It wouldn't be such a problem with proper federal regulation. Companies are supposed to keep pension funds funded at a level high enough so that they won't run into these issues. You can blame Congress and the courts for failing and letting companies off the hook.
You do realize that BLS doesn't utilize any homeless figures, and it does produce the U-6 figure you mentioned. What it does do is attempt to figure out who is no longer looking for work, so they set up a well published explanation of their methodology. So how is the US playing slight of hand?...or did you mean the media, who's doing the reporting of unemployment?
To be fair from one year to the next, you need to compare apples to apples. BLS also supplies that information https://www.bls.gov/ no "slight-of-hand" involved.
Anyone planning on relying on Social Security is an idiot. This includes my own mother, who spent her adult years as a real estate agent, and put nothing away. Now, she gets a monthly check for about $900, and since she recently had to go into a nursing home on Medicaid, they're taking 90% of that to pay her expenses since she can't afford the ~$40k/year it normally costs.
There's no excuse for not maxing out what your company will match in your 401k unless you're living well below the poverty line. And, many of you should be putting in more than that.
No. The circumference of the earth at the equator is 24901 miles. From north to south pole, it's 24860. You're not going to notice a 41 mile difference in that video.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe because it's negatively affecting a lot of people?
As a conservative, I'm going to side with the folks across the aisle on this one. I know the businesses won't like it so much because they'll probably sell less due to decreased competition for the goods, but there do need to be some reasonable limits.
Your anecdotal evidence is not a statistical indication of the elderly's ability or lack there of. My own anecdotal evidence in dealing with three elderly (mom and in laws) is mixed. I've mentored them through things that I learned myself (and I'm 60, but have been in tech since the 70s) They have various issues such as carpel tunnel and arthritis that make it difficult to use a touch screen. I'd suggest you read this and the issues pointed out during the study..
Shouldn't this all be covered by the Freedom of Information Act? What taxpayers pay for, taxpayers should have access to, or else we shouldn't be funding them.
Yup, it's a BS article. INS (and DHS) have for many years looked into the financial background of immigrants. When I helped my ex-wife immigrate back in '88, I had to provide evidence that I could support her. It has zip to do with moral character, and everything to do with Slate stirring the pot to get more eyeballs and revenue.
Not disagreeing, but you wouldn't know it by talking to people on either side. And FWIW, tribalism has been on the rise in the US for quite some time now...
See, they didn't do their homework. Cows are better represented by parabolas according to the National Institute of Health... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
Wait, what!?! I didn't know that we were allowed to have non-party line opinions on individual topics anymore. You know, with all the RINO/DINO namecalling, you have to get in lockstep. Oh, the horror!!!
More seriously, thanks for the laugh. I'm of similar persuasion, except I'm a carnivore.
Oh please google peer review problems before genuflecting to it as a be all, end all. There are numerous articles by respected sources available.
For those too lazy to do so, the short answer is that much of what would ideally be peer reviewed just doesn't happen. The basic reason is that there's no money/glory in doing peer review. The people you'd want to be doing the reviewing are too busy doing their own science, and getting that published. Who's going to pay you to double check someone else's work...it's rare.
When I retire (just a couple months from now), I'll be caring for her, as pointed out above, and not burning through my retirement funds because she's mostly covered by SS and Medicaid. Multiple surgeries for her have not changed matters since my dad passed in '12. So, my point stands, how much more of a safety net do we need? None of the links you provided address this...the first was about welfare, the second was a typical Madow hit piece (Republicans have targeted SS because many people like myself don't need it), and the third was pay walled. Don't pretend you're some kind of mind reader..."they pretend...blah, blah, blah". Point to actions and evidence.
I love how you toss around "proletariat" as if it's somehow applicable to America. You do realize that the median household net worth in the US is nearly $100k...hardly proletariat material. Anyway, my point still stands. Trudeau's comment is BS.
