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Thousands Show Up For Jobs at Amazon Warehouses in US Cities (apnews.com)
Thousands of people showed up Wednesday for a chance to pack and ship products to Amazon customers, as the e-commerce company held a giant job fair at nearly a dozen U.S. warehouses. From a report on Associated Press: Although the wages offered will make it hard for some to make ends meet, many of the candidates were excited by the prospect of health insurance and other benefits, as well as advancement opportunities. It's common for Amazon to ramp up its shipping center staff in August to prepare for holiday shopping. But the magnitude of its current hiring spree underscores Amazon's growth when traditional retailers are closing stores -- and blaming Amazon for a shift to buying goods online. Amazon said it received "a record-breaking 20,000 applications" and hired thousands of people on the spot, and will hire more in the coming days. That number represented fewer than half of the 50,000 people it had said it planned to hire.
They'll be gone soon anyway.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Death or working at Amazon. Which is the sweeter path?
that's hiring with similar wage/benefits
Stocks at a all time high and unemployment rates rampant. This people are staying in line for hours for a chance to get a $11.50 job while people in Silicon Valley are complaining about making it on $150k. This is a powder keg and I fear someone worse than Trump could very well be the next President.
Although this is good news for people looking for work in the cities, Amazon is also closing warehouses in rural communities that are turning into the new inner cities that are lacking in jobs.
Starting in the late 1990s, Amazon.com Inc. began opening fulfillment centers in sparsely populated states to help customers avoid sales taxes. One of those centers, established in 1999, brought hundreds of jobs to Coffeyville, Kan. -- population 9,500. Yet as two-day shipping became a priority, Amazon shifted its warehousing strategy to be closer to cities where its customers were concentrated, and shut the Coffeyville center in 2015.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/05/26/rural-america-is-new-inner-city-2.html
This kind of reminds me of longshoremen having to turn up at the docks every morning and stand on the stones just for a chance to get picked to work that day, with no guarantee that you would be working tomorrow. At least Amazon is providing health benefits, but I've heard horror stories about working for them, both in the warehouses and in technology positions.
In my opinion, scenes like this are going to be more prevalent in the future as more stable work gets offshored or eliminated entirely due to automation. I've said this before, but working in big company IT you see positions all the time that could easily be dumped the second some MBA with a spreadsheet gets around to it. This has been the way of the world for decades though -- big companies were big enough and made enough money to afford to have a little slack in the system and still return profits to shareholders. With the push to put everyone through college instead of training them right out of high school, you have a lot of random business grads who may not have gotten good grades or learned much between all the partying. Big companies still hire a ton of these entry level graduates to do some random task. These graduates get/got a decent salary, stable work, and were able to build their lives around the fact that they would have income. As they settle down, new grads get promotions, buy houses, have children, pay taxes, and consume at increasing levels as their salaries increase. Because of this, the consumer cycle continues on -- companies produce goods that customers can afford to buy because they have jobs because companies can produce goods...
Scenes like this are what make me think this cycle is breaking down. If you squeeze so much that an operation is 100% efficient and you have no more need for the vast majority of employees, then you cut out the ability for those former employees to participate in the economy. Forgoing a new grad hire at the help desk or support team for $40K because Tata will give you a "replacement" for $10K in India means that that new grad is going to have limited options and may end up in line at the Amazon warehouse for just over minimum wage. I don't know how to solve it -- people propose a universal basic income, and i think that's the best answer, but the people who happen to be on the positive side of this shift will never go for it. You would have to have massive unemployment, 50% or more, just to register that there's a problem in most people's minds, and I think that will lead to a pretty big upheaval in the not too distant future.
Does that mean we should give people make-work? I think so, unless anyone has a plan for breaking society's dependence on getting an education, going to work, consuming, saving for retirement, and spending down your savings at the end of your life.
Just don't bother to apply if you're white. Everyone I know who works at my local Amazon center is black and has a bunch of black friends working there too (who also only hire other blacks). So apparently, Amazon don't like hiring them crackers. Probably helps them pad out their numbers so they can clam "diversity" and hope everyone ignores their all-white management.
