with low or no deductibles. This is another bad idea.

Suppose car insurance worked that way. Every time you got a little dent or the paint faded, or every time you buy gas or change the oil, you’d fill out endless forms and wait for reimbursement from your insurance company. Gas prices would quickly rise because service stations would know that you no longer care about the price. You’d become more wasteful: jackrabbit starts, speeding, wasting gas. Who cares? You are not paying any of the bill.

Now where do you think the Top Rated doctors in the world Practice? Imagine going to have a heart bypass (You have been on the waiting list for over 2 years now since its universal healthcare) and the surgeon performing the operation only took the MCAT test 8 times before he finally passed it, and barely passed his boards and internships, and best of all, since now its like DMV Service, your the 7th bypass he has done that day, and there are 2 more waiting behind you.

Why are people so excited about this idea? Isnt this why most of the people who have the opportunity to come to the US for treatment come here? Instead of using their own Universal Insurance in their country?

But, I guess *FREE* is the new slogan of today’s America.
Im going overboard?? And someone else says Its going to be more efficient?? Thats why THOUSANDS in England pull thier own teeth out because they cant take the pain and waiting 2 years to see a dentist… http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/15/england.dentists/index.html

Or the people in Canada who have a LOTTERY DRAWING to see who gets to see the doctor this month http://www.statehousecall.org/canadian-doctors-hold-lotteries-to-decide-who-gets-access-to-care

Where can I get a large print?

So I’m redecorating my room and I want to frame a really nice picture from the internet. So what is the best way to go about getting this completed? Is there a place I can upload a picture and get it enlarged in great quality at a reasonable price?I actually would prefer a painting or drawing of the pic…Is there any kind of services where I can order a painting of the picture? online maybe? Any suggestions???

I’d like to start a mural painting business with my fellow artist friends. Any advice?

Hi so I’m only a senior but my friends and I are in AP art and very skilled and experienced. I had the idea to start a business to offer our service to our local area and charge a cheaper than usual price to residents to create murals for people redecorating their room or restaurants. I was thinking I could make a website and everything. Advice?

Also how would we charge? I was thinking start with a base price and also charge per hour. For example $100 dollars base charge (that will also cover the materials) plus $10 for every hour spent on the mural.
Also would people take 17 and 18 year olds seriously? I’m mature for my age and I was thinking we could put up examples of our artwork on our website for people to view. Also I would do a mural in my own room first to gain experience. I have experience painting but not on walls! Thanks for all advice.

I’d like to start a mural painting business with my fellow artist friends. Any help?

Hi so I’m only a senior but my friends and I are in AP art and very skilled and experienced. I had the idea to start a business to offer our service to our local area and charge a cheaper than usual price to residents to create murals for people redecorating their room or restaurants. I was thinking I could make a website and everything. Advice?

Also how would we charge? I was thinking start with a base price and also charge per hour. For example $100 dollars base charge (that will also cover the materials) plus $10 for every hour spent on the mural.

Also would people take 17 and 18 year olds seriously? I’m mature for my age and I was thinking we could put up examples of our artwork on our website for people to view. Also I would do a mural in my own room first to gain experience. I have experience painting but not on walls! Thanks for all advice.

Do they make an organizer for Painters?

I’m not talking about “artist” painters. I’m talking about household painters. Something to keep all of your brushes, rolls of blue painters tape, etc. in.

I see these Bucket Boss Tool Organizers on Amazon; is that something that a professional painter would use?

http://www.amazon.com/Bucket-Boss-01056-56-Pocket-Organizer/dp/B000022439/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

Why do painters wear white overalls?

I was painting my moms house today, and I got to thinking about professional painters. Why do they wear those white overalls? Also why is it that the only people that wear white overalls, are painters? Are they made specifically for painters?

Do pro painters in PA need a license??

Do professional painter’s in PA (philadelphia & surronding suburbs) need a license or anything important?? My husband is llooking to start a small business. Nothing big, just him w/ a work van & business cards doing freelance. Please let me know! Thanks! 10 points for the most accurate answer.

what is the music to an old ge light bulb ad?

I am pretty sure it was an advertisement from the late 80′s for ge softwhite lightbulbs. the advertisement shows a painter painting a mother and daughter. It has a classical music piece. I am looking for the title and author of the music.

How do I get my painting contractors license in state of Florida?

