The Republicans were excluded from writing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). The law was not written in committee, it was created in partisan meetings. This was possible because Democrats controlled the house, senate, and the presidency. They also had a super majority in the Senate so they did not need a single Republican vote. They did it this way so they did not have to make any compromises to Republicans, they only needed to make compromises with Democrats to pass the law.
I used mod points in section which are now wasted, but it was worthwhile to correct this post. The Obama Administration only reviewed only a single bid for the Obamacare website http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2537194. Whether that constitutes a no bid contract can be argued, but that is usually what is meant by that phrase. If you do not consider that a no bid contract then Halliburton was not awarded a no bid contract in Iraq. Calling the statement that this is a no-bid contract a myth is at best disingenuous.
No health insurance does not equal death. No health insurance may equal very expensive bills, but you will receive necessary treatment by going to the hospital. I think the major issue is that we should separate catastrophic coverage from normal medical care. Getting a expensive illness is unlikely and the cost of removing that risk would not be that great if it was spread across the population. You should be able to choose to not have insurance for going to the doctor. If you are trying to do something risky (ie starting a business) you may need to limit every expense or you may not have enough money to get through the lean times. By requiring more and more money to be spent we are limiting the pool of people who can afford to start there own business. This is limiting the upward mobility of many of our citizens.
The two main reasons that someone would contemplate suicide is to get attention and to punish someone who injured them. We currently do both of these for people who commit suicide because of cyber bullying. We arrest the people who made fun of them. The person who committed suicide receives national television coverage. If the intention was to induce more people to commit suicide we would be hard pressed to do a better job.
Why do the moderators find this flame bait? You are abusing the moderation system by marking this down if you just disagree with it. You are censoring content purely because you disagree with the question raised. If this is not the case kindly explain to my why this is flame bait.
I'd like a few things FOR Congress. Tar and Feathers come to mind, for starters. . ..
This website was created by the Affordable Care Act, which is commonly known as Obamacare. It is considered Obama's signature legislative achievement. How are you blaming Congress, yet ignoring President Obama's involvement?
If you look through the decisions of the supreme court, I bet you would find a number of decisions on which you agree with Scalia, Kelo v. City of New London for one.
The majority opinion was written by Justice Stephen Breyer and he was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas. The majority opinion was that you loose control when you sell something. Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Samuel Alito said that congress was free to change the law if they wanted, but sided with the majority.
The dissenting opinion was written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia.
The Kwantung army surrendered to the Soviets after Japan was bombed and surrendered.
The surrender of the Kwantung army to the soviets happened on "August 16, 1945, one day after Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan in a radio announcement." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwantung_Army The airmen dropped Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, followed by Fat Man over Nagasaki on 9 August.
You should pay the full cost of the employee in the year in which they are employed. If you are providing pension benefits you need to pay the full cost of the pension benefits in the current year's budget. If you offer retirement health care you need to pay for that in the current years budget. Otherwise it is twenty years down the road and you owe billions for benefits for retired employees. It also makes it impossible to cost out the price of adding an employee, since you pay them some now and you owe more for their retirement down the road.
It is amazing that you are blinded to the democrats and their corporations. How do you think Obama raised a billion dollars twice running for president? He raised a ton of money from corporations and their employees. He also raised a ton of money via micro donations. Did you know that the small dollar donations that he received via the web site did not require verification? You could have given him a million dollars using a large array of visa gift cards. Hollywood, Labor, Lawyers, Insurance Companies, etc tend to contribute more often to democrats. Democrats have their sectors and republicans have theirs. It is naive to speak of "Republicans and their corporate cronies".
I like roads too. The issue is what value are you getting for your money. I am very pleased if I get a great meal for $10. I expect the meal to be great if I pay $100. They build the roads argument makes sense if the government is only spending on building roads. I am sure that the federal government spending on road is not even a meaningful part of the federal budget. The question is are you getting the best value for your money? Would a smaller government give a greater value for the money? How about a larger government? What services/level of services does the government have to provide? This is not an all or nothing proposition.
I agree that for large sites language is not necessarily important. For most large media sites performance is mostly dependent on how well the caching structure is set up. You only hit the servers as often as you need to update the cache. The traffic is served from a combination of varnish/squid and some CDN (akami). If you are serving customized information (billing,user accounts,product catalog) then you may start to talk about load and language performance.
