Could you use your time machine and go fix this? Now that Senate Republicans have pulled up the curtain on the hideous Obamacare repeal plan they pieced together out of dead GOP talking points in a secret lab in the bowels of the Capitol, Barack Obama has written a
Religion has proved one thing: it's the best business in the world. You sell a fictitious product your customers pay for all their lives and can only get when they die. Once the transaction is closed they can't come back to ask for a refund. Religious leaders are clever. Their followers are stupid.
From personal experience: We are hoping that, once coverage is insured, greater scrutiny will be exercised over substance abuse coverage. Towns/counties have very cost- and result-effective programs, while zillions are being pissed away on bogus rehab/spas like the Malibu joint being hawked on TV. In a perfect world, your friend would have received effective and efficient treatment at a price that would not have put her underwater. Since drug addiction is suddenly trending (though it has been an epidemic for decades)it is time the healthcare industry and government get together to do what works. Bet Lenny Bruce, Janis Joplin, James Brown, Kurt Cobain, Ernest Hemingway, etc. could have told the feds a thing or two about alkies/junkies. Old news that requires new solutions.
There was a strong history of abuse in family, both parents had issues. But still feel that if she had insurance support she could have had a chance. First time I met her, she was covered in scratches, she'd tried to save a feral cat that she saw up in a tree. She had to get rabies shots because of this and it didn't phase her, it was what happened when you helped a creature in need.
I keep hoping the GOP will finally die and go away, then I recall that what's really keeping the evil empire alive is the all morons dumb enough to believe the lies the Republipukes tell them election after election, and they keep believing it even though the opposite happens every time they get elected. The idiot teenage Repub crashes the car, the voters give the broken car to the Dems at the repair shop to fix, and before the bill is even paid, the idiot voters give the car keys back to the idiot teenage Repub because the whiny little Repub complains that the repair by the Dems is costing too much and taking too long. What the ever-loving fuck. Looking at you, my older idiot sister, who retired from a job in the state welfare office and gets free taxpayer money after complaining for years about all the undeserving people she had to serve when they came in for free taxpayer money. Fuckin hypocritical idiot. And THAT, my friends, is how the evil empire survives.
I don't think those capitol police enjoyed doing their jobs today.I noticed even when they carried the shouting lady out who was saying "NO CUTS TO MEDICARE" they were not even trying to stop her from shouting.
(I noticed them particularly today because I care about Crystal Griner and the other capitol policeman who saved Congressman Racist Steve's life, but I don't care about Congressman Racist Steve.)
You're about six months late. Actually - probably about a year.
Those of us who were reading stuff like Orwell & Huxley way too early in life were yelling then that it was going to go like this -- but nobody wanted to hear about it enough to take more steps to stall the Trump Train out before it really got going.
*screams like the fangirl of sexy Canadian men she is; wonders if François Arnaud might need to move over because he doesn't govern stuff even if he does play one hell of a 15th century Gonfaloniere of the Papal Armies*
There are a great many Lefties who have a hand in this. Obamacare's biggest critics have been on the Left all along because they are shit creatures taking the approximate form of human beings.
using a presidential election to hock a collective loogie at "The Establishment" and at Those People is a particularly dumbass way to participate in democracy.This.
Except that developing countries are passing through such conditions on a developmental trajectory. So they, in many cases, will outgrow those conditions and evolve towards one of the middle-class based models on offer.A post-war developed country regressing to extreme inequality of the type you discuss hasn't really happened before. We can hope that the ship rights itself, being ballasted with a century of middle class aspirations, and a half-century of having known middle class security. I expect that will happen in Europe/Austr./Canada. But it's entirely possible in the US, based on the response so far to the last 30 years of inequality trends (Republicans doubling down on their class warfare, their voters doubling down on reactionary stupidity and racism), that we're looking at a slow tumble to one of the many dysfunctional scenarios we have imagined.
Fully on par with such collective insanities as the Cultural Revolution, or the worst paroxysms of nationalism in the 19th century, or religious warfare in early modern Europe.
