Blog #4: Health Care On The Menu

I came across this story while looking around on the internet and it talks about the new health care bill and the new requirements placed on small businesses who dont bring in enough revenue to offer their employees health care. How are they supposed to provide or get healthcare for thier employees?
According to the story San Francisco has had an ordinance like this for over a year now and for the small bottom of the line stores an increase in costs with having to provide health insurance for empoyees. With an increase in costs for insurance its is an increase in costs for costomers and with an increase in costs for costomers means a loss in costomers and with a loss in costomers means stores are having to close doors and some for good. With stores having to close their doors it will result in an overall decrease in the revenue of the city, San Francisco is only one Example about what could happen in the future with other cities. President Obama and the Democrats who signed the bill into law dont seem to have takin into consideration about the possibilities that with the law now saying that small business owners must provide health insurance for its employees could send these small business that dont bring in alot of revenue in a downward spin due to the increase in costs for the business.
THe healthcare law has put into place many increases to smal business owners and expect the business owners who are at the "bottom of line" to be able to bring in enough revenue to be able to pay for the new costs of health insurace for employees when the businesses didnt bring in enough revenue to pay for it in the first place.
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Bog #3: Loverde: Our military needs every bit of help it can get

While I was searching for an article on the AustinAmericanStatesman entitled Loverde: Our military needs every bit of help it can get, by: Anthony Loverde.



The article is refering to the time that Anthony Loverde served in the military up until he told his commanding officer he was gay. His commanding officer said "It has been an honor serving with you, if there is any thing you need you let me know." then sent him home. He was sent home because he violated federal law when he admitted he was gay and in the military. This law the military finally admitted was wrong. I agree with Mr. Loverde, at this point in the war and what all is still going on in Iraq it is my opinion that the militry let gays and lesbians serve inthe military openly. Just because these people might be gay or a lesbian that doesnt mean that they can not sever in the military just as well as any other man or woman who are staright.



Mr. Loverde Recived an honorable discharge and was hired on with the KBR as a defense contractor soon after his discharge papers went through. He was sent back to Iraq and began working with men that he served with while on active duty. I agree whole heartedly that the federal law of "dont ask, dont tell" needs to be repealed and takin out of law as sson as possible. The military is becoming increasingly thin of people to defend our country, letting gay men and women serve in the military whom may have been turned down when first appling would increase the people in out defenses and open the doors for more and more gay men and women to enter the military and sever our country the same way that straight men and women do.



If the "dont ask, dont tell" law is repealed the opportunities fo rmen and women whom are gaya would be great. They would no longer need to hide their sexuality and live their life as the person that they truly are with out living in fear that if they enlisted without telling the recruting officers that they were gay and then get sent to combat in Iraq our to any other base and told a fellow service member that they were gay and violating federal law and suffering the reprocutions of being discharged.



Gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve in the military with out living in fear of being discharged or living a life that isnt true to them.