In my experience, there are companies that provide lots of benefits with the honest to goodness intention of caring for their employees. However, there are a lot of firms that provide benefits simply to comply with agreements with labor unions or to be able to claim that they are doing something for their people. Should that be the case, I recommend that employees secure their own individual health insurance policies. Experience thought me that there can be no substitute to a good health insurance. At certain points, we may feel too young to die but certainly, sickness respects no age bracket.
One of the most moving speeches that I've read. During grade school, this was the most often recited elocution piece in my school. Here it is, the text of Raul Manglapus' Land of Bondage, Land of the Free. Land of Bondage, Land of the Free By Raul Manglapus And yet, ladies and gentlemen, the tao is constitutionally free! No wonder, then, that the tao being a slave has acquired the habits of a slave. No wonder that after three centuries in chains, without freedom, without hope, he should lose the erect and fearless posture of a freeman, and become the bent, misshapen, indolent, vicious, pitiful thing that he is! Who dares accuse him now? Who dares rise up in judgement against this man, reduced to this subhuman level by three centuries of oppession? Ladies and gentlemen the tao does not come here tonight to be judged -- but to judge! Hear then his accusation and his sentence: I indict the Spanish encomendero for inventing taxes impossible to pay! I indict the usurer for s...
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