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SHRED

SHRED's Journal
SHRED's Journal
March 22, 2013

A union member, a tea party activist, and a CEO...

..are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it.

The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says,

'Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.'




I forgot where I heard this but it's one of my favorites.

March 14, 2013

California's Health Exchange is coming along

I have posted some of these before however I have now labeled them better:



The Health Exchange site "Covered California" where Californians can go to buy insurance in October
http://www.coveredca.com/

California State Health site
http://www.healthexchange.ca.gov/Pages/Default.aspx

California Health Benefit Advisers (lots of good info here)
http://www.cahba.com/exchange/covered-california.htm

Answers to your questions and concerns about the Covered California exchange
http://www.cahba.com/advice/

An informative press conference video
http://cal-span.org/cgi-bin/archive.php?owner=HBEX&date=2013-02-13

Affordable Care Act (Federal)
http://www.healthcare.gov/index.html

March 3, 2013

"Austerity" translated:



You get the cuts to your public services and earned benefits while the wealthy get the bailouts and tax breaks.


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