Self-employed. Farmers seem to be particularly getting screwed.
And, no, it wasn't high-deductible before. It is now, though.
Apparently some folks like yourself aren't reading the news. In AZ this year, the exchange prices have more than doubled. One year. It shouldn't be surprising that everybody's paying more.
Remember when like 70% of slashdot thought that it was a good idea to put this buffoon in power because Hillary was too "establishment" and was a dumbass about classified emails?
Yeah, I remember that. Do you really think Hillary would be even better?
I'll give you a hint: we'd have worse shit than this, but with a complacent media that would report nothing of it.
Fake news had a very specific meaning, which is propaganda consisting of outright lies masquerading as real news to influence public opinion in a given way.
No, the term "fake news" is looney left propaganda made up in the face of Hillary's loss to explain why she lost. The MSM has been putting out fake news stories for years about Republicans, and finally people are pushing back.
Let's take an example. Time Magazine reporter Zeke Miller pushed a fake news story (literally: he made it up and it's factually incorrect) about the bust of MLK being removed from the White House by the Trump administration. Now, when he was caught and outed he quickly retracted the story, but it was already out. I know how this works, because I still check facebook every week or so. By the time he retracted the story, it was too late. It's already made its way into stupid meme pictures being shared about facebook. Since the lefties don't pay attention to anything but their echo chambers they have no idea the story was fake because Media Matters isn't going to bother telling them. So it lives on.
You think Time learned? Of course they learned. They learned that fake news is better than the real thing when smearing your opponents (let that sink in for a minute that a news source has "opponents"). So here we go again:
Amazing. Trump's "travel ban" (based on a law signed by Obama, but I digress) was able to time travel and force someone to be detained last December before Trump was President. Fake News. Period. Time *did* quietly update the story with no mention of the changes anywhere, no retraction, tweet still up.
So, yeah, we know what "fake news" is. We see it all the time. I got tired enough of it that I started taking certain people out of my facebook feed.
And, sorry, Obamacare actually *is* something to oppose. It's amazing how many of my friends lost their insurance and are now paying double or triple for less coverage. And this was all fully predictable to anyone paying attention.
I'm like a lot of folks - not a Trump fan, didn't vote for the guy, but the reaction of the looney left has made me so glad he won.
Seriously, move here to Nashville - all of you. There's a job waiting for you, and the weather will be better for her. My parents moved here a few years ago to be close to us and it worked out well.
That's why I'm telling my kids "no student loans". They can go to a state school here that's cheap enough that I can pay for it, and frankly it's a damned good university (this is Middle-Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro). It's the nitwits who go to expensive private universities and run up $100K+ in student loans that end up getting screwed. Sorry, if you have to work for 2 or 3 years just to pay back the loan you got the short end of the deal. My kids know that plumbers and electricians around here get $50K+/year without having college, so they know there are alternatives.
Sure, being a member of a union is a right. That's not what this story is about. The UAW wants to capture some of the wages from Tesla along with all the other money that they capture. Then they can hand it to Democrats while keeping a few million for the bosses who run the union. That's all they do.
If Tesla employees want to have a union, they should do so. They don't need the UAW to "help".
Yes, it is morally outrageous for the UAW to try to come and unionize his employees, to the point that they send a paid agitator in.
I don't have a problem with Tesla employees unionizing. The UAW coming in and extracting money from them in exchange for "helping" them isn't the same thing - not by a long shot.
I worked at Indiana University years ago and something similar happened with the clerical workers there. AFSCME was able to get enough of a foothold to get a vote and win. The benefits provided by the university were already far and above what you would get elsewhere. During the first round of "negotiations", which lasted for nearly a year, the new union workers had their wages frozen. When it was finalized, they ended up getting the annual raises they would have received, anyway. But with union dues taken out.
You see, AFSCME didn't give a damn about the workers. They cared about AFSCME. So, AFSCME was able to capture an income stream from IU while effectively doing nothing.