Religion has proved one thing: it's the best business in the world. You sell a fictitious product your customers pay for all their lives and can only get when they die. Once the transaction is closed they can't come back to ask for a refund. Religious leaders are clever. Their followers are stupid.
From personal experience: We are hoping that, once coverage is insured, greater scrutiny will be exercised over substance abuse coverage. Towns/counties have very cost- and result-effective programs, while zillions are being pissed away on bogus rehab/spas like the Malibu joint being hawked on TV. In a perfect world, your friend would have received effective and efficient treatment at a price that would not have put her underwater. Since drug addiction is suddenly trending (though it has been an epidemic for decades)it is time the healthcare industry and government get together to do what works. Bet Lenny Bruce, Janis Joplin, James Brown, Kurt Cobain, Ernest Hemingway, etc. could have told the feds a thing or two about alkies/junkies. Old news that requires new solutions.
There was a strong history of abuse in family, both parents had issues. But still feel that if she had insurance support she could have had a chance. First time I met her, she was covered in scratches, she'd tried to save a feral cat that she saw up in a tree. She had to get rabies shots because of this and it didn't phase her, it was what happened when you helped a creature in need.
A lot of those people will believe them when they blame Barack Obama again.
Truer words were never written.
I keep hoping the GOP will finally die and go away, then I recall that what's really keeping the evil empire alive is the all morons dumb enough to believe the lies the Republipukes tell them election after election, and they keep believing it even though the opposite happens every time they get elected. The idiot teenage Repub crashes the car, the voters give the broken car to the Dems at the repair shop to fix, and before the bill is even paid, the idiot voters give the car keys back to the idiot teenage Repub because the whiny little Repub complains that the repair by the Dems is costing too much and taking too long. What the ever-loving fuck. Looking at you, my older idiot sister, who retired from a job in the state welfare office and gets free taxpayer money after complaining for years about all the undeserving people she had to serve when they came in for free taxpayer money. Fuckin hypocritical idiot. And THAT, my friends, is how the evil empire survives.
Yeah. They won't get far on foot.https://www.amazon.com/Dont...
goatscrew proposition is my new punk band.
cheers! be there on the phones tomorrow.
I don't think those capitol police enjoyed doing their jobs today.I noticed even when they carried the shouting lady out who was saying "NO CUTS TO MEDICARE" they were not even trying to stop her from shouting.
(I noticed them particularly today because I care about Crystal Griner and the other capitol policeman who saved Congressman Racist Steve's life, but I don't care about Congressman Racist Steve.)
You're about six months late. Actually - probably about a year.
Those of us who were reading stuff like Orwell & Huxley way too early in life were yelling then that it was going to go like this -- but nobody wanted to hear about it enough to take more steps to stall the Trump Train out before it really got going.
He has a TAT??
*screams like the fangirl of sexy Canadian men she is; wonders if François Arnaud might need to move over because he doesn't govern stuff even if he does play one hell of a 15th century Gonfaloniere of the Papal Armies*
There are a great many Lefties who have a hand in this. Obamacare's biggest critics have been on the Left all along because they are shit creatures taking the approximate form of human beings.
using a presidential election to hock a collective loogie at "The Establishment" and at Those People is a particularly dumbass way to participate in democracy.This.
Is the first game ever gonna make it to PC? That's the ongoing tragedy.
I was told it was a bunch of e-mails, but I dunno I kinda find that hard to believe.
Except that developing countries are passing through such conditions on a developmental trajectory. So they, in many cases, will outgrow those conditions and evolve towards one of the middle-class based models on offer.A post-war developed country regressing to extreme inequality of the type you discuss hasn't really happened before. We can hope that the ship rights itself, being ballasted with a century of middle class aspirations, and a half-century of having known middle class security. I expect that will happen in Europe/Austr./Canada. But it's entirely possible in the US, based on the response so far to the last 30 years of inequality trends (Republicans doubling down on their class warfare, their voters doubling down on reactionary stupidity and racism), that we're looking at a slow tumble to one of the many dysfunctional scenarios we have imagined.
Fully on par with such collective insanities as the Cultural Revolution, or the worst paroxysms of nationalism in the 19th century, or religious warfare in early modern Europe.