Would donate, but they won't take my blood. Apparently it's tainted by living in Germany for 3 years in the 80's when I was 2'ish. Dad was in the military.
Just found out my bank changed their bill pay. I used to send a check and it would come out of my account when sent. Now it comes out when they cash it, which makes it the same PITA that regular checks are.
Until Uber trucking comes along and bribes the state lobbyists to create a law circumventing and banning all local regulations so they can "streamline" their policies and deliver in an optimal path system.
If anyone else sees this, I think ooloorie really is Sebastian Gorka. The backstory he claims seems similar and his fake debating style is very reminicent of interviews I've heard with that Shit Stain (capitalized, because he's a proper Shit Stain). I can hear his smarmy pseudo intellectual fake British accent now.
Wow, standard Fascist tactics, call the other side Fascist, because you know it throws them off. You've already accepted what a shit stain you are, sounds like you've embraced it.
I'm deeply offended by your claims and views. Your comparison of paying taxes to The Holocaust or Segregation is disgusting. I know how to debate, and you are not debating. You are punching low and standing in a deep valley that you pretend is the high ground.
Very few of the experts are named, are privately employed. I used to sit next to the guys that did this work for one city. USDA policies are the ones that have made food cheaply available to all Americans. I'm sorry your such a despicable person.
It's a simple fact that private charity can never replace the government safety net. It's way more efficient for me to give a little to taxes vs picking and choosing who to help and who to ignore. In almost every other area we, as a society, specialize. We have experts to grow food, experts to design roads, experts to manage business. However, when it comes to helping the poor you think every schmoe who pretends to have love in their heart should decide how to dole out assistance. I would rather have a clearly defined system that I pay into, and unfortunately for you, so would everyone else. That's Democracy, sorry to break it to you. Your little fiefdom where you get to feel better then people and make them grovel for your help, only to withhold it because you spent too much on caviar one week, is not the America we live in.
Greed is about keeping and hoarding. I give and give some more. Time, money, energy. Heck, I even give a future to everyone by raising wonderful children.
Aren't you guys the ones who think that greed makes the world better, people who want more will get it and trickle it down like a piss rain on the poor.
I believe that freedom is a responsibility which comes with an obligation to extend this to others. You believe it is a privilege to be hoarded and doled out as a favor to others.
My point is that success is impossible without the community, which provides the legal framework and customer base for any success. You can't achieve the same sort of success in places without roads or people or any number of other things that are part of our community framework.
I think you make the world better by helping the people you can reach, but you also need to do your part to provide a level playing field and help those who shut out of opportunity for any number of reasons or just plain bad luck. I'm not going to sprint down the field tripping people and stepping on the heads of anyone who falls down, this seems to be your M.O.
Where's my anger? You don't think I work hard? I just understand that community has just us much to do with success as hard work, luck too. I want to make the world a little bit better before I check out.
You know what's soul-satisfyingly-fun and empowering? The guarantee that my car will start and everything will work when I hop in. I find that so fun and satisfying. To just get in and go where I want, and far on a tank of gas.
The disaster is how we treat hard working poor people. We give plenty of tax money to the wealthy and corporate interests. The real fear is that a single payer system will remove one of the hooks those "job creators" use to keep people kowtowing to them.
That's a nice chart, with no context or any data about how it was collected it means nothing.
How many systems have you experience and why should I find your anecdotal data more compelling then the mountains of evidence that is out there. The procedures that people can't afford without insurance don't have to be multi-million. They can be as little as $2k, most people can't come up with $2k on short notice. Even wealthy people live paycheck to paycheck and would have trouble meeting bills as low as $5 or $10 thousand. It's also not a dollars and cents equation. While it make little sense to throw $250k at a 75 year old, it makes perfect sense to spend $100k on a five year old with poor parents.
Some people choose to have expensive and useless multi-million dollar treatments, some treatments work very well and cost millions, hell, even a couple hundred thousand is out of reach for most people. It's folly for society to toss someone out because they're unlucky enough to need something like that and only a fool would decline it. Maybe you're such a fool. Your also discounting the fact that many people don't make their own decisions. If I'm in a car accident and need major surgery to survive, it's probably my parents or spouse making the decision. End of life care on the USA is not more expensive then elsewhere. So there goes one of your talking points.