He said that he thinks they should only have to pay 12 a year, not that they already do.
Making fun of Trump is really easy, how did you fuck this up so badly?
For those of us who were lucky enough to come from a middle class background where we lived in a household were dad went to work and mom stayed home and he supported a family of 5 and a house and two cars, we need to lower our expectations.
Those days are gone forever. The American dream of doing better than your parents is dead Fred.
They didn't have to compete with third world labor. Automation only affected factory workers and even then, things were growing fast enough that folks could move to other work and not see their standard of living get destroyed. One in ten people went to college so when you graduated in anything, there were plenty of jobs.
$55K in SV? And being able to afford to live there? There's more to your story - if true - than you're letting on.
$55K salary and millions in equity? Or $55K in salary and just getting ripped off? Or $55K draw from your startup that has $10million in funding? Or living in your parents basement?
For me to keep my lifestyle and move out there, I'd need ten times that $550K. No thanks, I like it here where I am. And I can flush the toilet after pissing.
He said that he thinks they should only have to pay 12 a year, not that they already do.
Making fun of Trump is really easy, how did you fuck this up so badly?
Says the apparent new expert of fucking up badly.
"But in one eyebrow-raising moment, Trump told the Times that health insurance costs about $1 per month when you're young. "Because you are basically saying from the moment the insurance, you’re 21 years old, you start working and you’re paying $12 a year for insurance, ..."[1]
Actual Twitler word salad quote: "... Because you are basically saying from the moment the insurance, you’re 21 years old, you start working and you’re paying $12 a year for insurance,[2]
And for good measure [3]
It's pretty clear that he thinks (to the extent he actually thinks about anything) that insurance does cost 20-somethings only $12 per year. Not that he thinks that's what they should pay. That that's what they're paying today.
Sending you back to seventh grade for a redo on reading comprehension.
[1] http://fortune.com/2017/07/20/...
[2] http://www.newsweek.com/donald...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Just don't bother to apply if you're white."
Really? Both of my white neighbors work at Amazon.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Seriously?
If we are ever going to beat this racism thing, we've simply got to start ignoring people's race, both legally AND in practical day to day business matters. This applies to ALL sides of the question including discrimination AND affirmative action laws. Folks will have to drop their victimhood status along with those who think they are better by virtue of their race,
MLK's dream was exactly this, judgment by the content of one's character, not the color of their skin.
Of course, nobody cares what I (A middle age white dude) say on this subject because I'm not a member of a politically recognized group of victims...
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
" blaming Amazon for a shift to buying goods online".
Well, It would have happened sooner or later. I don't want the physical stores to go away but the fact is that many of them just can't compete with online. And the fact is that I only buy in brick and mortar when I have to have something right now. That, and when buying food or clothes
Here is the thing about computers and automation. They do not make your lives easier, they make them more difficult. Computers and robots are taking away the easy jobs, leaving the hard jobs, that requires more complex thinking, creativity and problem solving skills, and a wider range of movement. Where every day your job will be different.
We cannot try to slow this down (AKA America First), we cannot really ignore the problem (AKA basic income). However there needs to be an effort to get people onto the fact that they need to change, because people can change faster then a computer can. This includes Training the employees, and changing businesses to allow people who do not have the experience to get in and build the experience.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Premiums rose less than what they were expected to without ObamaCare. Massive screw up there!
Actually, it's easier to make fun of Obamacare.
Trump is only in the process of screwing up. The numbers are clear: Obama already did.
Yes, thanks repubs, for sabotaging it, and refusing to fix any of it.
what about lower the full time hours and or upping 23K (is the new one still held up in court?) Minimum Salary for Exempt Employees
Some places can call some one exempt pay them 25-30K for 60 hour weeks.
Now lowering the full time mark can be an stop gap to universal basic income has more and more automation takes over and it can have less over head of make work in some cases.
