Those big, positive effects don't come for free. Insurance companies will raise premiums to compensate which will cause some businesses and individuals to drop their coverage because it's cheaper than paying the fine for being uninsured.
Social Security "looks to be solvent" until 2038, but when you eliminate the funny accounting tricks it's actually in the red right now.
Given the amount of fraud that's been uncovered practically everywhere you look what reason is there to believe anyone's balance sheet, public or private?
Pick another example please... like how messed up it is in France, Germany, England, Italy.... oh wait, it actually sort of works in those places,
What is the actual financial condition of these government? Are they really solvent or are they playing the same "hide the debt" games that Greece was?
You're not paying attention to the Greece debacle, specifically how large financial institutions helped the country use exotic instruments (fraud) to hide their true debt levels. Then, with full knowledge of the actual financial condition of the country, they bought Greek bonds. If and/or when Greece gets bailed out the money will go to these same banks.
How many other countries have they done this to? Does anyone really know how sustainable Europe's social welfare programs are?
There's only one thing you need to know and the rest is pure diversion:
The taxes start now and the benefits start later.
The reason this bill is being shoved through against so much opposition is because the government is frantically trying to raise tax revenue before the debt black hole sucks them in. Too bad we've already crossed the event horizon.
The Americans really need a single payer system like the rest of the world
You haven't been paying attention to the balance sheet shenanigans going on in Greece, have you? Does anyone really know how expensive these programs are or if any government in the developed world is actually solvent or not?
This bill has nothing to do with health care.
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Female bats often lick their mate’s penis during dorsoventral copulation. The female lowers her head to lick the shaft or the base of the male’s penis but does not lick the glans penis which has already penetrated the vagina. Males never withdrew their penis when it was licked by the mating partner.
There's no way a toddler has the hand strength to chamber a round and cock the hammer. Furthermore, no toddler would ever mistake the weight difference between a real pistol and a fake plastic one. In fact, I'd be surprised if a three year old could lift one without dropping it. Perhaps the parents aren't being entirely candid.
I suspect the artificial extension of childhood grew out of the fact that because modern jobs are more complicated than they used to be, we need more years of schooling before we can go out and compete in the workforce.
Hall was deeply wedded to the German concept of Volk, an anti-individualist and authoritarian romanticism in which the individual is dissolved into a transcendental collective. Hall believed that humans are by nature non-reasoning and instinct driven, requiring a charismatic leader to manipulate their herd instincts for the well-being of society. He predicted that the American emphasis on individual human right and dignity would lead to a fall that he analogized to the sinking of Atlantis. One of the founders of the child study movement, he argued that child development recapitulates his highly racialized conception of the history of human evolutionary development. He characterized pre-adolescent children as savages and therefore rationalized that reasoning was a waste of time with children. He believed that children must simply be led to fear God, love country and develop a strong body. As the child burns out the vestiges of evil in his nature, he needs a good dose of authoritarian discipline, including corporeal punishment. For adolescents, who he believed were characterized by more altruistic natures, high schools should indoctrinate students into selfless ideals of service, patriotism, body culture, military discipline, love of authority, awe of nature and devotion to the state and well being of others. Hall consistently argued against intellectual attainment at all levels of public education. Open discussion and critical opinions were not to be tolerated. Students needed indoctrination to save them from the individualism that was so damaging to the progress of American culture.
Hall had no sympathy for the poor, the sick or those with developmental differences or disabilities. A firm believer in selective breeding and forced sterilization, Hall believed that any respect or charity toward those he viewed as physically, emotionally, or intellectually weak or "defective" simply interfered with the movement of natural selection toward the development of a super-race. Hall's social vision was a socialism of the right, a blueprint for the future German National Socialism that arose just a few years after his death.
Also whenever someone tells you anything that involves an "we did it in pre-historic times without problems" argument, know that they are full of shit.
If they back that up with video evidence of modern humans doing the same thing can we consider the possibility that they aren't?
Natural selection is just a natural process, not some jealous god whose dictates we must strive to obey.
You're reading too much into what I wrote. I'm saying the claims that the authors of the website I linked to have at least enough plausibility that they shouldn't be immediately dismissed. Certainly what is published there is not the final word on childbirth, but it is worthy of further investigation.
That's all true. On the other hand at least some segment of the population retains good instincts in this area and were gracious enough to allow video evidence to document this fact.
I certainly am not calling for an end to hospitals and maternity wards but it's good to look at arguments that go against the common knowledge and reevaluate our assumptions from time to time. That's how we make progress.
How much of what we do is based on sound reasoning and how much is done simply because "we've always done it that way"?
If you want someone to do WORK for you to help you live longer then you have to trade an equivalent amount of WORK in exchange.
Stop being lazy and entitled and do what you need to do to make enough money to take care of yourself. If not then when nature says you're time here is done then it's done.
But reality is so cruel and heartless! We should pass a law...
I am not yet a parent so I have no first hand experience but I find the claims of that website fascinating.
They use a lot of new-age bullshit language, but looking beyond that many of their claims require little, if any, suspension of disbelief.
