We need more home grown doctors. I don't know about the rest of/. but I'm getting older. Right now we've been able to poach doctors from poorer countries but those countries are modernizing so that's not going to last forever.
a scientist says "signs point to yes" what that means in colloquial speech is "Hell yes". Scientists don't like speaking in definites, but voters hate it when you sound unsure. They think you're lying to them.
or Credit Derivative Swaps. Period. This is not up for debate. And CDSes were only possible because they hid toxic debt in them. That's cheating. It was illegal until Clinton & Bush Jr eliminated the laws protecting them.
You're being had. A small group of people are making off with everything to your detriment. The sooner you realize this the sooner you can join me and help fix it.
Social security disability is perpetrated by doctors. It's done because they see folks in their 50s and 60s who can't really work anymore but don't qualify for any other form of assistance. This happened more often after the 2008 crash. Doctors saw people who were going to be homeless in their 50s and 60s without some help, and they saw there was no help. So they wrote questionable disability claims. The at the time left wing administration allowed them through because the alternative was reams of homeless old people. None of these folks had the money for a lawyer. It was well meaning doctors taking pity on desperate old men and women.
you have regular (and random) checkups every 2-3 months. You have to provide access to your bank accounts so they can validate what you have. If you have more than about $200 in your account you will get denied until you have nothing. This is one of the problems, folks can never get out of poverty because as soon as they start to get ahead they lose the little bit of assistance they have and it all falls apart.
As for how much you're paid, it's a few hundred amount in cash and another few hundred in food stamps. You haven't seen anyone with $40k a year in benefits. You either made that up or someone else did.
When folks talk about "alternative facts" and "fake news" this sort of stuff is exactly what they're talking about. It's outright lies. If your making the lies yourself, stop. It will hurt you in the long run. The ruling class you're pitching for will eventually abandon you. If you're buying into somebody elses lies then try spending a bit of time at your local food pantry talking to the kinds of people who show up. Or volunteer at a children's hospital and talk to people who have children with severe illnesses about what it's like trying to make ends meet and care for a sick kid full time.
if the movement wasn't getting national coverage. It's one thing to see stories on Fox News (which, let's not mince words here, is more or less the Republican Party's propaganda arm). But I've seen bloody CNN talking about it.
Now true, it's not like they could spend that time covering something like the 45,000 folks who die of preventable diseases every year or the war in Yemen being fought with our weapons or the last round of Wallstreet deregulation that just happened and is going to cause a market crash in about 6 years....
My point, in case it wasn't obvious, is that these nut job conspiracy theories are leaping off 4 chan and it's happening for a reason. Somebody with a lot of pull would much rather we pay attention to that then to our ever worsening economic situation... We can debate who that is, but that's secondary to the simple fact that we're being distracted from more important matters.
for the little guy. They call themselves "Justice Democrats" and they refuse corporate & PAC money. Join the Democratic party and vote in their primary (if you're in a state where you have open primaries then you don't need to bother joining). They're the best hope the little guys has. We need to make denying corporate & PAC money the #1 litmus test for all politicians, and they're a good place to start.
there's plenty of actual fake news going around. Google "QAnon". There's also a ton of misinformation around Climate Change. And then there's John Oliver's video on Astroturfing last week.
There's literally billions being spent to spread what can only be called lies. I'm less worried about folks confusing opinions with facts and more worried about them confusing outright lies for something true. That's what's going to destroy us.
odds are that nobody wants to tell the GP they've been through a bankruptcy. You're not supposed to talk about it. What do they call us? Temporarily inconvenienced millionaires...
Apple is clearly making very poor use of the land this lowering it's value to catastrophic levels. I say San Francisco used Eminent domain to take the land and put it to good use (perhaps for public housing). The city will, of course, compensate Apple for the full, fair market value of $200. Heck, I say pay them twice that, an almost unheard of $400 dollars, to cover the expanse of obtaining a new headquarters. I mean, when you put it like that it's a win win
head on, replacing land lines. Home broadband is incredibly profitable. I pay $100/mo for mine and by all accounts it costs somewhere between $9-$13 (depending on who you ask, since you can only get an estimate out of their SEC filings these days). There's a _lot_ of room for profit there.
if you account for the deterrent factor from stopping perhaps trillions of dollars of white collar fraud, right? So where's the increased enforcement of that?
