tkhayes

Yes Ron, of course, you are right - I , me, myself; stand alone in my opinion of Landmines......

He does NOT Have the ability to provide it. He, being me, and not YOU, would actually know the answer to that. It is largely an incorrect assumption to say that we 'can' provide health care for our staff. Most insurance companies now exclude skydiving as an activity to be covered under a health care plan. I know since I got the rejections letters to prove it..... Using that same argument, if you are a supporter of killing terrorists, then you should be out there by yourself, killing terrorists, just to set a good example for everyone, instead of relying on the military to do it for you..... I am not for SKYDIVE CITY providing healthcare for its employees, I am for a tax based system that provides heath care for everyone - my arguments have been made and largely ignored by you so that you can continue your rhetoric. Anyway, I still am not sending any money to Tim.

show me where I said that...... Single Payer Health Care for everyone, paid for by the tax system, corporate AND private, by everyone, INCLUDING Skydive City, the corporation, its employees and its contractors alike...... Fuck off #3

I completely understand their tactical advantage. That does not change the fact that the end result far outweighs that tactical advantage. Dropping 1000 nukes on Pakistan and Afghanistan would also solve a lot of problems. glass factory. the end result AFTER that would not be worthy of the 'tactical' advantage. We build far too many weapons like that - depleted uranium, landmines, chemical leftovers that we have no idea how to dispose of, but they all have 'tactical advantages'

In Florida, workers comp is the law for employees, not contractors, unless you are in construction. worker's comp for 'skydivers' is not available, at any price, from any company - even you may be able to understand that. Yet the law dictates that we must have it for 'employees'. So to have our instructors as employees would result in $25,000/day fines until we comply. That is the government's position - forced compliance. And since that insurance does not come from the government, but from yet another PRIVATE corporation that will not write the policy, we are actually operating in the only way we can. So we run our business in the best way we can, given all the variables and boundaries by which we all live. Not by any 'choice' not to help out my staff in any way. And we do actually help them out. NOYFB - On many occasions, we have paid these 'contractors' when times were hard, hurricane season, helped them out when they were hurt - I even helped one get a hernia operation when he had no insurance, because he could not work at all. So if I may be so brave - FUCK OFF. talk the talk, walk the walk, twist it any way you want - we take good care of our 'staff', contractors AND employees - far better than most. Fuck off #2 - I never said any such thing.......

The damage that land mines do AFTER any conflict far outweigh the usefulness of them DURING the conflict. Unless there is some way to clean it up, the human costs are far too high. Oh wait - most of the countries riddled with land mines are not filled with while anglo-saxon protestant Americans - so they do not matter. (sarcasm) Even Mustard gas and nuclear fallout will eventually dissipate and be absorbed into mother earth. A landmine will kill someone 100 years after it is planted... Even so, I am glad the the US has far less landmines than they used to, but disappointed that they do not acknowledge the treaties. I wonder how many landmines we sell to Africa every year?

you forgot the single payer option.... your question is about health care, but most of your choices are about health insurance.... they are mutually exclusive.

Moot point - it would pay for a lot of things -but it is gone. And it is likely that we will never see it again. FYI - at least TWO of the major shareholders of Skydive City are strong advocates of single payer health care, and are willing to step up insofar as taxes go to pay for it. Skydive City (by itself) would pay a far higher price for health care for all it's employees if doing it alone, than would cost a system that covers everyone in the country paid for through a tax system. No different than if Skydive City had to provide its own 'military protection' (which would cost far more for just us if paid for by only us) than it would to pay for 'military protection' paid for through the tax system for EVERYONE (our current system of military protection). I get a kick out of the rhetoric. I am not advocating health care for all paid for by employers, I am advocating health care for all paid for by the people AND the employers. FYI - I am not the 'corporation of Skydive City'. I am TK Hayes, a small part of the 'corporation of Skydive City'. my avatar does not reflect Skydive City, it is actually 'tkhayes', and again, I do not demand that the government pays for health care. I demand that the government TAX the people and the corporations so that health care can be provided for all. I am glad your wife can get health insurance for so cheap - I hear that fucking argument all the time - it is not the reality for many, perhaps most of us...... don't ask me to shop around - I already have. Don't' ask me to move to another country (Tim's suggestion), I have every right to be here, just as you do....I fucking EARNED IT......

gov't OF the people FOR the people..... yes, let them tell us what is best...... sadly it is just a sentence. Welcome to the USA where 'Constitution' is just another word......

yep, who needs the first amendment when we have the Bible to guide us......

actually we did notice the stolen money - that is how we found it was being stolen. If we did not notice it, then it would still be getting stolen I expect. And for you to have any opinion on it, given the amount of information that you could possibly know about it, I find to be amazing...... I've been in the courtroom and been in the Asst State Atty's office a bunch of times, but I do not ever remember you being there.

