If Mort Divine ruled the world

[Dak]

"When people say 'Bernie you're full of shit, I'm going to vote against you", I love it!" Yeah, long as people keep supporting/legitimizing the system, you and your kind will keep profiting off it. I bet you love it.

How about that anti immigrant rhetoric from Killer Mike though. All this "look at all this stuff that works in other countries!" talk is so incredibly common in humanities departments and interwebs comments sections - and it's incredibly misinformed. It doesn't "work", it provides benefits for certain people now by raping current and future productivity of themselves/others. For a group of people that have worked to make "sustainable" a buzzword, it's one more brick of irony in the Great Wall of Progressive Irony that socialism, or anything related to it, is the opposite end of the spectrum from sustainable.

 

[King Richard]

"When people say 'Bernie you're full of shit, I'm going to vote against you", I love it!" Yeah, long as people keep supporting/legitimizing the system, you and your kind will keep profiting off it. I bet you love it.

How about that anti immigrant rhetoric from Killer Mike though. All this "look at all this stuff that works in other countries!" talk is so incredibly common in humanities departments and interwebs comments sections - and it's incredibly misinformed. It doesn't "work", it provides benefits for certain people now by raping current and future productivity of themselves/others. For a group of people that have worked to make "sustainable" a buzzword, it's one more brick of irony in the Great Wall of Progressive Irony that socialism, or anything related to it, is the opposite end of the spectrum from sustainable.

Describe to me how you believe the government in general and the major departments would function and how they would affect life for Americans. I want to know what the government is doing now that you want stopped and what they should and/or shouldn't be doing in the future and why it would be sustainable in your opinion.

 

[Dak]

Describe to me how you believe the government in general and the major departments would function and how they would affect life for Americans. I want to know what the government is doing now that you want stopped and what they should and/or shouldn't be doing in the future and why it would be sustainable in your opinion.

You're asking for a book on government and its role(s). Sustainable is pretty simple: Income must be less than expense (not equal to). Budgets cannot depend on resources that are non-reneweable or on "capitalizing" on booming single/limited sectors of an economy. Taxation is a necessity for government, but it also subtracts from growth potential in general (exceptions can include infrastructure spending), therefore combining point A and B requires budgets and government be as small as possible. As taxation and/or government grow, the economic base from which to tax dwindle or stagnates, Eventually you get to the point where we "have to make hard choices" and you get things like a combination of tax hikes and role or "benefits" decreases, a vicious economic and political spiral.

 

[Dak]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303471004579165470633112630

How can this save me money? While traditional doctors charge for each treatment and test—which can add up to hundreds of dollars per visit—Qliance, MedLion and other clinics charge flat fees that generally include basic checkups, treatment of minor ailments and electrocardiograms, or EKGs. SignatureMD Inc., a somewhat higher-end concierge practice, includes in its $125 to $200 monthly retainer an "executive physical" that could cost $1,000 at a standard practice. Services like blood work, X-rays and vaccines can cost extra, but concierge doctors often negotiate with specialists and labs to secure discounts for patients who would otherwise pay out-of-pocket. Brian Forrest, who describes his $39-a-month Access Healthcare clinic in Apex, N.C., as "concierge-lite," has obtained prostate-cancer tests for $5 from the same lab that would charge a Medicare patient at least $175, $350 mammograms for $80, and colonoscopies for $400 when the official rate is $2,000. "Sometimes, it might be cheaper for them to use their insurance, but in some cases it isn't," Dr. Forrest says.

I'd heard of this a little while back, but now I know the name for it. Damn market always trying to fix what govco breaks. WHY CAN'T THEY LEAVE IT BE.

 

[rms]

you should start copying and pasting WSJ articles since I can never read 'em

 

[Dak]

Really? Why not?

 

[rms]

It tells me to login, then I do, then it tells me to pay

 

[Dak]

That's weird. I'm not a paying customer.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...izes-for-holiday-placemat-for-social-justice/

 

[Dak]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/dec/19/democratic-debate-heats-up-gun-control-video

Bernie Sanders invoked the mythical gunshow loophole. Case closed on this joker, all his anti NSA votes not-withstanding. Of course DykeCow won't have a video on that.

 

[CiG]

Cringe.

 

[rms]

Damn, that one politician has a position that I don't like so that's it!

I don't even think he's advocating against guns and is more pro-gun in his state of Vermont than most

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The NRA gave him an F (or maybe a D-). He's just lucky that he lives in an extremely white and wealthy state where people don't shoot each other, so he doesn't need to say anti-gun things as frequently to rile up his base, unlike poor O'Malley.

 

[CiG]

By all means, fix the gun show loophole.

 

[Dak]

Invoking the "gun show loophole" isn't a position. It's a myth people use to justify bad positions.

 

[CiG]

Surely it's something that doesn't need to exist though? Am I missing something?

 

[Dak]

The "gun show loophole" has nothing to do with gun shows, and it's not even a "loophole". Private party sales of almost anything are impossible to track and require no "shows" or anything else to occur. Requiring background checks for private party gun sales is like taxing craigslist generated income. More bureaucracy needed to merely implement, and it still won't stop a single crime.

 

[CiG]

The "gun show loophole" has nothing to do with gun shows, and it's not even a "loophole". Private party sales of almost anything are impossible to track and require no "shows" or anything else to occur. Requiring background checks for private party gun sales is like taxing craigslist generated income. More bureaucracy needed to merely implement, and it still won't stop a single crime.

Good point, I completely missed that. Just like ending the sale of cars privately wouldn't stop people driving without a license or insurance.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

 

[Dak]