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发帖数: 1268 | 1 我说的勒紧裤腰带指忍受削减福利的痛苦。
比如，取消mortgage抵税的loophole，利息涨到10％, 私有化social security,
medicare，取消 subsidized education, 取消FDIC的insurance等。
你看哪个politician 敢干这些，敢提任何以上一个的都会被选民唾弃。
相反都是这些中产阶级消费是经济的驱动力之类的讨好中产阶级的rhetoric充斥耳边。 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 Tenants Feel Pinch of Rising Rents
By CONOR DOUGHERTY
Record-low mortgage rates mean that homeowners have a smaller financial
burden for their residences than at any time since the early 1980s.
But here's the bad news: Rising rents are squeezing many families and
leaving them with less to spend.
Several factors have pushed rents up. Rental and apartment housing is in
short supply but demand has grown after several years of foreclosures and
population growth.
Across the U.S., "effective" monthly ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 WSJ上一个人的评论:
John Trottman Wrote:
Poorly written article with bits and pieces strewn about which do not make
the reader truly understand the impact of this ACA mess.
Here are 3 points to consider.
1. If a plan is offered that does not cost more than 9.5% of the household
income for SINGLE coverage, it is affordable.
2. If it provides at least 60% reimbursement with generous out of pocket and
deductible provisions, it passes the benefits test.
3. Employers will set up "place card" plans that satis... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 双城记－－向左转的底特律和向右转的休斯顿；1900-1930年间，底特律是全世界增长
最快的城市，今天那里非婚生子女比例是80%，半数人口处于文盲状态
Tale of Two Cities
By Mona Charen
1/29/2013
It isn't often that you get reading suggestions from a United States senator
, but that's what happened this past weekend for those who attended the
National Review Institute's summit meeting in Washington, D.C.
The three-day conclave, part election post-mortem and part revival meeting (
that is, reviving conservatism and America), featured a bracing dose of
conservative intell... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1268 | 5 Government shouldn't run or subsidize any media, no matter how credible this
media is.
PBS
than |
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发帖数: 1268 | 6 美国之所以两党是现在这个模样，之所以ron paul被边缘化，就是因为中产阶级。
大家可以先wiki一下什么是Director's law.
美国federal government几乎所有不合理的政策都可以找出中产阶级的原因。
1. budget里面最大的两个炸弹，social security and medicare的收益者是中产阶级。
2. Iraq war, 当年为什么大家都支持？ 因为中产阶级的SUV tank太大了，需要便宜油。
3. Subsidize farmer, 因为中产阶级需要low food price.
4. Bubbles, 无论房市和股市，中产阶级需要equity 来支持奢侈糜烂的生活方式，需
要膨胀养老金。fed用0 interest rate，cheap money，政府用tax deduction (
loophole) 来来帮助中产阶级养房.
5. 工会政策，无论是蓝领工会，AMA, bar association, 收益人都是中产阶级。最可
笑的是码工说我们没有工会，但是我们还是有高收入，其实是国家通过h1签证限制，保
证high tech永远... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 Germany and Spain Move to Curb Green-Energy Supports .
By WILLIAM BOSTON and JAMES ANGELOS in Berlin and ILAN BRAT in Madrid
More than a decade ago, Germany and Spain created similar laws to
aggressively promote the adoption of renewable energy. The two countries
were again marching in step on Thursday—this time to fix a web of subsidies
and compensations they created for green energy that had the unintended
effect of driving up household electricity bills.
With Spain in the grips of recession, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 Lilly CEO Calls for Higher Drug Prices in Europe .
By SHIRLEY S. WANG
BRUSSELS—European nations should pay more for new medicines, Eli Lilly &
Co. Chief Executive John Lechleiter said in an interview, warning that the
current low prices could pose a threat to innovation in the region.
