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Cutting support for public libraries? The fuck is the mindset behind that?
The poors need to spend less time using those free computers!
Cutting support for public libraries? The fuck is the mindset behind that?
Cutting support for public libraries? The fuck is the mindset behind that?
Even if its the same amount of jobs, you're cuting 100K to make 100K. It's both politically and pragmatically difficult to justify all those transition costs.I suppose I haven't read up on it much, but wouldn't the majority of eliminated jobs be bureaucratic positions in insurance companies? I assume most jobs that help people would remain regardless of the source.
If we nationalized the car industry or whatever we could make jobs and still get cars at the end.
This article is a great resource on how the budget proccess typically works.
http://www.vox.com/2017/2/27/14751872/budget-process-explained
I suppose I haven't read up on it much, but wouldn't the majority of eliminated jobs be bureaucratic positions in insurance companies? I assume most jobs that help people would remain regardless of the source.
Wouldn't those doctors just be reemployed underneath the public system though?I mean, why would you assume this? I like you but this strikes me as an assumption that happens to confirm the thing you want to be true! You should be very suspect of those assumptions.
I gave one example in my post -- Kaiser is an insurance provider that also owns hospitals to unify its provider network, so that all Kaiser doctors work in a Kaiser building. If Kaiser goes out of business those doctors don't just hang around doing doctor stuff for free in these free hospitals. That whole system needs to be rebuilt in some way. It's not a straightforward problem to solve.
Wouldn't those doctors just be reemployed underneath the public system though?
Looking a bit into international healthcare systems, France and Germany run multipayer systems with regulated non-profit funds insuring the populace. They use an all payer rate setting model with regard to prices.
This is funded largely by a 13 or 14% payroll tax with a legal incidence of 70% and 50% on the employer respectively.
How well would this go down with The American People (tm).
On a more serious note, the Democratic Party as a national organization routinely argues in support of other policies (globalization/free trade is the big one, like you've mentioned) that cause huge losses, and people nowadays often argue that it was an inevitability ("those jobs aren't coming back"). At the very least, there's now the benefit of "everyone has guaranteed health care, no matter what" as opposed to "cheaper consumer goods".
So I kind of hope that the type of people that consider Rust Belt workers a necessary sacrifice for their policy views aren't the same ones that are suddenly concerned about any policy that may harm health insurance employees!
(this could be a reflection of how our society views blue-collar vs. white-collar workers, but that's for a separate discussion I suppose)
I mean, why would you assume this? I like you but this strikes me as an assumption that happens to confirm the thing you want to be true! You should be very suspect of those assumptions.
I gave one example in my post -- Kaiser is an insurance provider that also owns hospitals to unify its provider network, so that all Kaiser doctors work in a Kaiser building. If Kaiser goes out of business those doctors don't just hang around doing doctor stuff for free in these free hospitals. That whole system needs to be rebuilt in some way. It's not a straightforward problem to solve.
Wouldn't those doctors just be reemployed underneath the public system though?
They still get paid, they just get paid directly from the federal government. Which they're probably already familiar with, assuming they accept Medicare/Medicaid (and is why any American bill should build on that, since that infrastructure is in place already, in addition to the branding benefits for a campaign)
I mean, another way to say "cheaper consumer goods" is "everybody has way more stuff," or "you can carry a computer around in your pocket and get all the world's information on it." Those are not minor benefits.
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Also in general I think people need to remember that jobs are fake ideas that exist to suck you into the capitalist mindset. There is no particularly good reason we should be coercing people to sell their labor by withholding food and shelter from them now that the second Industrial Revolution is happening and consumer goods are going to get as cheap as food got.
First, kill all the doctors.
First, kill all the doctors.
First, kill all the doctors.
Can med students role playing grad students make the cut?
Pol Pot wouldn't have bothered with these silly questions.by degree, profession, or anyone pretending to be one?
Pol Pot wouldn't have bothered with these silly questions.
I imagine the cavemen who attacked the ones who invented various forms of successful weaponry had a poor ROI.
I don't think it would be "easy" necessarily but I mean while I'm not an expert, Canada managed to make the switch relatively recently (1984) so they would've been largely private outside of the existing provincial systems before making the transition. I realize it's a bit trickier here because of the employer-based insurance but I can't imagine it's impossible.I think people are underestimating how complicated the Kaiser problem would be but I also think debating the exact details is missing the point, which is just that there are a lot of different setups across the country for people to get healthcare and insurance is not a tablecloth you pull out leaving all the dishes in place. It's more like a tablecloth you pull out flinging dishes all the way across the room. I feel like part of the reason we run into conflict about "incrementalist" ideas is just that people underestimate the complexity of currently functioning systems and the difficulty of replacing or changing them, even when they're imperfect (in fact, especially when they're imperfect).