Don't be fooled - this is about the UAW, not Tesla workers.
If only there were someone with business leadership skills like that. We could get him elected President and make American bankrupt, erm.... great again.
Uh, we just had 8 years of that in case you missed it. $10T in new debt - lovely, eh? Hopefully the Orange One will do something better, but I'm not holding my breath.
Now to be Republican you have to be pro Federal Legislation and anti Big Business?
The only people who think Republicans are "pro big business" are idiots who believe what the Democrats tell them. Almost all large businesses lean heavily Democrat - they're cheaper and easily used for regulatory capture.
Republicans tend to get most donations from individuals and small business owners.
I believe GP is referring to top.0001% of people in terms of wealth, that backed Trump. Not.0001% of the population.
Uh, that's who the 97 companies represent. News flash: they didn't vote for Trump. You'd think after this last election we could get over the whole "only rich people vote for Republicans" idiocy, especially since the same people are claiming that only poor, stupid, blue collar self-defeating idiots voted for Trump.
Rather off topic, but I heartily disagree. Liars and xenophobes should be called out on their toxic crap otherwise they might get elected president one day.
A "xenophobe" who's married to a foreigner.
You folks have gone beyond self-parody at this point.
And "liar"? Ever heard "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor"?
Reminds me of an article comparing a doctor's lifetime earnings vs a UPS driver. In the analysis, the doctor doesn't pull ahead until about 18 years after high school, due to the long period of schooling and residency, plus debt load.
You make it sound like 18 years after high school is a long time. That is only 35-37 years old, or in other words only a little over a third of the way into your career.
On the other hand, those comparisons never add in what would happen if you took the out of pocket money that would be paid to college and put it into an S&P 500 index fund between the ages of 18 and 22. My guess is the doctor wouldn't catch up until age 45 or later. I'm not talking about the med school money (the doctor would literally never catch up if I did), just the out of pocket cash for undergrad.
Here in Nashville, charter schools set up in poor areas and keep coming the asses of public schools. I have friends who are illegal aliens, their kids go to a STEM charter that's tough as hell.
Quit getting your information from the NEA, democrats, and media matters. It's a big world out there.
Uh, what do batteries have to do with it? If anything, this will raise the demand for coal in the short term.
As for oil, you do realize that most of the stuff you buy is made of oil, right? Even if we quit burning it tomorrow (news flash: we won't) the oil industry won't skip a beat.
Am I oblivious to the US Constitution? How can you have "secret rules", not approved/ratified/signed/passed/whatever in and by a public law.making body such as the upper house, the lower house, an executive order (am I missing something here?)? Aren't all these supposed to publicize new laws to those that vote? So people actually know what the guys they voted for are doing, and, you know, actually know if they are following the "most recent law"?
The other question is "why does the press not care until a Republican gets in the White House?" We all know the answer, of course.
Related: note that a Navy SEAL died in combat, and that's suddenly front page news again.
Trump did not even have control over the countries on the travel ban list, they were put there years ago,
He had full control. He decided to use that particular list. He could have used another list, he could have written a brand new list. Instead he picked a list that conveniently did not impact any of his business partners.
There are liberals, and then there are leftist lunatics.
To give an example, his travel/immigration ban covers several Middle Eastern countries, and cited terrorist attacks including 9/11 as cause. And yet, none of the countries the 9/11 hijackers came from are included in the ban. Why?
Quoting looney left talking points isn't helping your case. The reason for the seven countries has been covered extensively - Obama chose them.
...Windows PCs are starting to chip away at Apple's strong grip of the high-end computer market...
From my viewpoint, it looks as if Apple has abandoned the high-end computer market. The product line has been stagnating.