The claim that women are born with all the instincts necessary to successfully give birth is plausible because every other creature on the planet can and natural selection would quickly remove those that can't from the gene pool.
The claim that pain can be reduced or eliminated by working with the natural instincts, being in a comfortable environment that reduces anxiety and exercising during pregnancy is also easy to believe.
The claim that high infant mortality in the past was mostly due to poor hygiene and nutrition also seems reasonable.
I can't evaluate the claim that the birthing process can actually be pleasurable or even orgastic due to lack of first hand experience.
The videos of women giving birth by themselves without any apparent discomfort would support at least some of their claims.
yet another reason not to have the rest of my children in a hospital.
In that case you should look into unassisted childbirth. Apparently everything you know about childbirth is wrong and these people have the pictures and videos to prove it.
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Those big, positive effects don't come for free. Insurance companies will raise premiums to compensate which will cause some businesses and individuals to drop their coverage because it's cheaper than paying the fine for being uninsured.
Social Security "looks to be solvent" until 2038, but when you eliminate the funny accounting tricks it's actually in the red right now.
Given the amount of fraud that's been uncovered practically everywhere you look what reason is there to believe anyone's balance sheet, public or private?
That's what I meant by "any government in the developed world"
What is the actual financial condition of these government? Are they really solvent or are they playing the same "hide the debt" games that Greece was?
You're not paying attention to the Greece debacle, specifically how large financial institutions helped the country use exotic instruments (fraud) to hide their true debt levels. Then, with full knowledge of the actual financial condition of the country, they bought Greek bonds. If and/or when Greece gets bailed out the money will go to these same banks.
How many other countries have they done this to? Does anyone really know how sustainable Europe's social welfare programs are?
There's only one thing you need to know and the rest is pure diversion:
The taxes start now and the benefits start later.
The reason this bill is being shoved through against so much opposition is because the government is frantically trying to raise tax revenue before the debt black hole sucks them in. Too bad we've already crossed the event horizon.
You haven't been paying attention to the balance sheet shenanigans going on in Greece, have you? Does anyone really know how expensive these programs are or if any government in the developed world is actually solvent or not?
It is a desperate grab for tax revenue to shore up a faltering budget.
Real health care reform would either include a single payer system or a rational free-market plan. Nether party is willing to do this, however. I wonder why...
That's what I call flexible.
I should have been more specific - pistols which have a double action trigger shouldn't be set down somewhere while cocked.
A cocked pistol that has a round in the chamber should never leave your hand under any circumstances.
There's no way a toddler has the hand strength to chamber a round and cock the hammer. Furthermore, no toddler would ever mistake the weight difference between a real pistol and a fake plastic one. In fact, I'd be surprised if a three year old could lift one without dropping it. Perhaps the parents aren't being entirely candid.
The real crooks extorted $24 trillion from a sovereign nation by threatening elected officials with martial law.
Your body doesn't finish developing until your 20s. Should we propose that no one should exercise until the age of 22?
Adolescence was invented in 1094 by Granville Stanley Hall.
Sending children to public schools is more irresponsible and abusive than opting out of vaccinations.
If they back that up with video evidence of modern humans doing the same thing can we consider the possibility that they aren't?
You're reading too much into what I wrote. I'm saying the claims that the authors of the website I linked to have at least enough plausibility that they shouldn't be immediately dismissed. Certainly what is published there is not the final word on childbirth, but it is worthy of further investigation.
That's all true. On the other hand at least some segment of the population retains good instincts in this area and were gracious enough to allow video evidence to document this fact.
I certainly am not calling for an end to hospitals and maternity wards but it's good to look at arguments that go against the common knowledge and reevaluate our assumptions from time to time. That's how we make progress.
How much of what we do is based on sound reasoning and how much is done simply because "we've always done it that way"?
I'm not anti-western medicine by any means but I think this evidence is worth looking into.
Leave her alone? If they did that how would they generate the fees necessary to pay off their student loans? Where are your priorities?
But reality is so cruel and heartless! We should pass a law...
I am not yet a parent so I have no first hand experience but I find the claims of that website fascinating.
They use a lot of new-age bullshit language, but looking beyond that many of their claims require little, if any, suspension of disbelief.
The claim that women are born with all the instincts necessary to successfully give birth is plausible because every other creature on the planet can and natural selection would quickly remove those that can't from the gene pool.
The claim that pain can be reduced or eliminated by working with the natural instincts, being in a comfortable environment that reduces anxiety and exercising during pregnancy is also easy to believe.
The claim that high infant mortality in the past was mostly due to poor hygiene and nutrition also seems reasonable.
I can't evaluate the claim that the birthing process can actually be pleasurable or even orgastic due to lack of first hand experience.
The videos of women giving birth by themselves without any apparent discomfort would support at least some of their claims.
In that case you should look into unassisted childbirth. Apparently everything you know about childbirth is wrong and these people have the pictures and videos to prove it.
At least one state, Texas, allows parents to opt out of the screenings.