Should this college student start a painting business?

My parents are landlords and I have experience working with my dad painting the interior of the units between tenants. I believe there is a need in my area for apartment painting. I have an entrepreuener mind and am willing to put in the planning to make this work.
A huge bonus to this was the thought that I would have little start up costs, already having the materials in my garage at home. But I have found that I would probably need contractors insurance. This has crushed my dream.
Can I just have the client sign a waiver of any liablility? I can’t see it being worth my efforts if I have to come up with insurance money. I will not get hurt and will not undertake a job I can’t finish.
Do I need some sort of a license (NY state)?
Any other expenses?
I know that I will never be successful without being able to say I have insurance, but I am just looking to make money over the next 2 years while providing a great paint job this energetic student will provide. Is it worth it?

For all you contractors out there, what is the best exterior paint?

I live in the southwest. It gets very hot here in the summer. I dont want a paint that will fade in a couple of years. Any suggestions? thanks

Where should I go to sell my invention?

I have invented a tool that painting contractors can use, I already have it patented and have had a good amount made. Where is the best place online where I can sell my invention?

How do I get contracts for painting, PLEASE HELP!?

My dad and his friend currently are employed as painters. They have been painting for about 20 years. I told my dad that he could probably get contracts straight from contractors because of his experience. He said he would, but his English is not too good. I told him I would try for him, but I don’t know how to begin. How do I begin? Do I just start calling general contractors and Realtors and just ask if they need painters until someone says yes?
Any advice would be appreciated, thank you.

RMD’s do retired people over 70 have to take the money out quarterly or can they take it out once a year?

I know you have to pay taxes quarterly.
Wondering about distributions.
Can these older people wait till the end of the year to take their money out so that their investments can grow one full year?
Sorry about the words older people.
I meant mature, smart, wiser people.

How many bricks do I need to build 5 bd/rmd house in the tropicals? In&out?

Might use stones to start the foundations

Should I have to buy the groceries too?

While staying with my sister during a time out for a few days, she asked me to buy groceries that totaled 60.00. I was there because I was really stressed out at home.

While I was there I painted several doll heads for her–something she has no talent for and I am very good at. My base price is usually 100.00 per head. It’s takes at least 10 hours of work to do one head.

After 3 days she implied that I should cook, clean, and buy groceries “so I would feel like I was contributing”.

I was not charging her for my painting services at all–the thought never even entered my head. What she said hit me like a rock. I’ve tried to shake it but I can’t. I left shortly after that and resolved my home issues.

Oh–she doesn’t work has no kids at home and is much better off than I am financially and while there I gave her my magnifying glasses and a craft tote–total value 50.00.

I didn’t really eat that much.

Where do you stand against illegal immigration?

Where do you stand against Illegal Immigration?
This is an article I found to answer a lot of common myths.

1. It is NOT racist to call these people “illegal aliens” In fact, “illegal aliens” is the only term used in federal laws and regulations to describe criminals (and they ARE criminals) who come into our country illegally. They are not illegal immigrants, not undocumented immigrants, not migrant workers, and not day laborers – they’re ILLEGAL ALIENS.

2. Mexico is NOT a poor country. By sending its teeming masses to our country, that status keeps on rising. Mexico has more resources per square mile than the U.S. and plenty of money to take care of its own people. Why should the taxpayers of this country subsidize Mexico’s corruption?

3. Illegal aliens are NOT necessarily coming here to work. Lou Dobbs recently reported that 33 percent of our prison population is now comprised of non-citizens. Plus, 36 to 42 percent of illegal aliens are on welfare. So, for a good proportion of these people, the American dream is crime and welfare, not coming here to work.

4. Illegal aliens are NOT doing work Americans won’t do. What jobs won’t Americans do? In most states, Americans still clean their own houses, do their own landscaping, clean hotel rooms, work in restaurants and fast food places, paint houses, DO CONSTRUCTION WORK, work in airports, etc. – just like we have the past 200 years before “our” government allowed these people to invade our country. There are 18 million Americans who cannot find a job, so illegal aliens who are coming here to work do so at peril to American workers.

