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David Dennison

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  1. 1 hour ago, Lobo said:

     Desperate victim card ?    I pay for my own health insurance and 100% of the premiums of the health insurance of my employees    Because taking care of people to me is more important than bitching.   My point is it wouldn’t hurt if people understood the origins of the system under which we currently operate so that we may have a better foundation on which to build a solution.   My point is it wouldn’t hurt if people understood the origins of the system under which we currently operate so that we may have a better foundation on which to build a solution There are far more people in this country then I think many realize that think our current system was exclusively launched and deployed by one party

    The origins of the current system are the wage and price controls instituted by the government during WWII. Corporations offered employees health insurance as a way to get around those controls. Once the controls were lifted after the war, employer provided health insurance stuck around and has resulted in the system that every single corporation in this country would love to do away with. No one wants to be the first major corporation to stop providing health insurance for their employees.

  2. 10 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

    I feel somewhat guilty about the fact that I'm a football fan, but would never let my kids play it due to the effects on the brain (plus, they are pussies).  

    All the targeting and defenseless player rules sound great, and may make us feel a little bit better about what's going on here, but everything I've read suggests it's the consistent, repeated blows to the head that cause CTE.  That type of contact is simply endemic to the game - there's no eliminating it.

    In 40 years we're probably going to look back on football they way we do about smoking and wonder why so many people continued to do it despite mounting evidence it's terrible for you.  

    And in a couple of generations, no one will miss it. 

  3. Just now, jimmyjazz said:

    I don't know, it's near Branson.  It's in the Ozarks, which spread south from Missouri into Arkansas.  Pretty hard to argue Missouri isn't "Midwest".  I grew up there and we were always saddled with the appellation.

    If it's labeled part of the south it's because it was a slave state.

  4. 2 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    Yea, but that's part of the calculus for choosing which employer you choose to work for. You can't have everything, so you choose where you want to sacrifice. I sacrifice work/life balance and low stress for providing income and insurance to my young family. That's been my choice. I don't begrudge the man who wants to live with his kids in a travel trailer and go do cool things all the time and live like a gypsy and free-lance for a living, but you will have to pay $1k for insurance. I don't understand why people think having high quality insurance, at a cheap price (or free), is a universal right. Which I guess is the crux of the issue and why it's politically dividing.

    Or they'll go without insurance and you'll end up with part of the bill.

  5. 6 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    It is a sensational anecdote.

    Facts are stuff is going to cost more.  Jobs will be automated.

     

    The biggest concern for me in the Min Wage fight is that all of these increases have embraced an "index to inflation" methodology.  Which is all well and good while we are running at 1-2% inflation, but when the inflation beast roars there is no way legislative bodies will be able to act quick enough to deal with extremes.  The short term shocks could really be enough to destroy businesses.

    The Fed has the inflation beast under control. They'll strangle the economy if they have to. Inflation hasn't been an issue for 40 years.

  6. 11 hours ago, Iconoclast Texan said:

    I have been a fan of his since his bow tie days. He has the right message when it comes to curbing illegal immigration and he hates neocons just like me. I was a Pat Buchanan supporter when I was in college when he was considered fringe. His views are finally ascendant in the GOP. Tucker can help kill Bush/Romney wing of the GOP once and for all. If I was going to start a 3rd party, I’d get guys like Nigel Farage, Geert Wilders, Raheem Hassan and others I respect and admire to create a working class based party that would hammer home the need to curb immigration sharply in exchange for things like a public buy in health insurance option , better wages and better social cohesion. Need an articulate voice like Tucker to make it happen. Can’t have free health care with a horde of illegals. It’s one or the other.

    How would it be free?

  7. Just now, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    Howard Shultz is an attractive candidate and one I'd definitely vote for. No BS, no joking around, nothing. He is the personification of huge brained centrist, which I love. 

    The fact that Luke Crywalkers in [Enter Clever name] local bookstore are sad and heckling and thinks that Shultz will help re-elect Trump shows you that there is an unfulfilled need/market for what Shultz is representing. How about make your party more attractive and do better to win an election instead of trying to shout down someone with a valid platform and good ideas? How un-democratic is that?

    What are his good ideas?

  8. 2 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

    https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/do-illegal-votes-decide-elections

    13% of noncitizens ACTUALLY ADMIT TO VOTING!!! No evidence though. None. Not even a scintilla.

    "This bi-lingual national survey of 800 Hispanics was conducted from June 5th through June 16th, 2013. Interview selection was within predetermined census units of Hispanic adults. 560 interviews were conducted via landline telephone by professional interviewers. To increase coverage, this landline sample was supplemented with 240 interviews, 30 %, conducted via internet of cellphone only users. 64% of all respondents use cell phones. 60% of all interviews were conducted in Spanish. 93% of all respondents speak at least some Spanish at home. These samples were then combined and structured to correlate with actual adult Hispanic census population. This poll of 800 Hispanic adults has an accuracy of +/- 3.4% at a 95% confidence interval. Within the sample, 470 of the Hispanic adults are also registered voters. For this subsample the accuracy is +/- 4.5% at a 95% confidence interval."

    Good job.

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