I'll grant that the FDA needs a cold reboot. The FTC needs a swift kick to get it moving. The FCC is a mixed bag, but it's recently been doing a bit better. The SEC needs actual funding and to actually do something to show they have teeth.
Of course, the FBI, CIA, and NSA also need a cold reboot. The DEA just needs the boot.
We do not need to remove regulation unless we want to go back to medicines with deadly poisons in them and our cities to go back to choking smog like Beijing and Shenzhen have.
In other words, they have lived within what they were taught is capitalism and don't like it. And no wonder since it dumbed them down even as it overworked their parents and left them no time to be parents. Their parents certainly haven't sung the praise of capitalism since they were too dead tired for singing.
Given that, their rejection of the system that screwed them is probably the smartest thing they have done in their lives.
They were taught that what America has today is capitalism. What they see today makes them sick, and rightly so. If you don't want capitalism flushed, you better help it clean up it's act.
This. The Millennials aren't just somehow uneducated or misguided. They have been pissed upon from great height. The capitalists who did the pissing have nobody to blame but themselves.
The problem is that the spending is on pork projects rather than proper government functions. Starving regulatory agencies and safety net programs to death has been a stated goal of the GOP for a good while. They've been quite open about it from time to time.
That's a serious limitation of sabermetrics. Baseball is a subtle game. The more you study it, the more subtleties you find.
A good manager's gut feeling takes far more factors into consideration than sabermetrics even looks at.
A perfect example is the steal. Sabermetrics followers claim the steal is a losing proposition. That may be true by the numbers being tracked, but it fails to account for the effect on the pitcher after a steal happens. Rattling the pitcher is a real thing.
It wouldn't be so bad if they could tell you exactly how many of what license you need and then not change their minds during a disruptive audit. It's quite hard to guess what licenses they may require you to have from day to day.
You've obviously never tried to actually be compliant. When MS itself cannot tell you how many of what license you need and changes it's mind regularly, it is literally impossible to be certain of compliance (because they're not) short of buying an unlimited site license for everything.
Haven't you noticed? They keep telling us they need X, then another terrorist attack happens anyway and they tell us if they had just had X+1 they could have stopped it. Lather,. rinse, repeat. Soon there won't be any more to give them and the terrorist attacks will continue.
Because I want my family to live, I want the NSA's domestic spying budget to be cut and re-allocated to healthcare, traffic safety, and any number of more likely causes of death.
I am an American who prefers public transportatinn because it lets me read a book instead of sitting uselessly in traffic. Unfortunately, i have to drive to the nearest public transportation:-(
They only need one or two dogs to walk. Why would they need anything more, they have their basic needs covered. They can even be their own dogs or a family member's dog.
They won't get that nice vacation or new flatscreen from walking one or two dogs. They'll be looking for something more in demand. You're forgetting that this is a BASIC income. Most people are accustomed to more than a basic lifestyle and that means they'll be wanting to earn money.
As for your idiot, opponents of minimum wage claim that there's a lot of labor that isn't worth minimum wage and that we should eliminate the minimum wage to make those jobs exist. They never seem to have a good explanation of how people are supposed to survive on that sort of pay. It seems your idiot was doing one of those jobs out of boredom since he already had his needs met. While not much, it did provide for some economic value at least.
If it's anecdotes you want, there was this lady in England who was living on the dole and spending her time writing a children's book. A few years later, she brought billions into the UK's economy.
But let's take a moment to look at people who have no need to make a living at all. Do you see Bill Gates walking 2 dogs a week these days? How about Larry Ellison? According to you, they have no motive to do any better than that. In fact, they have even less motivation than a basic income recipient.
It seems harsh to me as well, but I see it as none of my business since it will never apply to me. It certainly puts a damper on the fear mongers who would have us believe all Muslims want to kill all non-Muslims.
It's also not entirely from left field. Many people in the U.S. have historically shown a preference to live in somewhat homogeneous communities. It's why so many cities have the various ethnic neighborhoods. That includes most (in)famously white flight (but only after making it clear "they" weren't wanted didn't work).
Given time, I fully expect attitudes to mellow (it's already happening) considerably and for the language to be seen as symbolic rather than literal. Much like Christians don't stone sinners to death these days in the U.S.
Nonsense. Dog walkers with no dogs to walk will move on to something else as always. After all, they wanted to make some extra cash and dog walkers don't do that when nobody wants them to walk a dog.
What makes you think natural market forces only work when people have a gun to their head?
It will be more fair because otherwise people won't do it. Most of the unfair employment offers out there depend on potential employees being desperate. Once they can afford to say no, the terms will get better.
As for the taxes, it won't be a big problem if they are progressive.
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I'll grant that the FDA needs a cold reboot. The FTC needs a swift kick to get it moving. The FCC is a mixed bag, but it's recently been doing a bit better. The SEC needs actual funding and to actually do something to show they have teeth.
Of course, the FBI, CIA, and NSA also need a cold reboot. The DEA just needs the boot.
We do not need to remove regulation unless we want to go back to medicines with deadly poisons in them and our cities to go back to choking smog like Beijing and Shenzhen have.
There is very little actual socialism here other than the way corporations are allowed to socialize the losses while privitizing the profits.
It is arguable that we have a degenerate crony capitalism or that we're veering towards fascism but there is clearly no socialist or communist trend.
The people are calling for a more mixed economy but their representatives have only responded weakly and incompletely.
About like now as far as 90% of the population is concerned except they ached less and had more free time.
