What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

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Fuck you Merc. I hate siding with Vette but picking apples doesn't seem to be complicated. Not in a world where a computer can pinpoint my location on a globe and give me directions or fly a plane. Picking apples sounds simple to if you were working at it to drive prices down instead of using "damn" Mexicans.

Fine, soft peaches.

Blueberries.

Tomatoes and peppers - remember they're packed densely in fields and there's no harvest, just constant picking when certain ones are ready and others are not.


Separate inventions for each of these things are a long ways off.
 
Fine, soft peaches.

Blueberries.

Tomatoes and peppers - remember they're packed densely in fields and there's no harvest, just constant picking when certain ones are ready and others are not.


Separate inventions for each of these things are a long ways off.

How many inventions were needed to get us to space or to create drones? Not working towards something because there is no good reason is a great reason not to work towards it.
 
How many inventions were needed to get us to space or to create drones? Not working towards something because there is no good reason is a great reason not to work towards it.


I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying that at least Vette will be dead before it happens.
 
*pressed, scared motherfucker bullshit squawk*

Stay pressed and keep derping your fears online, hunty. You got a whole day to do it with, so I'll leave you to it and come back much much much much much later — like, later than the time you take to do breakfasts at McDonald's with your friends — to see again what you've done with your life today.

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Texas also has poor educational outcomes and the highest percentage of uninsured citizens of any state at 26.3% as of the census, likely pushing 30% today. And that's counting people with terrible insurance that doesn't cover anything as "insured". And Rick Perry is currently blocking the Obamacare Medicaid expansion in his state even though it's paid for by the federal government and helps working Texans.

Conservatives like to hold up Texas as a shining example of conservative economics. But what they fail to mention is that the state has a constant windfall of natural resources. I'd like to see the same principles applied in Minnesota. Regardless, Texas is something like 300 billion in debt and is trying to close their gap by cutting even more Medicaid and suspending their own laws saying K-4 class sizes have to be limited to 22 kids or less and teacher-student ratios can go to hell.

Yes the government says all kids legal and illegal are equal in you cannot question citizenship and if you hadn't noticed Mexico just south of Texas, again all kinds of illegals come to county hospitals because by law they can be turned away and the federal government doesn't fund the county hospitals many have went bankrupt because of it.
O so when the federal government pays it, it's all good they didn't have to take from one to give to another:confused:
yes god blessed Texas with abundance of natural resources unlike other states we are thankful for it and use them.
OK let Minnesota have the problems that illegals bring with them see you have all the answers because you don't live where the problems are.
The way we fund schools needs to be fixed robin hood sucks hope the state legislators fix that in the next 140 days they meet for next two years and by law Texas must have a balanced budget.
 
Yes the government says all kids legal and illegal are equal in you cannot question citizenship and if you hadn't noticed Mexico just south of Texas, again all kinds of illegals come to county hospitals because by law they can be turned away and the federal government doesn't fund the county hospitals many have went bankrupt because of it.
O so when the federal government pays it, it's all good they didn't have to take from one to give to another:confused:
yes god blessed Texas with abundance of natural resources unlike other states we are thankful for it and use them.
OK let Minnesota have the problems that illegals bring with them see you have all the answers because you don't live where the problems are.
The way we fund schools needs to be fixed robin hood sucks hope the state legislators fix that in the next 140 days they meet for next two years and by law Texas must have a balanced budget.


Texas doesn't have a law that requires a balanced budget, not really. Legislators are allowed to defer paying for things to a future budget whenever there's a deficit. So they whip up some accounting tricks and then call it a triumph for fiscal conservatism.

How else would you fund Texas schools which conservatives have decided need to have huge class sizes because they can't afford teachers despite the state's vast wealth. If you don't want to take money from people who have it to fund schools, are you going to take money from people who don't have it?