5. Illegal aliens absolutely do not contribute more than they cost. Certainly the millions in prison and on welfare aren’t contributing a dime to our economy, and the ones who are working often are paid in cash with no deductions for taxes at all. The ones who use fraudulent social security numbers and qualify to pay taxes and social security have so many deductions for dependents that they pay little if any taxes. We have seen them pay less than $100 in taxes and get back $4,000 refunds (thanks to earned income tax credits and multiple dependents).Some bargain, eh?

6. The economy does NOT depend on illegal aliens. Sure, greedy CEOs (making $50 to $150 MILLION a year) and business owners depend on illegal aliens, but due to #3, #4 and #5 above, the only thing illegal aliens are contributing to is the collapse of our economy and making the rich richer.

7. Without illegal aliens, the price of agricultural products and other goods and services will NOT soar. The definitive study on this subject is the University of Iowa’s “How Much Is That Tomato?” The study concludes that ‘since labor is such a small component of the end-price of agricultural products (which includes price to the growers, transportation costs, processing /storage costs, grocers’ profit, etc.), using minimum wage workers instead of illegal aliens would increase prices of agricultural products by approximately 3 percent in the summer and 4 percent in the winter … hardly the making of $10 heads of lettuce, $25 hamburgers, $1,000 per night Days Inn hotel rooms like the pro-illegal alien lobby claims.

8. Consumers are NOT benefiting from lower labor costs. Again, it’s CEOs and business owners who benefit from taxpayer subsidies for their illegal alien workers. The Big Three automakers say they moved so many jobs to Mexico because their labor costs are 80 percent less than in America. Anybody notice the price of new cars spiraling downward under NAFTA?

So, before you believe the prevalent pack of lies perpetuated by the illegal alien lobby, which makes billions off this government-sanctioned criminal activity, ask yourself who’s saying this garbage and look at what they have to gain. Citizens Against Illegal Immigration, just like Protect Arizona NOW, is an all-volunteer, totally grass-roots organization of citizens who are making nothing and have nothing personal to gain from their efforts to fight this corruption. Whose side are you on, and what are YOU doing to save your state and country from this evil?

I need some reviews on Maaco paint jobs?

need some reviews on Maaco paint jobs.. I want to go from a red to bright pink. ive heard quality isnt good though. and if you havee had service from maaco what was your price range?

Which carrier should I use to send a panel painting? UPS or FedEx?

It’s a panel (not a canvas) 16x20x1/4 inches (about as sturdy as plastic or strong, thick cardboard).

I just sent one out with FedEx:
we put it in one box (kept flat) and then slid that into a slightly larger box (also kept flat) and taped the edges closed.

The boxes cost $3.25 and the total was $16.42.

Would UPS be cheaper? Would a cheaper price mean worse service?

I’ve read that USPS is terrible when shipping any kind of art or anything fragile so I’m deciding between UPS or FedEx.

after bailing out the banking and car industries?

will the landscaping and painters unions be next? this is bordering the absurd.

If Obamacare is so great, why have 111 union run companies received an Obama “waiver”?

Obama said this would be such a great program, yet he gave the following unions a “waiver” not to participate?

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website, at least 111 waivers have now been granted to companies, unions and other organizations of all sizes who offer affordable health insurance or prescription drug coverage with limited benefits. Obamacare architects sought to eliminate those low-cost plans under the guise of controlling insurer spending on executive salaries and marketing.

It’s all about control. If central planners can’t dictate what health benefits qualify as “good,” what plans qualify as “affordable” and how health care dollars are best spent, then nobody can. The ultimate goal, of course: precipitating a massive shift from private to government insurance.

McDonald’s, Olive Garden, Red Lobster and Jack in the Box are among the large, headline-garnering employers who received the temporary waivers. But perhaps the most politically noteworthy beneficiaries of the HHS waiver program: Big Labor.

The Service Employees Benefit Fund, which insures a total of 12,000 SEIU health care workers in upstate New York, secured its Obamacare exemption in October. The Local 25 SEIU Welfare Fund in Chicago also nabbed a waiver for 31,000 of its enrollees. SEIU, of course, was one of Obamacare’s loudest and biggest spending proponents. The waivers come on top of the massive sweetheart deal that SEIU and other unions cut with the Obama administration to exempt them from the health care mandate’s onerous “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health care plans until 2018.

