that's it. keep pretending filibusters and holds and other legislative maneuvers the minority party can use to block bills and votes aren't a thing.
also, it was the first 2 years, not the first 4. the first year of which was largely consumed by trying to fix the economy and pass the ACA. and even those two things were not uniformly popular within the democratic party, particularly once the president compromised with the GOP by removing the public option from the ACA proposal.
and lets bring up Zika. lets do. for example....WHY were democrats blocking? because the GOP knowingly put a poison pill in there to single out Planned Parenthood and prevent any funds from going to it. so once again, you're a fing moron.
amphibians are experiencing one of the highest if not the highest die off of any animal group, and due to their biology they are among the most susceptible most sensitive creatures in existence.
As one workmate put it, if she REALLY wanted to get rich of climate change, she'd deny everything the data tells her, and pretend its not happening and make a mint on the right wing talk circuit. Double so if she throws in creationism and get to visit churches too. Unfortunately , she's a scientist, albeit one in a field where she gets death threats from anti-science stalkers, funding threats from conservative policy makers, and a world of disrespect from a media industry that thinks "balance" means matching every truth with a lie.
you like having weekends off? you like that your kids can go to school instead of working 12 hours a day? you like the 8 hour workday, giving you 8 hours to yourself and 8 for sleep? you like workplace safety, an environment that wont kill you? you like having any rights at all as an employee?
then THANK A UNION and I can make this list bigger if I need to.
Labor Day is the most or second important holiday observance we have in a year, and most people don't even understand its importance anymore. they don't understand that thousands of workers died for the right to be treated with dignity, the right to a life that was more than just scrounging away for someone else in return for a pittance barely above slave labor. there were hundreds of massacres of striking workers. labor organizers were summarily executed by the authorities controlled by corporate bosses. it took decades to win public support for these essential public rights. but the result is the possibility to live the life you live now.
Has everyone forgotten so quickly the 2008 recession was in large part due to this kind of sales activity? People were getting bonuses for the numbers of mortgages they sold that could be repackaged into securities, making money on both ends. They wanted more more more, until the economy simply collapsed from the weight of all the subprime and toxic mortgages.
once again you routinely completely ignore the whole slavery thing, the jim crow thing, the systemic exclusion of blacks from the New Deal and the prosperity following WWII, and other vitally important factors in explaining the historical and systemic denial of an equal prosperity in the nation.
you have debated no one and nothing in a corner in your entire tenure as a/. troll.
all you've done is once again prove that you are a racist ignorant of the history of his adopted country.
he is in no way a credible economist. he is a quack, a racist who is part the Mises institutes efforts to unite pro-monarchism with southern white resentment, a man who believes slavery should be legal because "free market", and an apologist for big industry whether its denying that tobacco causes cancer or that fossil fuels have contributed mightily to global warming.
he is only acclaimed by fellow quacks with no connection to reality...which explains your admiration.
and as for natural monopolies, and yes, roads are. along with several other things. again you only show your own ignorance and lack of rational thought.
but libertarians keep promising me that if we just left companies and industry alone they would be good actors because of the fear of the free market. that our dollar voting would deter them from nefarious acts. that the Invisible Hand cures all.
cause they forgot to consider what happens when industry sees a way to manipulate the market.
sorry, it's not essentially wilderness.its more wild than the burbs, but much of it very much still marked by humanity. Yosemite as a whole isn't wilderness. Neither is Yellowstone. though both have areas designated as such, and are access points to designated wilderness areas. that's why actual wilderness areas are specifically marked out and left as pristine as possible.
Antarctica really isn't all that big, and most of that wilderness is in the remote regions of Africa, South America, and northern Canada/Russia. just because you lack the ability to grasp the numbers doesn't invalidate them. in fact, the article even points out that it is 20% of earth's land area.
I think he may be wrong about saying the US failed. We didn't fail; our politicians put politics and money ahead of science.
The amount? A paltry 4.5 billion dollars. Chump change when you consider the trillion we spent shoring up the banks and saving the economy, or the trillion+ spent on the F35, or the 2 trillion spent on the War on Terror.
Had we built the collider (or finished it, since 14 miles had already been bored) the advances that have come of the LHC could have come some 20 years sooner. China shouldn't back out or be afraid.
Hell, we managed to built a few giant facilities at quite some cost that existed solely to detect gravitational waves, that sat there, monitored, for years, generating tons of data that have to have every earth bound tremor removed from the data set, before confirmation FINALLY came in last year. that's the thing about science: there's not always a guarantee of concrete return on investment when it comes to science. sometimes the result is a lack of results, but that could either mean that your hypothesis wrong and the phenomena doesn't exist after all, or that your test setup just isn't good enough to detect it.
but its worth doing anyway, because we now know that gravity waves are real, just as we know the Higgs Boson does exist. these may seem like minor data points to the lay observer, but these discoveries could be the turning points, the point when it first become possible to potentially manipulate gravity, or fold space, or some other far off scifi magic.