High turnover warehouse jobs with an high rate and lots of forced OT just leads to burn out / errors / people gaming the system or working unsafe to make rate.
healthcare needs to be unlinked from the work place.
exempt employee abuse is not just in tech / gaming.
In restaurants like dunkin donuts they want to pay an manger 35-40K to work 60+ hours just so they don't have to hire more hourly staff to cover all open hours and that manger is doing a lot of non manger stuff for a lot of the hours.
Really? Our carrier says that no, without the Obamacare mandates requiring them to insure us against the costs of things that will never happen (we're not going to be having babies, for example), that no - they would not have quadrupled our premiums and quintupled our deductibles. The impact of Obamacare has been absolutely crushing, and pulls so much more of some family's monthly cash flow out of their pockets and into insurance they can't actually use, that they are now stuck paying for healthcare they can't have, and failing to meet other expenses while they're at it. Yeah, "Affordable" Health Care act indeed. Liberals are too afraid to simply call it what it is: a huge new tax on some people, to subsidize welfare-style care given to other people while reducing the care that the people actually footing the bill can get for themselves.
... and all of the other bald-faced lies they knew they were telling, and without which they wouldn't have been able to ram it through their political gamesmanship with a fifth of the country's economy on a 100% partisan basis).
But no, it wasn't a massive screw up. It's exactly what the Democrats wanted: fantastically higher prices and denial of services for a group of people they don't care about, and new entitlements to those that they assume will vote for them. The only screw up was how blatantly they lied about the ACA's consequences (you can keep your doctor and your plan! insurance will go down by $2500 per family! your insurance will only cost about as your mobile phone bill each month! it won't add to the deficit!
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
"Although the wages offered will make it hard for some to make ends meet" ... and this is the company owned by the richest man on the planet. Pathetic end result of unrestrained capitalism. Pathetic!!
It would be easy to make race irrelevant by simple stop asking for it and while your at it get rid of Affirmative Action and all of the other bennies that come along with being the "right" race like access to mortgages, promotions etc. etc. Until this is done there will always be a race issue in the US.
MLK plagiarized both his speeches and his academic submissions but that does not invalidate the meaning of I have a dream.
I suppose this is evidence to the contrary that the US needs illegals because there are jobs Americans won't do.
If your insurer is charging you premiums for things that you both know will never happen, then something is seriously fucked up. They could offer you that insurance for free, because they'll never have to pay out on it.
Yup. Amazon is well into making picker robots that will pick items off the shelf and put them into the box. When they do, most of the warehouse jobs go away.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
not as long as lenders discrimnate against equally qualified minorities.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
http://www.denverpost.com/2016...
and refuse to even call back equally qualified minorities for rentals and leases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
I'm fairly certain he meant twelve thousand dollars, not twelve dollars.
And that he don't see how that could be a problem.
Serious question:
You said that "computers and robots are taking away the easy jobs, leaving the hard [and complicated] jobs."
And you went on to say: "We cannot try to slow this down (AKA America First), we cannot really ignore the problem (AKA basic income)."
Then you talked about training.
Are you therefore saying that instead of "America First", and instead of "basic income", we need to train people to be able to do the harder, more complicated jobs that are left as computers and robots take away the easy jobs?
If so, as a Csci grad working a help desk, it seems clear to me that many people simply cannot do the more complicated jobs that will be left.
The problem is a lot of people can do it. They were just told that going past the yellow line, is bad and you should get in trouble. I am sure much of your help desk users are not from pure stupidity but from people taking that one step beyond what they were told to do.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Sure, this does still happen but when this happens, IT IS ALREADY ILLEGAL!
We don't ne government to do anything about this except to ENFORCE the existing law that makes it illegal to discriminate based on race. If you have an example of people doing this, document the problem and call law enforcement and get it dealt with. IF law enforcement won't help you, call the state, call the feds, call your elected officials and tell them the law isn't being enforced. Tell your friends, call the news paper, TV and Radio outlets and even protest if you need too. If you live in North Texas, CALL ME, I'll do what I can to help you.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Guess what? They are lying to you. If those things are never going to happen, then the cost to the insurance company is zero, so why put up the premiums for something that costs them nothing?
