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Guadaloopy

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  1. I'm not insane... I just live in the real world where governments are hamstrung when it comes to cutting budgets when the economy tanks. When a business hits hard times, it can cut costs and make adjustments. If the government is in the business of being a single payer for a health care system, it does not have the luxury of immediately cutting spending when revenues go down. It goes into deficit spending. NHS took it in the shorts from 2007-2009. The reductions in 2010 had to happen for austerity purposes. The fact that there weren't actually cuts was a testament to the government's dedication to the program. Now this is being thrown back in the government's face as a "slash" in spending.
  2. But that's not how GOVERNMENTS work.
  3. I have a minor in economics and consider it a bit of a hobby. Not to mention that I also have an MBA. I fully understand the math and the mechanisms being discussed. What I question is the hyperbolic language being applied and the assumptions that go into declaring a "funding gap."
  4. No.... I'm not bad at math at all. But I am intimately familiar with the inefficiencies of government agencies that work outside the constraints of profit. I've been in the belly of the beast. Your example has faulty assumptions. It assumes that 1) I need X amount of goods and 2) that every dollar spent on X amount of goods was spent efficiently to maximize utility. It also assumes that my employer has an unlimited capacity to continue salary increases.
  5. Horseshit. My FIL (a retired assistant manager of a cotton co-op in southwest Oklahoma) had a heart valve replaced earlier this year in an outpatient procedure.
  6. It's a pretty wild world we live in where a lower rate of increase in spending is somehow viewed as a "slash" in spending. It's also wild that people can, with a straight face, proclaim that because an unsustainable rate of spending wasn't maintained that there is now a "funding gap."
  7. Where did they "slash spending"?
  8. I wish we could all be honest about how health care is just a hard fucking problem to tackle rather than saying that a particular system is completely broken while another system has got its shit in one sock. Despite general displeasure with the US healthcare system, 71% of Americans are happy with the quality of their personal care. Despite general support of the UK's NHS, only 24% of UK public are satisfied with the care provided by NHS, with 71% saying the number one dissatisfier is wait times for care. The US healthcare system is expensive and by some measures less effective* than other country's systems, but no other country's system comes close to producing the level of consistent investment and advancement in medical innovation/technology seen in the US system. All systems have trade-offs, and anyone telling you otherwise is only trying to win an election. *Poor health outcomes in the US are more attributable to lifestyle choices (diet, transportation, gun culture) than the quality of care provided by the system
  9. You forgot the part where Stanton strains his hammy and is out for 12 weeks.
  10. I will say it again. My favorite thing about this season (other than Texas being set up for a deep playoff run) is the spike in usage of the "since the John Blake era" qualifier when discussing OU football performance.
  11. Yordan is not the type of player who spends his entire career with one team. DHs tend to bounce around a lot towards the end of their careers.
  12. Yep. It’s been at Lincoln, Foxborough, FedEx, etc. Will be in Baltimore next year and then MetLife in ‘26 and back to Philly in ‘27. It has been played in Chicago and once at the Rose Bowl in the past.
  13. Yep... there is a reason why Trent Dilfer, Brad Johnson, and late-stage Peyton Manning have Super Bowl wins as starting QBs.
  14. It's a fun game, but I don't get how people who did not attend either of these academies develop a rooting interest for one side over the other. I did 20+ in the canoe club, and I don't care which side wins.
  15. Oh... I am familiar.
  16. Relaxed is the antithesis of aggy. Instead of a collie, a more appropriate mascot would be a jittery chihuahua that barks and nips impotently at bigger dogs and gets carried around in maroon Dooney & Burke purse by an overweight 45 yr-old woman with a " Proud Aggie Mom" t-shirt.
  17. A point I made several times.
  18. One of my clients is based in Brentwood, TN. Lots of Vol fans. To a man, they are all rooting for Texas tomorrow because they think a UGA loss will let Tennessee jump ahead into a hosting slot. They do NOT want to go to Happy Valley in December. Funny, because all of the talk so far from them this year is the standard "Texas didn't play a real SEC schedule this season." Now they are all on board for Texas to help them out.
  19. Not a creature was stirring…
  20. It's both... so far we've been given a lot of backstory leading up to the events of "The Wizard of Oz" and that will continue for most of part two, so that is all prequel. Towards the end of part two, we will get a story concurrent with the events of TWOZ from a different perspective. There are years and years between the end of part one and TWOZ.
  21. Yeah... yeah, quoted myself but it was too late to edit my spoiler above.
  22. The second half of the live musical has always felt rushed to me. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with it with more time.
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