I'm their fucking employer, and anyone who voted for the ACA tax should be eager to just ship from their Cadillac private insurance plan (provided by the taxpayers) and take part in this incredible experience known as ObamaCare.
It's that simple, Democrats need to take their own medicine. And Democrat staffers and Democrat votes. If it has a (D) next to it's name punish it.
What the executive branch did was targeted, vindictive and malicious. Set the barn on fire and they shout 'The Republicans did it!' The federal government paid people to put up road blocks in Wyoming to stop people from driving on dirt roads. Not that a road block stopped the local inhabitants.
Walmart and McDonalds go out of business if they fail to provide goods or services that people need, want or desire.
I wish central planning did work, I really do. But you see, one of the cannons of central planning is no competition.
Walmart and McDonalds have competitors who work really hard to take away customers by providing the same or a better product for less. Remember main street with all those quaint shops?
Once of the key components of the tax known as ACA is if you don't pay you will be breaking a law and they can punish you, not really an option for Apple (as hard as they might wish it were so).
History is replete with examples of well intentioned experiments in central planning and all they consistently produce are shortages.
Young people will eventually sign up in droves and subsidize the rest without complaint.
A government bureaucracy, that answers to no one, will provide excellent service.
Without the historical benefits of a free market prices will go down.
Advancements in medicine, without financial incentives, will continue.
You like how the website turned out? You'll love how well the U.S. government does healthcare - just visit and reservation and see the future.
I bet once people realize what happened they're going to be pissed off.
My only hope is the individual mandate - employees should be weaned from this fantasy that the employer provides healthcare. People with insurance don't give a shit what anything costs and because of that there are no market forces at work to keep the costs in line with earnings. Once the wreckage is cleared things will right themselves, if the market is given a chance to provide services people need, want and desire.
Adam Smith - you beautiful bastard. You may be dead, but eventually everyone has to sing your song.
With a firm grip on Manifest destiny in one hand, and and the promise of state mandated healthcare in the other, the settlers crossed the vast prairies and scaled the seemingly insurmountable mountains for their shot at the American Dream. Many failed, but those who didn't built a nation.
And then the liberal wakes up and realizes how pathetic he is.
There are some well educated people here at Slashdot, but for the most part it's a land of sheep waiting for their turn to be shorn.
Why did it cost 600k+ to do this is my question? They could have just interfaced the NSA database with a script and created accounts from people who are recently deceased and liked the living hell out of what ever page they thought needed the lov'in. Throw in some AI for back and forth and you would have a love consensus of biblical porportions. I bet I could have pulled this off for half what they think they spent, which is probably half of what really got flushed.
Okay, I suppose there is a need for you to infer the IRS was casting a wide net what with the implicit need to pander to the sanctimonious hipster crowd that frequents this site but let's get real - IRS was engaged in voter suppression and they weren't suppressing the 'Progressive' vote.
All we have really learned is Chicago style David M. Axelrod dirty politics (enjoying the full faith and credit of the federal government) scales really really well.
A lot of money has been raised by the environmental fund raising industry, unfortunately the vogue have done a lot of information damage in doing so.
Democrats have actually politicized the issue to the point where the science is ignored and people are out with pitchforks and torches looking to kill a monster, and anyone who doesn't agree must be pro monster and must also be destroyed.
Are there any cases of water wells being contaminated? No. One well in Wyoming may have been contaminated though the water from that aquifer is extremely deep and nearly in the same zone as the producers in that area and the data-set is likely skewed to arrive at a politically hoped for conclusion the EPA is desperately hoping to construct.
Shallow water wells are notoriously infused with coal-bed methane, to this day I can't believe so many 'educated' people fell for the 'Gas Land' hoax.
People are scared, that is what the environmental money industry wanted and they are really good at it. There are people now who are so convinced 'fracking' is dangerous they are experiencing psychosomatic symptoms such as nose bleeds. And don't forget the lawyers, the lawyers see money and are looking for a big payout.
The beer is safe, what is in danger are the facts.
Agreed. Just because you stop giving people tax money doesn't mean you are against what the author so laughably deems as science. The list is ridiculous, but not nearly as ridiculous as most of the comments. At this point it is worth asking have we reached the tipping point where people no longer have to ability to conduct research without a check from the government, it's a layer of self replicating welfare scientists.
Isn't it interesting that of all things NPR could report on they would choose this?
How quickly the Tsarnaev brothers and their pressure cooker amputation IED have come to be ignored.
Pull quote from the NPR piece is from Democrat Chris Frandsen, "Where we have mental health issues, where we have children that are disassociated from society early on, when we have terrorists who have political cards to play, we have to restrict weapons that make them more efficient in terrorizing the population"
Really?
Seriously, NPR needs to stop being subsidized by the taxpayer if they are going to spend this much time and effort carrying water for the gun control lobby.
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I'm their fucking employer, and anyone who voted for the ACA tax should be eager to just ship from their Cadillac private insurance plan (provided by the taxpayers) and take part in this incredible experience known as ObamaCare. It's that simple, Democrats need to take their own medicine. And Democrat staffers and Democrat votes. If it has a (D) next to it's name punish it.
Damned that thing called the obvious, shame he didn't see it before you did.
So what you're saying is you voted for the man. You admittedly have all the qualifications.