If you mean something that will never happen to you but may happen to others, even that argument is specious, because those things will only happen to very few people, and, once again, the cost, when spread across all the policyholders, is insignificant.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
The CDO crisis was in part due to a soft deal between regulating agencies and the banks. The Fed would look the other way and banks woudl give out mortgages to minorities they knew could not pay them back. A lot of the minority bias in loans is hogwash as the numbers were fudged as a number of studies show: https://www.utdallas.edu/~lieb...
However I do agree that decisions on loans should be financial and on history and be completely blind to race.
If your insurer is charging you premiums for things that you both know will never happen...
You don't understand: they have no choice. The Democrats' ACA law REQUIRES them to provide me with coverage for maternity, drug treatment, and mental health problems whether or not our family wants or needs to be insured in those areas. 80-year-old NUNS have to buy insurance that covers the possibility of them having babies. This is why the Democrats' law is (as the Supreme Court found it to be) a tax, not insurance. I have to buy it, or face legal jeopardy. The insurers have to provide it, or face being shut down for violating the law.
... then something is seriously fucked up.
Correct, it is. The law was deliberately crafted by the Democrats to create this exact situation, and of course it is unsustainable. They knew it when they wrote the bill and lied about it, and they know it now. They WISH the law had been repealed so that the collapse of what it forces on people wouldn't be on them. But it is.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Makes me think of times in the last century when people would line up in the hope of work for a day. There are bleak times ahead for us in the middle, when there will only be work for the unskilled (who have to do anything) and for the elite (who make a few decisions about the masses). I love what mechanisation and robotics has done for us but fear its future.
Here is the thing about computers and automation. They do not make your lives easier, they make them more difficult. Computers and robots are taking away the easy jobs, leaving the hard jobs, that requires more complex thinking, creativity and problem solving skills, and a wider range of movement. Where every day your job will be different.
We cannot try to slow this down (AKA America First), we cannot really ignore the problem (AKA basic income). However there needs to be an effort to get people onto the fact that they need to change, because people can change faster then a computer can. This includes Training the employees, and changing businesses to allow people who do not have the experience to get in and build the experience.
Here's the thing about computers and automation taking away the easy jobs, leaving only the complex jobs that require training and education. There's a damn good chance an easy job was your first job because it was the only kind of job you were qualified to do. There's a damn good chance an easy job was what helped pay for training and education to enable you to obtain a skilled job.
Without easy jobs, there is no ladder of success to climb. There is no path to obtain the skills to qualify you for the only jobs left. Regarding change, Greed doesn't seem to care that it's exacerbating this inherent problem. Regarding people adapting, the problem with that is there are a lot of people who simply aren't intelligent enough to grasp a complex job. That's why they have an easy job. That's not meant to be demeaning, simply stating fact.
You are missing the concept of a risk pool. They know men and 80-year old nuns aren't going to have babies. They are assuming a specific percentage of the population will though (likely around 1.24% each year). Similar statistics cover other risks.
Ultimately, the cost is fixed; ACA just spreads that cost out somewhat uniformly as a cost for society to bear. They do try to force preventative care to be included despite what some people may want from their plan, in the hopes they drive down the costs of serious care from people neglecting problems.
Yup. Amazon is well into making picker robots that will pick items off the shelf and put them into the box. When they do, most of the warehouse jobs go away.
I find it rather strange that Greed cannot see the business impact that automation will ultimately create. Rather hard to maintain revenue streams when you've automated the masses out of employment, and no one can afford to buy your robot-delivered products.
Of course, Greed is too fucking short-sighted to see this obvious problem...
Legal jeopardy? Let's not get too carried away, but I guess truthiness is a spectrum for people like you.
Don't buy it, you face a monetary penalty. You dont get hauled to court, or prison.
