The military offers direct benefits to the U.S elite. The security arrangements with Saudi Arabia contain a clause which obligate all sales of oil to be in U.S dollars. It is the reason why oil is denominated in U.S dollars which makes oil cheaper fo the U.S as well as create huge demand for the currency and allows the treasury to sell its bonds at very low rates. Most of these agreements also contain "buy American weapons" clauses which is why the U.S is the worlds top weapons exporter. This is on top of the direct benefits of having a powerful military, like invading Panama to build a canal when they said no to it, the annexation of California from Mexico, the seizing of Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba and the Philippines from Spain, the opening up of Japan via "gunboat diplomacy" by Commodore Perry, etc, etc.
Only 9 states have a "master lever" straight-ticket voting option on the ballot, although until the 1960's straight-ticket voting was encouraged by the parties, by making a split-ticket vote intentionally difficult and confusing.
Split-ticket voting is actually much more common now although research has shown that most people get the majority of their information from political ads rather then independent sources making campaign war-chests (and the people donating big to those war-chests) more important then ever
It is astaunding that you have a +5 insightfull score when a quick google search reveals your statistics to be completely wrong.
The majority of U.S corporate stock is owned by IRA accounts, pensions and defined benefit accounts (a type of pension). Private taxable ownership has been steadily declining since 1965 when it was very close to that %99 figure you quoted. Granted, richer people contribute more to their 401K's but those contributions are capped, limiting their slice of ownership of the 401K pool.
That's strange. You should have definitely called AMEX back and asked them to rematch the signature. Before EMV chips it became standard practice in NYC clubs to make a copy of a photo-id and have the staff make sure the signature on the slip matched the ID because charge-back fraud had become so common that clubs were loosing thousands a month in disputed charges by people intentionally signing the slip incorrectly. It is stupid to match against the signature on the card as the bank never sees that signature and doesn't have it on file. Staff would get so frustrated when they'd have to print copy after copy of a receipt because some drunk guy drank can't sign (or pretending to) his name anymore. AMEX was the most hated by managers as they were the most stringent in the dispute process. Some went as far as to stop accepting them
LOL. http://www.ic.nc.gov/ is the North Carolina Industrial Commission page about "workers compensation insurance".
Those codes are only valid if you have been hurt and are now on North Carolina Workers comp insurance and doesn't apply to any other insurance. Pretty much all private insurance companies have their own codes, lists of what's covered, what needs to be pre-approved, etc. Most doctor offices have more people dealing with the insurance paperwork then medical staff
If you ever get married, I dare you go to your wife and tell her that you would like her to pay more for the health insurance because you don't need maternity care and she does. Maybe you get lucky and she gives you a free prostate exam which of course she doesn't want to have on her health insurance because she can't possibly use it.
Unless you have socialized medicine, then it is. At the same time, if "society" is footing the bill for your medical care, you shouldn't be surprised when "society" puts constraints on your behaviors.
Makes sense to me. Now tell us how you feel about drug tests for recipients of public assistance.
The idea behind drug testing for for recipients of public assistance is for States to save money by booting out drug users. It has been implemented in 7 U.S states and not only did they find that drug rates usage among recipients on all states was below estimated usage among the population at large (in most of them significantly below), all the states ending up loosing money to the testing programs due to the cost and low rates of drug usage. Not only do all of these States continue this ineffective program, it has been proposed in several more states as the true driver behind it is Conservative ideology that the poor are mostly lazy addicts. Something which ironically their own data disputes
Having completed grade 1-7 in a former Communist dictatorship and 8-12 in a NYC public school, I can telly you have they you have absolutely no clue what indoctrination to ideology and brainwashing for obedience to a tyrannical authority looks like.
FYI: If you have private health insurance in the U.S they will have a large database with codes of every procedure and whether they deem it urgent or elective and whether they cover it or not. The only difference is that the list was not made by some "government bureaucrat" working for your elected representatives but some Corporate middle-manager looking for ways to maximize shareholder value
Congress is supposed to write clear and concise laws for the justice system to follow. Congress has purposely skirted its responsibility leaving it up to judges and lawyers to try and settle disputes using laws that never envisioned the type of scenarios they are being confronted with. They have no choice but to argue technical points of obscure law that might be the closest thing they can find in the books relevant to the dispute
Perhaps they should get in touch with the printed newspaper and book publishing industry. They know a thing or two about loosing costumers to a new information/entertainment medium
Unions back then were important, because the end of your job could also be the end of your career, and Unions were needed to protect workers from such drastic actions.
"Back then" companies were happy to exploit workers within an inch of their lives - and beyond - if it made them a few more dollars in profit. That hasn't changed, so neither has the need for unions.
You have that happening right now in China (In the first half of 2016 there were 23,534 production accidents claimed 14,136 lives in the coal mining industry alone.) with the Government's refusal to enforce safety and labor law and its open hostility to unionization. Unions could at the very least bring to light systemic abuse and take action to ensure these already minimal laws are being followed.
