Friday, March 13, 2009
So, Like I Was Telling Famous Person X....
The guy who bored me out of my ass by chewing my ear off last night with his asanine name-dropping routine accompanied by Zippo tricks can fuck off. Dude, NONE of that makes you cool. And any chick that is impressed by that crap can go fuck off right with him.
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My insurance company (Golden Rule) can, once again, FUCK the FUCK OFF with a habanero nacho cheese covered morning star. "We do not provide predetermination of benefits for Synagis [the RSV shot] ... If a claim is received, we will review the submitted information and process the claim according to the provisions under your health plan."
In other words, we'll look for a loophole to weasel out of, and stick you with the $2000+ bill, if we can. You'll just have to take a leap of faith.
FUCK YOU, Golden Rule. FUCK YOU SIDEWAYS WITH THE BARREL OF RED INK YOU SWIM IN. FUCK YOU SIDEWAYS WITH THE MOUNTAIN OF PAPER REGULATIONS THAT LETS YOU SAY "We cover this... sometimes...but only under these circumstances...and only if we can't get out of it." FUCK YOU SIDEWAYS WITH THE MOUNTAIN OF DEBT THAT YOU TRY TO STICK YOUR CUSTOMERS WITH. And may you bleed to death from paper cuts to your rectal tissue.
And fuck you for landing that shitstain of a letter in my mailbox on my 30th birthday.
I have other fuck offs, but that was the big one that really ruined my week.
Wow, HH, I can't get over what 'tards your insurance company is.
Isn't the RSV shot something that can, you know, prevent even bigger medical bills later on? Gah.
My FO is small and petty (or maybe not): All the special snowflakes of the world - the people who don't think the rules apply to them, the people who show up late to meetings because they can, the people who piss and moan about the stuff that everyone else has already dealt with, the people who act clueless because they know someone will bail out their sorry butts - they can all FO from a high dive board.
And I can say to them now, "Screw you guys, I'm goin' home" because next week is my spring break and provided I encounter no special snowflakes on the train (I have a "roomette" so hopefully I will be able to avoid them), as of noon today, my live will be snowflake free for over a week.
HH, I went through the same bit with my Dental people last year. Between a rock and a hard place...either I paid the dentist $1800 out of pocket while while my insurance company pondered on the matter, or risked any manner of infection and pain for months with my wisdom teeth.
I feel ya. I'll throw my fuckoff behind yours, since I've actually had a decent enough week...
I guess my dentist can do the reverse of F'ing off, because when I needed a crown and my dental insurance was in a similar situation, he said, "Don't worry about it...pay the co-pay and we'll call it good."
Lucky for him the dental insurance did finally come up off the money.
(I have a really, really good dentist. Not just because he doesn't leave me to twist in the wind financially. I hope he's got at least a few more years in him before retirement.)
The thing that pisses me off about your whole insurance drama the most, HH, is that this is a sick fucking baby we are talking about here! How can anyone in good conscience mess with the health of a child?
And all these "going John Galt" people can fuck off. Seriously. You sound like the petulant hippies from the 60s that promised to "tune in and drop out, groovy man" because they didn't want their tax dollars funding the Vietnam war. FUCK OFF. Just because you don't like President Obama does not entitle you to stop carrying your own goddamm weight. And no, you are not so fucking important that society will crumble if you decide to quit your job and be a fucking bum while thinking you've got a good excuse for it. He IS your president, whether you like him or voted for him or not. You sound just like the left wing people you've spent the last eight years making fun of for being so nuts.
Amen, Emily, on your fuck off. Though it's sometimes tempting, I don't want to act like that kind of a spoiled brat.
And the baby's not currently sick--the Synagis is to keep him from getting sick with something that would kill him because he's so small.
And I have no problem paying out of pocket--I just want to know I have to, so I can try to negotiate with the pharmacies, and see if I can get a better price for cash on the barrel with no insurance paperwork (and some time to save for six months of monthly shots would help, too).
It just pisses me off - you have enough to worry about with a tiny preemie to not have to be dealing with an insurance company coming up with bogus excuses to not pay. That's ridiculous. This isn't car insurance or home insurance - it's fucking HEALTH insurance to keep a human being alive. Grrrr.
"Special snowflakes"!! I love it!
