He gets $174k a year, nearly free healthcare, a pension, lavish expense accounts, paid assistants, a small housing allowance, not to mention all the wining and dining, legal and illegal, that come with the gig.
Those are facts.
He is whining about how hard it is to make ends meet with all that money and generous perks. That's a fact.
Those facts are embarrassing to the GOP, which is why they are trying to suppress this story. You haven't responded to these facts, but you have given a fair amount of misdirection.
Congressmen get nearly free healthcare, a pension, lavish expense accounts, paid assistants, a small housing allowance, not to mention all the wining and dining, legal and illegal, that come with the gig.
I spend half my after tax income on healthcare and saving for retirement, as most taxpayers do.
The whole reason the GOP is trying to suppress this story is that it is not reasonable to whine about how hard it is to live on triple the median income.
I think HSAs need a major change. I have had one for several years and most years don't need it. One year I had surgery in January so all my medical care after that was zero out of pocket. I didn't go nuts or anything, but I know people that would abuse the free medical all you can eat special.
Maybe have a deductible e.g. $1200 and after that you pay 10% of the cost up to another deductible, some way to keep the consumer interested in keeping a lid on costs.
You mention malpractice a lot, but it accounts for less than 2% of nationwide healthcare spending.
There is larger low hanging fruit as far as cost savings go. My friends in healthcare all gripe about how half their time is wasted fighting to get paid and doing things inefficiently to satisfy insurance requirements.
Electrical usage typically bottoms out overnight, the cars could be charged then. If/when electric cars become common, expect the utilities to offer incentives to put your charging station under their control so they can charge it when there is spare capacity, or a website where you select what price you are willing to pay at different times, etc.
Electric infrastructure needs to scale to handle peak loads, and cars don't have to increase the peak load. You could feasibly sell power back to the utility at a profit during peak usage and buy it back at 3AM if your car was idle.
Electrical transmission losses average over 6%, this is possibly lossier than trucking fuel around. Petroleum has many drawbacks, but shipping it by pipeline, ship, and rail are all very efficient. The last leg on a tank truck is the least efficient, and those get around 5-10mpg hauling ~10k gallons of fuel. You'd have to haul thousands of miles to approach 6%.
I remember the long distance fees vividly. Some calls were a dollar a minute, and this was when a dollar was a lot of money. My parents remember making calls at even higher rates in the 50s. I heard of several hundred dollar long distance bills.
I guess lots of people still spend that kind of cash on phones.
Drills use a fluid injected through the bit to cool and lubricate. The ambient temperature could be compensated for by chilling the drilling mud, using a higher volume, etc.
They already dominate many finished product categories. They keep their prices low because they are still very profitable and do not encourage other countries to stay in those categories. If they quadrupled the price of LCDs for example then other countries would have plenty of incentive to start making LCDs again. If certain materials are short and expensive then other countries will have incentive to reopen mines.
I live in qwest country and they charge $8.95 for caller ID. They try to sell you a package of features that includes caller ID for $9.95. I can't see how it costs them that much to flip a digital switch so I don't pay it.
I like them OK, but it is unfortunate that all inhalers are brand name again for no good reason. I miss the $3 ones, now they are closer to $30. Same exact active ingredients.
There is racism even amongst Japanese. I don't understand the details but a Japanese friend told me about very deep racism against "low class" Japanese who used to live in slums and work with death or sewage. They hire investigators to this day to expose dishonorable ancestry before agreeing to marriage.
You're crazy. My grandpa didn't have cellphones or big screen TVs but he had an average house, a nice but modest mountain cabin, went on long car trips with his 6 weeks of time off every year, put 3 children through college (2 masters and 1 PhD) and bought a brand new midrange auto every 3 years all on a paltry Forest Service salary.
My father did just about as well on his very low teacher's salary. Me and my brother? We struggle and worry year after year and our engineering degrees are of little comfort. Our spouses both work. I don't even want kids because I don't see our world being kind to them and my brother has already realized that his 3 and 5 year old daughters will need scholarships and loans to be able to attend college.
I use a ultra low cost mobile carrier, paying $6.66 per month for 66 minutes. Texts are $.10 each so I have that disabled. When I got google voice i can now send and receive texts for $.00 but only from my computer. (or from my cellphone in web mode which costs $5/month or $1.50/day)
It's pretty useful. Lots of my friends use texting a lot and now I can participate in a limited way.