Most politicians are little more than the same type of people you elected as prom king and queen. They were the ones with charisma, life of the party, a great smile, etc. And, quite often, as dumb as a soap dish. But, they had friends, and sometimes those friends are smart enough to know that hoping on the bandwagon will also get them invited to the party.
I'm not saying this is the majority, but certainly, it also isn't a tiny fraction of the whole.
The problem I have with calling it "white privilege" is that there are plenty of underprivileged whites as well. Granted, the percentage of those is much lower, but those people get doubly screwed because they're told that they're privileged by the idiots who are claiming all whites are privileged. And at the other end, there are 1%er who are non-whites...should their children benefit from affirmative action, or other such programs? And yes, these are a small percentage of the total, but we need to get away from this overall stereotyping.
The current estimate is ~50,000 jobs...just a bit more than "a few", and then you have to think about how much that will equate to in supporting jobs. In other words, if you open a 50,000 job business, someone is going to feed all of those people...those will be new jobs. Someone is going to teach those folks kids, those will be new jobs, etc., etc.
Not sure how the GP's idea of forcing businesses into not doing this would work since businesses can move anywhere. If your city wants the jobs, then suck it up. Just don't suck it up such that you'll end up making less after all of the added income & property taxes & infrastructure are accounted for.
It's also a threat when you have the media grant ~$2B in free advertising that helps get someone elected because they love the money that that trainwreck will bring in, and are still at the trough rolling in the mud of their own creation.
"If a democracy is to function you need an educated populace, and you need to have an informed populace, ready to make judicious decisions about who to grant power to and when to take it away," Trudeau said."
Well, it's functioned for 242 years w/o an educated populace, why start now? (awaiting pendants who will inform us all that we don't live in a democracy).
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It wouldn't be such a problem with proper federal regulation. Companies are supposed to keep pension funds funded at a level high enough so that they won't run into these issues. You can blame Congress and the courts for failing and letting companies off the hook.
You do realize that BLS doesn't utilize any homeless figures, and it does produce the U-6 figure you mentioned. What it does do is attempt to figure out who is no longer looking for work, so they set up a well published explanation of their methodology. So how is the US playing slight of hand?...or did you mean the media, who's doing the reporting of unemployment?
To be fair from one year to the next, you need to compare apples to apples. BLS also supplies that information https://www.bls.gov/ no "slight-of-hand" involved.
Anyone planning on relying on Social Security is an idiot. This includes my own mother, who spent her adult years as a real estate agent, and put nothing away. Now, she gets a monthly check for about $900, and since she recently had to go into a nursing home on Medicaid, they're taking 90% of that to pay her expenses since she can't afford the ~$40k/year it normally costs.
There's no excuse for not maxing out what your company will match in your 401k unless you're living well below the poverty line. And, many of you should be putting in more than that.
Best advice I've seen on this site in a long time.
"Social Security pays out less than you paid in until you reach around age 81. The average person lives until 78."
Huh? SS almost never pays out what you paid in. How are you figuring this?
Let's see, where is Toys and Sears work going...oh yeah, Amazon.
This isn't convincing. The curvature is caused by the fisheye lense.
...as it is moved around what shape?
No. The circumference of the earth at the equator is 24901 miles. From north to south pole, it's 24860. You're not going to notice a 41 mile difference in that video.
Oh, I don't know. Maybe because it's negatively affecting a lot of people?
As a conservative, I'm going to side with the folks across the aisle on this one. I know the businesses won't like it so much because they'll probably sell less due to decreased competition for the goods, but there do need to be some reasonable limits.
Not so much if they're selling to the US. The feds are pretty good at being able to lock down funds.
Your anecdotal evidence is not a statistical indication of the elderly's ability or lack there of. My own anecdotal evidence in dealing with three elderly (mom and in laws) is mixed. I've mentored them through things that I learned myself (and I'm 60, but have been in tech since the 70s) They have various issues such as carpel tunnel and arthritis that make it difficult to use a touch screen. I'd suggest you read this and the issues pointed out during the study..
