Japan is rolling out Gigabit residential service, so yeah, 5 Mpbs is living in the dark ages. Hell, in Norway, which is even more rural than the U.S., you can get 26 Mpbs residential connections.
So you and what? three other of the govermment employees actually work?
Yes, way to hate on your fellow workers. Smashing, yeah corporatism.
You want to know why the HOV lanes work in MD and VA? Because government employees know that they are to be at work at 8:00 and they will be leaving work at 5:00 sharp and that allows them to carpool; the rest of the white collar workers in this country routinely put in uncompensated overtime that is incompatible with carpooling.
Get over your inflated egos and form a union then. Funny how the fuck-you-I-got-mine attitude only applies to people who climb the corporate ladder, not workers who bargain for better compensation and fewer hours.
Yes, because so many Americans have the time and expertise to evaluate electrical devices and their min/average/max power draws. Vs having a voluntary program that's easy to understand: you buy something with an Energy Start sticker on it, it should be a reasonably efficient device.
Nice misdirection. Take an agency with a thousand inspectors, and over the course of a couple decades, slash their number down to 50. Is the structure still there? Of course it is. Is it remotely as effective?
The reason your telecommunications cost so much? You live in NYC. The reason for the shittiest service ever? You Live in NYC!
Right, right. Except when we complain how shitty our telecommunications service is in the United States compared to other nations, the excuse given is that the U.S. is far more rural than Asian or European countries with far faster services. Except if you happen to live in a densely populated urban area in the U.S., then you have shitty, overpriced services because you live in a highly populated area.
You must remember that the US taxes businesses more than Europe does.
You must realize that's only the case if said business doesn't write off the cost of lobbying as a business expense. Or $10 million a year in salary to the CEO. Or $6 million a year to the CFO and COO. Each. Or millions more in golden parachutes for their top executives.
So, how many businesses that you know of take a pass on writing off every conceivable expenditure as a cost of doing business?
Then you'll merely be sticking it to the middle class, instead of the poor and the middle class. Another problem with relying on a sales tax as opposed to an income tax is that the former plummets when the economy goes into a recession, since the poor and the middle class run out of money first.
Well, that and the game sucks. No base building, and you're limited to 15 units. If they wanted to try this gameplay mechanic, it should have been done as a spinoff a la Red Alert or Generals. But as Command and Conquer 4?
Kennedy Derangement Syndrome, for not blaming Republicans for blocking better reforms, only blaming Kennedy for HMO's. The fact that Kennedy settled for HMO's instead of single payer doesn't change the fact that he spent his whole political life working towards the latter.
If that were actually the case, we'd have single payer, and the Attorney General would be laying waste to insurance executives, using RICO to indict the lot of them for fraud (selling insurance and then doing everything in their power to deny claims).
I'm still going with the theory that insurance premiums are high because doctors have to pay so much in malpractice insurance because we have so many frivolous malpractice lawsuits. If we stopped frivolous malpractice lawsuits, it would result in lowering our insurance premiums.
Nevermind the fact that malpractice suits make up 1% to 2% of medical costs. Nevermind that states that have passed so called "tort reform" haven't lowered their insurance costs a single iota.
This is because the vast majority of cases are not frivolous and insurance rates are set by what the market will bear, not by actual costs.
I love how the Democrats control the presidency, the house, and the senate... yet still blame their failures on the Republicans.
I love it how Republicans still bitch about the Community Reinvestment Act from 1978, Social Security from 1935, and even the frikkin 16th Amendment that allowed income taxes from 1913, but Democrats can't talk about a guy that was president just two years ago, when Bush left us with 2 wars and a devastated economy.
I'm pretty sure that 4.4% isnt a large profit margin
I'm petty sure that's calculated after paying their board members 7 figure salaries, the CEO an 8 figure salary, and millions more for lobbying and advertising.
The problem is not insurance company profits.
Yeah, it is. Medicare and the VA (socialized medicine) have 2%-4% overhead, compared to 20%-30% for private insurance companies.
The problem is that Americans get every possible test and procedure done, which is what makes the rates high.
