Comment Ban everything!! (Score 2) 260
The level of stupid in the world is astounding.
The level of stupid in the world is astounding.
Oh look your bias is showing, might want to pull your pants back up and wipe off your mouth.
How did you not manage to snap your spine pulling of those contortions?
So why didn't they just pass a law banning pre-existing condition exclusions instead of the whole ass-hat thing they came up with?
ACA does not get "free" until you are pretty heavy out of pocket on expenses or have been unemployed for some time. Also thanks to the stipulations in the ACA if you move to another State guess what does NOT follow you there, that's right your insurance, because now you have to join an insurance provider in that State. Yours in most cases will not be waiting for you there.
If anything it binds you even tighter to a job and location.
Not a single Republican voted for Obamacare, so exactly how does it make it their "wet dream"? The Democrats are bought and paid for by the banking industry and Wallstreet. The insurance industry is just a sublet of the banking. The Republicans are bought and paid for by farming, energy, and military industries. At least try to get the group you want to blame right or you come off sounding like a moron.
Show me a study that shows how much the health of people and the quality of health care has improved and what the price changes of said health care and I might find that interesting.
Just because they now have "health care" doesn't mean life got any better for them or those that have to pay for their health care.
Let me clarify myself. Because I too have worked 60-80 a hours a week, and have done so for the last 30 years. You start off with in your teens/20's with no responsibilities you need maybe $10 a day to get by. Everything past that is a choice or the result of a decision.
You working 60-80s a week, I'm sure includes rent, food, employment/business, entertainment, girlfriend/boyfriend, holidays, gifts, child care, education, a vehicle/transportation, cell phone, and lifestyle.
The "poor" as in actual poor people in the US, work less than 20 hours a week, per house hold I might add, and derive most of their resources from gov't handouts. These people have more than a little bit of time on their hands and are always making noise about needing more.
Now for you working your 60-80 hours a week and can only afford a $.25 pack of Raman a day or a potato: That represents maybe $10 a month for food. I call bullshit. I've lived off of nothing but Raman and potatoes myself and did so for most of a year. It was nearly a decade before I was willing to eat either again. You not being able to afford more means you are either trying to live in a major city on shit jobs, which is a lifestyle choice, or you have run yourself into the ground with obligations and debt, which is also a life style choice. That is called being part of the "working" poor and you've go no one but yourself to blame for that one.
I've been both part of the "poor" and "working" poor so I know the difference. In my personal potato and Raman days, it got to the point where all my personal possessions fit in a single suit case. I was either going to go home to my parents, or get on welfare. If I had gone either route I would have been a bum. Instead packed up my things and headed off to the recruiter station. I've worked my ass off ever since. If in your eyes that makes me a pompous dick, fine, but I own my past and have by building a career have earned he right to look down my nose at people who are quitters and whiners.
Without that you have no science, education, arts, military, recreation, etc which are all kind of important.
The reality that the world faces now is we have ALOT of people that cannot come up with constructive or productive things to do with their ENORMOUS amount of free time, and spend it instead of being envious of those that do.
Poor people in the US don't starve anymore, nor do they work. They literally have nearly their ENTIRE day to themselves and instead of devoting it to improvement of themselves, their art/craft, or their community they piss it away and then blame society of their lack of progress.
Producing resources means mixing a little bit of time, creativity, and effort into the raw "resources" that surround us. Billionaires become so because they come up with the best solutions that help everyone, NOT because they are stealing it from everyone else.
Think about that next iPhone you buy and answer the question about "just" compensation for efforts and contributions for the janitor that cleans the toilets at Apple, the sales clerk that sells the phone, the marketing team that comes up with the adds to get consumers to buy it, the engineering team that designed it, or the people that put their money up to build all the buildings and factories that are needed to make the phone.
Does the guy that wipes up piss off the toilet seat really deserve the same amount of compensation as the guy that spent $200,000,000 to build the facility that said toilet is located in? I think not.
Free birth control will eventually turn into mandatory birth control for those of you who believe in statist solutions or a stipulation of your charity support contract for you free market types.
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.