This isn't true. We switched to a services economy in the late 1960s. The economy of the US from the 1920s through this time WAS built on selling things to the world, though mostly it was munitions in the 1940s - and massive deficit spending.
And, I can only think this is a sop because whilst KI protects the thyroid from radioactive iodine, it is NOT an anti-radiation pill. Additionally if you're over 40 you're better off NOT taking it.
This.
An awful lot of what's called 'new and different' is based on computer science theory developed in the 1970s or before ("Fundamental Algorithms" anyone?).
The tech has gotten snazzier but the ideas are similar, and the programming languages aren't hugely different.
Computer science theory is mostly the same.
Really? Usually I hear that from Democrats.
My experience is hearing things directly from people who say them. What's your experience from ? Propaganda from Huffpo?
Sorry to hear that buddy:( My wife has health challenges but nothing like cancer -- but I understand the challenge of doing a lot of retirement savings when there are serious health issues.
What we object to is being bled dry already without this extra tax going on. It's easy to discuss 'soak the rich' but when you start to realize that more than half the country make less than 40K/year 'Rich' has a low bar, especially for progressives.
I'm not sure capitalism fails at it. We don't really have competition in healthcare on cost - we have it on fanciness of hospitals and stuff like that.
I would venture to guess that if someone came out with some kind of treatment they charged $1 for and it did better than ones costing tens of thousands nobody would buy it thinking 'if it is that cheap it can't be good.'
It's also not true (whoever said that American capitalist system etc.). Capitalism is people trading - trading time and work for money, products for money, services for money, etc.
That's true - just like at Mrs. Clinton. Just put 'Establishment' under her picture. Or Mitt Romney. Or Joe Biden.
It's very, very, very disheartening to see my country die.
I have seen people voting irregularly in Colorado, Your data is wrong. In ten counties in Colorado in the 2012 election there were more votes than there were adults in the county - forget about registered voters.
You are absolutely wrong.
Guess what? Now that Obamacare has been revealed as the failure it is you guys keep saying "Romneycare"
Romney might as well be a Democrat -- heck he moved from Massachusetts to California. That man is an awful human being and a social justice warrior to the core. May he consume faeces and expire.
Now, guess what? If you destroy the health system the way you leftists are, there won't be one. But that's your goal, because universal human misery is your goal.
Already in the United States we pay close to 50% of our income in various taxes --Consider if you work, 15% of your income goes to social security/medicare, about 6% to your local state tax, (say) 15% to federal tax - but for the purposes of this, let's say it is 10%. Okay so we're at 31% of income. Now of the remaining 69% of your income let's say you spend 80% of that and your state has a 6% sales tax; so that's another 5.5% of your income there. Now we're at 36% of income. Now, let's say you own a house conservatively appraised at 250% of your income (lots of folks buy way more than that) and it's taxed at 1% of value/year. So there's another 2.5% of your income gone. Now, you drive a car and pay excise taxes on that - who knows how much? Call it...1/2 of 1% of income? So now we're at 39% of income. If you consume alcohol or tobacco, you pay taxes on that. If you travel by plane you pay taxes on the ticket over and above sales taxes.
And these are just the taxes I've found by 30 seconds of thought. I'm not counting telecom taxes, which everyone on slashdot pays in one way or another. Many states have a 'personal property tax' where you pay tax on your personal items (Massachusetts has this). Fuel taxes.
Now my point is, it's not that I think that hard work has such value - but I object to my already high taxes going to pay for someone to sit around and smoke pot. I have NO issue in supporting the genuinely disabled ("Genuinely" is the rub here). And unemployment is an insurance whose premium is paid by the worker and the employer. I have zero issue with the idea of social security - I have great issue with the fact that the money has been stolen AND the program expanded to do a bunch more than old age pensions.
But given that we already work nearly half our year to pay taxes already, screw these bozos who want to do a basic income.
I think that is absolutely hysterical. And guess what? They get what they've asked for and found out...it isn't what was wanted.
But guess what? You can be an alpha male without being an asshole. Too many beta males think that being an alpha means simply being an asshole.
As opposed to the Democrats, who have people voting illegally, left and right.
They are both despicable parties and I wish Sanders, Clinton, Trump, and Cruz, and all the members of their parties would climb on rockets for a vacation on Venus and never return.
By definition I don't have ideas that exist anywhere except in my head. However, others may share their ideas with me via (printed word, music, etc.) and I can get, er, a copy of those ideas. I may have access to them, extend them, but the original idea has come from someone else.
Anyone who believes that the state exists to solve our problems believes in the supreme power of the state - otherwise how could it solve all our problems.
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This. While China has displaced the US in total manufacturing output the US is still the biggest in advanced manufacturing.
This isn't true. We switched to a services economy in the late 1960s. The economy of the US from the 1920s through this time WAS built on selling things to the world, though mostly it was munitions in the 1940s - and massive deficit spending.
