Hulk2008: Companies(Walmart for one) are already making a profit off their employees by purchasing life insurance policies on their employees, former employee’s and in some cases total strangers and the big companies get the survivor benefits over the deceased persons family with none of the final expenses the families are stuck with and it is legal. This has been going on since the Bush administration.

If these companies, which can legally do this, get to benefit from a persons death, then they should be made to pay all of the final expenses and debts that go along with this type of insurance before they can collect 1 cent, otherwise it should be deemed illegal to profit off the dead just because company buys insurance on.

How long would it be for a typical average person in this country to purchase life insurance policies on strangers and cash in upon their deaths with none of the expenses? Bet big government and insurance companies you yell “FOUL” if it benefited us little people and have it declared illegal to do so, so why can an employer get a pass on this questionable practice?

Will employers charge us for coming to work?

We will have to pay them to work for their companies and this year I have read that there are people working for free to gain the experience of certain types of work. Now that is exactly what big companies want-free workers and once you get them in there(your company) there will no longer be a need to hire people for actual wages when you now have those willing to work for free, why ever pay people for the work you need/want done again. We have now fallen down the slippery slope onto the throes of slavery with no wages.

College/Speeches

As for hiring the ignorant one from the North. That money could have been spent better by hiring anyone else to give a speech on any other topic other than what the people who do show up will hear exit from her lips. I listened to some of the off the wall tripe that Glenn Beck spewed to the graduating classes this year and was embarrassed by this nonsensical lecture? he gave. It made very little sense at all and even a five year old could recognize that fact. Sarah is no better. She will only allow pre-screened questions and those answers she will give make no sense to the asked questions. Look at her speeches she has given since quitting her governorship career. Those speeches have no informative value, blame everything that has gone wrong on the Democratic party, Obama,death panels,time to reload, to much regulation where there is almost no regulation(thanks to Bush and Co.), incorrectly blames the stimulus and Wall Street bailout on Obama’s administration, yet conveniently forgets that it was Bush’s bail out part 2, which John McCain claims he suspended his campaigning for to go back to D.C to help Bush with the bailout part 2, which he really didn’t suspend his campaign for(he lied) and which Sarah was right there with him,but has failed to mention or remember this fact.Out of sight out of mind with this one.

Some ideas on what Sarah could give a speech on:

1.Wolf Killing from Helicopters 101

2.Big Oil and How to Hold Them Hostage:Payoff from Big Oil to Alaskan People Except the Indigenous Ones

3.How to Repress Womens Right’s and Bring Back the Dark Ages of Superstition Religious Rule

4.Geography for Idiots:It is Siberia,not Russia.Really?

5.Stretching Your College Dollars:How to Take 5 Years to Finish a One Year College Course

6.Public Relations:How Not to Get Along With Those Different From Yourself

7.Economics:How to Scalp Others For Your Financial Benefit and Getting Away With It

8.Truth in Advertising:Learning to Lie Through Your Teeth and Changing the Facts As You Go

9.How to Get Ahead in Business:Having Affairs With Your Husband’s Business Partner for Fun and Profit

10.Cooking Alaskan Style:Today’s Menu:Moose Stew, Tundra Tater’s,Polar Bear Iced Pie and Valdez Vodka Spill on the Rocks

I worked in software for 42 years, mostly in health care but also other areas of business including HR systems. 

I distinctly remember a VP of HR telling us regarding employee programs that “if we screw everybody the same way, then that’s a fair practice”.  So it goes with health care and other employee “benefits”.  Companies, especially large ones, only seek to increase profits for shareholders - and their management toadies serve up the softballs one after another.  The days of actual pensions for employees are long gone, along with real health care for employees.  In fact, dare I predict a day when companies seek to make a profit on their own employees health premiums ? Will employers charge us for coming to work? 

Could happen…..

Software is the modern corporate way of hiding devious personnel practices inside arcane computational formulae.

Re: Cal State University Uses $75K in Public Funds to Have Palin Speak”

Wonder what topic the Cal State administrators are paying Palin to discuss - Roads to Nowhere . . . How to Ban Books from Public Libraries . . . Armageddon is Just Around the Corner . . . Scenic Views of Russia from Alaska?

Gov. Sarah Palin is giving Cal-State Stanislaus a 25% discount off her usual speaking fee. They are getting a bargain, and should appreciate it.