Government funding for research and policies that encourage innovation don't
make up for the fact that drug companies cannot receive prices that reflect
the value that those medicines bring to patients, said Dr. L... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1041 | 9 保險業者說,對某些自己買保險個人和小企業來說,明年保費可能會大漲.
Health insurers are privately warning brokers that premiums for many
individuals and small businesses could increase sharply next year because of
the health-care overhaul law, with the nation's biggest firm projecting
that rates could more than double for some consumers buying their own plans.
這跟歐巴馬行政團隊所說的保費會減少不一致
The projected increases are at odds with what the Obama Administration says
consumers should be expecting overall in terms of cost. The Department of
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 奥巴马医疗法案的负面影响：保险费用上升，价格上涨，7百万人可能会失去现有保险
，失业，赤字增加，官僚泛滥，医护人员短缺，10年后仍有3千万人没有医疗保险
ObamaCare Turns Three: 10 Disturbing Facts Americans Have Learned
By JOHN MERLINE, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Just over three years ago, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously quipped about
ObamaCare that "we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it."
But only now, as ObamaCare's third anniversary approaches — President Obama
signed it into law on March 23, 2010 — is the country starting to find out
what the s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21627 | 11 By DAVID A. STOCKMAN
GREENWICH, Conn. -- The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes reached
record highs on Thursday, having completely erased the losses since the
stock market’s last peak, in 2007. But instead of cheering, we should be
very afraid.
David Stockman
Over the last 13 years, the stock market has twice crashed and touched off a
recession: American households lost $5 trillion in the 2000 dot-com bust
and more than $7 trillion in the 2007 housing crash. Sooner or later —
within a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 Walker Sets Example for Republican Governors Tackling Medicaid
By: briansikma (Diary) | April 5th, 2013 at 11:15 AM |
Governor Scott Walker (R-Wisconsin) has possibly secured for himself a
unique front-runner spot among his fellow Republican governors and rumored
2016 presidential contenders on the issue of healthcare. The expansion of
Medicaid, once mandatory under ObamaCare, has now become nothing more than a
mere suggestion that states can choose to either accept or reject thanks to
the Su... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 WSJ的帖子，讲得和顶楼的一模一样，你会不会也笑了？
Venezuela’s Election Downshifts Views on Economy, Debt
By Charles Roth
We hear elections have consequences, which are usually obvious if the winner
’s mandate is strong. Venezuela’s snap election over the weekend has major
implications for the economy and the oil-rich nation’s debt, thinking on
which is changing fast.
The anointed heir of Venezuela’s defunct leader, Hugo Chavez, eked out a
wafer-thin majority of votes in Sunday’s snap presidential election, a
surprise ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 Massachusetts Democrat Vows to Open Tsarnaevs Welfare Records: “I will not
let it go”
by Jammie
Well, there’s at least one Democrat with some common sense. Go for it,
brother. These lowlifes do not deserve any privacy.
A top Democratic lawmaker is demanding the Patrick administration turn
over more documents detailing the taxpayer-funded lifestyle of the accused
marathon bombers — and the former prosecutor vowed he won’t give up until
every record is unearthed.
State Rep. David Linsky (D... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 How Obama Betrayed America
A policy of appeasement and intervention abets our enemies.
By David Horowitz
“If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the
indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see farther into the future.”
— Madeleine Albright, secretary of state (1997–2001), Clinton
administration
It is a judgment on Barack Obama’s timorous, apologetic, and irresponsible
conduct of foreign affairs that Madeleine Albright’s words, spoken little
more than 15 years ago, now sou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 Perry signed a bill making drug screenings mandatory for recipients of
unemployment.
Bill Hethcock
Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill that will require mandatory drug screening as
a condition for the receipt of unemployment compensation benefits by workers
in some fields.
Senate Bill 21 authorizes drug screenings for Texans receiving unemployment
benefits who work in fields where drug testing is mandatory for employment.
