That's why I have NYT, WaPo and WSJ subscriptions. But the $39/month for WSJ has me rethinking that every month. But I don't want to get trapped in a bubble of info.
Thank you for your thoughts about my wife's death.
Yes, the part-time clause sucked, and was abused. I agree with that. The ACA was never perfect and we knew that going in, it was just a start. We foolishly hoped that congress would work to make it better but things didn't turn out that way. But it was a step forward. A camel nose under the tent, have you.
I agree with your last paragraph except for the last sentence. Market Capitalism with little regulation and policies like Citizens United are what have lead us to letting the very rich decide the law that allow crony-capitalism buy votes and congress. I think we both agree on the problem but see different solutions for the remedy. I can accept that and hope that we can find common ground to strive for a better America. The fact that you see Medicare for all as a possible solution shows that you understand the problem and are trying to find a way for it to work under your idea of America. Discourse like ours is how we find a common ground and policy that is palatable to all.
Your reasoned response and concern for your fellow citizen show that you are indeed an American patriot.
Regarding your.signature: "Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us." --- Jerry Garcia
Let me counter with:
Saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.." -- Don Henley
.. While it has helped some people get healthcare who otherwise would not have, it has also meant less earnings for the working poor..
But at least those poor had healthcare that they didn't before. One thing that anti-ACA folks don't mention is that if you have a catastrophic illness, or one of your loved ones does, that goes on your credit and then you are then broke and/or have to declare bankruptcy. Then you can almost never get a small business loan to start a business to "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" and rejoin the quest for the American dream.
Yes, regulations and taxes are a bitch, but sometimes needed. In your food cart example, the community wants you to help pay to make sure that your food cart is selling safe food and have you pay your bit for that spot of sidewalk that you're using to make money. We are more than happy to have you make money as long as you pay your fair share. Now could the way you're taxed and permitted be done better, sure, but that takes your input to help fix that too. You can understand that all those little pesky rules are there because the community thought that they would fix an existing issue. Often they aren't a great fix but that's how compromise works. Work with the community to make them better.
My wife died this year and just the three days in ICU billed out at $38,000. That's about what I take home a year after taxes and retirement savings. I'm one of the few fucking lucky ones that has employer fully paid insurance. My cut for that $38k was the yearly $2,500 cap. Now think if that was someone at Wal-Mart or your hotdog stand without affordable insurance. What if the ICU had gone on for months. How do you pick yourself up after that? What if you're a techie over 50? You can't find a decent apartment or house or job because your credit score is crap. All your current cards call in the loan because your FICO just hit rock bottom. You lost your job because you spent too much time with your loved one in their last days and now no one will hire you because you can't pass the background check.
See why most first world countries have gone with single payer health care? The ACA was the Republican plan, you know that. It sucked, just like all your fees and regulations because it was a compromise. We hoped that it would make things better for people, a bit, and the would want more. Turns out that they do.
I hope you get your dream food cart, work hard and fill out the forms. A lot of other, mostly driven immigrants, have done the same thing and found their path to the American dream.
(I learned long ago that food service fucking sucks and 4 out of 5 joints go out of business the first year, and I grew up in food service. That shit ain't for me. I'll happily play George Jetson and push buttons all day running servers.)
I plan on taking the LIGO tour out there this year. Back in 1980 I drove past Hanford about every week taking care of sister radio stations in Yakima and Richland.
w7com, an old batlabs lurker. Need any old Jedi radios, Mike?
I actually used an app yesterday to deposit an expense check. Is listening to a podcast considered using an app? Other than that, not much, maybe a picture of some cables in a rack, but that's about it.
I'm not sure if I agree that it's all down to ESPN politics but I will agree that it could be a good percentage of the cause. I'm not much of a sport watcher except for local games so I don't know that demographic that well.
I haven't bought cable in 10 years because I don't like having to schedule my time around shows or pay for a DVR, and the main reason is commercials. When I travel for work and alone I hardly ever turn on the TV unless there is some breaking news or something that could directly effect me.
I did buy a nice Roko TV on Amazon for a steal and paid for Netflix. It's perfect for when I need some down time on the couch. One tenth the cost of cable and I can retire it when I wish. I have Amazon Prime too for the shipping and Kindle services so there is all that content too.
