Considering that there are only 4 mobile carriers in the US (Verizon, ATT, Sprint, and T-Mobile) and pretty much everyone underneath is an MVNO leasing space from them, that covers pretty much 95% of the whole US.
Bullshit! The NHS sucks for anything outside emergency care.
My wife had to wait 6 months to see an oncologist.
I had to wait 4 months to see a dermatologist for a cancerous mole.
The truth of the matter is: anyone in the UK with means gets private health insurance. That means your regular mid level office grunt is paying extra for private healthcare.
We ended up flying back to the US where both of our problems were taken care of in a week. A Week!
Not to mention the nurses and staff in the US weren't miserable as sin. Probably because they were busy striking which happens to be a fairly regular occurrence.
No it isn't. It's a confusing and pointless example. The equivalent of which would be arguing about the effects of global warming using an example where hot air sinks which it doesn't.
How would you have rental space at all without landlords? Someone has to own the property if the renter doesn't, right? Or is your preference to have no rental space at all? That seems unrealistic.
You wouldn't be renting. You would be owning and building your own equity. It takes 1 month to sell and close.
Landlords. These leeches serve no purpose but to suck off the productive value from the real working class.
If you think that buying is cheaper than renting, why aren't you buying?
Of course, the median condo price in Manhattan is about $2 million. That costs you about $3000 in property taxes and $7000 in mortgage payments per month. Median rent for Manhattan is somewhere around $4500.
Landlords and the city than through the fun of zoning laws keep housing stock at a bare minimum.
What the city does is determined by voters, not landlords.
I very much own. Part of the benefits of owning several businesses.
Why is the median condo price about $2million? Because of scum bag landlords and real estate investors are hoarding all of the available units. Remove these parasites and watch housing stock increase.
Then add more units so people can own and build real value. Not parasite's value.
Do you want to know what really causes rising rents?
Landlords. These leeches serve no purpose but to suck off the productive value from the real working class. Next, they remove available housing stock and drive up property costs forcing the working class people to either rent or leave town if they want to own.
You'll always hear this whiny reply (most likely from landlords) that they help gentrify neighborhoods and make housing affordable. Really? Have you ever seen a landlord do more than the bare minimum to keep a property looking good? This is at all levels from section 8 all the way to the luxury brands. Doesn't matter, because any upgrades mean more money to charge for rent! As for affordable housing, these scumbags are the reason property values are so high. Less free housing stock = higher prices for people who simply just want a home to live in.
But wait, there's more in this unholy cirlce jerk! The city then gets its own pecker yanked because this drives up property values. High property values equal higher property taxes! More tasty tax dollars for do-nothing bureaucrats.
Landlords and the city than through the fun of zoning laws keep housing stock at a bare minimum. What incentives are there for new high-density housing when that will drive down property values? The city and the landlords definitely do not want that!
Please note that I said landlords, not property developers! Property developers who build beautiful and architecturally stunning apartments and condos for sale have to contend with cities and landlords who do not want more housing stock.
The next rent check you cut to a landlord, you can thank him (and to a lesser extent city hall) for the reason your rents are high.
Your autism must make you a JOY to those who put up with you.
I own my own business, set my own salary, pay as much as I want into the system, and at the end of the day use that income to purchase more income producing assets like real estate, other businesses, and assets. Who said I'm tied to a singular business?
In other words, I'm not a wage slave like yourself.
Your trust in a dying system is admirable albeit foolish. I bet you also think taking out 6 figures in student loans for an English degree is a good idea too because it's a degree and the jobs will follow.
I see nothing wrong here. Quite the contrary, it's an excellent example of outsourcing and copyright.
Better yet, I can edit key parts of it into my own voice and make it even more difficult to prove something was off. I outsource the work and receive a copyright that allows me to claim I wholeheartedly did all of the work myself. Don't come crying about academic dishonesty when the average tuition in a University is what $30k+? And yes, I know the article is about 12-year-olds using it which is hilarious. Stakes are too low, a master's thesis is more appropriate.