No education is garbage. The purpose of education is not employment. The purpose of education is education.
if we're supposed to be entering this world where leisure is abundant because robots replace us, where we're free to pursue our own interests, why do so many people insist on keeping us stuck in dark ages where "your purpose in life is to make someone else money and be a cog in the economy" ?
and part of the reason for Medicare's costs is that a)required to pay some profit (so not just limited to at cost as it is in many other UHC systems) and b) it has to operate within a space defined and controlled by for-profit industry. with those factors removed, medicare costs would much more resemble that of other nation's UHC. and the ironic thing, even so, medicare is the most efficient sector of the US healthcare system, paying much closer to cost than private insurance does.
Actually yes, universal health care DOES change the amount that health care costs. the US spends on average 4x as much for the same health care as other nations with UHC. what medicare pays is very close to cost, which btw makes it the most efficient sector of the healthcare industry, whereas private insurance pays far above cost, because everyone is profit motivated.
and no you don't need to print money to make it happen. rather, obviously, its paid for by the money that used to go to premiums/deductibles.
only because of greater efficiencies and economies of scale, where the average person currently pays 15-20% of their income for private healthcare premiums (not including deductibles, which can raise the total to 50% if you actually do get sick and seek treatment), under UHC those costs shrink to 7-10% of income, paid as taxes. taxes go up, yet the wallet of the average person is left holding an additional 7-10% more money in it, and healthcare goes from being a crapshoot of approvals and authorizations and coverage limits and limited access to "everyone is covered. period. done". there is no downside to UHC. none.
as for SS, its underfunded, particularly due to the income cap that means thath billionaires contribute as much as people earning ~120k/yr. without the cap it would be funded in perpetuity and benefits could increase.
-Europe is not "most of the world". -50 years ago was 1966, by which time the majority of rebuilding had been complete for nearly a decade. -the profits from the rebuilding were largely local and fueled local economies, not the US's
maybe your argument should include some facts. (PS: even at that time, Europes pay and cost of living were comparable to the US's)
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because the GOP totally didn't filibuster during the 2 years they didn't control congress....
Idiot.
that's it.
keep pretending filibusters and holds and other legislative maneuvers the minority party can use to block bills and votes aren't a thing.
also, it was the first 2 years, not the first 4.
the first year of which was largely consumed by trying to fix the economy and pass the ACA. and even those two things were not uniformly popular within the democratic party, particularly once the president compromised with the GOP by removing the public option from the ACA proposal.
and lets bring up Zika.
lets do.
for example....WHY were democrats blocking?
because the GOP knowingly put a poison pill in there to single out Planned Parenthood and prevent any funds from going to it.
so once again, you're a fing moron.
that's it.
keep pretending filibusters and holds and other legislative maneuvers the minority party can use to block bills and votes aren't a thing.
amphibians are experiencing one of the highest if not the highest die off of any animal group, and due to their biology they are among the most susceptible most sensitive creatures in existence.
translation: I reject science because thinking is hard. and scary.
QFTMFT:
As one workmate put it, if she REALLY wanted to get rich of climate change, she'd deny everything the data tells her, and pretend its not happening and make a mint on the right wing talk circuit. Double so if she throws in creationism and get to visit churches too. Unfortunately , she's a scientist, albeit one in a field where she gets death threats from anti-science stalkers, funding threats from conservative policy makers, and a world of disrespect from a media industry that thinks "balance" means matching every truth with a lie.
Props to her for her integrity.
found the corporate shill.
you like having weekends off?
you like that your kids can go to school instead of working 12 hours a day?
you like the 8 hour workday, giving you 8 hours to yourself and 8 for sleep?
you like workplace safety, an environment that wont kill you?
you like having any rights at all as an employee?
then THANK A UNION
and I can make this list bigger if I need to.
Labor Day is the most or second important holiday observance we have in a year, and most people don't even understand its importance anymore.
they don't understand that thousands of workers died for the right to be treated with dignity, the right to a life that was more than just scrounging away for someone else in return for a pittance barely above slave labor. there were hundreds of massacres of striking workers. labor organizers were summarily executed by the authorities controlled by corporate bosses. it took decades to win public support for these essential public rights. but the result is the possibility to live the life you live now.
thank you.
that's exactly what I came to say.
Has everyone forgotten so quickly the 2008 recession was in large part due to this kind of sales activity?
People were getting bonuses for the numbers of mortgages they sold that could be repackaged into securities, making money on both ends.