Other unions who won protection from Obamacare:

– United Food and Commercial Workers Allied Trade Health and Welfare Trust Fund

– International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union No. 915

– Asbestos Workers Local 53 Welfare Fund

– Employees Security Fund

– Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 123 Welfare Fund

– United Food and Commercial Workers Local 227

– United Food and Commercial Workers Local 455 (Maximus)

– United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1262

– Musicians Health Fund Local 802

– Hospitality Benefit Fund Local 17

– Transport Workers Union

– United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund

– International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (AFL-CIO)

– Plus two organizations that appear to be chapters of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)

Complete List here:

http://www.hhs.gov/ociio/regulations/approved_applications_for_waiver.html

He Wolfie!

What part of “According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website, at least 111 waivers have now been granted to companies.” do you not understand?

looking for union painter and wallpaper jobs . any where in us .over 25 yrs exp..?

exp. in commercial,and residental.

Can the public created their own Union to get a waiver from Obama Care?

Lots of Unions Are on the ‘Hidden’ List to Receive ObamaCare Waivers

#12– UFCW Allied Trade Health & Welfare Trust
#14– IBEW No.915
#19– Asbestos Workers Local 53 Welfare Fund
#33– Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 123 Welfare Fund
#35– UFCW Local 227
#52– UFCW Maximus Local 455
#55– Local 25 SEIU
#60– UFCW Local 1262
#78– Local 802 Musicians Health Fund
#83– Local 17 Hospitality Benefit Fund
#89– International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT)
#91– Transport Workers
#92– UFT Welfare Fund (United Federation of Teachers)

The biggest single waiver, for 351,000 people, was for the United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund, a New York union providing coverage for city teachers. The waivers are effective for a year and were granted to insurance plans and companies that showed that employee premiums would rise or that workers would lose coverage without them, Santillo says.

How do you get into the housing & commercial painting industry?

i have a tiny bit of experience and would love to be trained further and take up the career. any union or commercial/ housing painters?

does anyone know where a professional painter and decorator can get good site work in the midlands, england?

Glidden Paints to all you painters?

Hi,
This goes out to all professional painters. Would you or do you buy Glidden Paints for your jobs?

professional portrait oil painters help needed. How can I do this?

I’m painting an oil painting of a blond child with a pink silk dress and not sure how to go about doing it. I will probably start with a gray under painting to have all the details right but not sure of the next step especially with the pink silk dress. I’ve done the hair before so that’s Ok.
I have it sketched in and a light burnt umber toned canvas.
The question is how do I paint a pink silk dress?

What are the copyright laws for painters using a photographers work?

Can a painter paint anything they want? Do photographers have copyrights on their work that protects them against painters as well? (i’m talking about a professional artist looking to sell their work)

Anyone looking for a professional mural painter?

I represent one that can paint any size and any thing in any space you would like. He has a DVD, showing his abilities and murals he’s done in the past, that I can send you if you’re interested. Let me know. thanks

Does anybody know of any canadian professional dancers? writers? poets? painters? sculpturers? its for school.

Thanks

Is it possible for me to ask for a professional clown/face painter to come over to my house?

I’m currently age 14, and it’s going to be my brother’s birthday soon, and he’s 9, so I want to hire a clown to do the face painting and stuff, but I want to do it without anyone in my family knowing. How would I do it?

I am a body painter, and I am looking for professional work. Who is hiring?

I have an amazing talent with two websites and plenty of pictures showing my work. I want to network and talk with professional photographers who need body painting for their photo/film shoots. I feel that my work compares on a professional level with the best out there.

Due to some miscommunication, my contractor tear down my neighbor’s fence . Am I liable for it?

I wanted to build a new fence between our house and a neighbor. I got a permit to do it. However, before I got a chance to talk to the neighbor, the contractor tear down my neighbor’s old fence w/o my knowledge. Once I found out, I tried to talk to my neighbor about it to remedy the problem but they wouldn’t talk to me. I wanted to let them know that I can do whatever it takes to make them happy. However, they wouldn’t listen and try to call the police accusing me of vandalism, tress passing, and harrassment. What can I do? I got a feeling that they are going to sue me. I really don’t want to go that route. Can I just forget about it and let the contractor deal with it since it’s their fault in the first place?

Will sealing and oil based painting ensure a thin board will not twist or split as weather changes?