Wikipedia on the1938 the German Weapons Act. The 1938 German Weapons Act, the precursor of the current weapons law, superseded the 1928 law. As under the 1928 law, citizens were required to have a permit to carry a firearm and a separate permit to acquire a firearm. Furthermore, the law restricted ownership of firearms to "...persons whose trustworthiness is not in question and who can show a need for a (gun) permit." Under the new law:
Gun restriction laws applied only to handguns, not to long guns or ammunition. Writes Prof. Bernard Harcourt of the University of Chicago, "The 1938 revisions completely deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, as well as ammunition."[4]
The groups of people who were exempt from the acquisition permit requirement expanded. Holders of annual hunting permits, government workers, and NSDAP members were no longer subject to gun ownership restrictions. Prior to the 1938 law, only officials of the central government, the states, and employees of the German Reichsbahn Railways were exempted.[5]
The age at which persons could own guns was lowered from 20 to 18.[5]
The firearms carry permit was valid for three years instead of one year.[5]
Jews were forbidden from the manufacturing or dealing of firearms and ammunition.[6]
Our media is constantly showing their biases. I would not be surprised if someone at the Atlantic was a devote Scientologist. Just this week CBS told CNET that they could not give a best in show to Dish's SlingBox. It is up to you the consumer of media to decide what is accurate or not. Fox News sometimes reports on things that other media chooses not to cover. They also choose to give a voice to some people that other media chooses to ignore. I read a large variety of sources and then use my own judgement as to what is believable or not.
What you have to understand is that majority of people posting on this site are anti-copyright zealots, because to them digital stuff should all be free as in beer. Music, movies, games, code, lecture videos, journal articles, whatever. (Ironically, all the stuff which the USA happens to be good at vis-a-vis China and other countries, but that is no matter). So they're going to blame Swartz's death on those who enforced copyright.
The articles were from publicly funded research. We the people already paid for the research once, why should the results not be free to us? If the public is going to fund the research the results should be made freely available to them.
You do realize that Romney was talking about the 47% in response to a question about campaigning on cutting taxes . He basically said cutting taxes (income) does not appeal to 47% of voters, because they do not pay any taxes (income).
Yup - they were usually called "liberals" and "progressives", same as they are today. It just so happens that Republicans were a liberal/progressive party since pretty much forever (already during the Civil War), until they were turned around at the end of the Civil Rights era.
You mean progressives like Franklin D Roosevelt whose New Deal developed many of the social programs that we have today. He was able to accomplish much of the New Deal because his party had solid control of the south. He was strongly supported by the KKK. FDR even appointed a known KKK member Hugo Black to the supreme court.
Pensions are an unknown cost which makes them very difficult to budget. For instance, you want to hire a new teacher, it is impossible to know how much that teacher will be compensated by the pension over the years. This compensation depends on how your investments perform over the years.
Pensions are a guaranteed benefit (payout). This is very different that a 401k or 457 which are defined contribution. Once the employer pays a 401k or 457, they are no longer required to pay any more money. If the stock market does not provide the expected return for a pension, the tax payers are required to pay the difference.
This means that the a pension is an insured investment with tax payers being the insurers. It is very rare that money is set aside for this insurance. This is similar to self insuring your house while having a mortgage. If something happens to the house you will be bankrupt.
And don't give me that shit about a Democrat majority, the GOP could have filibustered it into the dirt and they did not.
It was a democratic super majority. That means they had 60 votes in the senate, so they could end any filibuster. The second time it was voted on, after the Scott Brown election, they only had 59 votes in the Senate. The Democrats used the trick of calling it budget reconciliation to prevent a filibuster.
The mail delivery companies are not allowed to compete with the USPS by law. The Private Express Statutes are a group of laws under which the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has the exclusive right, with certain limited exceptions to carry letters for compensation. The Statutes are based on the provision in the U.S. Constitution that empowers Congress “to establish Post Offices.” http://pe.usps.com/text/qsg300/Q608.htm. One of the exceptions is for urgent mail. This is how Fedex and UPS are allowed to compete.
Obama has not exactly reached across the aisle either. The affordable healthcare law was not developed in committee, because Republicans could see it and make amendments. The Democrats choose to develop the law outside of usual process, because they knew they did not need a Republican vote to pass it. This is probably the most partisan thing I have seen in my lifetime.
The Bar does not allow judge candidates to answer many of the questions you would like answered. This professional organization is choosing to require the judge candidates to withhold this information. If the candidates do not follow the rules set by the bar they could loose their law license and be ineligible to be a judge. Your only option is to complain to the Bar in hopes that they will be influenced by your complaint.