I wont argue whether it is a tax or insurance, but my taxes pay for a lot of stuff I dont need or agree with. War for oil in Iraq? I dont need that and yet my taxes went there. Who can I whine and complain to like you seem to be doing about healthcare.
Except the insurance company is also supposed to apply how likely the event is to happen to the cost of it happening.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
quadrupled our premiums and quintupled our deductibles
I can't tell if you're speaking about yourself in solid numbers, or hand-waving in general? My experience with insurance is it's gone up a few percent every other year for the last 13 years, with not a lot of change in deductibles or coverage. In other words: no difference before or after.
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I agree the CDO crisis was due to
a) giving out mortgages to unqualified people of *all* races (but perhaps minorities at a higher rate).
b) lying and saying that "A" class bonds mixed with bad mortgages were still "A" class.
c) people (esp large funds, governments, etc.) being stupid and buying CDOs that paid 7% when "A" bonds paid 4% and assuming the risk was the same.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
This is a bogus argument. If only 1/3 of the insured get pregnant, then all the less cost for the total pool. Its bogus to say you only want to pay for potential conditions
That's not how change works. The system, as it stands, discriminates at the very beginning. Black women have higher maternal mortality rates, schools in black neighbourhoods aren't as well funded, services are less available to black people, etc., etc.
(Or from a Canadian perspective, First Nations people start incredibly disadvantaged; some reservations have been on boil water advisories for 20 years, and so on.)
They're STARTING from a worse place. Affirmative action type programs are theoretically temporary. Once you've elevated enough of a disadvantaged class, it should be self sustaining, but nobody's there yet. Privilege endures.
It's really disingenuous of you to use that MLK quote; he understood that you have to fight for equality, and that it isn't just handed to you. It doesn't just happen on its own, or he wouldn't have had to march and be thrown in jail or give speeches or be assassinated.
The 5 years before Obamacare, for me, premiums increased less than 10% a year, except for one. After Obamacare, my premiums have increased 12-16% per year. And I had to switch plans. And I had to switch one doctor.
Don't buy it, you face a monetary penalty. You dont get hauled to court, or prison.
If you don't buy it, you face a monetary penalty. And that penalty is enforced by the IRS, with powers to garnish wages, seize property, and ultimately jail you if you don't pay what you owe plus the interest and penalties. Quite pretending your don't know how IRS enforcement works. That's the whole REASON the Democrats made the law something that the IRS controls, where the rubber meets the road. To frighten even people who can't possibly afford to buy this product into doing it anyway, or face federal legal consequences.
I wont argue whether it is a tax or insurance
Why would you? It's a tax. That's settled, after a trip through multiple courts. But unlike that small portion of your income tax that goes to discretionary spending (like on schools, or the Coast Guard), the Democrats wouldn't (and still won't) acknowledge that they designed a tax to be taken from just some people, and to be given as an entitlement to other people. Structurally. Permanently. It's a welfare tax and entitlement program, and that's just what they like, but they won't even use simple honest language when talking about it. Who do you find trying to convince you that the minority of people who may the vast majority of the income taxes in the country, some of which goes to things like military spending, isn't what it is? Be specific. Is it the Republicans who are telling you that your income tax and military spending are really something else? Perhaps you mis-heard what somebody said. Not to be confused with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid lying to their own party to convince people in their ranks to support the ACA by deliberately misrepresenting it as something that it wasn't.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Actually, its more likely that he's confusing health insurance with life insurance.
Except the insurance company is also supposed to apply how likely the event is to happen to the cost of it happening.
No, they cannot take that into account. That's part of the law's structure. Sorry! Your health or your likelihood to produce the huge costs associated with having cancer or having a baby can no longer impact them selling you insurance or how they price it. All prices are government approved. Each new huge premium increase is run past government insurance regulators. If the insurer says the math simply doesn't work, they have one option: leave. Which they are doing in droves, because this is causing them to lose billions of dollars unless they get bailed out by taxpayers.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Trump doesn't count money in quantum less than $1K.
healthcare needs to be unlinked from the work place.