How would you fix Texas' health care system that's completely in shambles? Texas ranks 51st in percentage of its citizens who are insured at 26.5%, a figure that increases about 1% per year. That was 2010 so the actual percentage is now probably just under 30%. Even if there weren't any illegals in Texas your state's hospitals would be incurring massive losses just from having to treat Texans. And the problem is getting worse extremely fast.

Hospitals and doctors are begging Rick Perry to accept the Obamacare Medicaid expansion that's paid for by the Feds, not Texas. But Perry is blocking it anyway, letting loads of Texans suffer needlessly. And just to be clear, the Medicaid expansion raises the bar to include Texans who work but are still poor (your state has gobs of working poor), so it's not a handout to people who choose not to work. Those people will still be required to buy insurance under the new standards but instead of having Medicaid, they'll have to buy it on their own.

This is why conservatives so often can't lead: it's party ideology over reality 24/7.
 
Puppy Tax? Even Vet Costs Will Go Up Under Health Care Law




American consumers are enjoying a brief “calm before the storm” reprieve when it comes to health care costs and the implementation of President Obama’s health care law. National health care spending slowed again in 2011, according to the the study by Health Affairs based on data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The rate of increase in health spending, 3.9% in 2011, was the same as in 2009 and 2010. That’s compared to the more than 5% increase in spending each year from 1961 to 2007.

House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp dug a bit deeper into the analysis accompanying the report and found that once the health care exchanges and Medicaid expansion included in the bill begin to take effect in 2014, private health insurance premium growth will increase 108% faster than what would have occurred prior to the health care law.

But there are already signs that health care spending could escalate after the main provisions of the health care law go into effect in 2014 and more than 30 million uninsured Americans enter the system.

Young workers between the ages of 21 and 29 could see their health care premiums go up as much as 42% under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a new study from management consulting firm Oliver Wyman.

That’s because of a provision that restricts the amount by which rates can vary for different aged enrollees, a phenomenon which is known as age band compression. The result of age band compression is that younger people will have to pay more for their coverage than they do now so that older people can pay less – the old “rob Peter to pay Paul” argument



American consumers are enjoying a brief “calm before the storm” reprieve when it comes to health care costs and the implementation of President Obama’s health care law. National health care spending slowed again in 2011, according to the the study by Health Affairs based on data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The rate of increase in health spending, 3.9% in 2011, was the same as in 2009 and 2010. That’s compared to the more than 5% increase in spending each year from 1961 to 2007.

House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp dug a bit deeper into the analysis accompanying the report and found that once the health care exchanges and Medicaid expansion included in the bill begin to take effect in 2014, private health insurance premium growth will increase 108% faster than what would have occurred prior to the health care law.

But there are already signs that health care spending could escalate after the main provisions of the health care law go into effect in 2014 and more than 30 million uninsured Americans enter the system.

Young workers between the ages of 21 and 29 could see their health care premiums go up as much as 42% under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a new study from management consulting firm Oliver Wyman.

That’s because of a provision that restricts the amount by which rates can vary for different aged enrollees, a phenomenon which is known as age band compression. The result of age band compression is that younger people will have to pay more for their coverage than they do now so that older people can pay less – the old “rob Peter to pay Paul” argument
 
Texas doesn't have a law that requires a balanced budget, not really. Legislators are allowed to defer paying for things to a future budget whenever there's a deficit. So they whip up some accounting tricks and then call it a triumph for fiscal conservatism.

How else would you fund Texas schools which conservatives have decided need to have huge class sizes because they can't afford teachers despite the state's vast wealth. If you don't want to take money from people who have it to fund schools, are you going to take money from people who don't have it?

How would you fix Texas' health care system that's completely in shambles? Texas ranks 51st in percentage of its citizens who are insured at 26.5%, a figure that increases about 1% per year. That was 2010 so the actual percentage is now probably just under 30%. Even if there weren't any illegals in Texas your state's hospitals would be incurring massive losses just from having to treat Texans. And the problem is getting worse extremely fast.