What the executive branch did was targeted, vindictive and malicious. Set the barn on fire and they shout 'The Republicans did it!' The federal government paid people to put up road blocks in Wyoming to stop people from driving on dirt roads. Not that a road block stopped the local inhabitants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nJqmStnPvEw
Walmart and McDonalds go out of business if they fail to provide goods or services that people need, want or desire.
I wish central planning did work, I really do. But you see, one of the cannons of central planning is no competition.
Walmart and McDonalds have competitors who work really hard to take away customers by providing the same or a better product for less. Remember main street with all those quaint shops?
Once of the key components of the tax known as ACA is if you don't pay you will be breaking a law and they can punish you, not really an option for Apple (as hard as they might wish it were so).
History is replete with examples of well intentioned experiments in central planning and all they consistently produce are shortages.
Genius
Young people will eventually sign up in droves and subsidize the rest without complaint.
A government bureaucracy, that answers to no one, will provide excellent service.
Without the historical benefits of a free market prices will go down.
Advancements in medicine, without financial incentives, will continue.
You like how the website turned out? You'll love how well the U.S. government does healthcare - just visit and reservation and see the future.
I bet once people realize what happened they're going to be pissed off.
My only hope is the individual mandate - employees should be weaned from this fantasy that the employer provides healthcare. People with insurance don't give a shit what anything costs and because of that there are no market forces at work to keep the costs in line with earnings. Once the wreckage is cleared things will right themselves, if the market is given a chance to provide services people need, want and desire.
Adam Smith - you beautiful bastard. You may be dead, but eventually everyone has to sing your song.
Hell of a post. Hope everything turns out okay for you and yours.
The Democrats are just getting started. This is from the top down, like the IRS voter suppression to make sure President Obama won re-election.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/04/park-ranger-angry-admits-they-were-told-to-make-life-as-difficult-for-people-as-we-can/
With a firm grip on Manifest destiny in one hand, and and the promise of state mandated healthcare in the other, the settlers crossed the vast prairies and scaled the seemingly insurmountable mountains for their shot at the American Dream. Many failed, but those who didn't built a nation.
And then the liberal wakes up and realizes how pathetic he is.
There are some well educated people here at Slashdot, but for the most part it's a land of sheep waiting for their turn to be shorn.
Hell, I don't even like pasta but at least the CEO is normal. Why is it the deviants get to call anyone who doesn't indulge in their deviancy phobic?
That's interesting, good story. Thanks for sharing.
Good point. Au temps pour moi
Why did it cost 600k+ to do this is my question? They could have just interfaced the NSA database with a script and created accounts from people who are recently deceased and liked the living hell out of what ever page they thought needed the lov'in. Throw in some AI for back and forth and you would have a love consensus of biblical porportions. I bet I could have pulled this off for half what they think they spent, which is probably half of what really got flushed.
Anyone else use Infoseek?
Okay, I suppose there is a need for you to infer the IRS was casting a wide net what with the implicit need to pander to the sanctimonious hipster crowd that frequents this site but let's get real - IRS was engaged in voter suppression and they weren't suppressing the 'Progressive' vote.
All we have really learned is Chicago style David M. Axelrod dirty politics (enjoying the full faith and credit of the federal government) scales really really well.
I've been using it since about 1998 to serve web pages. Solid product, thanks for all the hard work people.
Thank you. Some people are scum, but all in all people are pretty neat.
A lot of money has been raised by the environmental fund raising industry, unfortunately the vogue have done a lot of information damage in doing so.
Democrats have actually politicized the issue to the point where the science is ignored and people are out with pitchforks and torches looking to kill a monster, and anyone who doesn't agree must be pro monster and must also be destroyed.
Are there any cases of water wells being contaminated? No. One well in Wyoming may have been contaminated though the water from that aquifer is extremely deep and nearly in the same zone as the producers in that area and the data-set is likely skewed to arrive at a politically hoped for conclusion the EPA is desperately hoping to construct.
Shallow water wells are notoriously infused with coal-bed methane, to this day I can't believe so many 'educated' people fell for the 'Gas Land' hoax.
People are scared, that is what the environmental money industry wanted and they are really good at it. There are people now who are so convinced 'fracking' is dangerous they are experiencing psychosomatic symptoms such as nose bleeds. And don't forget the lawyers, the lawyers see money and are looking for a big payout.
The beer is safe, what is in danger are the facts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4RLzlcox5c
Now I feel like Dangerfield's bastard step child. No respect.
Attorney General Eric Holder for instance.
Agreed. Just because you stop giving people tax money doesn't mean you are against what the author so laughably deems as science. The list is ridiculous, but not nearly as ridiculous as most of the comments. At this point it is worth asking have we reached the tipping point where people no longer have to ability to conduct research without a check from the government, it's a layer of self replicating welfare scientists.
Maybe these dolphins could be used to locate the the missing Mark 15 nuclear bomb? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_collision
You are correct, those who try to demonstrate the contrary are in the wrong.
Isn't it interesting that of all things NPR could report on they would choose this?
How quickly the Tsarnaev brothers and their pressure cooker amputation IED have come to be ignored.
Pull quote from the NPR piece is from Democrat Chris Frandsen, "Where we have mental health issues, where we have children that are disassociated from society early on, when we have terrorists who have political cards to play, we have to restrict weapons that make them more efficient in terrorizing the population"
Really?
Seriously, NPR needs to stop being subsidized by the taxpayer if they are going to spend this much time and effort carrying water for the gun control lobby.