But why pay someone when you can just outline a Wikipedia article, use all of its citations, and rewrite the entire article as your own? Somebody did over half of the work already for free, I might as well get some use out of it./How I blew through 99% of my libtard arts busy work to focus on what really mattered: beer and women.... erhm math and coding!
If you seriously think the government hasn't long been double dipping into social security to fund general liabilities, then you are quite frankly an idiot.
The Social Security trust fund buys US Government bonds. As an investment. That's why it's a "trust fund". The proceeds of the sale of those bonds go into the general fund. But the bonds still exist. And are paid out when they mature. They are not all suddenly due at a future date. A small part of them are getting paid every single month....and the proceeds are used to buy more bonds.
Your claim is that the money is just "gone". It isn't. It's invested. Can the government default on those bonds? Only if they want to annihilate the US Government's creditworthiness. There's no way that the market would believe "just these bonds and nothing else." So default would be a massive economic disaster that even a nacho cheese Dorito with bad hair can see coming.
As for your Forbes article, the thing you didn't quite understand is the people cutting the Social Security checks, the power to run their computers and printers, the the postage to mail them and many other things are paid out of the discretionary budget. They are not funded out of the Social Security fund. So when the article talks about "running out of money", they're talking about the debt limit for the discretionary budget. Social Security still had it's funding and a few trillion in the bank....well, in the bond portfolio, mostly. If the money was as fungible as you claim, then that giant pile of cash would be rather useful in avoiding a debt limit, no?
Again, you do not understand the subject at all, which makes you a fantastic target for propaganda. Which you've absorbed and now believe to be the truth.
You need to do some more reading sweetheart:
A circle jerk is still a circle jerk. When the money for the government stops, the checks stop going out. IE the money doesn't exist and seniors go hungry.
But keep on believing your fairy tale. I've already taken the option of reducing my salary paid to me to $35k while increasing the dividend payout.
If you seriously think the government hasn't long been double dipping into social security to fund general liabilities, then you are quite frankly an idiot.
IIRC the Netherlands did it but I might be getting my countries wrong. You mandate equal funding for all schools, public and private. Then the rich are forced to properly fund education. Next make public Uni & vocational schools tuition-free. Lastly do a few social programs so kids aren't getting beaten up (literally and figuratively) at home when the economy sucks. Problem solved.
Easy to do when your country is roughly the size of Rhode Island. It might also explain why Rhode Island has a stronger education system than say Texas.
Trigger warning for you Mods out tbere: I have some karma to burn and hold an unpopular warning XD
This so called "education crisis" in America is really overblown when you start to account for the fact that America is a massive country with a significantly lower amount of people per square KM. It's only common sense to accept that infrastructure in rural regions will be less. It has been that way since the beginning of time.
Those worldwide rankings of education are so notoriously biased. Especially in regards to China. Egad, they lie so hard on these its hilarious people use them as a comparison. My Chinese ex at the time always loved to compare Chinese peasants with American rednecks. She was always impressed at their lucid awareness of the world around them versus her own folk.
The high school graduation rate for the entire US is roughly 83%. That's something I find astounding. In parts of America, a high school degree and a good work ethic will get you a comfortable existence and for a lot of people that's all they need for happiness.
Live long enough in any country and you'll hear the same thing every time: not enough students are interested in math and science, there's an educational quality crisis we need more funds, think of the children!
I've heard this so many times in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, etc. This is called fundraising and everyone does it.
An education in all of the lower 48 of the US is a good enough foundation to ready your life for whatever you decide to do next whether it's a trade, the military, or college. As for Hawaii and Alaska, they're good too, but in the really remote areas those teachers are doing God's work considering the extreme remoteness of their regions.
Canadians would roll over and apologize to any invading American forces. The type of people who would put up a fight are the guys who live up in the bush. Fought with a bunch of them in Iraq.
Then again, put them in charge and they'd probably welcome not having to watch their country get ruined by idiots like Trudeau.
