American socialism is good, if you can get. My father in law had good union insurance. His wife had diabetes and a heart condition. Weeks from retirement she tumbles down a flight of stairs, broken hip , two weeks in a coma, and kidney failure. She was 62. He had to stay on the job until she turned 65 to get Medicare. That was eight years ago. Several months a year in the hospital, often intensive care. Now on three times weekly dialysis. Tonight we attended her son's daughter's wedding with her. I left before they did. She still enjoys life but she is one of the 5% taking 95% of the money spent on health care.
No one wants to eliminate all defense spend. Cutting it in half still leaves $500 billion budgets shortfall.There is no way everyone gets what they need. Who suffers and dies?
That was 50 years ago. He was a tough as nails farmer. He had to retire two years ago at 81. He's just a big softy now. I took after my mother, no toughness:(
Funny you should say that. He was home from college over the weekend and had a pile of old motherboards and was pulling the cpus looking for something he could use. He builds systems for his disadvantaged friends and just finished a new mid range game system for himself with a heavily modded lighted case. He's a nature lover now, the frogs are safe.
There is hope. A student in a local school (Florida) was bullied on the school bus and threatened retaliation. The police were involved and found the student defending himself did not violate the school zero tolerance policy.
Lucky you. I was 12, my attacker 16, any fight and I would have ended up unconscious, again. My dad went to the bully's home and let the parents know that his son was not to be touched again. That guy never even came back to school.
Your eyesight is that poor? Thirty desks is 6 deep five wide. The farthest student is only 20 ft away. I graduated high school in 1970, no one got away with anything. Small rural town, all white.
My youngest son was a psychopath. As a three year old he would grab a small frog in his fist, crush it and say "When I squeeze him, he squeaks." We had to teach him that frogs were living things and shouldn't be killed just to hear a squeak. It's called empathy. These girls think no more for other humans than my three year old thought of that frog.
Michael Jordan found backwards dunks from the base line stimulating but most of us do not have the capacity to do that. My world opened up when as a seventh grader in 1965 I was let loose in the school library and found the science fiction section. My math usage at most consists of finding the area of a triangle. I passed trigonometry in high school but only because the teacher thought I needed a good grade to get into college (didn't try go to college anyway). Trying to understand any of the symbols on a scientific calculator makes my stomach hurt. To me it looks like a combination of Greek and Russian with a little Sanskrit thrown in and all utterly incomprehensible.
Governments were formed by citizens to protect their interest. Now the Government has transformed itself into separate entity to control the citizens. Democratically elected officials use the facade of being elected to do what ever they want, which is mostly to enrich themselves. I see very little protecting my interest (I am American). Most of what I see is vote buying and influence selling.
Uh, no. From a report by the European Environment Agency. "Rail is subsidised to the sum of EUR 73 billion per year. The financial benefit to the sector is split almost equally between infrastructure subsidies and fare reduction subsidies"
Transportation subsidies are a GOOD thing. If people are on the train they aren't on the road getting in my way. Of course American roads are subsidized, but everyone benefits from food and other goods delivered to stores even if they walk to the market.
In my area public transportation is buses that also depend on the roads. One problem is union drivers. Look up the trouble three hundred thousand people in San Francisco are going to have tomorrow. I'm glad I live three thousand miles from there.
Guess what, houses built for northern climes are well insulated to keep heat in. That also works to keep heat OUT. The AC just has to remove internal heat generated. Just as you would not sugest Northeners only heat their house to 50 degrees to save heating oil, electricity is cheap in Florida and cooling a well insulated house adds about $50 a month to your bill.
I grew up in a "cracker" house built before 1915. It had 12 ft ceilings, double hung windows, and a full screened porch on the east side to sit in on hot afternoons. Hot air is hot air. A fan blowing 90 degree air is not comfortable. 80 degree night air at 90% humidity makes sweat soaked sheets. I know heat, I farmed in the Florida summer sun. I served in the engine room of a Navy destroyer that used 800 degree steam. Frigidaire is my friend.
