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First, it mandates that everyone buy insurance because apparently, 30 million people go without it merely because someone is not making them. Second, it promises that rates will go down, despite the fact that when governments have mandated insurance before (such as states requiring auto insurance), it only goes UP. Third, the only consumer "protection" in the bill entails the government telling providers what they can change and insurance companies what they have to pay for. Since this will inevitably result in both groups taking losses, they will simply close up shop. This will result in a new health care crisis, at which time the government will swoop in like a false messiah to "fix" the totally unexpected void in health insurance by creating the single payer system, which Obama said was the objective way back in 2007 before he said it wasn't.
Also, diesel used to cost less than gasoline. Now, it costs more because the state and federal governments have imposed unreasonable road taxes. That's killing diesel more than anything. Right now, heating oil is 50 cents less than diesel; that difference is taxes.
The EPA recently tightened their MPG standards. I think you actually have to be a leadfoot to not see the ratings they give now. That being said, on my two most recent cars I easily met or exceeded both highway and city ratings ON REAL GAS. If you're not getting what you expect, it's probably the ethanol. You can expect about 5% worse mileage on 10% ethanol-- it's really that terrible.
I'm not sure where you got your numbers, but Europe and Japan didn't experience our SUV culture, so comparing per-capita MPG numbers just tells us that a lot of those older gas-guzzlers are still on the road. I'm also assuming that you know how to convert their l/100km rating to our MPG. Europeans definitely drive smaller cars: there's nothing wrong with the technology. More weight and more surface area requires more energy.
About all that puzzles me is that the Geo Metro got 49 MPG in the early 1990s, while we are being told that a car with perhaps 2 more cu ft of interior space getting 35 MPG is great. Even considering that the 1990s 49 MPG is probably 40 now, I'm not impressed. I guess it's the weight from the safety features.
In addition, Paul thought that it was easiest for a man to be celibate, but that if you couldn't resist thinking about women that you should be married to help remove temptation.
Really? When did those become legal? I'm pretty sure if the pictures were of a beatdown, the consequences would have been even harsher. This isn't a movie or video game. That being said, I support the parents in this regard. No law was broken here.
As far as the fence is concerned, if we had just poured $1.4 billion into Mexico's economy instead of this cluster fuck of an idea, workers would have less of a reason to leave Mexico and try to sneak into our country. They come here for jobs, but if we help create jobs in their own country...
Government can't create jobs HERE. How would we create jobs there? WE NEED THE JOBS, and businesses create real jobs while the government creates bureaucracies where the AVERAGE salary is $140,000. How about we continue cracking down on employers who don't pay minimum wage, and RAISE the immigration quotas?
Don't link to Fox News. Ever. Murdoch peddles an insidious mix of propaganda and fluff that's intended to neuter our ability to think. The less attention you pay to it, the better.
Food and clothing have also been for people with money. As soon as you decide that something is a right, and it's OK to allow the state to take things from innocent people to give it to others, you might as well go all in.
We have ACH transfers for that. I don't know why ignorant europeans keep insisting that Americans are still chiseling checks on slabs of granite with a bird's beak. I guess you like pretending that you're way ahead of those silly Americans. By the way, don't ask us for help when France and Greece melt down this year.
Yes. We still have the freedom to own a firearm, choose where to live, express religious and political opinions without being jailed, choose our own doctors, choose whether to buy health insurance, and choose where to go to college-- this week anyway. Next week? Who knows.
$25 for transfering money from account to account?
No, if you have enough brains to use billpay services (it's ACH as mikeraz posted) it's nearly always free. If the payee isn't in the system, it will cut an old-fashioned check on the date you specify. So you go ahead with your wonderful wire system from 1890. HOT GRITS POURED DOWN PANTS STOP PETRIFIED NATALIE PORTMAN STOP
Or what if US just stops using inferior checks and just wires money like rest of the world? It's also possible to even push money in to credit cards directly, in addition to normal bank wires. Checks are insecure, inconvenient and pretty useless in today's electronic world.
This is a particularly stupid OT troll, but I'd like to point out that no one is saying that 99% of Americans don't want health care reform. No one has even said that 99% of Americans oppose this health care bill. However, the majority of Americans do oppose the bill, yet want some other reform to lower costs.
It's not crap, because regardless of how the people living in what is now known as communist China see it, it's wrong to rule over a people without their consent. Wrong. It's good that we know how this came to be, but what the communists have done is Wrong.
Carter was proof that you can be too smart to be President.
No, he's proof that smart people can be too stubborn and conceited to be President. Even smart people make mistakes and need input from experts. Too often, they assume that they have the answers for everything.
That was not my experience. The DVI input on the LCD monitor I bought from them stopped working a week after I bought it. I never received a response to multiple requests, so I have not bought from them in years.
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First, it mandates that everyone buy insurance because apparently, 30 million people go without it merely because someone is not making them. Second, it promises that rates will go down, despite the fact that when governments have mandated insurance before (such as states requiring auto insurance), it only goes UP. Third, the only consumer "protection" in the bill entails the government telling providers what they can change and insurance companies what they have to pay for. Since this will inevitably result in both groups taking losses, they will simply close up shop. This will result in a new health care crisis, at which time the government will swoop in like a false messiah to "fix" the totally unexpected void in health insurance by creating the single payer system, which Obama said was the objective way back in 2007 before he said it wasn't.
Also, diesel used to cost less than gasoline. Now, it costs more because the state and federal governments have imposed unreasonable road taxes. That's killing diesel more than anything. Right now, heating oil is 50 cents less than diesel; that difference is taxes.
The EPA stopped using that test two years ago.
I'm not sure where you got your numbers, but Europe and Japan didn't experience our SUV culture, so comparing per-capita MPG numbers just tells us that a lot of those older gas-guzzlers are still on the road. I'm also assuming that you know how to convert their l/100km rating to our MPG. Europeans definitely drive smaller cars: there's nothing wrong with the technology. More weight and more surface area requires more energy.
About all that puzzles me is that the Geo Metro got 49 MPG in the early 1990s, while we are being told that a car with perhaps 2 more cu ft of interior space getting 35 MPG is great. Even considering that the 1990s 49 MPG is probably 40 now, I'm not impressed. I guess it's the weight from the safety features.
In addition, Paul thought that it was easiest for a man to be celibate, but that if you couldn't resist thinking about women that you should be married to help remove temptation.
Really? When did those become legal? I'm pretty sure if the pictures were of a beatdown, the consequences would have been even harsher. This isn't a movie or video game. That being said, I support the parents in this regard. No law was broken here.
Government can't create jobs HERE. How would we create jobs there? WE NEED THE JOBS, and businesses create real jobs while the government creates bureaucracies where the AVERAGE salary is $140,000. How about we continue cracking down on employers who don't pay minimum wage, and RAISE the immigration quotas?
Little Jeff-reyy is probably too young to remember when Walton was still alive and Wal-Mart sold domestically produced products almost exclusively.
Of course, they won't get it because they have government at the barrel of a gun, as Mao would say. The perfect "capitalist" environment.
The user agreement may have used the term "perpetual" in reference to the license on your information.
Don't post on Slashdot. Ever.
Food and clothing have also been for people with money. As soon as you decide that something is a right, and it's OK to allow the state to take things from innocent people to give it to others, you might as well go all in.
We have ACH transfers for that. I don't know why ignorant europeans keep insisting that Americans are still chiseling checks on slabs of granite with a bird's beak. I guess you like pretending that you're way ahead of those silly Americans. By the way, don't ask us for help when France and Greece melt down this year.
Yes. We still have the freedom to own a firearm, choose where to live, express religious and political opinions without being jailed, choose our own doctors, choose whether to buy health insurance, and choose where to go to college-- this week anyway. Next week? Who knows.
No, if you have enough brains to use billpay services (it's ACH as mikeraz posted) it's nearly always free. If the payee isn't in the system, it will cut an old-fashioned check on the date you specify. So you go ahead with your wonderful wire system from 1890. HOT GRITS POURED DOWN PANTS STOP PETRIFIED NATALIE PORTMAN STOP
9 out of 10 Nigerian 419 scammers agree!
Come now, Hillary... that's not very progressive of you. Government knows best, right? Or do you even like telling other countries what to do?
Meanwhile, in the USA oil lies untapped in Alaska because people confuse oil drilling with coal strip-mining.
When Michael Moore went on a burrito binge.
This is a particularly stupid OT troll, but I'd like to point out that no one is saying that 99% of Americans don't want health care reform. No one has even said that 99% of Americans oppose this health care bill. However, the majority of Americans do oppose the bill, yet want some other reform to lower costs.
It's not crap, because regardless of how the people living in what is now known as communist China see it, it's wrong to rule over a people without their consent. Wrong. It's good that we know how this came to be, but what the communists have done is Wrong.
No, he's proof that smart people can be too stubborn and conceited to be President. Even smart people make mistakes and need input from experts. Too often, they assume that they have the answers for everything.
Keep it under 500ma. Any more tastes like burning.
Well, peanuts aren't nuts.
That was not my experience. The DVI input on the LCD monitor I bought from them stopped working a week after I bought it. I never received a response to multiple requests, so I have not bought from them in years.