09-29-2010, 10:45 PM
billb wrote:
Normal people most certainly do put a street price value on their employer paid health insurance and any other perks.
It's called value added for a reason.
billb, we were discussing why people don't want to uproot their lives and move to California for seasonal migrant labor as opposed to collecting unemployment benefits to which they are fully entitled. Dakota is derailing it with this BS about health benefits because he mis-read the article and thought people in PA are getting health insurance while on unemployment. I foolishly thought he had quoted the article correctly.
Of course people put a value to their benefits. But if someone says, "I make $56,000 a year" would you assume they were giving you a total of all their benefits and perks and the value of their vacation time and yadayada? I wouldn't and I doubt anyone else would, either.
The health benefit thing is Dakota's way of shifting off-topic because he could see that nobody agreed with him so he is trying to act like he was talking about something else altogether.
Anyhow, people in PA don't get health insurance while on unemployment so it's entirely moot.