The solution our globalists want for us to compete with China's horrible labor practices is to destroy our unions and weaken our labor and safety laws
Unions were a grass-root movement that formed precisely because powerful business interests prevented politicians from codifying into law things like 1 day a week off, maximum required daily hours and minimum safety standards. Now the are still needed precisely because powerful business interests prevent politicians from codifying into law all those things you mentioned.
Actually many health-insurance companies operate across many states just as at-insurance companies. Just like auto-insurance companies the products must be tailored to the laws and regulations of the state they are being sold in. What the Republicans want is in-fact to make selling health-insurance the opposite of car-insurance and subject to the rules and regulations of the state the Company is incorporated in
Except that every proposal put forward by Republicans that includes selling health insurance across state lines also includes provisions that gives states leeway to water down requirements and waken protections mandated by the ACA
Products that are sold across state lines are subject to regulations of the state they are sold in. Most of the insurance industry would likely move to the state that offers the most lenient regulations, just as credit card companies congregated to to South Dakota.
This is stupid, long-haul trucking is the industry that would benefit most from self-driving vehicles and it is also one of the easier challenges for the auto-industry. You can expect many states to start throwing roadblocks disguised as safety concerns that are meant to delay roll-out for the purpose of "saving jobs"
That used to be the case until the definition of "interstate commerce" was expanded with the blessings of the Supreme Court to include pretty much any commercial activity at all
People generally skip breakfast because they can't make time for it. If you would rather skip breakfast then wake up a half hour earlier then it is likely that you aren't getting a full nights rest and chronic lack a sleep has long been long been associated with poor health
The desktop was replaced with the smartphone and considering that every android phone runs on a linux kernel its fair to say that Linux rules the world
It might be that they expect a influx of activity once the price is dropped to 0 and are working on avoiding an embarrassing AHCA roll-out type disaster with the system crashing and largely being unusable
He could try to shame the tech companies to support his plan or he could use the FCC authority to do so. But of course to Pai that would be a outrageous attempt at interference with the free markets, no matter how many lives it saves
No this doesn't say that DHS will keep tabs on naturalized citizens (that is part of NSA black ops). All it says is that online information collected during the naturalization process will be kept on file as the rest of the collected information. The reason this is done is because if you lied on your naturalization application your citizenship can be revoked by a court
Of course this only applies to apps using the Universal Windows Platform UWP api. I don't know anyone not stuck with windows on a ARM using the windows app store
The law establishing the EBT program specifically forbids food that will be eaten in the store, or hot foods. The department of Agriculture has no choice but to work around those restrictions for this program. You want that changed, call your congressmen and senators.
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The military offers direct benefits to the U.S elite. The security arrangements with Saudi Arabia contain a clause which obligate all sales of oil to be in U.S dollars. It is the reason why oil is denominated in U.S dollars which makes oil cheaper fo the U.S as well as create huge demand for the currency and allows the treasury to sell its bonds at very low rates. Most of these agreements also contain "buy American weapons" clauses which is why the U.S is the worlds top weapons exporter. This is on top of the direct benefits of having a powerful military, like invading Panama to build a canal when they said no to it, the annexation of California from Mexico, the seizing of Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba and the Philippines from Spain, the opening up of Japan via "gunboat diplomacy" by Commodore Perry, etc, etc.
Split-ticket voting is actually much more common now although research has shown that most people get the majority of their information from political ads rather then independent sources making campaign war-chests (and the people donating big to those war-chests) more important then ever
It is astaunding that you have a +5 insightfull score when a quick google search reveals your statistics to be completely wrong. The majority of U.S corporate stock is owned by IRA accounts, pensions and defined benefit accounts (a type of pension). Private taxable ownership has been steadily declining since 1965 when it was very close to that %99 figure you quoted. Granted, richer people contribute more to their 401K's but those contributions are capped, limiting their slice of ownership of the 401K pool.
That's strange. You should have definitely called AMEX back and asked them to rematch the signature. Before EMV chips it became standard practice in NYC clubs to make a copy of a photo-id and have the staff make sure the signature on the slip matched the ID because charge-back fraud had become so common that clubs were loosing thousands a month in disputed charges by people intentionally signing the slip incorrectly. It is stupid to match against the signature on the card as the bank never sees that signature and doesn't have it on file. Staff would get so frustrated when they'd have to print copy after copy of a receipt because some drunk guy drank can't sign (or pretending to) his name anymore. AMEX was the most hated by managers as they were the most stringent in the dispute process. Some went as far as to stop accepting them
LOL. http://www.ic.nc.gov/ is the North Carolina Industrial Commission page about "workers compensation insurance". Those codes are only valid if you have been hurt and are now on North Carolina Workers comp insurance and doesn't apply to any other insurance. Pretty much all private insurance companies have their own codes, lists of what's covered, what needs to be pre-approved, etc. Most doctor offices have more people dealing with the insurance paperwork then medical staff
If you ever get married, I dare you go to your wife and tell her that you would like her to pay more for the health insurance because you don't need maternity care and she does. Maybe you get lucky and she gives you a free prostate exam which of course she doesn't want to have on her health insurance because she can't possibly use it.