They were taught that what we have is capitalism and GP's list describes it well. So they reject that which they were taught is capitalism.
What it is is a degenerate oligarchy, the natural result of "conservative" policies applied to capitalism.
In other words, they have lived within what they were taught is capitalism and don't like it. And no wonder since it dumbed them down even as it overworked their parents and left them no time to be parents. Their parents certainly haven't sung the praise of capitalism since they were too dead tired for singing.
Given that, their rejection of the system that screwed them is probably the smartest thing they have done in their lives.
In the sense that he warned that they must not be allowed and that corporate charters should be few and on a tight leash, yes.
They were taught that what America has today is capitalism. What they see today makes them sick, and rightly so. If you don't want capitalism flushed, you better help it clean up it's act.
The Chinese businessmen I have met described it as supercapitalism. From their descriptions, I would agree with them.
This. The Millennials aren't just somehow uneducated or misguided. They have been pissed upon from great height. The capitalists who did the pissing have nobody to blame but themselves.
Yes, that is always the problem. And the only way to reduce pork spending substantially is to reduce spending.
Or the legislators could actually demonstrate some of that fiscal responsibility they keep blathering about.
Good!
Truth comes out, you WANT them to be dysfunctional even if they have to be monkeywrencged to do it, so there's an excuse to get rid of them.
The problem is that the spending is on pork projects rather than proper government functions. Starving regulatory agencies and safety net programs to death has been a stated goal of the GOP for a good while. They've been quite open about it from time to time.
Hear Hear! To our health!
That's a serious limitation of sabermetrics. Baseball is a subtle game. The more you study it, the more subtleties you find.
A good manager's gut feeling takes far more factors into consideration than sabermetrics even looks at.
A perfect example is the steal. Sabermetrics followers claim the steal is a losing proposition. That may be true by the numbers being tracked, but it fails to account for the effect on the pitcher after a steal happens. Rattling the pitcher is a real thing.
Don't confuse original intent with the travesty of it's modern implementation. I was responding to the intent.
I agree that the modern courts and legislator make a mockery of it.
Above and beyond what AC said, you can also get in trouble if you install any web based services or similar.
It wouldn't be so bad if they could tell you exactly how many of what license you need and then not change their minds during a disruptive audit. It's quite hard to guess what licenses they may require you to have from day to day.
You've obviously never tried to actually be compliant. When MS itself cannot tell you how many of what license you need and changes it's mind regularly, it is literally impossible to be certain of compliance (because they're not) short of buying an unlimited site license for everything.
So far, they haven't provided any information leading to prevention of terrorism. They have provided plenty of red herrings.
All they have managed to do is bust a few drug trafficers, and that at the cost of undermining justice in the U.S. It's really not worth the cost.
Haven't you noticed? They keep telling us they need X, then another terrorist attack happens anyway and they tell us if they had just had X+1 they could have stopped it. Lather,. rinse, repeat. Soon there won't be any more to give them and the terrorist attacks will continue.
Because I want my family to live, I want the NSA's domestic spying budget to be cut and re-allocated to healthcare, traffic safety, and any number of more likely causes of death.
I am an American who prefers public transportatinn because it lets me read a book instead of sitting uselessly in traffic. Unfortunately, i have to drive to the nearest public transportation :-(
Not sure if trolling or not, so I'll just suggest reading a high school civics text.
They only need one or two dogs to walk. Why would they need anything more, they have their basic needs covered. They can even be their own dogs or a family member's dog.
They won't get that nice vacation or new flatscreen from walking one or two dogs. They'll be looking for something more in demand. You're forgetting that this is a BASIC income. Most people are accustomed to more than a basic lifestyle and that means they'll be wanting to earn money.
As for your idiot, opponents of minimum wage claim that there's a lot of labor that isn't worth minimum wage and that we should eliminate the minimum wage to make those jobs exist. They never seem to have a good explanation of how people are supposed to survive on that sort of pay. It seems your idiot was doing one of those jobs out of boredom since he already had his needs met. While not much, it did provide for some economic value at least.
If it's anecdotes you want, there was this lady in England who was living on the dole and spending her time writing a children's book. A few years later, she brought billions into the UK's economy.
But let's take a moment to look at people who have no need to make a living at all. Do you see Bill Gates walking 2 dogs a week these days? How about Larry Ellison? According to you, they have no motive to do any better than that. In fact, they have even less motivation than a basic income recipient.
It seems harsh to me as well, but I see it as none of my business since it will never apply to me. It certainly puts a damper on the fear mongers who would have us believe all Muslims want to kill all non-Muslims.
It's also not entirely from left field. Many people in the U.S. have historically shown a preference to live in somewhat homogeneous communities. It's why so many cities have the various ethnic neighborhoods. That includes most (in)famously white flight (but only after making it clear "they" weren't wanted didn't work).
Given time, I fully expect attitudes to mellow (it's already happening) considerably and for the language to be seen as symbolic rather than literal. Much like Christians don't stone sinners to death these days in the U.S.
Nonsense. Dog walkers with no dogs to walk will move on to something else as always. After all, they wanted to make some extra cash and dog walkers don't do that when nobody wants them to walk a dog.
What makes you think natural market forces only work when people have a gun to their head?
It will be more fair because otherwise people won't do it. Most of the unfair employment offers out there depend on potential employees being desperate. Once they can afford to say no, the terms will get better.
As for the taxes, it won't be a big problem if they are progressive.