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  • Posted by kathywiso 9 years, 9 months ago
    Hey, I have a really great idea...if you want birth control, PAY for it... A For-Profit Corporation has NO rights... Not even the right to make a profit..blattthhhh.... I know I am way behind times, but when are people responsible for themselves.. Heck, the whole health care issue is 1/6th of our economy, stolen again from us.. If those who work for Hobby Lobby don't agree with the decision, go work for another company.. This stuff just makes me crazy.
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    • Posted by robertmbeard 9 years, 9 months ago
      The left's argument is intended to stir up emotions and deflect attention away from the simple fact that women can easily pay pocket change at their local drug store and get whatever contraceptives they want. The issue here is whether private employers can be forced to pay for aborta-facient drugs that the private owners find deeply offensive to their religious beliefs.

      Of course, I would extend the whole argument to the deeply offensive infringement on all of our economic freedoms to have government dictating and micromanaging more of our lives through unconstitutional acts like Obamacare, which dramatically reduce our "freedom of choice" over many economic aspects of our lives.
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      • Posted by kathywiso 9 years, 9 months ago
        Yes, I agree with everything you stated. The unconstitutional acts are piling up so fast, we are being bombarded with lies and no accountability.. Rand said, "I got tired of swatting flies." I can see why :-(
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 9 months ago
    The hyperbole about how this decision is going to prevent ALL women from access to ALL contraception. In reality, all it does is allow some very few employers not to pay for a few aborta-facient drugs.
    And Buzzy Ginsburg is just insane in her ranting about how this is going to open the floodgates to all sorts of discrimination.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 9 months ago
    These people are annoying children. I could only only watch 1.5 min of it.

    Hobby Lobby should have the right to pay for or not pay for whatever it wants. I know have the right not to have anything to do with them, which I will exercise. I have no desire whatsoever, though, for the gov't to force them to do what I think is right. If the gov't has that right, the Hobby Lobby people might want me to do drug testing for all new hires or not give some credit for people who commute by sustainable transportation.

    I keep hear people mutter about how they hate Hobby Lobby now. I'll have nothing to do with them either, but I certainly don't want to force them to provide certain benefits. Critics should focus on creating amazing new businesses that provide good compensation packages, work cultures that are rational and supportive to all, and leave Hobby Lobby alone.
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    • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 9 months ago
      Creating new businesses...in this climate? And with all the goodies and bennies, too, even... Kool Aid much?
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      • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 9 months ago
        You think no one is going out there and serving customers and building amazing businesses? It happens all the time, during expansions and recessions. We're in a major expansion right now, so there's all kinds of things being created. The biggest problem is vendors are booked. Yesterday a mech E told me he spent much of the day trying to find a die cast shop that's not booked. I've been sending stuff to oDesk contractors and trying to find a student. It's surprising how booked everyone is.

        Our kids see both parents are slammed busy and are offering to help with household chores b/c for chores we consider beyond their normal age range we pay the same rate we would pay a housekeeper or Nanny Connections. They're buying Legos.

        I'm guessing there are TV shows that say how bad things are and that it's all about politics. So many things that appear to be about politics are actually about people seeing a way to help people and jumping up and trying to do it.

        This does NOT mean we can ignore the policy issues. They have a long term drag on the economy. But they don't cause the normal ups and downs. We're in an "up" right now. The down will come in a few years. The down doesn't have to be bad; some people snap up cheap equipment during the downs. Either way, if you're finding paying customers and making their problems go away, you're in an amazing boom. If you're like I was on year ago having lost two big clients, one partly due to my mistake, you're in a depression. If you watch the talking heads in the OP's clip regularly, you're in the worst depression imaginable.

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        • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 9 months ago
          Getting equipment cheap comes from where?
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          • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 9 months ago
            When there's a recession, parts and equipment is cheap. When we're in an expansion, they're expensive. Parts go on "allocation" meaning their best customers get dibbs on parts. You can pay a broker, but sometimes you get counterfeit parts. You can work with the big CMs, who have access to the parts, but they're busy. That's where we are now-- expansion. Recession's coming in a few years. The news media, who have to generate copy under all conditions, treat this cycle like something scary. It's not, though. Market participants need to be aware of it and act accordingly. There are opportunities in recession and expansion, more during expansion.
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            • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 9 months ago
              Oh. Well some people are losing their asses and having to sell off their equipment. Glad you're busy, but it's not the norm right now.
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              • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 9 months ago
                The part where people are selling equipment happened about five years ago. This is the expansion. There are always people who just so happen to be struggling at the moment, i.e. me last summer. Last summer was harder for me than the recession of 08-09, when by chance I was doing well. Individual factors are way more important than macro. I never tune in to the audio but when I'm running at the gym I get the notion there are many channels that play nothing but a) how politicians rather than you are responsible for the ups and downs in your life and b) missing teenage girls. I think if I took the time I spent serving on boards and going to events/shows and instead watched those shows, I'd be going crazy wondering when President Obama is going to find me some clients.
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        • Posted by khalling 9 years, 9 months ago
          Yes, well 5 years ago there were three times the number of die cast shops. I 'm glad you 're in ao good run. And I 'm glad your wife picked her practice such that she is busy in a recession. But the numbers tell a different story than you do. Figuring out the way to stay on top of things is what entreprenuers do....they also don 't ignore what 's really happening in the national and global markets.
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          • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 9 months ago
            She kept herself busy during the recession. She's raised her prices and kept someone else busy since the expansion. I am not sure what's going on with her practice, though, b/c maybe customers who would have gone to the most expensive firms come to her during a recession. Also, she gets an unfortunate and unfair blip of business when they change the tax laws and people have to change their trusts.
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            • Posted by khalling 9 years, 9 months ago
              yes, complicated tax laws make for good lawyer business. and if she does alot of trusts, she's in a good run with baby boomers. so the "expansion" is localized if you know what I mean...
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              • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 9 months ago
                Yeah, it's totally bogus. But that's not the bulk of her work. The bulk of the estate planning work comes when someone gets married, has a baby, is going on a distant trip, or dies. I don't know if she's calculated it, but tax law changes are a small part of her work. That tax law stuff is rotten, though, because if accountants and attorneys were _losing_ money b/c of the changes, they'd lobby to for stable laws. They're _making_ money, so they don't care; and maybe some people lobby for the changes.

                None of this has anything to do with the current expansion cycle. The boomers were thinking about legacy issues during the recession. They'll be alive and thinking about legacy in the next recession, which is only a few years away.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 9 years, 9 months ago
    Last night Hannity was talking to Stossel, and Stossel, as usual, asserted that employers should be able to set their own policy.

    (from memory) "...they should be able to hire only tall people, or only stupid people, if they want..."

    And Hannity came back with, "What about if they don't want to hire black people?"

    And Stossel hemmed and hawed about such obvious blah blah blah...

    This is an important point NOT to concede:

    The left's position is *always* that your neighbor is the threat, and the government your savior.

    The reality is that the government is *always* the threat, and your neighbor is sometimes your savior.

    The civil rights laws were "needed" to address institutionalized discrimination... that is, discrimination by law. It wasn't that businesses had "whites only" fountains, but that the local communities backed them up by force of law.
    Wasn't it on a *public* bus Rosa Parks was asked to give up her seat?

    But, the left keeps pretending that it's the acts of free individuals and their own property (businesses) which are the threat to the phantasm of "equality", rather than power exercised through government coercion.
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