I call them EBMs: Everybody But Me, as in "The fire lane in front of the store applies to everybody but me", or "Laws are for everybody but me."
wv: ungle. Sounds nasty: "There's a growth on your ungle."
HH, my sympathies. And kudos for a righteous, Val-level FO rant!!!
Emily, not that I plan on "going John Galt" myself, but as I understand it, the idea is to earn sufficiently less income so as to fall to the next lower tax bracket, and thereby avoid the hew taxes proposed by Obama. So it's not supposed to be an attempt to avoid pulling their fair share, it's supposed to deny Obama a portion of tax revenue that wouldn't be needed if he and Congress had a single responsible bone in their body.
"Going John Galt" is not supposed to mean turning into a bum, but refusing to be taxed for their "higher productivity" (although that's a question begging term for some sources of income). It's not QUITE a temper tantrum.
And if these so-called "John Galts" do throw a temper tantrum, and become hippie style bums, fuck 'em.
I would like to offer an anti-fuck off to the few Congresscritters who have at least semi-consistently used their brain cells, and tried to leash the unleashed spending frenzy Congress and the White House is pushing right now. The rest of 'em can fuck off with a tank of liquid nitrogen dipped in salsa.
TW: Whats de matta wit' you anyways?
The following people are on my FO Hit List this week:
--drivers who blow through stop signs
--whoever came up with that scary staring pile of money in the car insurance commercials
--the a-hole cop who gave my friends a hard time (people like you make everyone hate police)
--politicians who talk out of both sides of their mouths
--HH's insurance neanderthals
Knock it off, you jackasses.
Jeff,
I understand what it means. I've read the dumb book and the fifty page tirade. My specific problems with it, beyond the ridiculous self-importance a person has to feel to think that if they reduce their productivity, the country as a whole will suffer, is that nobody has ever gotten to pick and choose where their tax dollars go. I suppose some of these very people would have called a left wing person who did the same because they didn't want to fund the Iraq war a traitor.
I don't know jack shit about stocks and have very little understanding of the current financial crisis, but it seems to me that during times like this, saying "fuck you, I got mine. I'm bunkering down" is just a bad idea for the country. And the whole premise that it's okay to screw over your fellow countrymen because they had the nerve to vote for somebody you don't like? That's what *I* consider traitorous.
everything in my life except you people and my darling husband can fuck off with poison spiked cheese knobs. Fuck work. Fuck it up its fucking ass. For the last month. Fuck that I can't give details. Fuck that I still don't know if I will have a job next year.
And fuck HH's insurance company for dicking around with the kid's life.
And any chick that is impressed by that crap can go fuck off right with him.
I'm pretty sure that's the point.
Once again, my fuck off is for litigators. Listen you fucktards, I'm fucking tired of your bullshit. It's a fucking strict fucking liability law, you fucking assholes, it is a consumer fucking protection law. Your client broke the fucking law, we are going to fucking win. And really, you represent a fucking bank, in this fucking economy and this fucking societal arrangement, and you are going to be smug arrogant pricks? Are you fucking smoking crack? Seriously, this pisses me off, your fucking clients fucked the whole goddamned world and you are going to try and blame my disabled client? Fuck you with moldy nacho cheese sauce covered rusted white hot rakes in every orifice.
God, I fucking hate litigation with every fiber of my being.
Ken and I had the discussion about going Galt last week. What's really fucking funny to me about a lot of these assholes is that they seem to forget that the Bush tax cuts are set to fucking expire and that's all this fucking is. Obama's not "raising taxes", Bush did that. And it's an extra three cents on the dollar after $250k.
It's little more than stamping feet and holding breath.
Assholes.
[Late to the party, too much going on] [Fuck off to that]
John Galt (and like any of the hippie types ever paid any taxes anyway)
None of the people "going John Galt" is actually doing so in the real sense. All they are doing is foregoing additional income because of the marginal tax rates on it, which make it less appealing to work harder.
And I don't think any of them is so stupid as to think that "society will crumble if you decide to quit your job".
But (as mentioned in the little tussle KG and I had) sometimes there comes a point when the extra work just isn't worth the hassle and you decide to pull in the reins and enjoy life a little bit rather than do the extra work just to feed the beast. Being several times below the $250k level I'm not there yet (being also salaried so that no matter how much work I do I get no more money), but when they finally realize that they can't pay for it with those people, they will come after the rest of us.