Everybody saying that we could very easily just change America over to single-payer with no disruption should remember the Republican politicians filing out of briefing rooms in January 2017 saying "wow, we can't just repeal the ACA at all, healthcare is really complicated." Don't be those guys.
I don't think it would be "easy" necessarily but I mean while I'm not an expert, Canada managed to make the switch relatively recently (1984) so they would've been largely private outside of the existing provincial systems before making the transition. I realize it's a bit trickier here because of the employer-based insurance but I can't imagine it's impossible.
So apparently my state ranks dead last for internet speeds too? Man we really are the worst. Wait fucking Utah is way better than us? Is the problem with our state government that we need more, not less Mormons?
Yeah but they could at least try to make it a white supremacist utopia with good internet.Everybody in Idaho who isn't there because of Deseret is there because of the white supremacist utopia they tried to found in the Oregon Territory.
I don't think it would be "easy" necessarily but I mean while I'm not an expert, Canada managed to make the switch relatively recently (1984) so they would've been largely private outside of the existing provincial systems before making the transition. I realize it's a bit trickier here because of the employer-based insurance but I can't imagine it's impossible.
So apparently my state ranks dead last for internet speeds too? Man we really are the worst. Wait fucking Utah is way better than us? Is the problem with our state government that we need more, not less Mormons?
Wasteful spending. There's only two books you need - The Bible and The Art of the Deal.
In his opening remarks in Tokyo, Tillerson appeared to give a nod to those reassurances, however. North Korea and its people need not fear the United States or their neighbors in the region who seek only to live in peace with North Korea, he said.
Tillerson is the former chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil and has no previous diplomatic experience. He has kept a low profile since assuming his new job and has not attended some meetings with foreign leaders in the Oval Office, leading to speculation that he has little influence within the Trump administration.
Tillerson did not go to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo to meet staff Thursday morning, as is often customary. He instead stayed in his hotel, where he read and received briefings from embassy officials, a spokesman said.
Three. I'm pretty sure the Ayn Rand foundation or whatever the fuck it's called gives away copies of Atlas Shrugged.
As much as I love shitting on the GWB administration, I don't want to let Trump off the hook for the shit he is doing.Let's all take a moment to remember the time George W Bush told the North Koreans they were part of an Axis of Evil and they immediately dropped out of the denuclearization deal and started building a bomb.
George W Bush: literally personally responsible for everything that's gone wrong in the world since 2001.
My economics class forced me to read Atlas Shrugged, jesus christ oh my god that was awful why did they forsaken me like that. What 18 year old high school Senior wants to read freaking Atlas Shrugged
We read The Jungle. I thought it was boring but mostly I disliked it because of the aesthetics of Eastern European names.
I read this for the library science class I took in high school and it was probably the most a book every changed me! I thought the end at the time was sad though, because I "knew" socialism wasn't going to work out.We read The Jungle. I thought it was boring but mostly I disliked it because of the aesthetics of Eastern European names.
tbh The Crucible was made a thousand times better by the fact that it followed The Scarlet Letter, which is possibly the worst book I've had to read for class.I'd maybe make an exception for something like The Crucible or Inherit the Wind. If only because The Crucible movie from the 90's or whatever is so bad it's good. And Inherit the Wind is funny.
Why would an econ class read Atlas Shrugged? That makes no sense.
By Upton Sinclair?
I don't know. It was a joint project between economics and AP Literature. This was back in '08, I think there was some kind of Rand revival during this time.Why would an econ class read Atlas Shrugged? That makes no sense.
I liked not a penny more, not a penny less because it was like The Sting and Ocean's 11The Jungle is terrible too, really everything you get assigned in high school is complete garbage.
I'd maybe make an exception for something like The Crucible or Inherit the Wind. If only because The Crucible movie from the 90's or whatever is so bad it's good. And Inherit the Wind is funny.
The Jungle is terrible too, really everything you get assigned in high school is complete garbage.
I'd maybe make an exception for something like The Crucible or Inherit the Wind. If only because The Crucible movie from the 90's or whatever is so bad it's good. And Inherit the Wind is funny.