Those fields are designated by the United States Department of Labor, and
includ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1041 | 17 英文原文:
The Price of ‘Made in China’
By PETER NAVARRO
HERE is a symbol of China’s assault on the American economy: the Verrazano-
Narrows Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island. This landmark,
which opened in 1964, is North America’s longest suspension bridge. It’s
also in urgent need of renovation. Unfortunately, $34 million in steel
production and fabrication work has been outsourced to China.
How did this happen? The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says a
Chinese fabricator was... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1041 | 18 {There is a second reason not to buy “Made in China” products: jobs. The
abiding fact is that steel production is heavily subsidized by the Chinese
government. These subsidies range from the massive benefits of a
manipulated and undervalued currency to the underwriting of the costs of
energy, land, loans and water.}
其實我也覺得，對美國的鋼鐵公司來說，要與有這麼多政府補助的中國公司競爭真得很
不公平。可是，在幾十年前，美國自己的匹茲堡不也是這樣打垮德國的嗎? |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 在一些人认为只是发生了随机事件的时候，私营情报机构Stratfor的创始人兼董事长乔
治•弗里德曼(George Friedman)却往往看到了意义重大的地缘政治趋势。在近日
发布的《中国经济奇迹的终结》(The End of the Chinese Economic Miracle)的报告
中，弗里德曼陈述了自己有关中国出口战略正随着国内薪资上涨而油尽灯枯的观点。
一段时间以来，弗里德曼一直主张称，国民收入存在巨大差距和过度依赖对发达市场的
出口，将使中国缺乏足够内需去弥补未来增长机遇的缺口。在过去的十年中，中国消费
占国内生产总值(GDP)的比例基本未发生变化，一直维持在35%左右，而发达国家这一比
例差不多为70%。弗里德曼近期接受《巴伦周刊》(Barron's)电话采访时表示，中国真
正面临着多年的经济退化。
不过弗里德曼表示，如果说中国经济奇迹行将终结，那么坦桑尼亚、老挝和秘鲁的经济
奇迹才刚刚开始。他称，中国的日薄西山令其他国家（无论大小）利用自身低薪资的优
势成为了可能。它们将效仿中国的出口策略，推动国内经济快速增长，发展训练有素的
劳动力队伍，并在经济食... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 U.S. Rice Farmers Cash In On Venezuelan Socialism
U.S. Exporters Benefit as Production Falls in Latin American Country.
By SARA SCHAEFER MUÑOZ
U.S. rice farmers are making large profits from exports to Venezuela, thanks
to the impact of the late President Hugo Chavez's socialist policies. WSJ's
Sara Schaefer Munoz reports.
.
STUTTGART, Ark.—Steve Orlicek, a rice farmer here, is living the American
dream. He owns a thriving business; he vacations in the Bahamas.
His good fortune springs from... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3158 | 21 the first sentence from the article
"Walgreens will subsidize the cost of the policies"
later it says "Walgreens will contribute the same total share to health
care benefits next year as is did this year"
can you call it "现在没了"? |
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发帖数: 84 | 22 社会的单最后总要有人来买，直接看是年入 20/25 万以上的人及business 雇主。当然
最终是要看能否将医疗费用降下来，因为有太多希望它失败的人了。别的国家能做到
10% GDP 83 岁life expectance。美帝没有理由是 20% GDP, 79岁life expectance。
在这里多说也无益，自己去 check 一些 number, 在现有保险额度下：1. Obamacare 2
. 私人保险 3. employer (+subsidize) 的保费。 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 Congressional Benefits Cloud Health Fight
Impasse Involves Provision Requiring Lawmakers, Staff to Buy Insurance
Through Exchanges.
By LOUISE RADNOFSKY
and AMY SCHATZ
One of the disputes roiling Washington during the government shutdown is
whether the federal government should continue to subsidize health insurance
for members of Congress and their staff. The Obama administration has
published rules saying it will, and some Republicans again attacked that
move Friday as unfair.
