You mean like the head of the CDC and various medical professional have been every day for the past 5 months? Seriously, just how far up there is your head?
The fear isnt from a lack of effort on the parts of the experts, you twit. It's from the hyper saturation of the 24 hour news cycle with baseless and hysterical claims, where they spend 23.9 hours a day stoking fear, and let an expert speak rationally for the remaining 0.1 hours.
Last I checked it wasn't the president who determines funding to government agencies, but Congress. And this stuff about "czars" is only because Congress refuses to approve any nominees for any position the President nominates, including the Surgeon General.
The last 6 years in a nutshell:
Step 1: POTUS tries to work with Congress. Step 2: Congress refuses to do anything. Step 3: Congressional says: "The President should show more leadership" (actual quote) Step 4: POTUS sidesteps Congress since they shoot down everything he suggests anyway Step 5: "This President is a lawless President who ignores the Constitution and abuses his power." Step 6: GOTO Step 1
Think it's a joke? Think back just a couple months: July 30, 2014: We are suing the President for abuse of Executive Power in the implementation of the ACA. - Speaker of the House, John Boehner July 31, 2014: The President can and should use Executive Power to address the immigration crisis. - Speaker of the House, John Boehner
So yes, it's about politics. But no, it isn't about power. This about sidestepping the do-nothing hypocrits in Congress.
I was going to say "mount the controls above a yawning chasm inside an artificial moon, yet within walking distance of the hangar bay". Yours works too though.
This may come as a shock to you, but there's mountains running nearly the entire length of the state, and people live on or near them, on both sides of them. And those mountains...they get snow. Places like Truckee, Tahoe, Shingleton, Susanville, Redding, Shasta, etc. You do realize there's quite a bit more to the state than just LA and the Bay Area, yes? You act like you think I have no familiarity with the state, yet I seem to know more about than you, having grown up out there.
the cargo vessel is little more than a reinforced box. the aircraft carrier has thousands of rooms with reinforced bulkheads to withstand damage, dedicated to seperates task and thousands of miles of wiring.
the drop in crime rate had more to do with the drop in the levels of lead in the everyday environment following its ban in everyday items like gasoline and paint, than with the "get tough" 80s.
And yet there's only one type of F150, one type of Camry... Not the California version, and the Oklahoma version, and then the Alska version...
Probably has something to do with the fact that the MFR's just build their cars to the toughest standards, and then sell them in all 50 states. Oh, and of course, we already do regulate cars nationwide via the NHTSA.
Ya, but tell that to them and get called a revisionist commie liar who hates Merica. Then you try telling them that they're engaging in projection, and they get a confused look on their face.
I dont disagree with most of what youre saying. but pikettys main concern wasnt so much corporations as the growth of what we commonly call "old money". money handed down from one generation to the next, growing larger in each generation before being handed to the next. its compounding faster and faster, making the system very top heavy, without any actual labor output involved.
No, it doesnt skyrocket. Look at the onyl people to be infected in this country: two of the nurses who were in close contact with an infected man after he was sick. None of the people who were on the plane with him.
the chances to be infected are so low because the transmissibilty of Ebola is on the very low end of diseases. First, the person has to be showing symptons. People not showing symptoms are not contagious. Preventing its spread really is as simple as good hygeine, not coughing on people or getting coughed on, isolating patients, santizing equipment and room. The transmissibility of ebola is NOTHING like that of hte cold, the flu, or measles.
Our culture, our sanitary habits, our medical system and our faith in it, are far different from that in Africa. Differences that have contributed to its spread over there. We have top notch medical in this country that we dont fear (death squads masquarading as "medical teams" arent a thing over here), we nearly all of us practice obsessive hygiene and sanitation, we dont keep living in the same 1 room home with a patient who is infected after they become infected, and we dont leave dead infected bodies rotting in the open cause we're afraid to bury it.
If a whopping 2 people getting infected scares you, think on this: last year there were over 60,000 motor vehicle deaths, 40,000 gun deaths, and 36,000 deaths to the flu. I say it again: Ebola is a non threat, regardless of your ignorance or that of whatever news/panic-machine youve been watching.
And 99 ("the 99%") people buying a car at 20k spend 1,980,000 in the economy. The rich do NOT pump more into the economy than the middle and lower classes.
The middle and lower classes are what drive the economy. They (we) spend the most in the economy, both relative to income and in total dollars. The majority of economic activity in this country is driven by the consumption and spending of the middle and lower classes. The economy is not driven by rich folks buyibng 50million dollar homes.
To be clear, yes they absolutely do consume more, they consume far more, both relative to income and in total dollars. you are saying that hte rich spend more in the ecnomy than the middle and lower class and that is patently false. the rich DO NOT make the economy work, they do not consume more, and they dont spend more as a group in the economy.
your chances of being infected with the flu are >95% your chances of being infected with the ebola are almost nonexistant.
a plane crash is nearly always fatal for most of hte folks on baord. but your chances of actually crashing are slim to none. perspective matters.