Right, because only the United States has hypochondriacs. Otherwise Japan and France and...the rest of the industrialized world...would be overwhelmed.
It was the "free health care for everyone" people who choose fund a procedure that ends a baby's life.
Slight problem with your storyline: this bill doesn't fund abortions. Not only is the Hyde Amendment in effect (bans use of federal funds for abortions), it's also reinforced with an executive order.
Specifically an Army and a Navy. Since the Air Force is neither, it's unconstitutional until an amendment is passed to allow funding for it. Ditto for the CIA, the NSA, and all the other intelligence agencies not a part of the Army or the Navy.
That clause is often misunderstood. It only grants Congress "the Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises"; the rest is just descriptive of why Congress has that power. The ways in which it is authorized to spend the money so collected are enumerated in the remaining clauses.
The problem with the "enumerated list" idea is that the same would apply to defense. In fact, General Welfare and Common Defense are in the same sentence in Article 1, Section 8. So, as copponex pointed out downthread, if health care is unconstitutional because it's not in an enumerated list, then so is...
...the CIA. Or the air force. Or the public education system. Or funding nuclear power plants. Or the FDA, FCC, CDC, OSHA, EPA, FBI, NSA, and believe me, I could go on.
Just because the media you watch or read didn't report on it, doesn't mean it didn't happen. Tea party protests where 2,000 people show up get more attention than an anti-war rally in 2003 where 200,000 people showed up.
However there's always that tension because we are attracted to each other. We almost dated a few years ago before I got married, but because of the situation at the time things just didn't work out. I'm always afraid something will happen so I never have her over when my wife's not around.
Sounds like a great plot for a porno. First you and your wife, then you and your friend, then your friend and your wife (after a nice catfight, of course) and then a good, long, threesome.
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Japan is rolling out Gigabit residential service, so yeah, 5 Mpbs is living in the dark ages. Hell, in Norway, which is even more rural than the U.S., you can get 26 Mpbs residential connections.
...to project like that. Your entire rant could apply just as much to you, and whatever job you do, wherever and whatever it is.
So you and what? three other of the govermment employees actually work?
Yes, way to hate on your fellow workers. Smashing, yeah corporatism.
You want to know why the HOV lanes work in MD and VA? Because government employees know that they are to be at work at 8:00 and they will be leaving work at 5:00 sharp and that allows them to carpool; the rest of the white collar workers in this country routinely put in uncompensated overtime that is incompatible with carpooling.
Get over your inflated egos and form a union then. Funny how the fuck-you-I-got-mine attitude only applies to people who climb the corporate ladder, not workers who bargain for better compensation and fewer hours.
Yes, because so many Americans have the time and expertise to evaluate electrical devices and their min/average/max power draws. Vs having a voluntary program that's easy to understand: you buy something with an Energy Start sticker on it, it should be a reasonably efficient device.
Nice misdirection. Take an agency with a thousand inspectors, and over the course of a couple decades, slash their number down to 50. Is the structure still there? Of course it is. Is it remotely as effective?
The reason your telecommunications cost so much? You live in NYC. The reason for the shittiest service ever? You Live in NYC!
Right, right. Except when we complain how shitty our telecommunications service is in the United States compared to other nations, the excuse given is that the U.S. is far more rural than Asian or European countries with far faster services. Except if you happen to live in a densely populated urban area in the U.S., then you have shitty, overpriced services because you live in a highly populated area.
Sure.
You must remember that the US taxes businesses more than Europe does.
You must realize that's only the case if said business doesn't write off the cost of lobbying as a business expense. Or $10 million a year in salary to the CEO. Or $6 million a year to the CFO and COO. Each. Or millions more in golden parachutes for their top executives.
So, how many businesses that you know of take a pass on writing off every conceivable expenditure as a cost of doing business?
Enjoy the rapidly growing fascist nanny state.
You realize that's a compete contradiction in terms, right?
Don't forget he wouldn't have had to without decades of deregulation for the sake of deregulation. Thanks, Reagan!
The Libertarians have exactly HOW many people in political office right now?
No True Scottsman.
A major influence or driving force in American government, they're simply not ....
But their philosophy as applied to regulation and oversight certainly does. Just ask Alan Greenspan.