I plan to use fairly straight grainded pine for interior plantation shutter louvers (3/8″ X 4″ X 15″). I am concerned about the wood warping, splitting or any of the other disasters that changes in humidity can cause. If I seal the wood and paint with oil based enamel, will the wood be protected from humidity changes. I know other wood types would be less likely to move, but I either can’t find them or they are too expensive. I can get the pine at a reasonable price but would hate to see the louvers with twists and turns. Much work down the drain! Any thoughts?

what do YOU think about a carnival/circus birthday party for teens?

I am turning 18 (i am female) and i want a carnival/circus birthday part with all my friends. I want to rent an inflatable slide and have games like ring toss, throw ball in bucket an dart toss(on the balloons) there will be prizes too. Like fish and teddies! I will have loud music playing and there will also be that huge standing board thing where you put your head in the hole so it looks like you are a monkey or something else. and someone takes a picture of you! I was also thinking about face painting and balloon twisting! I was going to have cotton candy and sno cones. and for food hamburgers, hot dogs, cake, and pop. for party favors i was going to get pop corn bag like(like in theaters)and fill up most of the way with pop corn and ad in a paddle ball, noise maker, lolly pop, candy apple and a thank you card. I no all my friends love to go to carnivals and complain because they cannot go on all the things the little kids can. I thought it could be a big kid day just for us:) so we can feel like a kid again! What do you think of this idea? thanks.

we are all in high school and love to have fun!
ps. i am inviting 50 ppl(maybe more)

Doez ya lyke my……..chikenz?

doez ya lyke my chikenz suit? i made it yesturday with a paint application…

My Twisted Creasent moon shines of the tears of our shattered Reality…

When is the Right going to admit it is trying to reverse the perception of the left?

They say the Left is against free speech, but yet the Left are not the ones shutting down the free internet. They are not the ones with the paid for mouth pieces of lies like Hannity and Limbaugh – Fox – EIB

They say the Left tampered with elections, yet the Left were not the ones who approached Clinton Curtis and asked him to create software that would flip votes and fix an election.

They say that the Left does not support the troops, yet they were not the ones who sent the troops in without proper armor. They are the ones who want to bring them home before they blown up by roadside bombs because the Iraqi’s are fed up with an unjustified invasion and occupation.

The Right claims the left are hurting the “War on Terror” yet they are the ones who shifted the war into Iraq who had nothing to do with 9/11 or the “War on Terror”.

So my question is this: Why is the Right trying so hard to twist the facts and paint the Left in such a bad light?

Is it the fear of 2008?

What do you call the small metal things that screw into the back of a painting to hold the hanging wire to it?

They have a small flat part with a hole in it where the screw goes, and an open, triangular shape attatched to it where you twist the wire through.

Painting project helpp for ideass!!!?

So we are painting self portraits in painting and my teacher put a twist on it

- we find an pictures or portraits or a picture with a good enough quality on the face/lighting/shading by famous artists and we dress up as the person that famous artist painted, take a photograph–so we will be painting the exact same thing except MY FACE will replace the face that was originally painted

i can’t seem to find any ones that im satisfied with or any ones that i want to impersonate

my features are asian, shoulder length black straight hair, dark brown eyes

i also don’t want any pics that has really fancy appearances b/c i really don’t have anything like that at home…. things that are simple would be nice

What do you think of this poem?

Picture

I’ll paint you a little picture
I’ll paint it with a twist
I’ll paint it with a razor
I’ll paint it on my wrist

And when my arm is bloodied
all bloodied up and torn
You’ll see all my sadness
You’ll see all the harm

And like so many others
Who’ve seen all my pain
You’ll simply feel sorry
and then walk away
yep. I wrote it. :’)

Painting a room, Ideas….?

Okay, so my sister is getting married and moving out so I’m moving into her room. So i’m in the process in choosing the color to paint it. Here’s the twist, I want to somehow incorporate more than one color into the room with paint. Okay so here’s the thing i’m 18 (almost 19) and I love Interior Design and I have a passion for it but i’m completely dumbfounded at what to do to incorporate more than one color. I have a couple ways I thought of.

1) Put molding up do lighter shade on top, darker on bottom. The only problem with that is I want totally different colors in my room so that wouldn’t work PLUS I was thinking THREE colors in the room.

If anyone has any ideas how to incorporate three colors in a room please tell me! Even if it’s two! Just please let me know and pictures would be great and awesome and really appreciated and you would totally be my hero forever!

Thanks in advance!

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