I mentioned a couple of days ago that the Apple Store in our mall here (note that I live in what's likely the richest county in the US outside of the DC Metro area) now has only two tables out of ten or twelve devoted to MacBooks. They have a Mac Mini and a tower and a couple of iMacs. The tables that used to be MacBooks are now tablets and phones, and wall space that was dedicated to iMacs and other high-end stuff (such as graphic design and music) is now given to Apple TV devices with game controllers. They have nearly ignored the actual laptops and desktops at this point, and this area is one of the largest concentrations of their core market that you will find anywhere.
We have another Apple Store about 15 miles away but I haven't been to it to see what they've done. Something tells me it's about as stupid as what I'm seeing here.
They really need to get their shit together and start marketing their computers. I'm heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem between laptops, minis, iphones, and all the requisite stuff that goes with them. I cannot recommend their products until they do some real upgrades to their product lines and get back to marketing them. Phones are nice, but their cross-sell capabilities are being battered right now by their own stupidity.
Another point is that the local Best Buy has nearly as many MacBooks on display in their little Apple section as the actual Apple Store which is easily 10x the size of Best Buy's Apple section.
I feel like they put Steve Ballmer in charge of marketing and didn't announce it or something.
I rarely fill them out, typically only if it's a couple of questions.
You know what *really* works when you get excellent service? Write a letter to the manager. I have a former neighbor who is 85 years old and she mentioned this a few years back. When she gets excellent service in a restaurant or whatever she hand-writes a letter to the manager mentioning the employees by name. She often gets letters back thanking her. That's how you reward excellent service.
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Self-employed. Farmers seem to be particularly getting screwed.
And, no, it wasn't high-deductible before. It is now, though.
Apparently some folks like yourself aren't reading the news. In AZ this year, the exchange prices have more than doubled. One year. It shouldn't be surprising that everybody's paying more.
Remember when like 70% of slashdot thought that it was a good idea to put this buffoon in power because Hillary was too "establishment" and was a dumbass about classified emails?
Yeah, I remember that. Do you really think Hillary would be even better?
I'll give you a hint: we'd have worse shit than this, but with a complacent media that would report nothing of it.
Fake news had a very specific meaning, which is propaganda consisting of outright lies masquerading as real news to influence public opinion in a given way.
No, the term "fake news" is looney left propaganda made up in the face of Hillary's loss to explain why she lost. The MSM has been putting out fake news stories for years about Republicans, and finally people are pushing back.
Let's take an example. Time Magazine reporter Zeke Miller pushed a fake news story (literally: he made it up and it's factually incorrect) about the bust of MLK being removed from the White House by the Trump administration. Now, when he was caught and outed he quickly retracted the story, but it was already out. I know how this works, because I still check facebook every week or so. By the time he retracted the story, it was too late. It's already made its way into stupid meme pictures being shared about facebook. Since the lefties don't pay attention to anything but their echo chambers they have no idea the story was fake because Media Matters isn't going to bother telling them. So it lives on.
You think Time learned? Of course they learned. They learned that fake news is better than the real thing when smearing your opponents (let that sink in for a minute that a news source has "opponents"). So here we go again:
http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136...
Amazing. Trump's "travel ban" (based on a law signed by Obama, but I digress) was able to time travel and force someone to be detained last December before Trump was President. Fake News. Period. Time *did* quietly update the story with no mention of the changes anywhere, no retraction, tweet still up.
So, yeah, we know what "fake news" is. We see it all the time. I got tired enough of it that I started taking certain people out of my facebook feed.
Are you seriously comparing town halls to riots?
Seriously?
And, sorry, Obamacare actually *is* something to oppose. It's amazing how many of my friends lost their insurance and are now paying double or triple for less coverage. And this was all fully predictable to anyone paying attention.
I'm like a lot of folks - not a Trump fan, didn't vote for the guy, but the reaction of the looney left has made me so glad he won.
Seriously, move here to Nashville - all of you. There's a job waiting for you, and the weather will be better for her. My parents moved here a few years ago to be close to us and it worked out well.
That's why I'm telling my kids "no student loans". They can go to a state school here that's cheap enough that I can pay for it, and frankly it's a damned good university (this is Middle-Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro). It's the nitwits who go to expensive private universities and run up $100K+ in student loans that end up getting screwed. Sorry, if you have to work for 2 or 3 years just to pay back the loan you got the short end of the deal. My kids know that plumbers and electricians around here get $50K+/year without having college, so they know there are alternatives.
No offense, but why aren't you moving her parents to *you* instead? It doesn't make sense for you to move to CA.
Sure, being a member of a union is a right. That's not what this story is about. The UAW wants to capture some of the wages from Tesla along with all the other money that they capture. Then they can hand it to Democrats while keeping a few million for the bosses who run the union. That's all they do.
If Tesla employees want to have a union, they should do so. They don't need the UAW to "help".
Yes, it is morally outrageous for the UAW to try to come and unionize his employees, to the point that they send a paid agitator in.
I don't have a problem with Tesla employees unionizing. The UAW coming in and extracting money from them in exchange for "helping" them isn't the same thing - not by a long shot.
I worked at Indiana University years ago and something similar happened with the clerical workers there. AFSCME was able to get enough of a foothold to get a vote and win. The benefits provided by the university were already far and above what you would get elsewhere. During the first round of "negotiations", which lasted for nearly a year, the new union workers had their wages frozen. When it was finalized, they ended up getting the annual raises they would have received, anyway. But with union dues taken out.
You see, AFSCME didn't give a damn about the workers. They cared about AFSCME. So, AFSCME was able to capture an income stream from IU while effectively doing nothing.
Don't be fooled - this is about the UAW, not Tesla workers.
If only there were someone with business leadership skills like that. We could get him elected President and make American bankrupt, erm.... great again.
Uh, we just had 8 years of that in case you missed it. $10T in new debt - lovely, eh? Hopefully the Orange One will do something better, but I'm not holding my breath.
Now to be Republican you have to be pro Federal Legislation and anti Big Business?
The only people who think Republicans are "pro big business" are idiots who believe what the Democrats tell them. Almost all large businesses lean heavily Democrat - they're cheaper and easily used for regulatory capture.
Republicans tend to get most donations from individuals and small business owners.
We don't have universal health care, so there's no way to get it back.
I believe GP is referring to top .0001% of people in terms of wealth, that backed Trump. Not .0001% of the population.
Uh, that's who the 97 companies represent. News flash: they didn't vote for Trump. You'd think after this last election we could get over the whole "only rich people vote for Republicans" idiocy, especially since the same people are claiming that only poor, stupid, blue collar self-defeating idiots voted for Trump.
Rather off topic, but I heartily disagree. Liars and xenophobes should be called out on their toxic crap otherwise they might get elected president one day.
A "xenophobe" who's married to a foreigner.
You folks have gone beyond self-parody at this point.
And "liar"? Ever heard "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor"?
Reminds me of an article comparing a doctor's lifetime earnings vs a UPS driver. In the analysis, the doctor doesn't pull ahead until about 18 years after high school, due to the long period of schooling and residency, plus debt load.
You make it sound like 18 years after high school is a long time. That is only 35-37 years old, or in other words only a little over a third of the way into your career.
On the other hand, those comparisons never add in what would happen if you took the out of pocket money that would be paid to college and put it into an S&P 500 index fund between the ages of 18 and 22. My guess is the doctor wouldn't catch up until age 45 or later. I'm not talking about the med school money (the doctor would literally never catch up if I did), just the out of pocket cash for undergrad.
Here in Nashville, charter schools set up in poor areas and keep coming the asses of public schools. I have friends who are illegal aliens, their kids go to a STEM charter that's tough as hell.
Quit getting your information from the NEA, democrats, and media matters. It's a big world out there.
Uh, what do batteries have to do with it? If anything, this will raise the demand for coal in the short term.
As for oil, you do realize that most of the stuff you buy is made of oil, right? Even if we quit burning it tomorrow (news flash: we won't) the oil industry won't skip a beat.
>> This summary is unreadable, it literally makes no sense.
Sadly, it's a direct quote from the original - completely incomprehensible - article.
See, some people actually RTFA.
And this is why the rest of us don't.
Am I oblivious to the US Constitution? How can you have "secret rules", not approved/ratified/signed/passed/whatever in and by a public law.making body such as the upper house, the lower house, an executive order (am I missing something here?)? Aren't all these supposed to publicize new laws to those that vote? So people actually know what the guys they voted for are doing, and, you know, actually know if they are following the "most recent law"?
The other question is "why does the press not care until a Republican gets in the White House?" We all know the answer, of course.
Related: note that a Navy SEAL died in combat, and that's suddenly front page news again.
Trump did not even have control over the countries on the travel ban list, they were put there years ago,
He had full control. He decided to use that particular list. He could have used another list, he could have written a brand new list. Instead he picked a list that conveniently did not impact any of his business partners.
There are liberals, and then there are leftist lunatics.
This would be the latter.
To give an example, his travel/immigration ban covers several Middle Eastern countries, and cited terrorist attacks including 9/11 as cause. And yet, none of the countries the 9/11 hijackers came from are included in the ban. Why?
Quoting looney left talking points isn't helping your case. The reason for the seven countries has been covered extensively - Obama chose them.
Even the lunatics at msnbc know this:
http://www.msnbc.com/morning-j...
and NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/30/...
More reliable information here:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/m...
It's not a free market. It's most definitely capitalism. They're not the same thing.
It's still not capitalism, either, although it can happen in a capitalistic system. It can also happen under communism. It's unrelated.
The word we use to describe it is "cronyism". The cronyist uses government to alter the market in his favor, bypassing the free market.
The goal is energy, not employment. We don't build factories and plants to keep people busy...
Yes.
"The majority of U.S. electrical generation continues to come from fossil fuels."
In other words, solar requires far more workers per MWH for some reason. This is hardly a reason to be joyful in and of itself.
...Windows PCs are starting to chip away at Apple's strong grip of the high-end computer market...
From my viewpoint, it looks as if Apple has abandoned the high-end computer market. The product line has been stagnating.
I mentioned a couple of days ago that the Apple Store in our mall here (note that I live in what's likely the richest county in the US outside of the DC Metro area) now has only two tables out of ten or twelve devoted to MacBooks. They have a Mac Mini and a tower and a couple of iMacs. The tables that used to be MacBooks are now tablets and phones, and wall space that was dedicated to iMacs and other high-end stuff (such as graphic design and music) is now given to Apple TV devices with game controllers. They have nearly ignored the actual laptops and desktops at this point, and this area is one of the largest concentrations of their core market that you will find anywhere.
We have another Apple Store about 15 miles away but I haven't been to it to see what they've done. Something tells me it's about as stupid as what I'm seeing here.
They really need to get their shit together and start marketing their computers. I'm heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem between laptops, minis, iphones, and all the requisite stuff that goes with them. I cannot recommend their products until they do some real upgrades to their product lines and get back to marketing them. Phones are nice, but their cross-sell capabilities are being battered right now by their own stupidity.
Another point is that the local Best Buy has nearly as many MacBooks on display in their little Apple section as the actual Apple Store which is easily 10x the size of Best Buy's Apple section.
I feel like they put Steve Ballmer in charge of marketing and didn't announce it or something.
I rarely fill them out, typically only if it's a couple of questions.
You know what *really* works when you get excellent service? Write a letter to the manager. I have a former neighbor who is 85 years old and she mentioned this a few years back. When she gets excellent service in a restaurant or whatever she hand-writes a letter to the manager mentioning the employees by name. She often gets letters back thanking her. That's how you reward excellent service.
I do the same but with email :)