Those types of rules are there for a very simple reason. If you allow employees to take home "extra" food it will be abused. You will notice the amount of food prepared creep up to ensure that there is enough extra food for everyone. You will notice huge spikes in overproduced food around holidays, birthdays, picnic season, etc. You will have customers asking for chicken fingers and being told they are sold out in order to protect "extra" food from being purchased. You will also be sued for providing food that makes people sick even if they eat the chicken fingers 3 days later without refrigeration.
Texting kills people. Allowing kids to grow up using cellphones whenever they want makes them into future killers. The comparison to drunk driving is pretty damn apt.
Not paying attention is disruptive. The person not paying attention will not respond to questions or get their book out when it is called for, etc.
Texting is very disruptive. I absolutely hate being in a place with a ton of preteens. Constant barrage of keybeeps, ringtones, text notification tones, and inane loud babbling.
That Camry was built in the USA, with US-made parts. Many models from the Detroit automakers are made with Canadian and Mexican parts. Which one is really treason?
Of course, the profits from US based automakers stay in the US. If there were any, which is not relevant now. Still, you are 100% supporting American jobs by buying Toyota or Honda or many others.
The phone companies have you 100% bamboozled. Of course 15 seconds doesn't matter. Until you do the math!
Let's say that the average user leaves 10 voicemail messages per day. That is 150 seconds wasted. They waste another 150 seconds listening to the 10 they get. that is 300 seconds per day, 150 minutes per month. That's often the difference between plans, bumping you from the 300 minute plan to the 500 minute plan at an extra $10/month cost. All to listen to a robot say the same shit you've already heard a billion times.
Think about it. 400 million people wasting 150 minutes per month. That's nearly 2000 man-years wasted every month, just to edge everyone closer to a higher plan. I'm pretty angry about this. What a ridiculous waste of time, money, sanity. For what?
Tailbones are for suckers. The human back is such a nightmare for walking upright. If a half-decent engineer spent a few hours on it a much less trouble-prone design could be whipped up.
Back pain is the #1 neuromuscular complaint doctors hear.
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He gets $174k a year, nearly free healthcare, a pension, lavish expense accounts, paid assistants, a small housing allowance, not to mention all the wining and dining, legal and illegal, that come with the gig.
Those are facts.
He is whining about how hard it is to make ends meet with all that money and generous perks. That's a fact.
Those facts are embarrassing to the GOP, which is why they are trying to suppress this story. You haven't responded to these facts, but you have given a fair amount of misdirection.
Congressmen get nearly free healthcare, a pension, lavish expense accounts, paid assistants, a small housing allowance, not to mention all the wining and dining, legal and illegal, that come with the gig.
I spend half my after tax income on healthcare and saving for retirement, as most taxpayers do.
The whole reason the GOP is trying to suppress this story is that it is not reasonable to whine about how hard it is to live on triple the median income.
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I think HSAs need a major change. I have had one for several years and most years don't need it. One year I had surgery in January so all my medical care after that was zero out of pocket. I didn't go nuts or anything, but I know people that would abuse the free medical all you can eat special.
Maybe have a deductible e.g. $1200 and after that you pay 10% of the cost up to another deductible, some way to keep the consumer interested in keeping a lid on costs.
You mention malpractice a lot, but it accounts for less than 2% of nationwide healthcare spending.
There is larger low hanging fruit as far as cost savings go. My friends in healthcare all gripe about how half their time is wasted fighting to get paid and doing things inefficiently to satisfy insurance requirements.
Electrical usage typically bottoms out overnight, the cars could be charged then. If/when electric cars become common, expect the utilities to offer incentives to put your charging station under their control so they can charge it when there is spare capacity, or a website where you select what price you are willing to pay at different times, etc.
Electric infrastructure needs to scale to handle peak loads, and cars don't have to increase the peak load. You could feasibly sell power back to the utility at a profit during peak usage and buy it back at 3AM if your car was idle.
Electrical transmission losses average over 6%, this is possibly lossier than trucking fuel around. Petroleum has many drawbacks, but shipping it by pipeline, ship, and rail are all very efficient. The last leg on a tank truck is the least efficient, and those get around 5-10mpg hauling ~10k gallons of fuel. You'd have to haul thousands of miles to approach 6%.
I remember the long distance fees vividly. Some calls were a dollar a minute, and this was when a dollar was a lot of money. My parents remember making calls at even higher rates in the 50s. I heard of several hundred dollar long distance bills.
I guess lots of people still spend that kind of cash on phones.
