This advise is especially pertinent if you are black. I am white but live in the South. If you call 911 for a medical emergency NEVER say someone is acting erratic. Instead of EMTs you will get frightened police officers with guns drawn and at first sight of a black man walking toward them they will fire. After the Navy Yard shooting they are very nervous and trigger happy.
I'm 61 on Social Security disability. My $1900 a month check will be one of the last things cut. My home and cars are paid for. I have a food stockpile in case things get real crazy and some firepower in case people get crazy. Hopefully after a few thousand hours of news coverage enough people save face on both sides and life goes on.
The US doesn't have a parliamentarian government, that's how. Tax collections are still being made. We will be able to service our debt, there will be no default. The Democratic controlled senate can pass the bill the House sent them but they are saying if they don't get the bill that they want they are not going pass it and it's all the Republican's fault.
All House seats are up for election next November. The Democrats hope if they can make the pain last long enough the Republicans will be voted out. People's memories are short so they need to make it last until Easter.
Question. Who were all the Obama voters listening to? Republicans control the House. These democratically elected representatives are doing what they promised the voters they would do. Has Obama been as effective? You probably think things would be perfect without those pesky Republicans. When my son was five he told his mother, "I would be a lot more satisfied if I got what I want." Yeah, wouldn't we all.
Usually a company has competition. Any increase in production is used to under sell the competition, who quickly increase their productivity. This is where consumers should get lower prices. Monopolies and price fixing usually preclude that though.
Billions of people are increasing their numbers with sustenance farming and fishing. Africa is now the land of low cost labor. In in the 1930s half the population worked on farms. Even with no job you would't starve, and some relative would let you sleep in their barn. Without welfare almost 20% of the population would be fighting for something to eat. Interesting times ahead.
You don't want that. Cities are majority Democrat. They have to be divided into pie shapes out into the suburbs other wise all the Democrat voters are stuffed into one district. Of course without careful shaping the Democrats will be diluted into rural Republican districts and be disenfranchised. I guess It's only Gerrymandering if your guy doesn't win.
You complain if your majority gets split, and then complain if too many get put into one district. If districts are homogenized so ratios of registered voters are the same for all districts the majority party will have 100% of the seats. Independent voters are numerous enough to swing the vote. How do you account for them. How do you prevent everyone from registering Independent?
I believe emergency rooms "charge" a shit load more than a doctors visit, it doesn't "cost" a shit load more. If doctors had to accept patients regardless of ability to pay their cost would be higher also. Much of the charge is to pay for mandated indigent services. Using tax revenues to fund indigent care instead would actually lower emergency room charges and be a backdoor start to single payer.
That would help me. I was gerrymandered into one of Florida's mandated "minority majority" districts. As a white that left me disenfranchised as NO Republican candidate will ever win my district. It writhes like a python from Jacksonville to Orlando snagging every pocket of Blacks along the way.
You seem too be quite intelligent. How would you counter gerrymandering? Even if each district had the same ratio of Republican, Democrat, and independent voters, how do you account for individuals voting across party lines. What if one area in the corner of the state has a lot of independent or Democrat voters? How do you mesh them into a district hundreds of miles away?
To have an absolute "one man, one vote" government we would have to do away with the electoral college and state congressional districts and institute a parliamentary government where every party (even the Green and Tea) gets as many seats as the percent of the vote they received.
People are cheap, I know I am, but if the TV or computer I wanted was made in the US, I would find the money and my countrymen who build TVs and computers would have jobs. There two trucks and three cars in my driveway, all from American manufactures, four are over ten years old, all in good running order and driven daily.
There is a global glut of food grains precisely because of government polices. Farm subsidies induce farmers to produce excess grain to get those subsidies. A free market would have had few surpluses and prices would have been much higher.
All this cheap food fed billions of people who other wise would never been born or would have starved to death in infancy.
One summer when I was 13 I taught myself to type on the portable electric typewriter (which is on the floor of my garage this very moment for some reason) my mother had got with S&H Green Stamps. This was in mid 60s Florida, it was hot and rainy outside, what else could a pre-computer geek do? Being left handed I used my left thumb for the space bar. In high school I took typing class as an easy elective. The teacher said she would flunk me if I did not use my RIGHT thumb.
How did all those workers on Henry Ford's assembly lines have jobs in the 20s without foreign competition to not tariff? How could Americans afford to buy Ford cars without a single Toyata around to force the prices down? All those Philco and RCA televisions Americans bought without a single Japanese set to drive the price down? With 100% tariffs no Americans work? All those iPhones and HDTVs we bought from China do not seem to have created too many jobs here.
