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Comment Re:USPS Where are you?? (Score 1) 378

Please stop repeating this lie, granted it is repeated enough on alot of hate sites. For you it was probably a mistake since you did not know the truth.
Congress want to protect the taxpayer from having to take over the duties that the USPS said they would do,back in the 70s, the postmaster general and the postal unions want to make the taxpayers pay for their poor management and keep things as they are.
The postal accountability law,2006, requires the USPS to actually do some proper financial management and dropping it would not make them competitive again; even ignore the money they owe for this they would of lost money for the last couple of years. Without the money set aside they would not be able the meet the obligations they agreed to back in the 1970s and the people who are retiring now would not have the monies that they are suppose to get.
BTW the 75 years, not life, is number of years that is for ACCOUNTING purposes they have to figure future liabilities. It is NOT how long they have to fund benefits. That 75 years of accounting is followed by the DoD, social security, department of Housing, etc.

Comment Re:Obama Steals your mommas house (Score 1) 230

Your googlefu really,really, really sucks my first search and I had info on it.
However that portion is not changed in obamacare that dates back a few decades ago, Medicaid is just a loan to be paid back when you no longer need your house and items.
What Obamacare does is lower requirements to get medicaid it then requires people to go on Medicaid if they qualify for it. If you qualify for Medicaid you now longer qualify for the subsidies that others get under obamacare.
In the past you basically had to have no assets to qualify so it there was no major chance people would loose much. Now if you have a house and have a basic retirement fund you may qualify. So with obamacare you meet the qualifications for medicaid you go to purchase the mandated insurance you find out instead of costing you $12000 and others qualify for a $9000 subsidy however since you qualify for medicaid you owe $12000 or you can take free medicaid. Then when you die the government takes $12000 for each year you were under the system; and there goes any house you may of had.
That is what has happened to a bunch of people who got to the web site and people have just been finding out about it the last few weeks.

Comment Re:What is it then? (Score 2) 246

Well kind of.
This was originally brought up as a problem 20 years ago, give or a take a few years; ADD, a substype of ADHD, was commonly used.
At that time it was teachers and schools pushing it and it is still is, if the kid was causing distruptions it was a standard solution to get the kid on a pill.
Companies are just responding to the need. Companies are coming up with better drugs with less side affects or are cheaper or better in other ways. Since they now have this better drug they are putting out information about it. So now people are pointing to the drug companies and saying how they are to produce a better drug that schools are pushing.

Comment Re:Easy solution (Score 1) 453

Antibiotics in meat is not the major problem you are making it into.
Yes there ahve been some examples in the past. but currently the types of antibiotics that can be used are limited to ones not used by humans and then there is a period of time that has to go by for them the leave the body of the animal, all of this scientificlly based. For anti-biotics that are also used by human they have to be used for very specific reasons and then that period of time of waiting is even longer, again based on science.

Where you do get an easy solution and in fact a solution that would work to solve the problem is this: Doctors don't perscribe anti-biotics except in cases where it would work. The over use of antibiotics and giving them out when they are will not make any difference is the problem. Also need to do somethign about people throwing them in the garbage or toilet but that is not as major.

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