Read my lips - I am not for Health INSURANCE for everyone. I am for HEALTH CARE for everyone. The current bill is fucked, so me and the conservatives actually agree. Single payer health care (i.e. Medicare) FOR ALL AMERICANS paid for through the tax system, both corporate and private.

wow, guilty for NOT saying something - you really should try harder. I did not say that, What Tim says is the best way to help the country is to lower corporate taxes, deregulate, and cut the corporations and business loose, therefore making more profits, therefore creating more jobs. (the past 30 years is SUCH a great example of that.....) I say that lowering corporate taxes will indeed make more corporate profits, but that it does not necessarily create ANY more jobs, just more corporate profits. Dell closed down their plant and moved overseas despite promises of jobs and work, prosperity for everyone. Pfizer promised a huge research facility, even got the town to pay for a bunch of it, evicted people from their homes (eminent domain) and then shut down their research facility. Both companies are actually enjoying fairly healthy profits, yes, down from previous years, but still quite profitable. Job creation has little to do with corporate profits in these cases and in hundreds more cases just like it. So yes, I am correct in saying that corporations making more money 'is bad' when put into the perspective of creating more jobs for the average American. After all the corporation's job is to make money, right? Even if that means moving jobs and manufacturing to other countries, dismantling health care and any pension or benefit structures, driving legislation to curb workers rights, as well as legislation to lower their taxes, while they cut deals with municipalities and governments to build facilities with tax credits, tax breaks and outright taxpayer money, with the illusion of creating jobs just so they can close them down a couple years later. And you wonder why they then need bailouts? Well so do I....... sometimes you get what you pay for. I pay my employees FAR MORE than $8/hour,(I would love to know where you heard that - or was it 12 years ago?) and it is not my place to post wages here. We offer subsidized health care, but even with their decent wages, no one could POSSIBLY afford any reasonable health insurance here in Florida, even with our subsidy, and they choose not to. I do not even get my health insurance through Skydive City because you know what? I cannot afford it either. The best plan I got offered covered "nothing to do with my spine, flying or skydiving". So much for shopping around. You guys are fucking blind if you think that health insurance is available for everyone in this country. It simply is not. You are also blind that if we deregulate all businesses, that the country will be better off. The country's CORPORATIONS will certainly be better off, but not the people. And yes we make a profit at Skydive City. NOYFB. I also strive to take care of my hard working employees and instructional staff. Ask any of them if we are 'fucking them over'.

I almost fell out of my chair.....

Actually, it was pretty much a shouting match between me and you, not that I did not have an argument. You were not listening to me and I decided I did not want to listen to you either. I resent that you claim I was 'wrong' as opposed to being 'wrong, in your opinion'. You are entitled to your opinion as am I. Telling me to 'go find another country' does not support -the first amendment -democracy, or -many of the other 'ideals' that you claim to uphold. I spoke from first hand experience about health care and you poo-poo'd it like it did not matter. You were LOUD and you frequently spoke over me. I would expect someone in Congress to actually listen to their 'prospective supporters and possible constituents', but that is your choice. At no time in my post did I say anything about you not having your right to have an opinion, I did not even talk about your opinion, on ANY matter. And we actually agreed on a couple things, but frankly I think your view of the world is pretty much what I would expect from a right-wing conservative Christian. And therefore, i will NOT support you or your bid for Congress, even if you are a 'skydiver advocate' I even gave you a (+1) for calling me after I emailed you. My feeling is that once (if) you are elected, you will simply do whatever the hell it is that you feel is right and not anything that you think your voters wanted of you - which is also something that (sadly) we seem to get from most politicians anyway. touche

you ain't kidding......

I'm in Florida, he is running in NC District 8

Did you get a postcard? I did and he even called me when I emailed him (+1) After talking to him for some time, I ended up hanging up - I will not be sending him any $$ of mine. (-4) wow

why are the police responding to a call about someone who will not take a shower? A perfect example of where police intervention is probably not warranted, and then, as demonstrated, only ends up escalating into something it did not need to be in the first place? What if the 10 year old grabbed a steak knife and swung it at the cop, and he shot her dead? Police would call it 'assault with a deadly weapon' and justify the shooting. The police should never have gone there.

when I was 20 or so, I enjoyed morning radio with DJ's always fucking yelling and all that bull that they do. Now it gives me a headache. Glenn Beck gives me a headache in exactly the same way. I try to listen but there is so much extremism and bullshit, that it cannot in any way be called journalism, or even news. great entertainment I am sure, if you can handle the headache - I cannot.

I get to run a dropzone. My job? Making sure my customers are having a good time - always. Trying to take care of my staff too, who work hard , but can be difficult within the 'corporate' structure, which I think needs a lot of work. making sure people leave with a smile on their face is the best part. Yep, my job sucks.....

you forgot, "rampant corruption in our own government" and perhaps "takeover of America by Corporations"

no saying that I agree with ANYTHING that ACRON does. Just the disproportionate and draconian variations is rules for different 'contractors ' with the government.

Hey - Blackwater slaughters people in Iraq and they get awarded with billions more in contracts. KBR rapes women within their ranks and thy get nothing the way of punishment. ACORN has one video of one bad egg and Congress strips them of everything (pretty much). I would be pissed too. Want to talk about "rights"? It's the USA- they have the RIGHT to sue.

Pat Robertson is a fuck.