You meant collective buying power I hope.

There is some truth to that, especially in insurance, where you are grouped by the classification of your workplace. That being said, most private insurance plans are relatively cheap, depending on what you are looking for. Not to mention, if our work was not our sole provider of health care insurance, but recompensed us for what they pay for our insurance, the in-affordability of private insurance would be offset by a much larger pay check.

Why do we have to DO anything for our business community or our state government? As far as business is concerned, it is a contractual agreement between two parties to provide services for money. As far as government, they do stuff for US, not the other way around, and the do it poorly, so how about they stop trying and we trim a little fat, or a whole lot?

Where are you posting from North Korea?

I think your demanding of his source for a quote at the end of the article that actually doesn't lend any credibility to the article is an obvious and blatant red-herring. You want to deflect the true thrust of the post by suggesting because he won't name who the "prominent-republican" is, the rest of the post is null and void. You ever think, just maybe, the source for the quote was responding to a question from Port asking for his response to something? This happens a lot in journalism, what is your response to circumstance X, Y or Z? Putting the quote at the end of the article re-affirms this. Your suggestion that the "prominent-republican" is the source of the information is misleading.

So here is the truth I want to know, why, if the prominent republican was so important to the article he put his one and only quote in the last paragraph of the post. I can easily understand from the style and slant of the article, the assertions made prior to the quote are those of Port, not attributable to the "prominent-republican" in the last paragraph.

So because of your red-herring, we have gone way off topic discussing the non-issue in the post. You ignorantly tell me to stop skirting the issue, well the post wasn't about a prominent republican, it was about a protest. And your concept of getting the truth is to accuse the person who brought you the story of misleading people. How much work did you do, besides whining, to verify the verity of his post? Any? If this is your idea of harvesting the truth, you are a sad farmer.

Yemen huh? Where's that at, somewhere in West Virginia? <-----joking

Nah, she had a burrito in the microwave.

I am, terrified of them wackos. Although I have to admit, I have never met one. Hmm, where do they hide.....

The sad thing is, you sat for a while, thinking about what non-sensical thing you could write to get someone to respond. I am responding, but only about how sad your life must be. When was the last time you changed your underwear? Or emptied the trash can you deposit your navel lint into? Dude, at least freaks living in their mom's basement who look at porn are in some way remotely engaging with the opposite sex. The only stroking you get is some phantasmagorical ego boost from provoking people by writing the most moronic things possible. I would tell you to get a life, but your mom already took that chance away when she left the coat hanger in your head. I truly feel no sorrow for you.

I see what you did there.

Oh stupid me, he was relating. I am so dumb, HE isn't old or anything. But he said "What up?" so he is relating. Do you have any idea how stupid you sound TomTom?

haha, I stopped after two more musicians I never heard of hopped up and started having a Kumbayah moment.