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Anthony
I can understand frustration over someone hitting your brand new car, etc. But recently my friend had his mother hospitalized due to mitral valve dysfunction, it is getting harder for her to breathe and the doctor told him he considered it the most painful way to die. Anyways I was visiting his mother and my friend and his brother were staying the night at the hospital because she doesn't have much time, we decided to get dinner and return, we picked it up and right as he was backing up, he hit some guys car. The man walked out yelling, cursing, saying it was a $4,000 paint job, etc. When we got out to see the damage, it was literally a scuff you could buff out. He was being EXTREMELY rude, cursing, and taking pictures like mad. He got my friends insurance and said that he was going to pay big time for it. A few days later, some body shop quoted the damage at $1,800.
The insurance company covers up to $1000 of the damage, he has to pay the rest out of pocket. Since his mom is dying, he's paying more on health insurance to keep her alive a little longer. He can't afford $800. I simply gave him the money. And that was that. But the amount of stress that it put on him was so much on top of his mother dying he had to deal with a total asshat.
My question is, honestly, why do people value these possessions so much? I'm not trying to be a hippie or philosopher, but it's not like they're going to be buried in the damn car. Why is it such a big deal if someone simply "tapped" a bumper? I don't care how much your paint job cost, or how much the metallic flakes cost. But when someone is going through something and explain it to you with tears in their eyes, the car is still worth more than compassion? Is a car really that effing important? It was truly one of the saddest things I saw the way that man tread my friend. I only hope karma doesn't bite him back, as all drivers who complain about very minor things. After seeing this, If anyone ever does minor damage on my car (2012 Mustang) I wont give a rat's ass and let them go. Because it's just a damn car. Unless your that desperate to need a nice looking car to impress people, it really doesn't matter much.
Anyways I simply wanted to hear peoples opinions on this. I can almost guarantee that no one here would tolerate minor damage on their car (not a major collision, that's something else). True that people can make up stories and stuff, but sometimes you just see it in them you know, that they're truthful. I guess though people value a car more than a humble person these days.
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Well, since you've provided the perspective of your friend's mom's situation, and from what I can tell this was in a hospital parking lot, isn't it also possible that the guy also had some terrible medical news and your friend hitting his car was the last thing he needed that day?
If you don't know then you can't judge.
Of course, it's also entirely possible that the guy was just a shallow materialistic jerk as you say.
What actually happened there was indeed some karma...and now you have learned something ("in the grand scheme of things material things don't matter) and can act accordingly should this happen to you.
If it makes any difference, I've been rear ended three times (and caused my own share of accidents on icy roads) and I wouldn't say I reacted well any time because it's scary as hell (if you're in the car as I was) and annoying when that happens. However, I do understand that accidents happen so twice I just let it go as there was minor damage, but the one time I was rear ended so hard the other vehicle was totalled, well, I ended up feeling sorry for the guy. Stuff happens.
Well, since you've provided the perspective of your friend's mom's situation, and from what I can tell this was in a hospital parking lot, isn't it also possible that the guy also had some terrible medical news and your friend hitting his car was the last thing he needed that day?
If you don't know then you can't judge.
Of course, it's also entirely possible that the guy was just a shallow materialistic jerk as you say.
What actually happened there was indeed some karma...and now you have learned something ("in the grand scheme of things material things don't matter) and can act accordingly should this happen to you.
If it makes any difference, I've been rear ended three times (and caused my own share of accidents on icy roads) and I wouldn't say I reacted well any time because it's scary as hell (if you're in the car as I was) and annoying when that happens. However, I do understand that accidents happen so twice I just let it go as there was minor damage, but the one time I was rear ended so hard the other vehicle was totalled, well, I ended up feeling sorry for the guy. Stuff happens.
Is it lawful for Obama to tax health insurance benefits unless employees are union?
sparky
Seem to me that Obama is paying back the Unions for GM
Correct, but it is still a benefit and has a monetary value. There are many other union benfits that cost companies a fortune.