It's got nothing to do with deterrents. Cheating welfare is already hard. The point of constant means testing and the like is a) to discourage people from getting help so you don't have to pay for it and b) to create an anti-poor person narrative that divides the working class into the poor and middle class so they won't notice the rich stealing all the money under their noses.
have you? I've had family who, due to illness, have. It's damn near impossible to game the system for long. There's enormous scrutiny on everything you do in exchange for the pittance your given. Virtually every financial transaction you make is scrutinized. If we put half the effort into finding Wallstreet cheats we do the occasional welfare cheat we'd never have another market crash again.
the insurance industry spent half a billion dollars killing it. Multiple studies have shown that short, intense ad blitzes can turn the public off on virtually any issue. The insurance companies are fighting for their lives when it comes to single payer, so they'll spend any amount of money to kill it. Plus since they're the gatekeepers on life saving medicine they can easily make the money back by overcharging on premiums. The only question is can they go too far. I think if the Republicans like Paul Ryan get too greedy and manage to kill Medicare that'll probably be the end. Once the old folks have to deal with private insurance all bets are off.
it was more or less the defacto economic system, yet there was poverty. Technology raised those people out of poverty. Scientists did. The economic system was incidental. If anything the rapid pace of tech made it so the ruling class couldn't monopolize the wealth generated fast enough to maintain control and prevent upstarts. They seem to be adapting at last and with it we've seen a general decline in standards of living.
is over 50% when I include the health insurance (which might as well be a tax even without the mandate that I carry it). That's _all_ my taxes. VLT, sales tax, income tax, etc.
insisting that the farmers double plant. Nobody had the guts to tell him no because he tended to murder anyone who disagreed with him. That's not communism, that's fascism. The only difference is Mao borrowed Karl Marx's books. His tactics were straight out of the same playbook kings and emperors have been using for centuries.
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We need more home grown doctors. I don't know about the rest of /. but I'm getting older. Right now we've been able to poach doctors from poorer countries but those countries are modernizing so that's not going to last forever.
a scientist says "signs point to yes" what that means in colloquial speech is "Hell yes". Scientists don't like speaking in definites, but voters hate it when you sound unsure. They think you're lying to them.
or Credit Derivative Swaps. Period. This is not up for debate. And CDSes were only possible because they hid toxic debt in them. That's cheating. It was illegal until Clinton & Bush Jr eliminated the laws protecting them.
You're being had. A small group of people are making off with everything to your detriment. The sooner you realize this the sooner you can join me and help fix it.
Social security disability is perpetrated by doctors. It's done because they see folks in their 50s and 60s who can't really work anymore but don't qualify for any other form of assistance. This happened more often after the 2008 crash. Doctors saw people who were going to be homeless in their 50s and 60s without some help, and they saw there was no help. So they wrote questionable disability claims. The at the time left wing administration allowed them through because the alternative was reams of homeless old people. None of these folks had the money for a lawyer. It was well meaning doctors taking pity on desperate old men and women.
you have regular (and random) checkups every 2-3 months. You have to provide access to your bank accounts so they can validate what you have. If you have more than about $200 in your account you will get denied until you have nothing. This is one of the problems, folks can never get out of poverty because as soon as they start to get ahead they lose the little bit of assistance they have and it all falls apart.
As for how much you're paid, it's a few hundred amount in cash and another few hundred in food stamps. You haven't seen anyone with $40k a year in benefits. You either made that up or someone else did.
When folks talk about "alternative facts" and "fake news" this sort of stuff is exactly what they're talking about. It's outright lies. If your making the lies yourself, stop. It will hurt you in the long run. The ruling class you're pitching for will eventually abandon you. If you're buying into somebody elses lies then try spending a bit of time at your local food pantry talking to the kinds of people who show up. Or volunteer at a children's hospital and talk to people who have children with severe illnesses about what it's like trying to make ends meet and care for a sick kid full time.
if the movement wasn't getting national coverage. It's one thing to see stories on Fox News (which, let's not mince words here, is more or less the Republican Party's propaganda arm). But I've seen bloody CNN talking about it.
Now true, it's not like they could spend that time covering something like the 45,000 folks who die of preventable diseases every year or the war in Yemen being fought with our weapons or the last round of Wallstreet deregulation that just happened and is going to cause a market crash in about 6 years....
