I simply fail to understand why workers support the Dems.
Today (21 July 2009)-- according to the Wall Street Journal --the President and his Senate pointman on healthcare, Max Baucus of Montana, are pushing again for a tax on employer-provided health insurance to "help control health-care costs long term because it would provide a disincentive to employers to provide rich benefit packages" to their employees. They've also decided that it was just too draconian to place a 1% income surtax on the wealthiest 1.2% of Americans (or about $40/month for individuals earning an adjusted $350,000 annually) to help offset a health insurance program for America's uninsured. Now, they're saying that plan hurts too many voters. Instead of a $350,000 bottom, Obama and Baucus have reconsidered that only individuals earning an adjusted $1 million or greater should be surtaxed. And, as I've said before, nowhere in their plans are any proposals to reduce military spending and farm subsidies, or to tax Big Pharma or the Health Insurers, themselves.
As for universal healthcare... go ask windmill-tilter Dennis Kucinich.
Beware: Whatever comes out of this Administration and Congress, workers will be paying more for far less
If you've been shooting film (motion picture or still) for as long as my dad and I have, then you'll be sad to learn of Kodak's decision to stop manufacturing and supporting Kodachrome. In my lifetime, there's never been a more glorious and dense film stock, which showed hardly any grain when properly exposed. Not only was it the film of choice for family slideshows, but was also used by countless professionals (especially for reproduction in magazines, books, and catalogs).
For those who've grown-up with digital cameras, Kodachrome will be a revelation, demonstrating a perfection of color and resolution thus far unmatched by electronic photography. May I suggest a visit to the library to see Kodachrome unmitigated by a computer screen. Look up the work of photographers such as Eric Meola, Steve McCurry, and Peter Guttman.
If you're interested in finding out more about Kodachrome and Kodak's discontinuance of the stock, see the links below:
- The Wall Street Journal-
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124631829284470853.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124567093975236801.html - Kodak-
http://homepage.1000words.kodak.com/default.asp?item=2388083&CID=go&idhbx=kodachrometribute
http://www.kodachromeproject.com/pages/contents.html - Wikipedia (with an extensive list of books and other publications featuring examples of Kodachrome photography)-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome
