How could this be done better? Encourage social activities in the community. Encourage neighbors to talk. Create local spaces where neighbors can get together on a whim without every public space being closed after dark.
Been there, done that - under the Clinton administration - it was called 'midnight basketball'... google it.
So why not put your friends/family phone numbers on speed dial and call them, rather than 911? It's two fewer buttons to push, and you won't get a bill for an ambulance ride to the ER?
That is the problem. 911 is advertised as being for emergencies. People suffering suicidal depression rarely consider it to be an emergency. They consider it to be a personal problem, not rising to the level of an emergency which warrants involving other people. We could badly use a hotline that people know they can call if they're just depressed and want someone to talk to.
So what we need is a suicide prevention party line? I can just imagine the late-night ads, full of depressed, suicidal people...
Why is it so inconceivable that the COST of providing your pre-paid service reduced at a greater rate than politicians were able to invent new fees for your cell phone service?
You mean like when Obama appointed a man to head up saving the auto industry who a) never held a drivers license, and b) never actually worked in the auto industry in any capacity?
About 160 residents voted, with 56 percent rejecting the Comcast offer, according to news reports.
So, about 90 voted for the town to spend $1.4M to create a new municipal service. Wonder how the rest of the town feels about the tax increase 90 residents pushed on to them?
When you reduce density you drive up home prices. In New Jersey they tried to slow development where I used to live by declaring 3 acres the minimum buildable lot... then the neighbors were all upset when McMansions popped up on those 3 acre lots.
Are abortion centers also required to 'tell the truth' and explain that there are centers that will help care for them if they choose to keep the baby?
You're an idiot. You buy insurance on a car to cover liabilities, you know, to fix things you break when you drive a car into them. If you can't pay for things you hit, you shouldn't be driving.
If you finance your car, the lien holder requires you to carry comprehensive cover so their car gets fixed when you hit something.
Texas buys textbooks as a state, not as a school district, and as a result holds great sway over the textbook publishers... If you want to overcome that influence, just have your state buy textbooks state-wide.
Automakers are buying trucks because they want them and gas is $2/gallon. Gas had to be $4/gallon to get people excited about the Chevy Volt... the Tesla is a $100K virtue signaling sports car that happens to be electric.
I remember when the Ford Expedition first arrived in dealer showrooms, dealers had to take delivery of a ford escort at the same time to allow Ford to meet its CAFE requirements. The dealers, faced with a lot full of escorts nobody wanted sold them below cost just to get rid of them. One dealer I remember simply gave the escort to the Expedition buyer.
People want trucks, period. Arbitrary CAFE regulations don't change that, pretending they do makes one look stupid.
The promise had defined limits, so many vehicles per manufacturer, Chevy and Tesla have nearly exhausted their allotment. A program that concludes as designed isn't a 'broken promise', unless it expires under Trump I guess.
By most definitions, 'middle class' is anyone earning between 3x to 10x the Federal Poverty Level, or around $45-150K... the vast majority of Americans fall between those two numbers, so it isn't surprising that on the whole, they contribute the most to Charity.
The vast majority of Americans earning $150K+ do pay the bulk of the income taxes collected - about 80% of all taxes collected.
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Your friend had someone she trusted to call. What if she didn't?
All he did was call 911 - she could have called 911 herself if she had no one else to talk to.
How could this be done better? Encourage social activities in the community. Encourage neighbors to talk. Create local spaces where neighbors can get together on a whim without every public space being closed after dark.
Been there, done that - under the Clinton administration - it was called 'midnight basketball'... google it.
So why not put your friends/family phone numbers on speed dial and call them, rather than 911? It's two fewer buttons to push, and you won't get a bill for an ambulance ride to the ER?
That is the problem. 911 is advertised as being for emergencies. People suffering suicidal depression rarely consider it to be an emergency. They consider it to be a personal problem, not rising to the level of an emergency which warrants involving other people. We could badly use a hotline that people know they can call if they're just depressed and want someone to talk to.
So what we need is a suicide prevention party line? I can just imagine the late-night ads, full of depressed, suicidal people...
The only one that has any real expense to it is 911. The others are all either provided by individual states or cities, or private organizations.
So services provided by states or cities are free? That's fantastic! /SMH
So train 911 callers to handle suicide calls - assuming, of course, they aren't already trained to handle suicide calls.
Why is it so inconceivable that the COST of providing your pre-paid service reduced at a greater rate than politicians were able to invent new fees for your cell phone service?
No, you became the monopoly, you aren't competing with a monopoly.
'It's as essential as ... food' & 'that's why you don't let private companies. Intros it'
Did I miss something? When did the public sector take over food production in America?
You mean like when Obama appointed a man to head up saving the auto industry who a) never held a drivers license, and b) never actually worked in the auto industry in any capacity?
Yeah, trump needs more experts like that!
TV took off because of content, BE lacks content to drive it into millions of homes.
Cellphones provided wireless communications, and the ability to stay in touch anywhere you were without carrying a roll of quarters for pay phones.
Augmented Reality has found a home in certain industries, Virtual Reality is still looking for purpose.
About 160 residents voted, with 56 percent rejecting the Comcast offer, according to news reports.
So, about 90 voted for the town to spend $1.4M to create a new municipal service. Wonder how the rest of the town feels about the tax increase 90 residents pushed on to them?
When you reduce density you drive up home prices. In New Jersey they tried to slow development where I used to live by declaring 3 acres the minimum buildable lot... then the neighbors were all upset when McMansions popped up on those 3 acre lots.
You don't need to alter your body to claim an alternative gender.
Are abortion centers also required to 'tell the truth' and explain that there are centers that will help care for them if they choose to keep the baby?
You're an idiot. You buy insurance on a car to cover liabilities, you know, to fix things you break when you drive a car into them. If you can't pay for things you hit, you shouldn't be driving.
If you finance your car, the lien holder requires you to carry comprehensive cover so their car gets fixed when you hit something.
Texas buys textbooks as a state, not as a school district, and as a result holds great sway over the textbook publishers... If you want to overcome that influence, just have your state buy textbooks state-wide.
Automakers are buying trucks because they want them and gas is $2/gallon. Gas had to be $4/gallon to get people excited about the Chevy Volt... the Tesla is a $100K virtue signaling sports car that happens to be electric.
I remember when the Ford Expedition first arrived in dealer showrooms, dealers had to take delivery of a ford escort at the same time to allow Ford to meet its CAFE requirements. The dealers, faced with a lot full of escorts nobody wanted sold them below cost just to get rid of them. One dealer I remember simply gave the escort to the Expedition buyer.
People want trucks, period. Arbitrary CAFE regulations don't change that, pretending they do makes one look stupid.
We tried that - Solyndra.
What about Mortgage subsidies? Medical expense subsidies?
The promise had defined limits, so many vehicles per manufacturer, Chevy and Tesla have nearly exhausted their allotment. A program that concludes as designed isn't a 'broken promise', unless it expires under Trump I guess.
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Define 'middle class' and 'wealthy'.
By most definitions, 'middle class' is anyone earning between 3x to 10x the Federal Poverty Level, or around $45-150K... the vast majority of Americans fall between those two numbers, so it isn't surprising that on the whole, they contribute the most to Charity.
The vast majority of Americans earning $150K+ do pay the bulk of the income taxes collected - about 80% of all taxes collected.