Explain how buying Korean cars, made with Korean steel, and removing all those dollars from the American economy, is good for America. The government borrows a trillion dollars a year, a good bit of it from China. From where did China get so many dollars? And what is the real unemployment rate?
Of course unions love tariffs. You think it's a good thing that your union worker neighbor looses his job? You love competition? You want your neighbors to make the same wage as a Chinese or Indian worker? Would you like no limits on H1B workers?
The American population is 12% African, almost 20% Hispanic. Any statistic involving health or crime is greatly inflated by these groups. Comparing the US as a whole to Western Europe which is full of "Western Europeans" will of course reflect poorly on the US.
Insurance is not care, it's a payment system. To control cost we need to limit the incomes of doctors, hospitals, and drug companies. Why are there so many foreign born and trained doctors in the US? Money, money, money! When controlling cost means shipping your Mercedes to the shop by truck or air, nothing is "affordable". Most people only need to limp a Kia to the corner garage, but medical care is all Porsches and gleaming showrooms.
I listened to and watched for 8 years as Democrats frothed at the mouth denouncing Bush. Be happy that you've got 90% of what you want and for the first time in almost 70 years there will be three successive Democrat administrations. The Union probably will not survive for a fourth but that 2nd amendment stuff will come in handy.
Most union members in the US are public employees. The "owners" are represented by elected officials who are usually in bed with the unions.
Turn off Al Jazeera and drive over to the "poor" part of town. Look at the cars in the parking lots, the shoes and clothes on the kids. The rotundness of the women. The only death sentence will be you if stay after dark.
They probably smell the sweat on the handle. They ignore big things though. I tore into a nest as big as a bath tub with a front end loader. I was safe in a cab and drove next to the hole to watch them. Thousands of them making tight orbits like an animation of the electrons in an uranium atom. Not a one of them flew up to the window or around the motor.
Yellow jackets will chase you several hundred feet. They really hate running small gas engines (chain saw, weed eater) and especially concentrate on stinging the handle. I want to know, what do they think it is?
Joe stays home, his buddy Fred clocks in. Fred gets hurt, he is not actually employed by the company so workman's comp doesn't apply. The company is still liable for his injuries.
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This advise is especially pertinent if you are black. I am white but live in the South. If you call 911 for a medical emergency NEVER say someone is acting erratic. Instead of EMTs you will get frightened police officers with guns drawn and at first sight of a black man walking toward them they will fire. After the Navy Yard shooting they are very nervous and trigger happy.
Well, maybe so, but the Republican part is giving the Democrat part fits right now.
I'm 61 on Social Security disability. My $1900 a month check will be one of the last things cut. My home and cars are paid for. I have a food stockpile in case things get real crazy and some firepower in case people get crazy. Hopefully after a few thousand hours of news coverage enough people save face on both sides and life goes on.
The US doesn't have a parliamentarian government, that's how. Tax collections are still being made. We will be able to service our debt, there will be no default. The Democratic controlled senate can pass the bill the House sent them but they are saying if they don't get the bill that they want they are not going pass it and it's all the Republican's fault.
All House seats are up for election next November. The Democrats hope if they can make the pain last long enough the Republicans will be voted out. People's memories are short so they need to make it last until Easter.
Question. Who were all the Obama voters listening to? Republicans control the House. These democratically elected representatives are doing what they promised the voters they would do. Has Obama been as effective? You probably think things would be perfect without those pesky Republicans. When my son was five he told his mother, "I would be a lot more satisfied if I got what I want." Yeah, wouldn't we all.
Usually a company has competition. Any increase in production is used to under sell the competition, who quickly increase their productivity. This is where consumers should get lower prices. Monopolies and price fixing usually preclude that though.
Billions of people are increasing their numbers with sustenance farming and fishing. Africa is now the land of low cost labor. In in the 1930s half the population worked on farms. Even with no job you would't starve, and some relative would let you sleep in their barn. Without welfare almost 20% of the population would be fighting for something to eat. Interesting times ahead.
Europeans, they know five languages but can only comprehend the simplest measurement system.
You don't want that. Cities are majority Democrat. They have to be divided into pie shapes out into the suburbs other wise all the Democrat voters are stuffed into one district. Of course without careful shaping the Democrats will be diluted into rural Republican districts and be disenfranchised. I guess It's only Gerrymandering if your guy doesn't win.
You complain if your majority gets split, and then complain if too many get put into one district. If districts are homogenized so ratios of registered voters are the same for all districts the majority party will have 100% of the seats. Independent voters are numerous enough to swing the vote. How do you account for them. How do you prevent everyone from registering Independent?