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
Shouldn't this all be covered by the Freedom of Information Act? What taxpayers pay for, taxpayers should have access to, or else we shouldn't be funding them.
Yup, it's a BS article. INS (and DHS) have for many years looked into the financial background of immigrants. When I helped my ex-wife immigrate back in '88, I had to provide evidence that I could support her. It has zip to do with moral character, and everything to do with Slate stirring the pot to get more eyeballs and revenue.
Not disagreeing, but you wouldn't know it by talking to people on either side. And FWIW, tribalism has been on the rise in the US for quite some time now...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/fe...
See, they didn't do their homework. Cows are better represented by parabolas according to the National Institute of Health...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
Wait, what!?! I didn't know that we were allowed to have non-party line opinions on individual topics anymore. You know, with all the RINO/DINO namecalling, you have to get in lockstep. Oh, the horror!!!
More seriously, thanks for the laugh. I'm of similar persuasion, except I'm a carnivore.
Oh please google peer review problems before genuflecting to it as a be all, end all. There are numerous articles by respected sources available.
For those too lazy to do so, the short answer is that much of what would ideally be peer reviewed just doesn't happen. The basic reason is that there's no money/glory in doing peer review. The people you'd want to be doing the reviewing are too busy doing their own science, and getting that published. Who's going to pay you to double check someone else's work...it's rare.
No, you look at the distribution curve. Median is the midpoint, or did you not learn that in school?
When I retire (just a couple months from now), I'll be caring for her, as pointed out above, and not burning through my retirement funds because she's mostly covered by SS and Medicaid. Multiple surgeries for her have not changed matters since my dad passed in '12. So, my point stands, how much more of a safety net do we need? None of the links you provided address this...the first was about welfare, the second was a typical Madow hit piece (Republicans have targeted SS because many people like myself don't need it), and the third was pay walled. Don't pretend you're some kind of mind reader..."they pretend...blah, blah, blah". Point to actions and evidence.
I love how you toss around "proletariat" as if it's somehow applicable to America. You do realize that the median household net worth in the US is nearly $100k...hardly proletariat material. Anyway, my point still stands. Trudeau's comment is BS.
Most politicians are little more than the same type of people you elected as prom king and queen. They were the ones with charisma, life of the party, a great smile, etc. And, quite often, as dumb as a soap dish. But, they had friends, and sometimes those friends are smart enough to know that hoping on the bandwagon will also get them invited to the party.
I'm not saying this is the majority, but certainly, it also isn't a tiny fraction of the whole.
The problem I have with calling it "white privilege" is that there are plenty of underprivileged whites as well. Granted, the percentage of those is much lower, but those people get doubly screwed because they're told that they're privileged by the idiots who are claiming all whites are privileged. And at the other end, there are 1%er who are non-whites...should their children benefit from affirmative action, or other such programs? And yes, these are a small percentage of the total, but we need to get away from this overall stereotyping.
The current estimate is ~50,000 jobs...just a bit more than "a few", and then you have to think about how much that will equate to in supporting jobs. In other words, if you open a 50,000 job business, someone is going to feed all of those people...those will be new jobs. Someone is going to teach those folks kids, those will be new jobs, etc., etc.
Not sure how the GP's idea of forcing businesses into not doing this would work since businesses can move anywhere. If your city wants the jobs, then suck it up. Just don't suck it up such that you'll end up making less after all of the added income & property taxes & infrastructure are accounted for.
It's also a threat when you have the media grant ~$2B in free advertising that helps get someone elected because they love the money that that trainwreck will bring in, and are still at the trough rolling in the mud of their own creation.
"If a democracy is to function you need an educated populace, and you need to have an informed populace, ready to make judicious decisions about who to grant power to and when to take it away," Trudeau said."
Well, it's functioned for 242 years w/o an educated populace, why start now? (awaiting pendants who will inform us all that we don't live in a democracy).