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Unionsâ Health Benefits May Avoid Tax Under Obama Proposal
http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aDvu77pZr7k4
There's a reason the Obama health care plan is being rushed through Congress this summer -- because the American people would likely never support it if given time to absorb and understand such fine print," as the unions being exempt from any tax increase on any health care benefits provided by their boss. "If the union carve-out isn't sufficient to excite public anger, wait till you hear about the version of the Obama plan prepared by Senator Edward Kennedy, which would specifically exempt Members of Congress from many of its provisions. As the US Office of Personnel Management notes, Members of Congress 'enjoy the widest selection of health plans in the country.' According to page 114 of the Kennedy bill, a similar array of choices would not be available to other Americans in the future. Instead, they would be shunted into health insurance plans under the straightjacket of whatever the government decides is a 'basic' plan."
Union workers would be exempt from the Democrat health care tax. So guess what that says to people? Hey, buddy, if you join our union, your health care won't be taxed like everybody else's. "Critics of the Baucus proposal to exempt unions from a health care benefits tax said the exclusion could be used to lure into unions employees who are anxious to avoid the benefits tax." Yes, exactly right. So you continue to throw a bone to the unions of the workers' paradise. Obama is right out of Das Kapital? Obama looks at profit as just surplus revenue that he can grab. The private sector is just an endless pile of money. He can go get it, use it for whatever he wants. I have also said that if you want to understand Obama's economic policy, understand just one thing, and that is he considers his mission to be to return the nation's wealth to its, quote, unquote, rightful owners.
Now, if you're familiar with Marx and Das Kapital, the rightful owners of the nation's wealth are the poor and workers, the middle class who are exploited and used and taken advantage of and on whose backs other people get rich. Profit is considered evil. Profit is considered something that's unequal. It's unfair to have a profit and to make one.
Look where Unions got G.M. Labor unions are disastrous for American car companies. Labor unions, along with the government regulations, will destroy this country's free capitalism, or what is left of free capitalism. When you restrict what a company can do, and couple that with labor unions demanding outrageous amounts of money for little to no work, you get a bankrupt business. When you bite the hand that feeds you enough, you stop getting fed!
Unionsâ Health Benefits May Avoid Tax Under Obama Proposal
http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aDvu77pZr7k4
There's a reason the Obama health care plan is being rushed through Congress this summer -- because the American people would likely never support it if given time to absorb and understand such fine print," as the unions being exempt from any tax increase on any health care benefits provided by their boss. "If the union carve-out isn't sufficient to excite public anger, wait till you hear about the version of the Obama plan prepared by Senator Edward Kennedy, which would specifically exempt Members of Congress from many of its provisions. As the US Office of Personnel Management notes, Members of Congress 'enjoy the widest selection of health plans in the country.' According to page 114 of the Kennedy bill, a similar array of choices would not be available to other Americans in the future. Instead, they would be shunted into health insurance plans under the straightjacket of whatever the government decides is a 'basic' plan."
Union workers would be exempt from the Democrat health care tax. So guess what that says to people? Hey, buddy, if you join our union, your health care won't be taxed like everybody else's. "Critics of the Baucus proposal to exempt unions from a health care benefits tax said the exclusion could be used to lure into unions employees who are anxious to avoid the benefits tax." Yes, exactly right. So you continue to throw a bone to the unions of the workers' paradise. Obama is right out of Das Kapital? Obama looks at profit as just surplus revenue that he can grab. The private sector is just an endless pile of money. He can go get it, use it for whatever he wants. I have also said that if you want to understand Obama's economic policy, understand just one thing, and that is he considers his mission to be to return the nation's wealth to its, quote, unquote, rightful owners.
Now, if you're familiar with Marx and Das Kapital, the rightful owners of the nation's wealth are the poor and workers, the middle class who are exploited and used and taken advantage of and on whose backs other people get rich. Profit is considered evil. Profit is considered something that's unequal. It's unfair to have a profit and to make one.
Look where Unions got G.M. Labor unions are disastrous for American car companies. Labor unions, along with the government regulations, will destroy this country's free capitalism, or what is left of free capitalism. When you restrict what a company can do, and couple that with labor unions demanding outrageous amounts of money for little to no work, you get a bankrupt business. When you bite the hand that feeds you enough, you stop getting fed!
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