If you want to save some time, just post "no, your dumb." and I'll post, "nuh uh, your dumb" afew times. I think that's the extent of this argument. (Of course, I'm right and your wrong)
People should die more gracefully, with less end of life costs. A basic level of medical insurance is something that we should all pay into with our tax dollars. It doesn't matter whether someone "doesn't want expensive medical procedures". Nobody "wants" expensive medical procedures. They are necessary because you or someone whose path your crossed did something stupid and caused a major injury, or because you drew the shit straw on cancer or any other number of diseases, or your just in th wrong place at the wrong time.
Do you know that if your diagnosed with kidney failure you automatically qualify for medicare? Why not other diseases? Our system is broken and taking it down to a basic single payer system would do wonders for our economy and our citizens. Unfortunately, the losers in this scenario have alot of money to throw at politician.
When did I say I opposed cost controls? I said that it will get cast as "death panels" and the GOP will hate it.
The ACA only required people to pay for the care the get. It eliminated unfunded mandates so deadbeats aren't showing up at the ER and skipping on the bill. Yeah, that 6 figure earning guy who couldn't or wouldn't get a policy because he could pay out of pocket, but can't work now or needs multi-million dollar care. He's a deadbeat.
We all have a responsibility to help each other, and sometimes that means planning for our future, with medical insurance, not socking money away for some sweet retirement so we can rub it in everyone's face when we retire at 50.
What am I opposing. I want a basic single payer system, there is plenty of room for add on private insurance, but let me pay taxes for a public option and get rid of the mess of comparing insurance that is designed to be impossible to understand. At least the ACA created some standards in the insurance market.
SS and Medicare could continue forever with minor tweaks. Although your right about the wealth transfer, why do only old people in the US get single payer? Now we're back to expanding the system, which is what needs to happen. You still haven't told me why the US can't do what everyone else can. You've got tons of figures that compare apples to dog turds, but nothing real.
I am a Linux Admin who runs a windows laptop. I just connect to my Linux management box for Linux tools. I have a low power laptop with no admin rights. It also has a smaller SSD. I don't want to manage windows. It's just a terminal to get to my Linux stuff.
I am also an experienced Windows / Citrix Admin, but at my current job there is a separate team for that stuff.
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Would donate, but they won't take my blood. Apparently it's tainted by living in Germany for 3 years in the 80's when I was 2'ish. Dad was in the military.
That's actually happened, it comes back after 90 days or so, but yeah. I prefer to pay my bills with certified funds when possible.
Just found out my bank changed their bill pay. I used to send a check and it would come out of my account when sent. Now it comes out when they cash it, which makes it the same PITA that regular checks are.
Yeah, eventually, probably take as long as it took for all those Disney house of the future features to become standard... oh, wait...
Until Uber trucking comes along and bribes the state lobbyists to create a law circumventing and banning all local regulations so they can "streamline" their policies and deliver in an optimal path system.
or job advertisements that want a Senior level of knowledge, with a junior title and pay.
If anyone else sees this, I think ooloorie really is Sebastian Gorka. The backstory he claims seems similar and his fake debating style is very reminicent of interviews I've heard with that Shit Stain (capitalized, because he's a proper Shit Stain).
I can hear his smarmy pseudo intellectual fake British accent now.
Wow, standard Fascist tactics, call the other side Fascist, because you know it throws them off. You've already accepted what a shit stain you are, sounds like you've embraced it.
I'm deeply offended by your claims and views. Your comparison of paying taxes to The Holocaust or Segregation is disgusting. I know how to debate, and you are not debating. You are punching low and standing in a deep valley that you pretend is the high ground.
Very few of the experts are named, are privately employed. I used to sit next to the guys that did this work for one city. USDA policies are the ones that have made food cheaply available to all Americans.
I'm sorry your such a despicable person.
It's a simple fact that private charity can never replace the government safety net. It's way more efficient for me to give a little to taxes vs picking and choosing who to help and who to ignore. In almost every other area we, as a society, specialize. We have experts to grow food, experts to design roads, experts to manage business. However, when it comes to helping the poor you think every schmoe who pretends to have love in their heart should decide how to dole out assistance.
I would rather have a clearly defined system that I pay into, and unfortunately for you, so would everyone else. That's Democracy, sorry to break it to you.
Your little fiefdom where you get to feel better then people and make them grovel for your help, only to withhold it because you spent too much on caviar one week, is not the America we live in.
Greed is about keeping and hoarding. I give and give some more. Time, money, energy. Heck, I even give a future to everyone by raising wonderful children.
Aren't you guys the ones who think that greed makes the world better, people who want more will get it and trickle it down like a piss rain on the poor.