Justice Thomas has stated he does not feel that he is listening when he is thinking about what to say, so he does not ask questions. It is flame bait to claim that he is sleeping.
The interesting thing is that some of the pro corporate stuff comes out the liberal side of the court. For instance Keho, this was where the supreme court decided that the government could seize property via eminate domain and give it to a corporation. The logic was that the government would receive more tax revenue from the new use.
The conservative side produced citizen united which basically lets corporation give unlimited money to political speech.
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The Republicans were excluded from writing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). The law was not written in committee, it was created in partisan meetings. This was possible because Democrats controlled the house, senate, and the presidency. They also had a super majority in the Senate so they did not need a single Republican vote. They did it this way so they did not have to make any compromises to Republicans, they only needed to make compromises with Democrats to pass the law.
I used mod points in section which are now wasted, but it was worthwhile to correct this post. The Obama Administration only reviewed only a single bid for the Obamacare website http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2537194. Whether that constitutes a no bid contract can be argued, but that is usually what is meant by that phrase. If you do not consider that a no bid contract then Halliburton was not awarded a no bid contract in Iraq. Calling the statement that this is a no-bid contract a myth is at best disingenuous.
No health insurance does not equal death. No health insurance may equal very expensive bills, but you will receive necessary treatment by going to the hospital. I think the major issue is that we should separate catastrophic coverage from normal medical care. Getting a expensive illness is unlikely and the cost of removing that risk would not be that great if it was spread across the population. You should be able to choose to not have insurance for going to the doctor. If you are trying to do something risky (ie starting a business) you may need to limit every expense or you may not have enough money to get through the lean times. By requiring more and more money to be spent we are limiting the pool of people who can afford to start there own business. This is limiting the upward mobility of many of our citizens.
The two main reasons that someone would contemplate suicide is to get attention and to punish someone who injured them. We currently do both of these for people who commit suicide because of cyber bullying. We arrest the people who made fun of them. The person who committed suicide receives national television coverage. If the intention was to induce more people to commit suicide we would be hard pressed to do a better job.
Why do the moderators find this flame bait? You are abusing the moderation system by marking this down if you just disagree with it. You are censoring content purely because you disagree with the question raised. If this is not the case kindly explain to my why this is flame bait.
I'd like a few things FOR Congress. Tar and Feathers come to mind, for starters. . . .
This website was created by the Affordable Care Act, which is commonly known as Obamacare. It is considered Obama's signature legislative achievement. How are you blaming Congress, yet ignoring President Obama's involvement?
That is simply not true. I was working for a Tampa Bay internet start up circa 1995. Tampa was well known then as an technology area.
If you look through the decisions of the supreme court, I bet you would find a number of decisions on which you agree with Scalia, Kelo v. City of New London for one.
The majority opinion was written by Justice Stephen Breyer and he was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas. The majority opinion was that you loose control when you sell something. Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Samuel Alito said that congress was free to change the law if they wanted, but sided with the majority. The dissenting opinion was written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia.
The Kwantung army surrendered to the Soviets after Japan was bombed and surrendered. The surrender of the Kwantung army to the soviets happened on "August 16, 1945, one day after Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan in a radio announcement." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwantung_Army The airmen dropped Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, followed by Fat Man over Nagasaki on 9 August.
You should pay the full cost of the employee in the year in which they are employed. If you are providing pension benefits you need to pay the full cost of the pension benefits in the current year's budget. If you offer retirement health care you need to pay for that in the current years budget. Otherwise it is twenty years down the road and you owe billions for benefits for retired employees. It also makes it impossible to cost out the price of adding an employee, since you pay them some now and you owe more for their retirement down the road.
It is amazing that you are blinded to the democrats and their corporations. How do you think Obama raised a billion dollars twice running for president? He raised a ton of money from corporations and their employees. He also raised a ton of money via micro donations. Did you know that the small dollar donations that he received via the web site did not require verification? You could have given him a million dollars using a large array of visa gift cards. Hollywood, Labor, Lawyers, Insurance Companies, etc tend to contribute more often to democrats. Democrats have their sectors and republicans have theirs. It is naive to speak of "Republicans and their corporate cronies".
I like roads too. The issue is what value are you getting for your money. I am very pleased if I get a great meal for $10. I expect the meal to be great if I pay $100. They build the roads argument makes sense if the government is only spending on building roads. I am sure that the federal government spending on road is not even a meaningful part of the federal budget. The question is are you getting the best value for your money? Would a smaller government give a greater value for the money? How about a larger government? What services/level of services does the government have to provide? This is not an all or nothing proposition.