My point, in case it wasn't obvious, is that these nut job conspiracy theories are leaping off 4 chan and it's happening for a reason. Somebody with a lot of pull would much rather we pay attention to that then to our ever worsening economic situation... We can debate who that is, but that's secondary to the simple fact that we're being distracted from more important matters.
deactivate their cameras after drawing their firearms.
for the little guy. They call themselves "Justice Democrats" and they refuse corporate & PAC money. Join the Democratic party and vote in their primary (if you're in a state where you have open primaries then you don't need to bother joining). They're the best hope the little guys has. We need to make denying corporate & PAC money the #1 litmus test for all politicians, and they're a good place to start.
I'm more worried about kids getting hooked on old person medication.
there's plenty of actual fake news going around. Google "QAnon". There's also a ton of misinformation around Climate Change. And then there's John Oliver's video on Astroturfing last week.
There's literally billions being spent to spread what can only be called lies. I'm less worried about folks confusing opinions with facts and more worried about them confusing outright lies for something true. That's what's going to destroy us.
odds are that nobody wants to tell the GP they've been through a bankruptcy. You're not supposed to talk about it. What do they call us? Temporarily inconvenienced millionaires...
they'll get plenty of federal funding. California, OTOH, better hope those wild fires burn themselves out.
Can't remember if that was Apple or somebody else, but I know one of the big tech companies was running it's own bus company.
Apple is clearly making very poor use of the land this lowering it's value to catastrophic levels. I say San Francisco used Eminent domain to take the land and put it to good use (perhaps for public housing). The city will, of course, compensate Apple for the full, fair market value of $200. Heck, I say pay them twice that, an almost unheard of $400 dollars, to cover the expanse of obtaining a new headquarters. I mean, when you put it like that it's a win win
head on, replacing land lines. Home broadband is incredibly profitable. I pay $100/mo for mine and by all accounts it costs somewhere between $9-$13 (depending on who you ask, since you can only get an estimate out of their SEC filings these days). There's a _lot_ of room for profit there.
if you account for the deterrent factor from stopping perhaps trillions of dollars of white collar fraud, right? So where's the increased enforcement of that?
It's got nothing to do with deterrents. Cheating welfare is already hard. The point of constant means testing and the like is a) to discourage people from getting help so you don't have to pay for it and b) to create an anti-poor person narrative that divides the working class into the poor and middle class so they won't notice the rich stealing all the money under their noses.
Works too.
otherwise it's not worth much. If it's $10/gigabyte or something silly like that then it's pointless.
it's the wild wild west right now. You don't really know what you're getting when it comes to vaping.
have you? I've had family who, due to illness, have. It's damn near impossible to game the system for long. There's enormous scrutiny on everything you do in exchange for the pittance your given. Virtually every financial transaction you make is scrutinized. If we put half the effort into finding Wallstreet cheats we do the occasional welfare cheat we'd never have another market crash again.
right?
the insurance industry spent half a billion dollars killing it. Multiple studies have shown that short, intense ad blitzes can turn the public off on virtually any issue. The insurance companies are fighting for their lives when it comes to single payer, so they'll spend any amount of money to kill it. Plus since they're the gatekeepers on life saving medicine they can easily make the money back by overcharging on premiums. The only question is can they go too far. I think if the Republicans like Paul Ryan get too greedy and manage to kill Medicare that'll probably be the end. Once the old folks have to deal with private insurance all bets are off.
it was more or less the defacto economic system, yet there was poverty. Technology raised those people out of poverty. Scientists did. The economic system was incidental. If anything the rapid pace of tech made it so the ruling class couldn't monopolize the wealth generated fast enough to maintain control and prevent upstarts. They seem to be adapting at last and with it we've seen a general decline in standards of living.
for all those taxes I get nothing but endless war and cheap oil for a car I can barely afford.
is over 50% when I include the health insurance (which might as well be a tax even without the mandate that I carry it). That's _all_ my taxes. VLT, sales tax, income tax, etc.
insisting that the farmers double plant. Nobody had the guts to tell him no because he tended to murder anyone who disagreed with him. That's not communism, that's fascism. The only difference is Mao borrowed Karl Marx's books. His tactics were straight out of the same playbook kings and emperors have been using for centuries.