That's how you get worse work.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
He said there is a penalty. And of course if you don't pay it they will eventually collect it anyway. He's simply saying that one option is choosing to pay that penalty instead of buying the insurance. Don't add all the drama to try to make it seem worse than it already is.
We cannot try to slow this down (AKA America First), we cannot really ignore the problem (AKA basic income). However there needs to be an effort to get people onto the fact that they need to change, because people can change faster then a computer can. This includes Training the employees, and changing businesses to allow people who do not have the experience to get in and build the experience.
Actually you have a couple of the options mixed up. Basic income isn't ignoring the problem, it's setting the foundation for a long-term solution. Training and relocation is ignoring the problem. It's Wile E. Coyote running straight from the cannonball instead of stepping to the side. The cannonball represents artificial intelligence and the cartoon coyote represents an attempt to continually outsmart it, no matter how quickly it's advancing or how fast it will eventually become or how exhausting it is to keep the effort up. Jobs getting more scarce and demanding over time? Let them train and relocate and eat cake.
Basic income sidesteps the problem of people continually having to make themselves smarter or more useful than AI and having to fight over the ever-dwindling number of jobs for such people while the owners of the means of production are pointlessly hyper-enriched until the economy collapses or some kind of atrocity is undertaken to correct it. If the economy is supposed to serve mankind, under these conditions it should be harnessed to do so via basic income. The only reason to disagree is if you worship it as a godlike AI that exists for its own purposes (whatever they may be) and that should not be interfered with.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Oh, so you are for equal OUTCOME then? Look, I'm not discounting racism happens, I've seen it, it does. However, you simply cannot measure racism by outcome alone. What we want is equality in OPPERTUNITY, where all men (regardless of the circumstances of their birth) are equal in terms of law and thus opportunity. Not all are equal in ability or drive, which is why you cannot measure opportunity by outcome.
MLK wasn't using the measuring stick of race, he was using the content of your character to measure others. This MUST be properly understood. People should be measured by their character, their effort, their intelligence, by what they produce and NOT by what they look like or what family, race, religion or gender they happen to be. (to extend MLK's dream beyond race). He didn't advocate equal outcome, but equal opportunity. And you produce equal opportunity between the races in law by making laws which are agnostic to race and enforcing them equally.
Any attempt to equalize outcome is nothing more than socialism in disguise. Socialism is antithetical to our founding which was based on equality of opportunity and treatment under the law, which always leads to various levels of outcome due to variances in individual's character. Don't confuse opportunity with outcome, they are not the same in our system.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
or what the old 39.9 hour a week people who get no healthcare under the old system?
I was just thinking today that the "thought processes" of the economy have very little perception of time. There is no past and very little future, just the present moment and short-term plans. I'm confident that if businesses could commit to a plan that would cause the earth to blow up in 5 years but would massively boost profits in the meantime, they would do it.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Don't add all the drama to try to make it seem worse than it already is.
I'm not ADDING drama, at all. I'm simply describing the thing the way it actually is, instead of trying to obfuscate it the way that the Democrats did when they wrote it, and the way they continue to do now while attempting to explain that it's really just fine. They can't talk honestly about it, ever. When the CBO says that 20 million people who are currently being forced to buy expensive insurance programs would promptly CHOOSE stop doing so if they weren't required to by the Democrats' law, they Democrats refer to those people likely being anxious to jump ship as "having their health care taken away." Which is pure nonsense. But that's exactly the sort of disingenuous crap that sold the law in the first place, and which is being used to falsely villify anyone who even dares to suggest that the whole thing is a disaster and must be structurally, fundamentally altered.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
It's now been replaced with 29.9 hours and contractor abuse.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
because those things will only happen to very few people
Pregnancy is not so rare.
Pregnancy is certainly rare in certain age groups. For example, if you are over 50, the chance of pregnancy is so small, that providing coverage for it is insignificant.
And, yes, under Obamacare, people of different ages can be charged different amounts, so the cost of providing pregnancy coverage to 80-year old NUNS is effectively zero.