You're spot on with the last remark, get out and do something with the people you love. You're not going to be on your death bed saying I wish I could hang on for the next season of Doctor Who. (Okay, I might say that.) But really, live your life, not some writer's idea of one.
Not sure what you mean by "Washington factory farm." Most of the orchards I saw growing up in Yakima were family concerns, I went to school with a lot of the people that now run them.
Yep, I drank the Kool-Aid at Amazon in 2001 for a year, six figures. Never made quite that much again but it sure did help on the resume. And no, I won't go back there no matter how many head hunters call me. At least I was able to use that flush to buy a house in 2001 that we sold in 2007, walking away with $160k to out right own the house I live in now away from the city.
I ended up working for a French aerospace firm with killer benefits, fully paid healthcare, four weeks vacation, matching 401k, but lower pay. I also don't have to commute to downtown Seattle everyday, just from Tulalip Bay to downtown Everett. One of the major reasons that I have stay with my company is when my wife died back in January they were very supportive. Sent flowers and a card signed by all the managers, five weeks off, don't worry about it, anything we can do to help? Loyalty and truly caring about a co-worker is something a bigger paycheck just doesn't match. They will have to pry my cold dead fingers from my ergo-metric chair.
I also miss the standard 5% APR savings account. These days you can hardly find anything offer better than 1%, if that. Hell, I'm damn lucky that I inherited into a fund that is guaranteed 2.9% that I can only touch when I'm 62.
All the cream has been taken by the 1% and we're just left with the watery milk.
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Damn it! Now you have me looking at drones on banggood and Lazy-Boys on Amazon. I'm going to kill myself when this flips and can't reach my drink.
Shut up! I'm already over 200 episodes behind on Master Chef Australia.
That's why I have NYT, WaPo and WSJ subscriptions. But the $39/month for WSJ has me rethinking that every month. But I don't want to get trapped in a bubble of info.
https://potatohack.com/
Really. But chicken is cheap, I saw breasts going for $1.74/lb the other day.
Thank you for your thoughts about my wife's death.
Yes, the part-time clause sucked, and was abused. I agree with that. The ACA was never perfect and we knew that going in, it was just a start. We foolishly hoped that congress would work to make it better but things didn't turn out that way. But it was a step forward. A camel nose under the tent, have you.
I agree with your last paragraph except for the last sentence. Market Capitalism with little regulation and policies like Citizens United are what have lead us to letting the very rich decide the law that allow crony-capitalism buy votes and congress. I think we both agree on the problem but see different solutions for the remedy. I can accept that and hope that we can find common ground to strive for a better America. The fact that you see Medicare for all as a possible solution shows that you understand the problem and are trying to find a way for it to work under your idea of America. Discourse like ours is how we find a common ground and policy that is palatable to all.
Your reasoned response and concern for your fellow citizen show that you are indeed an American patriot.
Regarding your .signature: "Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
Let me counter with:
Saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.." -- Don Henley
.. While it has helped some people get healthcare who otherwise would not have, it has also meant less earnings for the working poor..
But at least those poor had healthcare that they didn't before. One thing that anti-ACA folks don't mention is that if you have a catastrophic illness, or one of your loved ones does, that goes on your credit and then you are then broke and/or have to declare bankruptcy. Then you can almost never get a small business loan to start a business to "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" and rejoin the quest for the American dream.
Yes, regulations and taxes are a bitch, but sometimes needed. In your food cart example, the community wants you to help pay to make sure that your food cart is selling safe food and have you pay your bit for that spot of sidewalk that you're using to make money. We are more than happy to have you make money as long as you pay your fair share. Now could the way you're taxed and permitted be done better, sure, but that takes your input to help fix that too. You can understand that all those little pesky rules are there because the community thought that they would fix an existing issue. Often they aren't a great fix but that's how compromise works. Work with the community to make them better.
My wife died this year and just the three days in ICU billed out at $38,000. That's about what I take home a year after taxes and retirement savings. I'm one of the few fucking lucky ones that has employer fully paid insurance. My cut for that $38k was the yearly $2,500 cap. Now think if that was someone at Wal-Mart or your hotdog stand without affordable insurance. What if the ICU had gone on for months. How do you pick yourself up after that? What if you're a techie over 50? You can't find a decent apartment or house or job because your credit score is crap. All your current cards call in the loan because your FICO just hit rock bottom. You lost your job because you spent too much time with your loved one in their last days and now no one will hire you because you can't pass the background check.
