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Not if she picks Warren as her running mate. They hit the campaign trail together today and both spoke very harshly about Wall Street.
As long as she picks a real proggresive VP, she will be held to that standard.
Virginia GOP delegate sues for freedom to vote against Trump
There's now a legal challenge behind the "Never Trump" movement.
Virginia Republican delegate Beau Correll filed a federal lawsuit on Friday seeking the freedom to vote for someone other than Donald Trump at the party's national convention in July.
"Donald Trump does not exhibit the judgment, the competency for the highest office in the land," Correll told CBS News.
But state law compels all Virginia delegates to vote "for the candidate receiving the most votes in the primary," even though party rules allocate delegates differently.
Correll, a Ted Cruz supporter, says the law violates his First Amendment rights.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/virginia...against-trump/
Not if she picks Warren as her running mate. They hit the campaign trail together today and both spoke very harshly about Wall Street.
As long as she picks a real proggresive VP, she will be held to that standard.
Yep. Sounds like my son's classmates. They all shut up when the teacher says, "Free college tuition and free healthcare sounds wonderful until they start taking it out of your paycheck." And these are all mostly low-income, (gifted) hispanic kids aspiring to be doctors, lawyers, engineers and such.They won't always live with their parents like you do. As they start to actually get jobs and make money they will vote their economic interest.
The baby boomers you despise were the hated Woodstock generation liberals of the 60's and 70's.
I had hair down to the middle of my back and smoked pot like crazy
Health care is proposed to be paid with an increase in payroll tax. The tradeoff would be removal of the health care burden on business entire.
His education would be paid for by:
https://berniesanders.com/issues/its...and-debt-free/The cost of this $75 billion a year plan is fully paid for by imposing a tax of a fraction of a percent on Wall Street speculators who nearly destroyed the economy seven years ago. More than 1,000 economists have endorsed a tax on Wall Street speculation and today some 40 countries throughout the world have imposed a similar tax including Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, and China. If the taxpayers of this country could bailout Wall Street in 2008, we can make public colleges and universities tuition free and debt free throughout the country.
Your dumbed down interpretation is based on bull even if common amongst poor whites in the south.
So is the "referendum" on you leaving the board if she wins in place?thinking Shillary will be president
Just curious if you have any guts. I know you need this site, it's a big step for trolling addict.
This is a major conservative tenet. People will react for themselves before the greater good. This is what capitalism, the free market, and conservative economics are broadly based on IMO. I don't think there is any generation that does not act selfishly in some way unless faced with a real threat like Hitler. One can actually get people to work together in large numbers if a threat is deemed real. This is why people like Trump try to invent or vastly exaggerate perceived threats. This produces a voting wave of unity.
It is also perplexing to me how many generations, including this one, can be duped into thinking WE are the special ones that are living in uniquely dire times. It is also a bit amusing, but usefully comforting, how generations are so neatly packaged so we think we can explain behavior, or just label and organize.
Do you have anything else other than your re ed emoticon?
You go ahead and believe these politicians and economists - much I'm sure like people believed them on Obamacare - which almost none of their predictions have come true. They always underestimate and feed their bs to us voters who should know better. If Medicare is in trouble after workers' lifetimes' contributions, what % payroll tax are they selling to pay for healthcare that now consumes 18% of GDP. There is no way of getting around us paying a LOT more taxes (in addition to continuing paying for Medicare) and for what - to go to hospitals that look like those in the VA?
Most of my son's classmates will get free rides to great universities through hard work and being low-income hispanics so their college tuition and (with continued hard work) futures are pretty set - what they are reminded of now is the idea that their hard worked money will be going to pay for others' "free" healthcare. Everyone wants "free" but nothing is free and someone must pay - most likely the working middle class. I guess the question should be who will be working when all this stuff is guaranteed "free"?
Does Bow Tie got actually have any pull with Repug voters?
He puts me to sleep.
Imo bowtie and the late William Buckley actually tried to think through their positions instead of lower brainstem reflex responsive neural behavior. And they usually did not attempt to be disingenuous, even if their positions might be distasteful.
So I would answer absolutely NO. For the people voting for Trump.
Boots and Splits pretending to uphold moral superiority and then wishing death upon "the other side" of their choosing...
"Gifted" indeed.
Mock all you want, but I haven't seen a more ambitious, hard-working set of kids in my life. They know that the ticket out of poverty is education. Now as far as the label "gifted" is concerned - yes, the public schools abuse it because gifted kids bring more funds. On average, there should only be 1 gifted child per 100 so the numbers who are labelled gifted are WAY over that percentage."Gifted" indeed.
I'd vote No for the vast majority. George Will is on an opposite pole with the growing, stubborn anti-intellectualism of the right. Thoughtfulness is not valued over bravado.
All deflection from your previous post. Both you and your "gifted" children's insructor are liars and frauds.