You'd have a real insurgency by cartel forces down in Mexico. The only way to win there would be out right genocide.
Unlike most blue states, my state is proud of its heritage, culture, low taxes, and self sufficiency. The people aren't soyboy hipsters (except for one city, but we'll forgive them because creatives should get one small haven).
America would cease to exist if state identity disappeared and became a centralized one. Having states allows us the ability to try out quirky programs like school vouchers, genderless bathrooms, and Marijuana decriminalization.
That's by design. I'll assume you're not an American and say this: the system is designed to allow equal weighted representation of high VS low population areas. It's the reason we have a large country with a lot of people in it as a democracy and not like China, a large country with a lot of people being governed by a dictator.
If this article didn't make sense, here's why: In America, apprenticeships are generally the realm of blue collar trades.
In the UK, this is true, however they also broadly include it to also mean "paid internship for office jobs".
Why? Probably the same reason a boot is a trunk, the letter U is sprinkled everywhere, and beer is served at room temp (not bad)/Giorgio A. Tsoukalos meme hands saying "England".
This isn't a problem in America because of the word apprenticeship's association with blue collarwork.
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Considering that there are only 4 mobile carriers in the US (Verizon, ATT, Sprint, and T-Mobile) and pretty much everyone underneath is an MVNO leasing space from them, that covers pretty much 95% of the whole US.
Bullshit! The NHS sucks for anything outside emergency care.
My wife had to wait 6 months to see an oncologist.
I had to wait 4 months to see a dermatologist for a cancerous mole.
The truth of the matter is: anyone in the UK with means gets private health insurance. That means your regular mid level office grunt is paying extra for private healthcare.
We ended up flying back to the US where both of our problems were taken care of in a week. A Week!
Not to mention the nurses and staff in the US weren't miserable as sin. Probably because they were busy striking which happens to be a fairly regular occurrence.
No it isn't. It's a confusing and pointless example. The equivalent of which would be arguing about the effects of global warming using an example where hot air sinks which it doesn't.
Your example sucks and so do you. Try again.
Oh sod off, if there's a gas leak in a neighborhood the police and gas company go door to door to evacuate people. No one does this over the phone.
Don't want to deal with a country's rules? Don't let their citizens use their service or open an office there.
Should be everyone's right. Yeah privacy gets a hit but free market, someone else will fill the void and the world keeps on going.
How would you have rental space at all without landlords? Someone has to own the property if the renter doesn't, right? Or is your preference to have no rental space at all? That seems unrealistic.
You wouldn't be renting. You would be owning and building your own equity. It takes 1 month to sell and close.
If you think that buying is cheaper than renting, why aren't you buying?
Of course, the median condo price in Manhattan is about $2 million. That costs you about $3000 in property taxes and $7000 in mortgage payments per month. Median rent for Manhattan is somewhere around $4500.
What the city does is determined by voters, not landlords.
I very much own. Part of the benefits of owning several businesses.
Why is the median condo price about $2million? Because of scum bag landlords and real estate investors are hoarding all of the available units. Remove these parasites and watch housing stock increase.
Then add more units so people can own and build real value. Not parasite's value.
Do you want to know what really causes rising rents?
Landlords. These leeches serve no purpose but to suck off the productive value from the real working class. Next, they remove available housing stock and drive up property costs forcing the working class people to either rent or leave town if they want to own.
You'll always hear this whiny reply (most likely from landlords) that they help gentrify neighborhoods and make housing affordable. Really? Have you ever seen a landlord do more than the bare minimum to keep a property looking good? This is at all levels from section 8 all the way to the luxury brands. Doesn't matter, because any upgrades mean more money to charge for rent! As for affordable housing, these scumbags are the reason property values are so high. Less free housing stock = higher prices for people who simply just want a home to live in.
But wait, there's more in this unholy cirlce jerk! The city then gets its own pecker yanked because this drives up property values. High property values equal higher property taxes! More tasty tax dollars for do-nothing bureaucrats.