I agree that for large sites language is not necessarily important. For most large media sites performance is mostly dependent on how well the caching structure is set up. You only hit the servers as often as you need to update the cache. The traffic is served from a combination of varnish/squid and some CDN (akami). If you are serving customized information (billing,user accounts,product catalog) then you may start to talk about load and language performance.
Not exactly what the parent was claiming.
Our media is constantly showing their biases. I would not be surprised if someone at the Atlantic was a devote Scientologist. Just this week CBS told CNET that they could not give a best in show to Dish's SlingBox. It is up to you the consumer of media to decide what is accurate or not. Fox News sometimes reports on things that other media chooses not to cover. They also choose to give a voice to some people that other media chooses to ignore. I read a large variety of sources and then use my own judgement as to what is believable or not.
What you have to understand is that majority of people posting on this site are anti-copyright zealots, because to them digital stuff should all be free as in beer. Music, movies, games, code, lecture videos, journal articles, whatever. (Ironically, all the stuff which the USA happens to be good at vis-a-vis China and other countries, but that is no matter). So they're going to blame Swartz's death on those who enforced copyright.
The articles were from publicly funded research. We the people already paid for the research once, why should the results not be free to us? If the public is going to fund the research the results should be made freely available to them.
You do realize that Romney was talking about the 47% in response to a question about campaigning on cutting taxes . He basically said cutting taxes (income) does not appeal to 47% of voters, because they do not pay any taxes (income).
Yup - they were usually called "liberals" and "progressives", same as they are today. It just so happens that Republicans were a liberal/progressive party since pretty much forever (already during the Civil War), until they were turned around at the end of the Civil Rights era.
You mean progressives like Franklin D Roosevelt whose New Deal developed many of the social programs that we have today. He was able to accomplish much of the New Deal because his party had solid control of the south. He was strongly supported by the KKK. FDR even appointed a known KKK member Hugo Black to the supreme court.
Pensions are an unknown cost which makes them very difficult to budget. For instance, you want to hire a new teacher, it is impossible to know how much that teacher will be compensated by the pension over the years. This compensation depends on how your investments perform over the years.
Pensions are a guaranteed benefit (payout). This is very different that a 401k or 457 which are defined contribution. Once the employer pays a 401k or 457, they are no longer required to pay any more money. If the stock market does not provide the expected return for a pension, the tax payers are required to pay the difference.
This means that the a pension is an insured investment with tax payers being the insurers. It is very rare that money is set aside for this insurance. This is similar to self insuring your house while having a mortgage. If something happens to the house you will be bankrupt.
And don't give me that shit about a Democrat majority, the GOP could have filibustered it into the dirt and they did not.
It was a democratic super majority. That means they had 60 votes in the senate, so they could end any filibuster. The second time it was voted on, after the Scott Brown election, they only had 59 votes in the Senate. The Democrats used the trick of calling it budget reconciliation to prevent a filibuster.
The mail delivery companies are not allowed to compete with the USPS by law. The Private Express Statutes are a group of laws under which the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has the exclusive right, with certain limited exceptions to carry letters for compensation. The Statutes are based on the provision in the U.S. Constitution that empowers Congress “to establish Post Offices.” http://pe.usps.com/text/qsg300/Q608.htm. One of the exceptions is for urgent mail. This is how Fedex and UPS are allowed to compete.
Obama has not exactly reached across the aisle either. The affordable healthcare law was not developed in committee, because Republicans could see it and make amendments. The Democrats choose to develop the law outside of usual process, because they knew they did not need a Republican vote to pass it. This is probably the most partisan thing I have seen in my lifetime.
The Bar does not allow judge candidates to answer many of the questions you would like answered. This professional organization is choosing to require the judge candidates to withhold this information. If the candidates do not follow the rules set by the bar they could loose their law license and be ineligible to be a judge. Your only option is to complain to the Bar in hopes that they will be influenced by your complaint.
Justice Thomas has stated he does not feel that he is listening when he is thinking about what to say, so he does not ask questions. It is flame bait to claim that he is sleeping. The interesting thing is that some of the pro corporate stuff comes out the liberal side of the court. For instance Keho, this was where the supreme court decided that the government could seize property via eminate domain and give it to a corporation. The logic was that the government would receive more tax revenue from the new use. The conservative side produced citizen united which basically lets corporation give unlimited money to political speech.