And, I can only think this is a sop because whilst KI protects the thyroid from radioactive iodine, it is NOT an anti-radiation pill. Additionally if you're over 40 you're better off NOT taking it.
It has been discussed literally for decades, too. There was talk at Bell Labs about this in the 1980s.
It must be global warming that did it. Though it's possible that estrogen mimicing pollutions are contributing.
Great, now we'll never get rid of Hilary. She'll just keep buying bodies.
This. An awful lot of what's called 'new and different' is based on computer science theory developed in the 1970s or before ("Fundamental Algorithms" anyone?). The tech has gotten snazzier but the ideas are similar, and the programming languages aren't hugely different. Computer science theory is mostly the same.
Really? Usually I hear that from Democrats. My experience is hearing things directly from people who say them. What's your experience from ? Propaganda from Huffpo?
Sorry to hear that buddy :( My wife has health challenges but nothing like cancer -- but I understand the challenge of doing a lot of retirement savings when there are serious health issues.
Obama will probably veto it.
A bipartisan slush fund!
What we object to is being bled dry already without this extra tax going on. It's easy to discuss 'soak the rich' but when you start to realize that more than half the country make less than 40K/year 'Rich' has a low bar, especially for progressives.
I'm not sure capitalism fails at it. We don't really have competition in healthcare on cost - we have it on fanciness of hospitals and stuff like that. I would venture to guess that if someone came out with some kind of treatment they charged $1 for and it did better than ones costing tens of thousands nobody would buy it thinking 'if it is that cheap it can't be good.'
It's also not true (whoever said that American capitalist system etc.). Capitalism is people trading - trading time and work for money, products for money, services for money, etc.
That's true - just like at Mrs. Clinton. Just put 'Establishment' under her picture. Or Mitt Romney. Or Joe Biden. It's very, very, very disheartening to see my country die.
I have seen people voting irregularly in Colorado, Your data is wrong. In ten counties in Colorado in the 2012 election there were more votes than there were adults in the county - forget about registered voters. You are absolutely wrong.
Guess what? Now that Obamacare has been revealed as the failure it is you guys keep saying "Romneycare" Romney might as well be a Democrat -- heck he moved from Massachusetts to California. That man is an awful human being and a social justice warrior to the core. May he consume faeces and expire. Now, guess what? If you destroy the health system the way you leftists are, there won't be one. But that's your goal, because universal human misery is your goal.
Um, I hope you're not responding to me - I don't think that there's anyone to blame but the perp, either.
Already in the United States we pay close to 50% of our income in various taxes --Consider if you work, 15% of your income goes to social security/medicare, about 6% to your local state tax, (say) 15% to federal tax - but for the purposes of this, let's say it is 10%. Okay so we're at 31% of income. Now of the remaining 69% of your income let's say you spend 80% of that and your state has a 6% sales tax; so that's another 5.5% of your income there. Now we're at 36% of income. Now, let's say you own a house conservatively appraised at 250% of your income (lots of folks buy way more than that) and it's taxed at 1% of value/year. So there's another 2.5% of your income gone. Now, you drive a car and pay excise taxes on that - who knows how much? Call it...1/2 of 1% of income? So now we're at 39% of income. If you consume alcohol or tobacco, you pay taxes on that. If you travel by plane you pay taxes on the ticket over and above sales taxes. And these are just the taxes I've found by 30 seconds of thought. I'm not counting telecom taxes, which everyone on slashdot pays in one way or another. Many states have a 'personal property tax' where you pay tax on your personal items (Massachusetts has this). Fuel taxes. Now my point is, it's not that I think that hard work has such value - but I object to my already high taxes going to pay for someone to sit around and smoke pot. I have NO issue in supporting the genuinely disabled ("Genuinely" is the rub here). And unemployment is an insurance whose premium is paid by the worker and the employer. I have zero issue with the idea of social security - I have great issue with the fact that the money has been stolen AND the program expanded to do a bunch more than old age pensions. But given that we already work nearly half our year to pay taxes already, screw these bozos who want to do a basic income.
I think that is absolutely hysterical. And guess what? They get what they've asked for and found out...it isn't what was wanted. But guess what? You can be an alpha male without being an asshole. Too many beta males think that being an alpha means simply being an asshole.
That's illogical. All men are horny but relatively few are rapists. Your SJW is showing.
Um, no. Remember, most of the folks coming onto Obamacare are quite sick. Look at the most recent news.
As opposed to the Democrats, who have people voting illegally, left and right. They are both despicable parties and I wish Sanders, Clinton, Trump, and Cruz, and all the members of their parties would climb on rockets for a vacation on Venus and never return.
By definition I don't have ideas that exist anywhere except in my head. However, others may share their ideas with me via (printed word, music, etc.) and I can get, er, a copy of those ideas. I may have access to them, extend them, but the original idea has come from someone else.
Anyone who believes that the state exists to solve our problems believes in the supreme power of the state - otherwise how could it solve all our problems.