they only suck at picking winners if you haven't been paying attention. which you havent.
the DOE's loan program picked winners at a rate 3x higher than private industry does, and the loan program has actually turned a profit for the government. it's failure rate is at 3% right now. private investors and venture capitalists are considered successful with a ~30% success rate. the governments program is rocking a 97% success rate.
they cant pick em? hah.
and as for using pure market Darwinism, lets not forget that one of the functions of government is to help push or guide developments. there is more to energy generation than just the market dynamics at stake. the government, being by of and for the people, has a VERY vested interest in preserving the peoples health and their home (the planet), and as such it has a very vested interest in expanding things like solar and reducing the number of dead dinosaurs that we burn.
In Oklahoma alone the industry got 600 million dollars in tax breaks and credits, this year alone. coincidentally, our state budget had a gaping hole of ~600 million dollars....which they filled by cutting education, roadwork, and other stuff. (naturally, no one dared talk about not giving them that great big tax break)
And this happens country wide to the tune of several billion dollars a year.
No stupid. Plans that charge more than they pay out are not legitimate. they were legalized scams that are now, finally, no longer legal thanks to the minimum standard set.
Obamacare isn't an insurance plan anyway. you cant call up Blue Cross and say "I want some Obamacare".
its just insurance, just like from work, just like before.
just now offered in the open, in a clearer FREE MARKET setting, where before the individual market was just s teaming pile of manure. in most states the exchange plans are identical to what they offer companies, and even the rates are comparable as they effective turned the individual market into a large "group" for the purpose of "group plan" style risk/cost analysis similar to whats done for group plans typically offered through employers.
seriously, its been 6+ bloody years, you'd think you'd have learned something about this by now.
*insurance company charges $1000/yr for a cheap plan *plan covers nothing, has maximum payout of $300/yr *ACA bans such scam plans *cue wingnut outrage over losing their "plan"
ya.....theres quite a bit more to it than "just toss a dam on every moving body of water",
this smacks of hte same stupidty that tries to deny there's a drought in california, that tries to say they dont need to ration water, because they still allow rain runoff to run to the ocean, IE, they dont damn up the streams and rivers and stop every last drop.
after all, fuck nature. what's it need water for?
(and no, the damns aren't saving any fish...stupid fucking bullshit)
the carbon in plants doesn't come from fertilizers. it comes largely out of the air. the plant matter then, when ingested by a cow, ferments in its gut, reconverting the carbon back into Methane and CO2. Methane is shorter lived, but the thing is it when decomposes it turns into CO2. so its not like it goes away and you get to ignore it. why switch to any meat? the best way to reduce the emissions from livestock (14% of all human activity) is to reduce the amount of livestock. yes humans eat meat, but does it have to as much as we do? theres little health benefits and quite a few drawbacks to the large amounts of it we do eat you essentially turned your post into an anti-vegetarian and anti-progressive screed...for some reason. even though vegetarians come from all sides.
you picked an apt topic name. only its not so much an accusation, as a description of the content of your post.
and there are lots of sources of methane. just because source A exists is not a reason to not work to reduce B, especially when B is one of the biggest sources in existence. rather, it's best to work to reduce all of it, and in truth, there is also work being done to reduce methane from landfills too.
Should we start with the problems of equating wild bison with domesticated cattle? Or maybe the disparity in population (~25million bison over entire continent vs 90million cows in the US alone*)? Perhaps the difference in their feeding habits (enough to live vs enough to be fattened for consumption)? Maybe the type of feed (wild grasses vs grains also agriculturally produced)? Difference of lifestyle (nomadic vs sedentary/penned)?
So tell me. Just which ignorant part of your ignorant statement should we start with?
*BTW, that's just the number of cows raised for meat, and ignores those from dairies
actually these days typical is the company tells you at the last minute of the last day of the pay period, and escort you to the door. Lucky to get 5 minutes notice.
look at it this way: unless you're a CEO or executive, when you're gone the company is maybe 5% less productive, or less. but when a company bails on an employee, that employee is 100% less productive.
that's why the balance of power so overwhelmingly favors the company.
and yes, a 3 months notice would surely be better.
this is part of that crazy right wing logic where up is down and black is white. this is like that other idiots assertions that the environment is bad off because of regulations, and would be better if we eliminated them. so completely disconnected from reality. it's such a load of bull.
the European method is better. but even the American method is better than none, though if the GOP got their way there would be no unions, and every worker would have to individually negotiate against the company "on equal footing" (which it in no way is)
The US needs to sharply lower corporate taxation and capital gains taxes, otherwise both corporations and investors will increasingly go overseas, a process that obviously has already started.
Translation: Rich people need more money.
Safe to say you've earned your shill pay today. A truly monumental effort. I applaud you.
He just wants to believe that in a country were GE, the worlds largest company (and largest polluter, and largest single economic entity that isn't a country) not only paid zero taxes last year, but got a refund, that they and other corporations like them are somehow paying more taxes than they are required to.
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they only suck at picking winners if you haven't been paying attention.
which you havent.
the DOE's loan program picked winners at a rate 3x higher than private industry does, and the loan program has actually turned a profit for the government.
it's failure rate is at 3% right now. private investors and venture capitalists are considered successful with a ~30% success rate. the governments program is rocking a 97% success rate.
they cant pick em?
hah.
and as for using pure market Darwinism, lets not forget that one of the functions of government is to help push or guide developments. there is more to energy generation than just the market dynamics at stake. the government, being by of and for the people, has a VERY vested interest in preserving the peoples health and their home (the planet), and as such it has a very vested interest in expanding things like solar and reducing the number of dead dinosaurs that we burn.
