Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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Obviously not. Yet.
So what? Everyone I know who lost their private insurance plans (all are self-employed or otherwise without employer-provided insurance) have had to take Obamacare plans that provide coverage they don't want or need at an average premium increase of about 85% per month, with increased copays and deductibles, and without access to out-of-network doctors, which they had before. No happy faces there!
A question. At LLNL, retirees are forced into Medicare at age 65. So if neredowells at NNSA are pushing for dumping retirees into the ghetto of Obamacare exchanges, it would be from early retirement age until 60, correct?
But it is not equivalent retiring families, like mine, now receive as the customary retiree medical benefit, which continues current employee medical benefits to early retirees for a few years until eligible for medicare.
This is a long established, customary LLNL practice, a well earned deferred compensation, in the form of temporary customary retiree medical benefits after a lifetime of dedicated service.
Then why don't they? Why doesn't the average lower income person get a job that pays a higher salary? What is preventing them from doing so? What are they doing to enhance their earnings or earning potential? The jobs must be out there. The president says that the economy and job market are great, all because of him.
More so, since you believe the average lower income person would jump at the chance to make more money, why don't they moonlight with easy-to-get part-time jobs? So instead of working 40 hours a week, they can work 60 hours a week and have a higher income. As an added incentive, the additional 20 hours of work will be taxed at a higher rate due to a progressive tax system. And if they're lucky, their health-care premiums will significantly rise due to the higher incomes that you believe they so desperately want.
But we don't see this happening in large numbers. Those with lower incomes are not jumping at the chance to make more money.
What you're really saying is that those with lower incomes will jump at the chance to make more money if no additional effort or sacrifice is required on their part. Well duh. Who doesn't want free money that is obtained through the hard work of others?
An example blog post from such an individual is here (http://www.retireearlyhomepage.com/20year.html). Most of the article deals with financial issues, but read what he has to say about Obamacare near the end. He is a person who retired early 20 years ago at the age of 38. He lives a pretty good life and travels extensively. He is a millionaire and his health insurance is now heavily subsidized by Obamacare.
His liberal arrogance is particularly telling. He essentially writes that other people need to pay their fair share of taxes in order to support people like him who choose not to work.
Obamacare is another example of the rich getting richer.
January 23, 2015 at 7:00 PM
Wrong. Obamacare is an example of stealing from the rich to subsidize the underachievers (i.e., the "poor").
January 23, 2015 at 8:32 PM"
Utterly wrong, Obamacare is designed to steal from the poor and make them poorer, so they will never get out lower class. The lower class will expand to serve the upper 2 percent, which really is just the 0.001 percent and their immediate slaves. Obama was the best friend the Republicans rich ever wanted. The rich are getting richer by every measure available. They want to merge with machines and reduce the world population to a few million of the immortals, maybe they will keep a couple of million of the healthy poor people on earth to watch fight with each other for entertainment. Better learn your MMA skills so that they might keep you around for sport.
Your claim, backed up by a totally bogus blog post, is ridiculous. Please explain how "multimillionaires" are "subsidized" by Obamacare, and please cite your reputable sources (not blog posts).
You do know that LLNS and LANS management consider you to be an underachiever or as you say the poor. The labs offer a huge bounty of money to made for those who have what it takes to grab it. The ones that played it right got millions of dollars in just a few years. You did not take the offer, you did not have what it takes, you said you "cared". Well that is on you and you have no right to judge those that made out well in the change of the lab contracts. You are an underachiever and deserve what you get, ha, ha, ha.
HAHAHAHHA!! Off your meds, huh? "Merge with the machines"?!?!? Yeah, keep smokin' that stuff. You'll have a great future. Or not. I want you to show your MMA skills!
January 23, 2015 at 9:30 PM
Who cares what they think? I'm a retired Los Alamos millionaire. ha, ha, ha yourself.
The path in corporate America is to reduce and cancel all the promises made to loyal workers. Executives in America are well compensated if they kick their former employees into the gutter once they retire. There are no consequences for doing it.
January 26, 2015 at 9:05 PM
So what do you propose? If you decide not to remain loyal things will be better? On what evidence? Does "not remaining loyal" mean leaving for a better job? If so, then go for it! If it means bitching and complaining at every chance, mostly anonymously as on this blog, what are you gaining? Your end outcome will not be positive. But go for it if you are committed (and committing your family) to a horrible future.