Most older American homes, while energy inefficient, are otherwise well made and will be habitual for many decades to come. I am 61 years old and while many new homes have been built in my area all the old ones have always been there. Very few homes built after 1930 have been replaced and most will last another 30 years. These homes have no insulation in the walls and can't be retrofitted. I live in a 32 year old mobile home with a 300 sq ft attached apartment. My power bill is now less than $2000 a year. This is for five adults. My new roof has more insulation under it and is painted white. That, and replacing my failing central AC with window units saves me $400 a year. Any other improvements would have to be done with borrowed money. It would take very low interest rates to make any thing economically feasible.
I'm sure you do things "just in case". As the EBT glitch shows our access to food can be interrupted. Or it could be a windstorm or flood. A months stockpile of food is prudent. I hope I never need any of the 2000 rounds of 9mm and.30 cal I have. I m 61 years old. I have found out if you are ready for trouble, it rarely happens.
My sister in Colorado has an oil well on family owned land. She gets one fifth of TWO BARRELS a day. At today's prices that's still almost $15000 a year.
This is a good thing. Most of the income tax is paid by the rich. The poor can live 50km from their job and still afford the gas to drive that far. The European poor have to live within walking or cycling distance of their job or a train platform. This forces them live on the edge of cities in high rent areas.
Praising availability of European train travel begs the question, who is subsidizing the trains?
The US military is mostly a jobs program. Most of the people responding to the/. submission asking if the government shutdown was hurting them were employed on military bases. Almost every congressman has a base or defense plant in his district. None of them can ever vote to cut military spending. And presidents love to have that big dick to swing around.
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I think the crowd you will be in is called a mob and the preppers you are trying to "mob fund" from will be quite well armed.
American socialism is good, if you can get. My father in law had good union insurance. His wife had diabetes and a heart condition. Weeks from retirement she tumbles down a flight of stairs, broken hip , two weeks in a coma, and kidney failure. She was 62. He had to stay on the job until she turned 65 to get Medicare. That was eight years ago. Several months a year in the hospital, often intensive care. Now on three times weekly dialysis. Tonight we attended her son's daughter's wedding with her. I left before they did. She still enjoys life but she is one of the 5% taking 95% of the money spent on health care.
No one wants to eliminate all defense spend. Cutting it in half still leaves $500 billion budgets shortfall.There is no way everyone gets what they need. Who suffers and dies?
That was 50 years ago. He was a tough as nails farmer. He had to retire two years ago at 81. He's just a big softy now. I took after my mother, no toughness :(
Easy, US pension funds have about 10 trillion. The treasury can "borrow" half of that. Bu by, China.
Funny you should say that. He was home from college over the weekend and had a pile of old motherboards and was pulling the cpus looking for something he could use. He builds systems for his disadvantaged friends and just finished a new mid range game system for himself with a heavily modded lighted case. He's a nature lover now, the frogs are safe.
I guess my dad was tougher than your dad. (Sorry, couldn't resist) Fortunately, that was the first, and last time I was ever bullied.
Due to the government shutdown crime statistics are unavailable.
There is hope. A student in a local school (Florida) was bullied on the school bus and threatened retaliation. The police were involved and found the student defending himself did not violate the school zero tolerance policy.
Lucky you. I was 12, my attacker 16, any fight and I would have ended up unconscious, again. My dad went to the bully's home and let the parents know that his son was not to be touched again. That guy never even came back to school.
Your eyesight is that poor? Thirty desks is 6 deep five wide. The farthest student is only 20 ft away. I graduated high school in 1970, no one got away with anything. Small rural town, all white.
My youngest son was a psychopath. As a three year old he would grab a small frog in his fist, crush it and say "When I squeeze him, he squeaks." We had to teach him that frogs were living things and shouldn't be killed just to hear a squeak. It's called empathy. These girls think no more for other humans than my three year old thought of that frog.