They wanted more more more, until the economy simply collapsed from the weight of all the subprime and toxic mortgages.
once again you routinely completely ignore the whole slavery thing, the jim crow thing, the systemic exclusion of blacks from the New Deal and the prosperity following WWII, and other vitally important factors in explaining the historical and systemic denial of an equal prosperity in the nation.
you have debated no one and nothing in a corner in your entire tenure as a /. troll.
all you've done is once again prove that you are a racist ignorant of the history of his adopted country.
again with the racism
he is in no way a credible economist.
he is a quack, a racist who is part the Mises institutes efforts to unite pro-monarchism with southern white resentment, a man who believes slavery should be legal because "free market", and an apologist for big industry whether its denying that tobacco causes cancer or that fossil fuels have contributed mightily to global warming.
he is only acclaimed by fellow quacks with no connection to reality...which explains your admiration.
and as for natural monopolies, and yes, roads are. along with several other things.
again you only show your own ignorance and lack of rational thought.
you've truly gone off the deep end.
you've really outdone yourself.
bravo.
but libertarians keep promising me that if we just left companies and industry alone they would be good actors because of the fear of the free market. that our dollar voting would deter them from nefarious acts. that the Invisible Hand cures all.
cause they forgot to consider what happens when industry sees a way to manipulate the market.
so much for that theory.
sorry, it's not essentially wilderness.its more wild than the burbs, but much of it very much still marked by humanity. Yosemite as a whole isn't wilderness. Neither is Yellowstone. though both have areas designated as such, and are access points to designated wilderness areas. that's why actual wilderness areas are specifically marked out and left as pristine as possible.
Antarctica really isn't all that big, and most of that wilderness is in the remote regions of Africa, South America, and northern Canada/Russia. just because you lack the ability to grasp the numbers doesn't invalidate them. in fact, the article even points out that it is 20% of earth's land area.
I think he may be wrong about saying the US failed.
We didn't fail; our politicians put politics and money ahead of science.
The amount? A paltry 4.5 billion dollars.
Chump change when you consider the trillion we spent shoring up the banks and saving the economy, or the trillion+ spent on the F35, or the 2 trillion spent on the War on Terror.
Had we built the collider (or finished it, since 14 miles had already been bored) the advances that have come of the LHC could have come some 20 years sooner. China shouldn't back out or be afraid.
Hell, we managed to built a few giant facilities at quite some cost that existed solely to detect gravitational waves, that sat there, monitored, for years, generating tons of data that have to have every earth bound tremor removed from the data set, before confirmation FINALLY came in last year. that's the thing about science: there's not always a guarantee of concrete return on investment when it comes to science. sometimes the result is a lack of results, but that could either mean that your hypothesis wrong and the phenomena doesn't exist after all, or that your test setup just isn't good enough to detect it.
but its worth doing anyway, because we now know that gravity waves are real, just as we know the Higgs Boson does exist.
these may seem like minor data points to the lay observer, but these discoveries could be the turning points, the point when it first become possible to potentially manipulate gravity, or fold space, or some other far off scifi magic.
was looking for the Manna reference.
it's coming.
No education is garbage.
The purpose of education is not employment.
The purpose of education is education.
if we're supposed to be entering this world where leisure is abundant because robots replace us, where we're free to pursue our own interests, why do so many people insist on keeping us stuck in dark ages where "your purpose in life is to make someone else money and be a cog in the economy" ?
and part of the reason for Medicare's costs is that a)required to pay some profit (so not just limited to at cost as it is in many other UHC systems) and b) it has to operate within a space defined and controlled by for-profit industry. with those factors removed, medicare costs would much more resemble that of other nation's UHC. and the ironic thing, even so, medicare is the most efficient sector of the US healthcare system, paying much closer to cost than private insurance does.
Actually yes, universal health care DOES change the amount that health care costs.
the US spends on average 4x as much for the same health care as other nations with UHC.
what medicare pays is very close to cost, which btw makes it the most efficient sector of the healthcare industry, whereas private insurance pays far above cost, because everyone is profit motivated.
and no you don't need to print money to make it happen.
rather, obviously, its paid for by the money that used to go to premiums/deductibles.
only because of greater efficiencies and economies of scale, where the average person currently pays 15-20% of their income for private healthcare premiums (not including deductibles, which can raise the total to 50% if you actually do get sick and seek treatment), under UHC those costs shrink to 7-10% of income, paid as taxes. taxes go up, yet the wallet of the average person is left holding an additional 7-10% more money in it, and healthcare goes from being a crapshoot of approvals and authorizations and coverage limits and limited access to "everyone is covered. period. done".
there is no downside to UHC.
none.
as for SS, its underfunded, particularly due to the income cap that means thath billionaires contribute as much as people earning ~120k/yr. without the cap it would be funded in perpetuity and benefits could increase.
most people cant afford to spend 90% of their income on housing.
youre just reinforcing his point
-Europe is not "most of the world".
-50 years ago was 1966, by which time the majority of rebuilding had been complete for nearly a decade.
-the profits from the rebuilding were largely local and fueled local economies, not the US's
maybe your argument should include some facts.
(PS: even at that time, Europes pay and cost of living were comparable to the US's)