The flu is far more dangerous on the whole than ebola. Worldwide wide it kills in the undreds of thousands every year. Ebola isnt even in the quintple digits yet. the biggest difficulties in Africa that contribute to its spread are economic and cultural, rather than the disease itself. Because of the combination of its difficulty in transmission and high mortality rate, Ebola if left to its own devices is far more likely to burn itself out than become a truly threatening epidemic. Ebola in a country like the US is a non threat.
Ebola is not a smart disease. It's too hard to spread and kills too easily. Basic sanitation and seperation is generally all it takes to keep it contained and prevent it from spiraling out of control. the fact it's so deadly actually helps prevent its spread, as it can burn itself out.
In contrast the flu spreads extremely easily and is much hard to stop. And. That actually makes it more dangerous, allowing to infect and kill more people before its done. Every year it kills about 36000 people in the US alone. And that's a normal, minor flu year.
Truly bad flu epidemics, which we thankfully havent seeni n some time, can kill in the millions. The 1918 flu killed between 50 and 100 MILLION people, 675,000 of them in the US. It was the single deadliest event or chain events of the entire 20th Century.
So yes, you're right. We should stop comparing it to the flu. The flu is far more dangerous.
A tax on consumption hits those hardest who consume the most: the middle and lower classes. And it does nothing to stop or slow the growth of wealth accumulation. Consumption taxes only feed wealth accumulation.
Whereas on a tax on capital, on wealth, does precisely that: it targets wealth inequality directly, reducing the top heaviness of the system. You may not be able to run a country off it (which is why income or consumption taxes across the majority of society will still be important), but thats not its purpose. It's purpose is to keep the system stable so it doesnt run off the tracks. It's one of those necessary restraints on capitalism to it from its own self destructive tendencies.
No, he wasnt. Bush sold the war on the ideas that Iraq was actively pursuing, creating and obtaining WMDs, and that he was actively supporting Al Queda and would give them those WMDs.
All of these are weapons from the 1980s, many of which we helped them obtain. We knew Iraq had old stockpiles of these, but they were unmaintained, and therefore unreliable, hazardous to use, and not a viable threat.
To be clear: Bush was not right. Iraq was not actively and currently developing WMDs, nor were they supporting or supplying Al Queda with them. Bush lied.
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"If they had just stated the truth"
You mean like the head of the CDC and various medical professional have been every day for the past 5 months?
Seriously, just how far up there is your head?
The fear isnt from a lack of effort on the parts of the experts, you twit. It's from the hyper saturation of the 24 hour news cycle with baseless and hysterical claims, where they spend 23.9 hours a day stoking fear, and let an expert speak rationally for the remaining 0.1 hours.
Last I checked it wasn't the president who determines funding to government agencies, but Congress. And this stuff about "czars" is only because Congress refuses to approve any nominees for any position the President nominates, including the Surgeon General.
The last 6 years in a nutshell:
Step 1: POTUS tries to work with Congress.
Step 2: Congress refuses to do anything.
Step 3: Congressional says: "The President should show more leadership" (actual quote)
Step 4: POTUS sidesteps Congress since they shoot down everything he suggests anyway
Step 5: "This President is a lawless President who ignores the Constitution and abuses his power."
Step 6: GOTO Step 1
Think it's a joke? Think back just a couple months:
July 30, 2014: We are suing the President for abuse of Executive Power in the implementation of the ACA. - Speaker of the House, John Boehner
July 31, 2014: The President can and should use Executive Power to address the immigration crisis. - Speaker of the House, John Boehner
So yes, it's about politics.
But no, it isn't about power.
This about sidestepping the do-nothing hypocrits in Congress.
I was going to say "mount the controls above a yawning chasm inside an artificial moon, yet within walking distance of the hangar bay". Yours works too though.
This may come as a shock to you, but there's mountains running nearly the entire length of the state, and people live on or near them, on both sides of them. And those mountains...they get snow. Places like Truckee, Tahoe, Shingleton, Susanville, Redding, Shasta, etc. You do realize there's quite a bit more to the state than just LA and the Bay Area, yes? You act like you think I have no familiarity with the state, yet I seem to know more about than you, having grown up out there.
the cargo vessel is little more than a reinforced box.
the aircraft carrier has thousands of rooms with reinforced bulkheads to withstand damage, dedicated to seperates task and thousands of miles of wiring.
its like comparing a box store to a skyscraper
Well duh. Zero point devices are for powering the Atlantis.
the drop in crime rate had more to do with the drop in the levels of lead in the everyday environment following its ban in everyday items like gasoline and paint, than with the "get tough" 80s.
Name one state that has banned hte sale of firearms.
or if it involves telling women what to do with their bodies
Ladies and gentlemen, the Anti Union Propogandist.
And btw, wth do you mean you never have to deal with snow in Cali ???
And yet there's only one type of F150, one type of Camry...
Not the California version, and the Oklahoma version, and then the Alska version...
Probably has something to do with the fact that the MFR's just build their cars to the toughest standards, and then sell them in all 50 states.
Oh, and of course, we already do regulate cars nationwide via the NHTSA.
Ya, but tell that to them and get called a revisionist commie liar who hates Merica.