See why most first world countries have gone with single payer health care? The ACA was the Republican plan, you know that. It sucked, just like all your fees and regulations because it was a compromise. We hoped that it would make things better for people, a bit, and the would want more. Turns out that they do.
I hope you get your dream food cart, work hard and fill out the forms. A lot of other, mostly driven immigrants, have done the same thing and found their path to the American dream.
(I learned long ago that food service fucking sucks and 4 out of 5 joints go out of business the first year, and I grew up in food service. That shit ain't for me. I'll happily play George Jetson and push buttons all day running servers.)
I use to make some nice coin re-aligning 1541 drives since I had an o-scope to find the cat's eye.
Or the degree symbol, which I would think would be more handy.
This is also why there is no US cent symbol on a keyboard. We use to just type c and then backspace and over-type the /. (see what I did there?)
Sure, maybe it's because Trump is convinced he's a fuck up,
Then please explain Ben Carson and Rick Perry.
All FBI agents have law degrees. It's a pre-req.
Thanks for the sane report. Having grown up in Yakavegas I knew this wasn't as dire as reported.
That's not quite how it works. Now it leaching into the Columbia River.....
Still running. Got a personal tour by the director back in the 80s, family friend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yet another reason I got my ass out of Yakima as soon as I could!
Isn't WHPPS 2 (whoops too!) still running?
I plan on taking the LIGO tour out there this year. Back in 1980 I drove past Hanford about every week taking care of sister radio stations in Yakima and Richland.
w7com, an old batlabs lurker. Need any old Jedi radios, Mike?
I hope he's not pine-ing away.
I actually used an app yesterday to deposit an expense check. Is listening to a podcast considered using an app? Other than that, not much, maybe a picture of some cables in a rack, but that's about it.
Burma Shave.
I'm not sure if I agree that it's all down to ESPN politics but I will agree that it could be a good percentage of the cause. I'm not much of a sport watcher except for local games so I don't know that demographic that well.
I haven't bought cable in 10 years because I don't like having to schedule my time around shows or pay for a DVR, and the main reason is commercials. When I travel for work and alone I hardly ever turn on the TV unless there is some breaking news or something that could directly effect me.
I did buy a nice Roko TV on Amazon for a steal and paid for Netflix. It's perfect for when I need some down time on the couch. One tenth the cost of cable and I can retire it when I wish. I have Amazon Prime too for the shipping and Kindle services so there is all that content too.
You're spot on with the last remark, get out and do something with the people you love. You're not going to be on your death bed saying I wish I could hang on for the next season of Doctor Who. (Okay, I might say that.) But really, live your life, not some writer's idea of one.
Not sure what you mean by "Washington factory farm." Most of the orchards I saw growing up in Yakima were family concerns, I went to school with a lot of the people that now run them.
TTL Cookbook by Don Lancaster.
Okay, I started back in the late 70s.
Yep, I drank the Kool-Aid at Amazon in 2001 for a year, six figures. Never made quite that much again but it sure did help on the resume. And no, I won't go back there no matter how many head hunters call me. At least I was able to use that flush to buy a house in 2001 that we sold in 2007, walking away with $160k to out right own the house I live in now away from the city.
I ended up working for a French aerospace firm with killer benefits, fully paid healthcare, four weeks vacation, matching 401k, but lower pay. I also don't have to commute to downtown Seattle everyday, just from Tulalip Bay to downtown Everett. One of the major reasons that I have stay with my company is when my wife died back in January they were very supportive. Sent flowers and a card signed by all the managers, five weeks off, don't worry about it, anything we can do to help? Loyalty and truly caring about a co-worker is something a bigger paycheck just doesn't match. They will have to pry my cold dead fingers from my ergo-metric chair.
I also miss the standard 5% APR savings account. These days you can hardly find anything offer better than 1%, if that. Hell, I'm damn lucky that I inherited into a fund that is guaranteed 2.9% that I can only touch when I'm 62.
All the cream has been taken by the 1% and we're just left with the watery milk.