Michael Jordan found backwards dunks from the base line stimulating but most of us do not have the capacity to do that. My world opened up when as a seventh grader in 1965 I was let loose in the school library and found the science fiction section. My math usage at most consists of finding the area of a triangle. I passed trigonometry in high school but only because the teacher thought I needed a good grade to get into college (didn't try go to college anyway). Trying to understand any of the symbols on a scientific calculator makes my stomach hurt. To me it looks like a combination of Greek and Russian with a little Sanskrit thrown in and all utterly incomprehensible.
Governments were formed by citizens to protect their interest. Now the Government has transformed itself into separate entity to control the citizens. Democratically elected officials use the facade of being elected to do what ever they want, which is mostly to enrich themselves. I see very little protecting my interest (I am American). Most of what I see is vote buying and influence selling.
Uh, no. From a report by the European Environment Agency. "Rail is subsidised to the sum of EUR 73 billion per year. The financial benefit to the sector is split almost equally between infrastructure subsidies and fare reduction subsidies"
Transportation subsidies are a GOOD thing. If people are on the train they aren't on the road getting in my way. Of course American roads are subsidized, but everyone benefits from food and other goods delivered to stores even if they walk to the market.
In my area public transportation is buses that also depend on the roads. One problem is union drivers. Look up the trouble three hundred thousand people in San Francisco are going to have tomorrow. I'm glad I live three thousand miles from there.
Guess what, houses built for northern climes are well insulated to keep heat in. That also works to keep heat OUT. The AC just has to remove internal heat generated. Just as you would not sugest Northeners only heat their house to 50 degrees to save heating oil, electricity is cheap in Florida and cooling a well insulated house adds about $50 a month to your bill.
I grew up in a "cracker" house built before 1915. It had 12 ft ceilings, double hung windows, and a full screened porch on the east side to sit in on hot afternoons. Hot air is hot air. A fan blowing 90 degree air is not comfortable. 80 degree night air at 90% humidity makes sweat soaked sheets. I know heat, I farmed in the Florida summer sun. I served in the engine room of a Navy destroyer that used 800 degree steam. Frigidaire is my friend.
Most older American homes, while energy inefficient, are otherwise well made and will be habitual for many decades to come. I am 61 years old and while many new homes have been built in my area all the old ones have always been there. Very few homes built after 1930 have been replaced and most will last another 30 years. These homes have no insulation in the walls and can't be retrofitted. I live in a 32 year old mobile home with a 300 sq ft attached apartment. My power bill is now less than $2000 a year. This is for five adults. My new roof has more insulation under it and is painted white. That, and replacing my failing central AC with window units saves me $400 a year. Any other improvements would have to be done with borrowed money. It would take very low interest rates to make any thing economically feasible.
I take it you did not grow up in central Florida. You will not take my AC from me. Self cooling houses are not "cool".
Yes, but free health care!
How many armed conflicts today do not involve Muslims?
I'm sure you do things "just in case". As the EBT glitch shows our access to food can be interrupted. Or it could be a windstorm or flood. A months stockpile of food is prudent. I hope I never need any of the 2000 rounds of 9mm and .30 cal I have. I m 61 years old. I have found out if you are ready for trouble, it rarely happens.
The S in SNAP stands for supplemental, define that as you wish.
Does your brother work at a salary controlled job, you know, at one third what his co-workers make?
My sister in Colorado has an oil well on family owned land. She gets one fifth of TWO BARRELS a day. At today's prices that's still almost $15000 a year.
This is a good thing. Most of the income tax is paid by the rich. The poor can live 50km from their job and still afford the gas to drive that far. The European poor have to live within walking or cycling distance of their job or a train platform. This forces them live on the edge of cities in high rent areas.
Praising availability of European train travel begs the question, who is subsidizing the trains?
The US military is mostly a jobs program. Most of the people responding to the /. submission asking if the government shutdown was hurting them were employed on military bases. Almost every congressman has a base or defense plant in his district. None of them can ever vote to cut military spending. And presidents love to have that big dick to swing around.