How'd believing politicians and economists like Obama and Gruber on Obamacare do for most of the working middle class? Who were the liars? There's a lot of history to prove that what the politicians promise and what happened in reality are vastly different - take your pick of any social welfare/government program.
Was there anything wrong with health care before Obama got a hold of it?
What was the Bush plan? What is the Trump plan?
So healthcare was all good under Republican care?
What economist who is relevant today best fits how you think economies really function?
Here is the GOP ACA replacement plan:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/....pdf?tid=a_inl
IMO, single, able-bodied people without children should not be on Medicaid but the plan allows for continuation for those states who expanded Medicaid through Obamacare and stops expansion for the other states. Other than that, I'd like to see people on health sharing ministries be allowed to use the tax credit, HSAs and counted as continuous coverage (meaning everybody has access to a "tax credit" either through employer or individual). This plan will hopefully foster compe ion, posting of prices/shopping, remove burdensome regulations, reduce the financial incentive to NOT work/earn more (to get subsidies) and hopefully doctor/patient relationships (less between doc and patient). I love the HSA so people are encouraged to save for future medical expenses and those who are relatively healthy will be able to a get catastrophic insurance and bank the rest in HSA for the future instead of burning it up in premiums for ACA's mandated essential benefits. It retains the pre-existing and kids under 26 parts.
Here's Forbes' review of the plan:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypip.../#6580a10b5341
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"foster compe ion"
This is dumb again. What didn't come true?
And we shouldn't believe the experts but instead we should believe politicians with obvious bias and conflict of interest due to how special interests work?
You make it seem as if he hasn't targeted taxes and he has. Now you're moving the goal posts to this incredulity bull ? I just quoted where the money was going to come from and it's not free. You should stop repeating yourself like an idiot when you've been answered.
It's not my emoticon. I borrowed it from spurstalk. You used the word Hillary and the concept of a higher standard in the same sentence. Nothing else seems necessary
boutons, Bernie's free healthcare is not gonna happen. It'll be a continuation of Obamacare if Clinton wins or the above GOP plan if Trump wins. Read the plan with an open mind, and decide if it's better than what we will have when all of Obamacare's cadillac plan, phaseout of risk corridors, etc eventually occur - it's not gonna be pretty. Catastrophic plans with tax-credited HSAs (IMO) is the way to go for the majority of the US - relatively cheap with flexibility."foster compe ion"
Remember the cost for my diagnostic mammogram and bilateral ultrasound (both a level higher than the basic screening versions) is $80 cash each when there is no middleman. Also, check out the prices from https://www.directlabs.com/Home/CWP/...S/Default.aspx for blood tests - look how cheap they are compared to if done through QuestLab or LabCorp. All the below Directlab tests (Comprehensive Wellness Profile) cost a total of ONLY $69 (special in the month of December) - regularly $97. Think of all the healthy people who could use that once a year and how much saved. Note: I'm not advocating self-diagnosis (Directlab provides the prescription) - but when I gave my daughter's lab results to the pediatrician, she was amazed - no way could anywhere she could send my daughter to cost so little.
Only $97
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RBC—Red blood cells are responsible for carrying oxygen to and carbon dioxide away from all cells.
Hemoglobin—A chemical compound inside red cells that transports oxygen through the blood stream to all cells of the body. Oxygen is needed for healthy organs. Hemoglobin gives the red color to blood.
Hematocrit—Hematocrit measures the amount of space red blood cells take up in the blood.
MCV—MCV reflects the size of red blood cells by expressing the volume occupied by a single red blood cell.
MCH Mean—Corpuscular Hemoglobin is one way to measure the average hemoglobin concentration within red blood cells.
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Protein, Total—Proteins are the most abundant compound in serum. The protein makeup of the individual is of important diagnostic significance because of protein's involvement in enzymes, hormones, and antibodies as well as osmotic pressure balance, maintaining acid-base balance, and as a reserve source of nutrition for the body's tissues and muscles.
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Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN)—A by-product of protein metabolism eliminated through the kidneys.
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Chloride, Serum—Similar to sodium, it helps to maintain the body's electrolyte balance.
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Glucose— Glucose, formed by the digestion of carbohydrates and the conversion of glycogen by the liver, is the primary source of energy for most cells. It is regulated by insulin, glucagon, thyroid hormone, liver enzymes, and adrenal hormones.
Last edited by rmt; 06-28-2016 at 02:10 PM.
It's well do ented that what has been promised/projected for Obamacare has not happened - Obama ($2500, keep your doctor/plan, cut costs), CBO (enrollment projections - 13 million instead of 21 million in 2016), Gruber (see the many videos). Are these the "experts" we should believe in? I guess it all depends on whether you believe that the money they plan on collecting is gonna cover universal health care. Color me doubtful - there's not a single government program that's not fraught with waste, over-spending, inefficiency - this is not counting when they divert funds from one area to whatever area they feel fit or just putting it on the tab for future generations.
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