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Comment Re:Latest thing is the scam that is Obamacare (Score 1) 8

I think I want to keep breathing. I'm pretty sure I've developed asthma from this- as all of my cubical mates can attest to and many have complained about. But I've been outright denied the medication that could help, and the copays on the medications that are left are exorbitant.
 
A complaint has been filed with the Oregon Insurance Commission for false advertising on Cover Oregon.

Comment Latest thing is the scam that is Obamacare (Score 1) 8

It seems that 9 months after the exchanges opened and people switched, I'm suddenly seeing a lot of people just like me having unpaid medical bills that used to be taken care of by insurance.

I have a fraud complaint against my Cover Oregon insurance company in the works because of false advertising on Cover Oregon.

Comment Re:So what you're saying... (Score 1) 66

"Is the presumption then that natural market forces (ie, not regulations from governmental forces) will prevent the employers from either colluding against employees or from buying each other out? "

The presumption is that due to differing currencies between markets, with such small governments, there will be natural monopolies or oligarchies of single industrymen and maybe an apprentice or two. And that the control will be social- you are not likely to cheat a neighbor that you have to continue to live with.

" It would seem that you would eventually end up with markets where > 90% of the population is involved in food production or trades that exist to aid in the same. To me that seems to operate counter to the types of gains in efficiency that we have tended to celebrate in the past century or so."

Yes, and that's the point. Efficiency reduces the number of jobs available drastically, and centralizes ownership of first level maslow industries such as food, shelter, clothing. This is a great thing for the few centralized aristocrats, but a negative thing for consumers and workers.

Submission + - 2600 Distributor Withholds Money, Magazine Future in Limbo (2600.com) 1

themusicgod1 writes: According to 2600, their distributor (Previously known as "Source Interlink", now recently renamed to "TEN: The Enthusiast Network") has decided to consolidate its resources and is keeping the money retailers paid for the last two issues of the quarterly magazine. 2600, in the meanwhile, is still busy trying to organize the upcoming HOPE X conference. However, according to the link: In the worst case scenario, being ripped off at this level would make it almost impossible for us to continue publishing. We would have to make a lot of painful choices and cut back on things for no reason other than some outside company's mismanagement. Our readers have supported both our print and digital publications and we've been doing quite well overall.

Comment Re:So what you're saying... (Score 1) 66

"you have basically each person representing on average 186 people. "

Exactly. Or fewer.

Politicians that could actually be *close friends* with their constituents, what a weird concept that Marxist Hacker fellow has.

" I would expect that trade, travel, and relocation would become nightmares for the serfdom."

Which of course is the real point. Economy of scale being the eternal enemy of the working man and all that.

Comment Re:So what you're saying... (Score 1) 66

"The difference is how we see the owned politicians acting to support those scenarios from above. If I may ask you a question though how would you prevent politicians from being purchased in the future?"

By increasing the supply of purchased politicians, and limiting governments and markets to no more than 100,000 citizens

Comment Re:So what you're saying... (Score 1) 66

Are you kidding? In most markets, the cable provider was given a franchise by city government. The oil cartel sprung up, along with OPEC, as a price fixing oligarchy that bought politicians to keep other, cheaper providers out of the market. With Obamacare, health insurance is just a bunch of contractors working for the federal government, a complete monopoly with all of the problems that includes, such as this new trick where they outright lie to you about benefits.

ALL three of these situations ONLY exist because of government regulation. Without the ability to buy politicians, none of these business models would stay profitable in the face of competition.

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