Minor?
please.
In Oklahoma alone the industry got 600 million dollars in tax breaks and credits, this year alone.
coincidentally, our state budget had a gaping hole of ~600 million dollars....which they filled by cutting education, roadwork, and other stuff.
(naturally, no one dared talk about not giving them that great big tax break)
And this happens country wide to the tune of several billion dollars a year.
what's worse?
the fact that this ignorance got posted, or that it got modded up?
god.
8 more years of this nonsense.
ok. well.
lets get started: name one that the media hasn't called her on.
i'll wait.
insurance companies never changed anything ever prior to the ACA
say what you want, but nothing you just said was factual
No stupid.
Plans that charge more than they pay out are not legitimate.
they were legalized scams that are now, finally, no longer legal thanks to the minimum standard set.
Obamacare isn't an insurance plan anyway.
you cant call up Blue Cross and say "I want some Obamacare".
its just insurance, just like from work, just like before.
just now offered in the open, in a clearer FREE MARKET setting, where before the individual market was just s teaming pile of manure. in most states the exchange plans are identical to what they offer companies, and even the rates are comparable as they effective turned the individual market into a large "group" for the purpose of "group plan" style risk/cost analysis similar to whats done for group plans typically offered through employers.
seriously, its been 6+ bloody years, you'd think you'd have learned something about this by now.
PPOs and HMOs with limited networks also existed prior to the ACA.
and those networks also used to change, regularly, prior to the ACA.
*insurance company charges $1000/yr for a cheap plan
*plan covers nothing, has maximum payout of $300/yr
*ACA bans such scam plans
*cue wingnut outrage over losing their "plan"
yet here you are
youre just chock full of bullshit and tin foil hattery aint ya
facts and logic, a wingnut craves not these things.
ya.....theres quite a bit more to it than "just toss a dam on every moving body of water",
this smacks of hte same stupidty that tries to deny there's a drought in california, that tries to say they dont need to ration water, because they still allow rain runoff to run to the ocean, IE, they dont damn up the streams and rivers and stop every last drop.
after all, fuck nature.
what's it need water for?
(and no, the damns aren't saving any fish...stupid fucking bullshit)
Oh here comes the bit about "its not a problem cause it such a tiny piece of the whole" .
Sure is proud of his ignorance isn't he.
the carbon in plants doesn't come from fertilizers.
it comes largely out of the air.
the plant matter then, when ingested by a cow, ferments in its gut, reconverting the carbon back into Methane and CO2.
Methane is shorter lived, but the thing is it when decomposes it turns into CO2. so its not like it goes away and you get to ignore it.
why switch to any meat? the best way to reduce the emissions from livestock (14% of all human activity) is to reduce the amount of livestock.
yes humans eat meat, but does it have to as much as we do?
theres little health benefits and quite a few drawbacks to the large amounts of it we do eat
you essentially turned your post into an anti-vegetarian and anti-progressive screed...for some reason.
even though vegetarians come from all sides.
you picked an apt topic name. only its not so much an accusation, as a description of the content of your post.
oblig XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1338/
no matter how many times you say, it still wont be true.
its 40% of all food in the us, not just produce.
and there are lots of sources of methane.
just because source A exists is not a reason to not work to reduce B, especially when B is one of the biggest sources in existence.
rather, it's best to work to reduce all of it, and in truth, there is also work being done to reduce methane from landfills too.
Should we start with the problems of equating wild bison with domesticated cattle?
Or maybe the disparity in population (~25million bison over entire continent vs 90million cows in the US alone*)?
Perhaps the difference in their feeding habits (enough to live vs enough to be fattened for consumption)?
Maybe the type of feed (wild grasses vs grains also agriculturally produced)?
Difference of lifestyle (nomadic vs sedentary/penned)?
So tell me.
Just which ignorant part of your ignorant statement should we start with?
*BTW, that's just the number of cows raised for meat, and ignores those from dairies
actually these days typical is the company tells you at the last minute of the last day of the pay period, and escort you to the door.
Lucky to get 5 minutes notice.
look at it this way: unless you're a CEO or executive, when you're gone the company is maybe 5% less productive, or less.
but when a company bails on an employee, that employee is 100% less productive.
that's why the balance of power so overwhelmingly favors the company.
and yes, a 3 months notice would surely be better.
this is part of that crazy right wing logic where up is down and black is white.
this is like that other idiots assertions that the environment is bad off because of regulations, and would be better if we eliminated them.
so completely disconnected from reality.
it's such a load of bull.
^^^
How it should be.
the European method is better.
but even the American method is better than none, though if the GOP got their way there would be no unions, and every worker would have to individually negotiate against the company "on equal footing" (which it in no way is)
Unions are not at fault for the auto or steel industries.
They did it to themselves, and would have with out without the union's presence.
The US needs to sharply lower corporate taxation and capital gains taxes, otherwise both corporations and investors will increasingly go overseas, a process that obviously has already started.
Translation: Rich people need more money.
Safe to say you've earned your shill pay today.
A truly monumental effort. I applaud you.
He just wants to believe that in a country were GE, the worlds largest company (and largest polluter, and largest single economic entity that isn't a country) not only paid zero taxes last year, but got a refund, that they and other corporations like them are somehow paying more taxes than they are required to.