It's like car insurance, except that, with car insurance, the young get to pay higher premiums because their chance of making a claim is much higher. That's how insurance works.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
This phenomenon is referred to as "the long tail," a reference to the part of a Gaussian curve of product availability that lies outside of the center where most brick and mortar retailers concentrate.
It's amazing to be able to find, usually at a reasonable price, nearly anything one can imagine and come up with search terms for.
It's twelve a month but you have to spend $2000 before any benefits kick in. One thing they don't advertise is a card you call the insurance for. It's like a debit card tier 1 Amazon puts $500 on it, to cover medical expenses ONLY, they really don't inform employees. If you use that for doctor visits and medication, the kick in starts at about $1500. It's really not a plan that helps many people in a their 20's. But $12 should something tragic happens, is worth it. That said the working conditions are insane, steel workers have a safer environment.
You individually, correct. You part of a larger pool of people your age, certainly.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
No, you are just repeating the lies you have heard from the right-wing media outlets. You are not describing the way it is.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Are you for real? Trump basically won because he gave voice to middle aged white snowflakes like you who complain they are not getting any attention even though you have the most opportunity and benefits. It is no one else's fault that a lot of white people choose to throw away their advantages by not studying, taking opioids, or whatever else.
You cannot be serious...
Trump won because he appealed to people OUTSIDE the party, ostensibly the middle of the road political folks. He also won because of Hillary, who was such a bad candidate that she lost even after the "Access Hollywood" tapes dropped within weeks of the election. Then there is the whole racial perspective on this where democrats ran a white woman to follow the black man into the presidency and I'm pretty sure that suppressed the democratic turnout in some key places and allowed Trump to pick up states on narrow margins to pick up electoral votes and win.
Seriously, Trump didn't really win this on his merits, Realistically he should have lost hands down. What happened is Hillary was such a bad candidate, ran such a bad campaign that SHE LOST despite being a shoe in for the win. Surely you see this. And don't forget this is coming from what you describe as a "White middle aged snowflake"... Hillary was the worst possible candidate I could imagine and ran a horrible campaign who lost to the second worst possible candidate I could think of. She got cocky, drank her own kool-aid and lost because she didn't think she had to put any effort into it.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
My white uncle works for them.
Yes, they were paying S&P and Moodys millions to grade the CDOs as AAA when they were full of crap.
A lot of people got caught because water shed funds, pensions and other funds that only buy AAA picked these up automatically or as part of a larger package.
No one notices that people were speculating on the bubble when they were getting these ridiculous balloon mortgages on 5 houses when they could not afford the mortgage on one?
They did a study, sent out 5000 identical resumes for over 1500 positions... except 25% were for Jamal, 25% for Greg, 25% for Lakeisha, and 25% for Emily.
Greg and Emily got a call back for every 10 resumes sent with their name on it.
Jamal and Lakeisha got a call back for every 15 resumes sent with their name on it.
No where was race listed on the resumes.
No, the GP was repeatedly saying that the problem was they didn't have equal opportunity ("STARTING from a worse place"). Everything else you say stems from that misunderstanding.
I wouldn't take the federal Court's opinion on truth so seriously. Wickard v. Filburn. And of course, Dred Scott.
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So stupid and/or blind. Either that or you are deliberately missing the point. The "drama" is you trotting out the IRS collection techniques, as if they immediately attack. You owe the money, just like any other IRS bill. If you don't pay they send you letters. If you continue and continue and continue to not pay they eventually will step up their collection, just like with any other case. All he was saying was paying the tax is an alternative to buying the insurance. He didn't say anything about refusing to pay.
So, let's get this straight: you think that the ACA does NOT require you to buy insurance or pay a fine if you do not. You think that the imposition of that fine and the enforcement of its collection is NOT the responsibility of the IRS. Please, do tell, how these things are handled, instead, in your imaginary world? Details, please, all about your alternate reality. Can't wait to hear how it is you're subject to a different law than the rest of us. Looking forward to the specifics.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.