Hospitals and doctors are begging Rick Perry to accept the Obamacare Medicaid expansion that's paid for by the Feds, not Texas. But Perry is blocking it anyway, letting loads of Texans suffer needlessly. And just to be clear, the Medicaid expansion raises the bar to include Texans who work but are still poor (your state has gobs of working poor), so it's not a handout to people who choose not to work. Those people will still be required to buy insurance under the new standards but instead of having Medicaid, they'll have to buy it on their own.

This is why conservatives so often can't lead: it's party ideology over reality 24/7.

Do you live in the state of Texas are pay property taxes to a school district are a county in this state:confused:
I noticed you said state hospitals that's telling me you haven't got a clue how things work here we don't have state hospitals the one's that are state are mental crazy houses which I think you need be in.
Each county has there own which the people who live in that county fund with property taxes example parkland is the county hospital of Dallas county the same place JFK went after he got through his head someone didn't like him.The federal government has forced a unfunded mandate on the state of Texas with the legal immigrants.
Texas balanced budget is in our state constitution ass clown o wait again you don't live here and what's silly thing like a constitution matter to people like you.

Look you dumb fuck nothing is a free hand out from the federal government they must take from one to give to another what part of the you not understand.
You think just because it's from the (federal government) someone didn't have to be forced in to giving it:confused:
 
It will probably create a lot of part time jobs out of full time jobs as well.

yes

under 40 hrs

then the gov will change the rules and the hrs will be lowered even more and or everyone will be independent contractors
 
:rolleyes:Secret gun-rights provision in ObamaCare?



By golly, Nancy Pelosi was right — they didn’t know what was in ObamaCare until it passed! Of course, in this case all she needed to do was ask her buddy Harry Reid, who apparently sandbagged his party’s gun-control wing by inserting an interesting clause in the 2800-page bill that no one in Congress bothered to read before voting on it. CNN’s Jim Acosta reveals the restriction on firearms-registration data collection built into the 2010 law:


The reason Reid inserted this clause, CNN reports without ever having actually talked to Reid (he declined comment), was to make the NRA “benign” in the ObamaCare fight — and to push back against “conspiracy theorists” who claimed that the bill would allow Barack Obama to start grabbing guns. Hey, that would never happen, right? Sure.

In any case, this isn’t that much of a bar on Congressional action. What can be done in this manner can be undone in the same manner. I’d keep an eye on any thousand-page bill rushed to the floor in this session to see if Reid reverses course.
 
:rolleyes:Secret gun-rights provision in ObamaCare?



By golly, Nancy Pelosi was right — they didn’t know what was in ObamaCare until it passed! Of course, in this case all she needed to do was ask her buddy Harry Reid, who apparently sandbagged his party’s gun-control wing by inserting an interesting clause in the 2800-page bill that no one in Congress bothered to read before voting on it. CNN’s Jim Acosta reveals the restriction on firearms-registration data collection built into the 2010 law:


The reason Reid inserted this clause, CNN reports without ever having actually talked to Reid (he declined comment), was to make the NRA “benign” in the ObamaCare fight — and to push back against “conspiracy theorists” who claimed that the bill would allow Barack Obama to start grabbing guns. Hey, that would never happen, right? Sure.

In any case, this isn’t that much of a bar on Congressional action. What can be done in this manner can be undone in the same manner. I’d keep an eye on any thousand-page bill rushed to the floor in this session to see if Reid reverses course.

Thank gawd good ole Jim Acosta read the law that was passed two years ago and uncovered the secret, hidden provision! Dude has mad reading skills, to find that when nobody else was able to after all this time.:rolleyes:
 
yes

under 40 hrs

then the gov will change the rules and the hrs will be lowered even more and or everyone will be independent contractors

I hate to beat a dead horse, guys, but everyone being independent contractors is tired and old. The trend did start under gb, and for some reason continues to this day. Ask AIG what it's all about. That's if they can get their head out of their ass long enough to answer.
 
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