I believe emergency rooms "charge" a shit load more than a doctors visit, it doesn't "cost" a shit load more. If doctors had to accept patients regardless of ability to pay their cost would be higher also. Much of the charge is to pay for mandated indigent services. Using tax revenues to fund indigent care instead would actually lower emergency room charges and be a backdoor start to single payer.
That would help me. I was gerrymandered into one of Florida's mandated "minority majority" districts. As a white that left me disenfranchised as NO Republican candidate will ever win my district. It writhes like a python from Jacksonville to Orlando snagging every pocket of Blacks along the way.
I live in the US. It seems our bridges are built to be easily demolished. Unfortunately some collapse prematurely, it doesn't take much.
You seem too be quite intelligent. How would you counter gerrymandering? Even if each district had the same ratio of Republican, Democrat, and independent voters, how do you account for individuals voting across party lines. What if one area in the corner of the state has a lot of independent or Democrat voters? How do you mesh them into a district hundreds of miles away?
To have an absolute "one man, one vote" government we would have to do away with the electoral college and state congressional districts and institute a parliamentary government where every party (even the Green and Tea) gets as many seats as the percent of the vote they received.
Thank you for all the time you spent explaining this.
People are cheap, I know I am, but if the TV or computer I wanted was made in the US, I would find the money and my countrymen who build TVs and computers would have jobs. There two trucks and three cars in my driveway, all from American manufactures, four are over ten years old, all in good running order and driven daily.
There is a global glut of food grains precisely because of government polices. Farm subsidies induce farmers to produce excess grain to get those subsidies. A free market would have had few surpluses and prices would have been much higher.
All this cheap food fed billions of people who other wise would never been born or would have starved to death in infancy.
One summer when I was 13 I taught myself to type on the portable electric typewriter (which is on the floor of my garage this very moment for some reason) my mother had got with S&H Green Stamps. This was in mid 60s Florida, it was hot and rainy outside, what else could a pre-computer geek do? Being left handed I used my left thumb for the space bar. In high school I took typing class as an easy elective. The teacher said she would flunk me if I did not use my RIGHT thumb.
How did all those workers on Henry Ford's assembly lines have jobs in the 20s without foreign competition to not tariff? How could Americans afford to buy Ford cars without a single Toyata around to force the prices down? All those Philco and RCA televisions Americans bought without a single Japanese set to drive the price down? With 100% tariffs no Americans work? All those iPhones and HDTVs we bought from China do not seem to have created too many jobs here.
Explain how buying Korean cars, made with Korean steel, and removing all those dollars from the American economy, is good for America. The government borrows a trillion dollars a year, a good bit of it from China. From where did China get so many dollars? And what is the real unemployment rate?
Of course unions love tariffs. You think it's a good thing that your union worker neighbor looses his job? You love competition? You want your neighbors to make the same wage as a Chinese or Indian worker? Would you like no limits on H1B workers?
Well, yes, Yahoo is my homepage, but after playing with the Yahooligans I come here. Oh, and what actually did happen in that mall in Kenya?
Amen, brother.
The American population is 12% African, almost 20% Hispanic. Any statistic involving health or crime is greatly inflated by these groups. Comparing the US as a whole to Western Europe which is full of "Western Europeans" will of course reflect poorly on the US.
Insurance is not care, it's a payment system. To control cost we need to limit the incomes of doctors, hospitals, and drug companies. Why are there so many foreign born and trained doctors in the US? Money, money, money! When controlling cost means shipping your Mercedes to the shop by truck or air, nothing is "affordable". Most people only need to limp a Kia to the corner garage, but medical care is all Porsches and gleaming showrooms.
I listened to and watched for 8 years as Democrats frothed at the mouth denouncing Bush. Be happy that you've got 90% of what you want and for the first time in almost 70 years there will be three successive Democrat administrations. The Union probably will not survive for a fourth but that 2nd amendment stuff will come in handy.
Most union members in the US are public employees. The "owners" are represented by elected officials who are usually in bed with the unions.
Turn off Al Jazeera and drive over to the "poor" part of town. Look at the cars in the parking lots, the shoes and clothes on the kids. The rotundness of the women. The only death sentence will be you if stay after dark.
They probably smell the sweat on the handle. They ignore big things though. I tore into a nest as big as a bath tub with a front end loader. I was safe in a cab and drove next to the hole to watch them. Thousands of them making tight orbits like an animation of the electrons in an uranium atom. Not a one of them flew up to the window or around the motor.
Yellow jackets will chase you several hundred feet. They really hate running small gas engines (chain saw, weed eater) and especially concentrate on stinging the handle. I want to know, what do they think it is?
Joe stays home, his buddy Fred clocks in. Fred gets hurt, he is not actually employed by the company so workman's comp doesn't apply. The company is still liable for his injuries.