Then you'll merely be sticking it to the middle class, instead of the poor and the middle class. Another problem with relying on a sales tax as opposed to an income tax is that the former plummets when the economy goes into a recession, since the poor and the middle class run out of money first.
Well, that and the game sucks. No base building, and you're limited to 15 units. If they wanted to try this gameplay mechanic, it should have been done as a spinoff a la Red Alert or Generals. But as Command and Conquer 4?
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Kennedy Derangement Syndrome, for not blaming Republicans for blocking better reforms, only blaming Kennedy for HMO's. The fact that Kennedy settled for HMO's instead of single payer doesn't change the fact that he spent his whole political life working towards the latter.
If that were actually the case, we'd have single payer, and the Attorney General would be laying waste to insurance executives, using RICO to indict the lot of them for fraud (selling insurance and then doing everything in their power to deny claims).
I'm still going with the theory that insurance premiums are high because doctors have to pay so much in malpractice insurance because we have so many frivolous malpractice lawsuits. If we stopped frivolous malpractice lawsuits, it would result in lowering our insurance premiums.
Nevermind the fact that malpractice suits make up 1% to 2% of medical costs. Nevermind that states that have passed so called "tort reform" haven't lowered their insurance costs a single iota.
This is because the vast majority of cases are not frivolous and insurance rates are set by what the market will bear, not by actual costs.
How is it any more efficient?
Um, what? $300 for a basic office visit and basic cholesterol medication vs $30,000 for a ER visit for a heart attack.
I love how the Democrats control the presidency, the house, and the senate... yet still blame their failures on the Republicans.
I love it how Republicans still bitch about the Community Reinvestment Act from 1978, Social Security from 1935, and even the frikkin 16th Amendment that allowed income taxes from 1913, but Democrats can't talk about a guy that was president just two years ago, when Bush left us with 2 wars and a devastated economy.
I'm pretty sure that 4.4% isnt a large profit margin
I'm petty sure that's calculated after paying their board members 7 figure salaries, the CEO an 8 figure salary, and millions more for lobbying and advertising.
The problem is not insurance company profits.
Yeah, it is. Medicare and the VA (socialized medicine) have 2%-4% overhead, compared to 20%-30% for private insurance companies.
The problem is that Americans get every possible test and procedure done, which is what makes the rates high.
Right, because only the United States has hypochondriacs. Otherwise Japan and France and...the rest of the industrialized world...would be overwhelmed.
It was the "free health care for everyone" people who choose fund a procedure that ends a baby's life.
Slight problem with your storyline: this bill doesn't fund abortions. Not only is the Hyde Amendment in effect (bans use of federal funds for abortions), it's also reinforced with an executive order.
Specifically an Army and a Navy. Since the Air Force is neither, it's unconstitutional until an amendment is passed to allow funding for it. Ditto for the CIA, the NSA, and all the other intelligence agencies not a part of the Army or the Navy.
That clause is often misunderstood. It only grants Congress "the Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises"; the rest is just descriptive of why Congress has that power. The ways in which it is authorized to spend the money so collected are enumerated in the remaining clauses.
The problem with the "enumerated list" idea is that the same would apply to defense. In fact, General Welfare and Common Defense are in the same sentence in Article 1, Section 8. So, as copponex pointed out downthread, if health care is unconstitutional because it's not in an enumerated list, then so is...
Could you have a worse false equivalence?
I was in the U.S., but I don't remember any backlash against Arab-Americans.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/139077_911sikh11.html
Just because the media you watch or read didn't report on it, doesn't mean it didn't happen. Tea party protests where 2,000 people show up get more attention than an anti-war rally in 2003 where 200,000 people showed up.
Sure we are ronrey nerds, but it helps to get them out of the house.
So ronrey and sadly arone.....
However there's always that tension because we are attracted to each other. We almost dated a few years ago before I got married, but because of the situation at the time things just didn't work out. I'm always afraid something will happen so I never have her over when my wife's not around.
Sounds like a great plot for a porno. First you and your wife, then you and your friend, then your friend and your wife (after a nice catfight, of course) and then a good, long, threesome.