I believe that freedom is a responsibility which comes with an obligation to extend this to others. You believe it is a privilege to be hoarded and doled out as a favor to others.
My point is that success is impossible without the community, which provides the legal framework and customer base for any success. You can't achieve the same sort of success in places without roads or people or any number of other things that are part of our community framework.
I think you make the world better by helping the people you can reach, but you also need to do your part to provide a level playing field and help those who shut out of opportunity for any number of reasons or just plain bad luck.
I'm not going to sprint down the field tripping people and stepping on the heads of anyone who falls down, this seems to be your M.O.
Where's my anger? You don't think I work hard? I just understand that community has just us much to do with success as hard work, luck too. I want to make the world a little bit better before I check out.
You know what's soul-satisfyingly-fun and empowering? The guarantee that my car will start and everything will work when I hop in. I find that so fun and satisfying. To just get in and go where I want, and far on a tank of gas.
Nice to see your true colors Sebastion. I know, you got yours so the rest can burn.
The disaster is how we treat hard working poor people.
We give plenty of tax money to the wealthy and corporate interests. The real fear is that a single payer system will remove one of the hooks those "job creators" use to keep people kowtowing to them.
That's a nice chart, with no context or any data about how it was collected it means nothing.
How many systems have you experience and why should I find your anecdotal data more compelling then the mountains of evidence that is out there.
The procedures that people can't afford without insurance don't have to be multi-million. They can be as little as $2k, most people can't come up with $2k on short notice. Even wealthy people live paycheck to paycheck and would have trouble meeting bills as low as $5 or $10 thousand.
It's also not a dollars and cents equation. While it make little sense to throw $250k at a 75 year old, it makes perfect sense to spend $100k on a five year old with poor parents.
Some people choose to have expensive and useless multi-million dollar treatments, some treatments work very well and cost millions, hell, even a couple hundred thousand is out of reach for most people.
It's folly for society to toss someone out because they're unlucky enough to need something like that and only a fool would decline it. Maybe you're such a fool.
Your also discounting the fact that many people don't make their own decisions. If I'm in a car accident and need major surgery to survive, it's probably my parents or spouse making the decision.
End of life care on the USA is not more expensive then elsewhere. So there goes one of your talking points.
If you want to save some time, just post "no, your dumb." and I'll post, "nuh uh, your dumb" afew times. I think that's the extent of this argument. (Of course, I'm right and your wrong)
People should die more gracefully, with less end of life costs. A basic level of medical insurance is something that we should all pay into with our tax dollars. It doesn't matter whether someone "doesn't want expensive medical procedures". Nobody "wants" expensive medical procedures. They are necessary because you or someone whose path your crossed did something stupid and caused a major injury, or because you drew the shit straw on cancer or any other number of diseases, or your just in th wrong place at the wrong time.
Do you know that if your diagnosed with kidney failure you automatically qualify for medicare? Why not other diseases? Our system is broken and taking it down to a basic single payer system would do wonders for our economy and our citizens.
Unfortunately, the losers in this scenario have alot of money to throw at politician.
When did I say I opposed cost controls? I said that it will get cast as "death panels" and the GOP will hate it.
The ACA only required people to pay for the care the get. It eliminated unfunded mandates so deadbeats aren't showing up at the ER and skipping on the bill. Yeah, that 6 figure earning guy who couldn't or wouldn't get a policy because he could pay out of pocket, but can't work now or needs multi-million dollar care. He's a deadbeat.
We all have a responsibility to help each other, and sometimes that means planning for our future, with medical insurance, not socking money away for some sweet retirement so we can rub it in everyone's face when we retire at 50.
or, support single payer...
What am I opposing. I want a basic single payer system, there is plenty of room for add on private insurance, but let me pay taxes for a public option and get rid of the mess of comparing insurance that is designed to be impossible to understand. At least the ACA created some standards in the insurance market.
SS and Medicare could continue forever with minor tweaks. Although your right about the wealth transfer, why do only old people in the US get single payer? Now we're back to expanding the system, which is what needs to happen. You still haven't told me why the US can't do what everyone else can. You've got tons of figures that compare apples to dog turds, but nothing real.
I didn't bother with programs, just dumped the equations into a "program" for reference.
I am a Linux Admin who runs a windows laptop. I just connect to my Linux management box for Linux tools. I have a low power laptop with no admin rights. It also has a smaller SSD. I don't want to manage windows. It's just a terminal to get to my Linux stuff.
I am also an experienced Windows / Citrix Admin, but at my current job there is a separate team for that stuff.