Landlords and the city than through the fun of zoning laws keep housing stock at a bare minimum. What incentives are there for new high-density housing when that will drive down property values? The city and the landlords definitely do not want that!
Please note that I said landlords, not property developers! Property developers who build beautiful and architecturally stunning apartments and condos for sale have to contend with cities and landlords who do not want more housing stock.
The next rent check you cut to a landlord, you can thank him (and to a lesser extent city hall) for the reason your rents are high.
Your autism must make you a JOY to those who put up with you.
I own my own business, set my own salary, pay as much as I want into the system, and at the end of the day use that income to purchase more income producing assets like real estate, other businesses, and assets. Who said I'm tied to a singular business?
In other words, I'm not a wage slave like yourself.
Your trust in a dying system is admirable albeit foolish. I bet you also think taking out 6 figures in student loans for an English degree is a good idea too because it's a degree and the jobs will follow.
Keep on that pipe dream autist Jeff!
I see nothing wrong here. Quite the contrary, it's an excellent example of outsourcing and copyright.
Better yet, I can edit key parts of it into my own voice and make it even more difficult to prove something was off. I outsource the work and receive a copyright that allows me to claim I wholeheartedly did all of the work myself. Don't come crying about academic dishonesty when the average tuition in a University is what $30k+? And yes, I know the article is about 12-year-olds using it which is hilarious. Stakes are too low, a master's thesis is more appropriate.
But why pay someone when you can just outline a Wikipedia article, use all of its citations, and rewrite the entire article as your own? Somebody did over half of the work already for free, I might as well get some use out of it. /How I blew through 99% of my libtard arts busy work to focus on what really mattered: beer and women.... erhm math and coding!
If you seriously think the government hasn't long been double dipping into social security to fund general liabilities, then you are quite frankly an idiot.
The Social Security trust fund buys US Government bonds. As an investment. That's why it's a "trust fund". The proceeds of the sale of those bonds go into the general fund. But the bonds still exist. And are paid out when they mature. They are not all suddenly due at a future date. A small part of them are getting paid every single month....and the proceeds are used to buy more bonds.
Your claim is that the money is just "gone". It isn't. It's invested. Can the government default on those bonds? Only if they want to annihilate the US Government's creditworthiness. There's no way that the market would believe "just these bonds and nothing else." So default would be a massive economic disaster that even a nacho cheese Dorito with bad hair can see coming.
As for your Forbes article, the thing you didn't quite understand is the people cutting the Social Security checks, the power to run their computers and printers, the the postage to mail them and many other things are paid out of the discretionary budget. They are not funded out of the Social Security fund. So when the article talks about "running out of money", they're talking about the debt limit for the discretionary budget. Social Security still had it's funding and a few trillion in the bank....well, in the bond portfolio, mostly. If the money was as fungible as you claim, then that giant pile of cash would be rather useful in avoiding a debt limit, no?
Again, you do not understand the subject at all, which makes you a fantastic target for propaganda. Which you've absorbed and now believe to be the truth.
You need to do some more reading sweetheart:
A circle jerk is still a circle jerk. When the money for the government stops, the checks stop going out. IE the money doesn't exist and seniors go hungry.
But keep on believing your fairy tale. I've already taken the option of reducing my salary paid to me to $35k while increasing the dividend payout.
If you seriously think the government hasn't long been double dipping into social security to fund general liabilities, then you are quite frankly an idiot.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/m...
Maybe you should research why books at University bookstores are so expensive.
Here's a hint for you: it's the university college bookstore markup that makes it expensive.
WRONG!
The biggest line item on the Federal budget is not the military. It's going to entitlements. IE public system pensions, social security, and welfare.
Want better funded services? Stop wasting money on bloated public pensions and end social security.
Read until you get to the 2nd graph, not the first http://www.politifact.com/trut...