Drills use a fluid injected through the bit to cool and lubricate. The ambient temperature could be compensated for by chilling the drilling mud, using a higher volume, etc.
They already dominate many finished product categories. They keep their prices low because they are still very profitable and do not encourage other countries to stay in those categories. If they quadrupled the price of LCDs for example then other countries would have plenty of incentive to start making LCDs again. If certain materials are short and expensive then other countries will have incentive to reopen mines.
All of the LCDs I have bought lately have been made in China. Their export ban changes nothing with regard to finished products.
I live in qwest country and they charge $8.95 for caller ID. They try to sell you a package of features that includes caller ID for $9.95. I can't see how it costs them that much to flip a digital switch so I don't pay it.
I like them OK, but it is unfortunate that all inhalers are brand name again for no good reason. I miss the $3 ones, now they are closer to $30. Same exact active ingredients.
Thank you! I tried to look it up and didn't find anything easily. It was still bothering me that I couldn't remember or even find the name.
There is racism even amongst Japanese. I don't understand the details but a Japanese friend told me about very deep racism against "low class" Japanese who used to live in slums and work with death or sewage. They hire investigators to this day to expose dishonorable ancestry before agreeing to marriage.
You're crazy. My grandpa didn't have cellphones or big screen TVs but he had an average house, a nice but modest mountain cabin, went on long car trips with his 6 weeks of time off every year, put 3 children through college (2 masters and 1 PhD) and bought a brand new midrange auto every 3 years all on a paltry Forest Service salary.
My father did just about as well on his very low teacher's salary. Me and my brother? We struggle and worry year after year and our engineering degrees are of little comfort. Our spouses both work. I don't even want kids because I don't see our world being kind to them and my brother has already realized that his 3 and 5 year old daughters will need scholarships and loans to be able to attend college.
Fortunately, methamphetamine is an excellent decongestant and is available in any town 24/7.
Yeah, it sounds funny. $20/3 months for 200 minutes. The monthly totals are funnier though.
I use a ultra low cost mobile carrier, paying $6.66 per month for 66 minutes. Texts are $.10 each so I have that disabled. When I got google voice i can now send and receive texts for $.00 but only from my computer. (or from my cellphone in web mode which costs $5/month or $1.50/day)
It's pretty useful. Lots of my friends use texting a lot and now I can participate in a limited way.
You can't get a high deductible HSA plan? I am not aware of any state that bans these. I've got one for $150/month and that is with health problems.
Those types of rules are there for a very simple reason. If you allow employees to take home "extra" food it will be abused. You will notice the amount of food prepared creep up to ensure that there is enough extra food for everyone. You will notice huge spikes in overproduced food around holidays, birthdays, picnic season, etc. You will have customers asking for chicken fingers and being told they are sold out in order to protect "extra" food from being purchased. You will also be sued for providing food that makes people sick even if they eat the chicken fingers 3 days later without refrigeration.
Texting kills people. Allowing kids to grow up using cellphones whenever they want makes them into future killers. The comparison to drunk driving is pretty damn apt.
Not paying attention is disruptive. The person not paying attention will not respond to questions or get their book out when it is called for, etc.
Texting is very disruptive. I absolutely hate being in a place with a ton of preteens. Constant barrage of keybeeps, ringtones, text notification tones, and inane loud babbling.
That Camry was built in the USA, with US-made parts. Many models from the Detroit automakers are made with Canadian and Mexican parts. Which one is really treason?
Of course, the profits from US based automakers stay in the US. If there were any, which is not relevant now. Still, you are 100% supporting American jobs by buying Toyota or Honda or many others.
The phone companies have you 100% bamboozled. Of course 15 seconds doesn't matter. Until you do the math!
Let's say that the average user leaves 10 voicemail messages per day. That is 150 seconds wasted. They waste another 150 seconds listening to the 10 they get. that is 300 seconds per day, 150 minutes per month. That's often the difference between plans, bumping you from the 300 minute plan to the 500 minute plan at an extra $10/month cost. All to listen to a robot say the same shit you've already heard a billion times.
Think about it. 400 million people wasting 150 minutes per month. That's nearly 2000 man-years wasted every month, just to edge everyone closer to a higher plan. I'm pretty angry about this. What a ridiculous waste of time, money, sanity. For what?
Tailbones are for suckers. The human back is such a nightmare for walking upright. If a half-decent engineer spent a few hours on it a much less trouble-prone design could be whipped up.
Back pain is the #1 neuromuscular complaint doctors hear.