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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 5536228" data-attributes="member: 58386">The key word here is SELF employed. They are independent business entities. As sole proprietors they pay all operating expenses, buy their own health insurance, fund their own pension and pay both the employer and employee share of social security. All while operating in one of the most recession sensitive sectors of the economy.The problem with you brownies is that you've been sheltered in the bosom  of the Teamsters and UPS for so long that you think the entire global economy operates in the same manner as the tiny portion in which you dwell operates.</blockquote>