Then you try telling them that they're engaging in projection, and they get a confused look on their face.
So if a country seeks to prevent life threatening mistakes through regulations, Merck, Pfizer, GSK etc sue the country/taxpayers ?
LMFTFY
I dont disagree with most of what youre saying. but pikettys main concern wasnt so much corporations as the growth of what we commonly call "old money". money handed down from one generation to the next, growing larger in each generation before being handed to the next. its compounding faster and faster, making the system very top heavy, without any actual labor output involved.
No, it doesnt skyrocket.
Look at the onyl people to be infected in this country: two of the nurses who were in close contact with an infected man after he was sick. None of the people who were on the plane with him.
the chances to be infected are so low because the transmissibilty of Ebola is on the very low end of diseases. First, the person has to be showing symptons. People not showing symptoms are not contagious. Preventing its spread really is as simple as good hygeine, not coughing on people or getting coughed on, isolating patients, santizing equipment and room. The transmissibility of ebola is NOTHING like that of hte cold, the flu, or measles.
Our culture, our sanitary habits, our medical system and our faith in it, are far different from that in Africa. Differences that have contributed to its spread over there. We have top notch medical in this country that we dont fear (death squads masquarading as "medical teams" arent a thing over here), we nearly all of us practice obsessive hygiene and sanitation, we dont keep living in the same 1 room home with a patient who is infected after they become infected, and we dont leave dead infected bodies rotting in the open cause we're afraid to bury it.
If a whopping 2 people getting infected scares you, think on this: last year there were over 60,000 motor vehicle deaths, 40,000 gun deaths, and 36,000 deaths to the flu.
I say it again: Ebola is a non threat, regardless of your ignorance or that of whatever news/panic-machine youve been watching.
And 99 ("the 99%") people buying a car at 20k spend 1,980,000 in the economy.
The rich do NOT pump more into the economy than the middle and lower classes.
The middle and lower classes are what drive the economy. They (we) spend the most in the economy, both relative to income and in total dollars. The majority of economic activity in this country is driven by the consumption and spending of the middle and lower classes. The economy is not driven by rich folks buyibng 50million dollar homes.
To be clear, yes they absolutely do consume more, they consume far more, both relative to income and in total dollars.
you are saying that hte rich spend more in the ecnomy than the middle and lower class and that is patently false.
the rich DO NOT make the economy work, they do not consume more, and they dont spend more as a group in the economy.
your chances of being infected with the flu are >95%
your chances of being infected with the ebola are almost nonexistant.
a plane crash is nearly always fatal for most of hte folks on baord.
but your chances of actually crashing are slim to none.
perspective matters.
The flu is far more dangerous on the whole than ebola. Worldwide wide it kills in the undreds of thousands every year. Ebola isnt even in the quintple digits yet. the biggest difficulties in Africa that contribute to its spread are economic and cultural, rather than the disease itself. Because of the combination of its difficulty in transmission and high mortality rate, Ebola if left to its own devices is far more likely to burn itself out than become a truly threatening epidemic. Ebola in a country like the US is a non threat.
Ebola is not a smart disease. It's too hard to spread and kills too easily. Basic sanitation and seperation is generally all it takes to keep it contained and prevent it from spiraling out of control. the fact it's so deadly actually helps prevent its spread, as it can burn itself out.
In contrast the flu spreads extremely easily and is much hard to stop. And. That actually makes it more dangerous, allowing to infect and kill more people before its done. Every year it kills about 36000 people in the US alone. And that's a normal, minor flu year.
Truly bad flu epidemics, which we thankfully havent seeni n some time, can kill in the millions. The 1918 flu killed between 50 and 100 MILLION people, 675,000 of them in the US. It was the single deadliest event or chain events of the entire 20th Century.
So yes, you're right.
We should stop comparing it to the flu.
The flu is far more dangerous.
it wont work, so lets do it anyway!
Still wont solve the problem.
A tax on consumption hits those hardest who consume the most: the middle and lower classes.
And it does nothing to stop or slow the growth of wealth accumulation.
Consumption taxes only feed wealth accumulation.
Whereas on a tax on capital, on wealth, does precisely that: it targets wealth inequality directly, reducing the top heaviness of the system.
You may not be able to run a country off it (which is why income or consumption taxes across the majority of society will still be important), but thats not its purpose.
It's purpose is to keep the system stable so it doesnt run off the tracks. It's one of those necessary restraints on capitalism to it from its own self destructive tendencies.
You know how I know you're an idiot?
Cause you can't even remember what Bush said, and rather than going to look, you're just believing Fox's new spin on old news.
No, he wasnt.
Bush sold the war on the ideas that Iraq was actively pursuing, creating and obtaining WMDs, and that he was actively supporting Al Queda and would give them those WMDs.
All of these are weapons from the 1980s, many of which we helped them obtain. We knew Iraq had old stockpiles of these, but they were unmaintained, and therefore unreliable, hazardous to use, and not a viable threat.
To be clear: Bush was not right. Iraq was not actively and currently developing WMDs, nor were they supporting or supplying Al Queda with them. Bush lied.
BINGO!
Give the man a cigar.