And KG, if it were only the expiration of the tax cuts, no one would really care that much. But they are also talking about raising taxes above that, cutting deductions above a certain income level, raising the level of income that has to pay into Social Security (which I never expect to collect on anyway), and raising capital gains taxes.
And all to pay for the most expensive piece of crap bill in history, larded with Dembulb wet-dream nonsense. KG, it really doesn't matter if earmarks are only a small percentage of the total bill. They are especially subject to abuse and corruption (see Murtha for only the most recent examples).
Sorry, but I AM pulling my weight. I'm also pulling the weight of the 43% of the country that doesn't. And while I don't buy into the idea that I should pay the same dollar amount as those making less, or even necessarily the same percentage, I don't think that I should be made to pay far more than the percentage paid by others, which is what will happen soon.
And I don't consider those who opposed the Vietnam or Iraq wars as unpatriotic. I only require that they pay their legally required share of taxes, even if they disagree with me. If they want to reduce their taxes by making less money, that's cool. But if they make enough to pay taxes, they need to pay them. Unlike the current Secretary of the Treasury, who apparently couldn't be bothered to pay his back taxes until the IRS caught him (and who couldn't be bothered to pay the ones the IRS couldn't legally make him pay because of the statute of limitations, until he was nominated to a cabinet position where it might prove embarrassing).
I only WISH I made enough money that I could get away with crap like that.
Oh, and for HH, FUCK OFF to to your crap insurance company. FUCK YOU, crap bastards. HH pays you for insurance. You pay her back with proper coverage. That's how it works, assholes.
I suppose some of these very people would have called a left wing person who did the same because they didn't want to fund the Iraq war a traitor.
Can't say about other people, Emily, but I didn't, and still don't. There's a reason why tax lawyers and accountants do so well in this country, and it's not because of any altruism on their part. Avoiding taxes is something a lot of people do, be it legal loopholes or working for cash only. It's been the case for generations.
So, I don't see it as stupid, just another application of the ancient art of the avoidance of paying taxes. Or, in this case, paying somewhat less taxes.
Which will happen, regardless of who sits in the White House.
One clarification: people do need to pay their fair share of taxes. I do not condone deadbeats like Geithner who simply don't pay what they owe; if they hire tax firms to reduce their taxes, I figure they're stimulating the economy by hiring that firm.
I'm not going to lump "John Galts"/Anti-war activists with tax cheats. But neither do I consider tax evasion a major sin, unless they compound it with hypocrisy. Like the Obama Administration does.
And KG, if it were only the expiration of the tax cuts, no one would really care that much.
Ken, that's my problem as well. I could live with the tax cuts going away, if that was it. But the Dhimmicrats (and a few RINOs) are talking more than that, such as this ludicrous cap-and-trade system for carbon "pollution", are just another way for government to dip their hands into our wallets. So all those effing socialists can fuck off as well.
On of my favorite judges of all time, Learned Hand (yes, Ken, that was his actual name) said that we basically have a patriotic duty to pay as little tax as required by law:
"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as
possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands."
Gregory v. Helvering 69 F.2d 809, 810 (2d Cir. 1934)
Oh, and Ken, I know earmarks are susceptible to corruption, it's government and it's money, those two things equal corruption well more than three out of four times. The difference is, so long as earmarks are made public information (which they weren't before) I think they are less prone to corruption when it's a Congresscritter doing it rather than a faceless, soulless middle-management-style bureaucrat doing it.
I should also point out, I'm in favor of blowing up the entire tax code and starting over (this is one of those things I actually agree with Charlie Rangle about; though I suspect we'd find our end points quite far apart). But since testicular fortitude is lacking in both Sacramento and DeeCee, I guess I'll have to stick to dreaming about an escape to Belize.
Learned Hand - yes, I know the name. I bet he was very popular.
I don't know just how transparent the earmark process is. And even with apparent transparency, the probes into Murtha, et al., are moving very slowly.
I think my biggest problem, aside from the corruption, is that these little projects apparently couldn't pass any kind of discussion or debate, to be funded on their own merits.
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