IIRC the Netherlands did it but I might be getting my countries wrong. You mandate equal funding for all schools, public and private. Then the rich are forced to properly fund education. Next make public Uni & vocational schools tuition-free. Lastly do a few social programs so kids aren't getting beaten up (literally and figuratively) at home when the economy sucks. Problem solved.
Easy to do when your country is roughly the size of Rhode Island. It might also explain why Rhode Island has a stronger education system than say Texas.
Trigger warning for you Mods out tbere: I have some karma to burn and hold an unpopular warning XD
This so called "education crisis" in America is really overblown when you start to account for the fact that America is a massive country with a significantly lower amount of people per square KM. It's only common sense to accept that infrastructure in rural regions will be less. It has been that way since the beginning of time.
Those worldwide rankings of education are so notoriously biased. Especially in regards to China. Egad, they lie so hard on these its hilarious people use them as a comparison. My Chinese ex at the time always loved to compare Chinese peasants with American rednecks. She was always impressed at their lucid awareness of the world around them versus her own folk.
The high school graduation rate for the entire US is roughly 83%. That's something I find astounding. In parts of America, a high school degree and a good work ethic will get you a comfortable existence and for a lot of people that's all they need for happiness.
Live long enough in any country and you'll hear the same thing every time: not enough students are interested in math and science, there's an educational quality crisis we need more funds, think of the children!
I've heard this so many times in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, etc. This is called fundraising and everyone does it.
An education in all of the lower 48 of the US is a good enough foundation to ready your life for whatever you decide to do next whether it's a trade, the military, or college. As for Hawaii and Alaska, they're good too, but in the really remote areas those teachers are doing God's work considering the extreme remoteness of their regions.
I always see all sort of weird and vivid images at that time of sleep. I sometimes hear and have conversations with some beings.
Doubly so, those beings always ruin my path to sleep by forcing me to wake up. I'd like to give them a piece of my mind for doing so!
I'm tired of the pandering that this great "war" and its genocide gets. I get it, wars bad mmkay and killing people is bad.
Remind me why that genocide deserves all of the attention versus Armenian, Darfur, etc genocides?
Get over yourselves and move on Europe!
You kidding me?
Canadians would roll over and apologize to any invading American forces. The type of people who would put up a fight are the guys who live up in the bush. Fought with a bunch of them in Iraq.
Then again, put them in charge and they'd probably welcome not having to watch their country get ruined by idiots like Trudeau.
You'd have a real insurgency by cartel forces down in Mexico. The only way to win there would be out right genocide.
If state and federal bureaucracies are reduced to roughly .05% of their current size.
And trust me, their unions will be having none of that!
There are so many logical fallacies in your post that i'm just going to walk away laughing.
Try again better next time.
All sound great in theory, fall apart in practice, and there will always be someone who says, "You just didn't implement it the right way!"
State identity diminished, really?
Unlike most blue states, my state is proud of its heritage, culture, low taxes, and self sufficiency. The people aren't soyboy hipsters (except for one city, but we'll forgive them because creatives should get one small haven).
America would cease to exist if state identity disappeared and became a centralized one. Having states allows us the ability to try out quirky programs like school vouchers, genderless bathrooms, and Marijuana decriminalization.
Centralization isn't always a good thing.
That's by design. I'll assume you're not an American and say this: the system is designed to allow equal weighted representation of high VS low population areas. It's the reason we have a large country with a lot of people in it as a democracy and not like China, a large country with a lot of people being governed by a dictator.
If this article didn't make sense, here's why: In America, apprenticeships are generally the realm of blue collar trades.
In the UK, this is true, however they also broadly include it to also mean "paid internship for office jobs".
Why? Probably the same reason a boot is a trunk, the letter U is sprinkled everywhere, and beer is served at room temp (not bad) /Giorgio A. Tsoukalos meme hands saying "England".
This isn't a problem in America because of the word apprenticeship's association with blue collarwork.
The jack offs already ruined calendar, now they're ruining Gmail?
Change for the sake of change. I hate it! Silicon valley and it's adhd on design changes ffs. Let it go! If it ain't broke don't fix it.