It's not society's job to do it for you
Unless you have socialized medicine, then it is. At the same time, if "society" is footing the bill for your medical care, you shouldn't be surprised when "society" puts constraints on your behaviors.
Makes sense to me. Now tell us how you feel about drug tests for recipients of public assistance.
The idea behind drug testing for for recipients of public assistance is for States to save money by booting out drug users. It has been implemented in 7 U.S states and not only did they find that drug rates usage among recipients on all states was below estimated usage among the population at large (in most of them significantly below), all the states ending up loosing money to the testing programs due to the cost and low rates of drug usage. Not only do all of these States continue this ineffective program, it has been proposed in several more states as the true driver behind it is Conservative ideology that the poor are mostly lazy addicts. Something which ironically their own data disputes
Having completed grade 1-7 in a former Communist dictatorship and 8-12 in a NYC public school, I can telly you have they you have absolutely no clue what indoctrination to ideology and brainwashing for obedience to a tyrannical authority looks like. FYI: If you have private health insurance in the U.S they will have a large database with codes of every procedure and whether they deem it urgent or elective and whether they cover it or not. The only difference is that the list was not made by some "government bureaucrat" working for your elected representatives but some Corporate middle-manager looking for ways to maximize shareholder value
Congress is supposed to write clear and concise laws for the justice system to follow. Congress has purposely skirted its responsibility leaving it up to judges and lawyers to try and settle disputes using laws that never envisioned the type of scenarios they are being confronted with. They have no choice but to argue technical points of obscure law that might be the closest thing they can find in the books relevant to the dispute
Perhaps they should get in touch with the printed newspaper and book publishing industry. They know a thing or two about loosing costumers to a new information/entertainment medium
"Back then" companies were happy to exploit workers within an inch of their lives - and beyond - if it made them a few more dollars in profit. That hasn't changed, so neither has the need for unions.
You have that happening right now in China (In the first half of 2016 there were 23,534 production accidents claimed 14,136 lives in the coal mining industry alone.) with the Government's refusal to enforce safety and labor law and its open hostility to unionization. Unions could at the very least bring to light systemic abuse and take action to ensure these already minimal laws are being followed.
The solution our globalists want for us to compete with China's horrible labor practices is to destroy our unions and weaken our labor and safety laws
Unions were a grass-root movement that formed precisely because powerful business interests prevented politicians from codifying into law things like 1 day a week off, maximum required daily hours and minimum safety standards. Now the are still needed precisely because powerful business interests prevent politicians from codifying into law all those things you mentioned.
Actually many health-insurance companies operate across many states just as at-insurance companies. Just like auto-insurance companies the products must be tailored to the laws and regulations of the state they are being sold in. What the Republicans want is in-fact to make selling health-insurance the opposite of car-insurance and subject to the rules and regulations of the state the Company is incorporated in
Except that every proposal put forward by Republicans that includes selling health insurance across state lines also includes provisions that gives states leeway to water down requirements and waken protections mandated by the ACA
Products that are sold across state lines are subject to regulations of the state they are sold in. Most of the insurance industry would likely move to the state that offers the most lenient regulations, just as credit card companies congregated to to South Dakota.
This is stupid, long-haul trucking is the industry that would benefit most from self-driving vehicles and it is also one of the easier challenges for the auto-industry. You can expect many states to start throwing roadblocks disguised as safety concerns that are meant to delay roll-out for the purpose of "saving jobs"
That used to be the case until the definition of "interstate commerce" was expanded with the blessings of the Supreme Court to include pretty much any commercial activity at all
People generally skip breakfast because they can't make time for it. If you would rather skip breakfast then wake up a half hour earlier then it is likely that you aren't getting a full nights rest and chronic lack a sleep has long been long been associated with poor health
The desktop was replaced with the smartphone and considering that every android phone runs on a linux kernel its fair to say that Linux rules the world
Anything behind a 10 year time frame is a wish list not policy
It might be that they expect a influx of activity once the price is dropped to 0 and are working on avoiding an embarrassing AHCA roll-out type disaster with the system crashing and largely being unusable
He could try to shame the tech companies to support his plan or he could use the FCC authority to do so. But of course to Pai that would be a outrageous attempt at interference with the free markets, no matter how many lives it saves
No this doesn't say that DHS will keep tabs on naturalized citizens (that is part of NSA black ops). All it says is that online information collected during the naturalization process will be kept on file as the rest of the collected information. The reason this is done is because if you lied on your naturalization application your citizenship can be revoked by a court
Of course this only applies to apps using the Universal Windows Platform UWP api. I don't know anyone not stuck with windows on a ARM using the windows app store
The law establishing the EBT program specifically forbids food that will be eaten in the store, or hot foods. The department of Agriculture has no choice but to work around those restrictions for this program. You want that changed, call your congressmen and senators.