The impasse invol... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 Census: 49% of Americans Get Gov’t Benefits; 82M in Households on Medicaid
October 23, 2013 - 4:51 PM
By Terence P. Jeffrey
(CNSNews.com) - In the fourth quarter of 2011, 49.2 percent of Americans
received benefits from one or more government programs, according to data
released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.
In total, the Census Bureau estimated, 151,014,000 Americans out of a
population then estimated to be 306,804,000 received benefits from one or
more government programs during the last three... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 Caroline Baum, a columnist for Bloomberg, offers suggestions to the Obama
administration that are extremely creative, extremely desperate, or a sign
Obamacare’s fans are having a collective nervous breakdown:
First, announce and advertise that everyone between the ages of 18 and
34 who enrolls on the health-care exchanges by the end of the year is
automatically entered in a lottery. Winners will receive everything from a
free iPhone or iPad to a full-year of health-care underwritten by Uncle... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 White House Forces Obamacare Insurers To Cover Unpaid Patients At A Loss
by Jammie
Of all of the last-minute delays, website bungles, and Presidential whims
that have marred the roll-out of Obamacare’s subsidized insurance exchanges
, what happened on Thursday, December 12 will stand as one of the most
lawless acts yet committed by this administration. The White House—having
canceled Americans’ old health plans, and having botched the system for
enrolling people in new ones—knows that millions o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4002 | 27 很显然，如果民主党政府在此项目上的花费超过了预期，和保险覆盖率没有达到预期效
果，将导致整个项目的崩盘。
ObamaCare explained... - note the following:
** Page 50/section 152: The bill will provide insurance to all non-U.S.
residents, even if they are here illegally.
** Page 58 and 59: The government will have real-time access to an
individual's bank account and will have the authority to make electronic
fund transfers from those accounts.
** Page 65/section 164: The plan will be subsidized by the government (
taxpayers) for all union members, unio... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7933 | 28 ** Page 50/section 152: The bill will provide insurance to all non-U.S.
residents, even if they are here illegally.
** Page 58 and 59: The government will have real-time access to an
individual's bank account and will have the authority to make electronic
fund transfers from those accounts.
** Page 65/section 164: The plan will be subsidized by the government (
taxpayers) for all union members, union retirees and for community
organizations.
** Page 203/line 14-15: The tax imposed under this sec... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1035 | 29 You don't know there is a thing called student loan? You are fortunate to
have positive income without a campus job. Most students would work to repay
their loan for a few years in their career. Per se your life is subsidized
by the taxpayers when you are a student.
Did your work generate anything to the society? 90% or more investment in
academia goes to sewage.
Be thankful. Don't whine.
是啊。我学物理的，靠两万块RA工资在波士顿过了六年。每天干活至少10个小时，周末
不休息。毕业的时候，学术界只有博士后的offer。反正进研究生院的时候就知道是这
个状况，所有ha........ |
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发帖数: 10729 | 30 你这帖子，把学校的全部否定。RA不就是job吗？
最后一段太逗了。
repay
subsidized |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 这个,左逼们来解释一下?
Health Reform Will Not Cut Emergency Room Visits, President Obama Hardest
Hit
One of President Obama's constant refrains during the battle over health
reform has been that expanding coverage would reduce inefficiency in the
system. In particular, he often cited expensive expensive emergency room
visits as something that reform could help reduce. But it turns out,
Obamacare, like Romneycare before it, is likely to increase emergency visits
, maybe substantially.
MIT News reports on a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 by: Alex Nussbaum
February 12, 2014
(Bloomberg) — Health insurers told to pay $150 billion in taxes over a
decade to help fund Obamacare are now shifting at least part of that cost
back to taxpayers.
Congress passed the insurer tax four years ago to help cover the uninsured
under the Affordable Care Act. Now, the industry is pushing to include some
of the cost in contracts with Medicaid programs for the poor that are
jointly funded by state and federal governments.
The strategy may add $36 billi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 Food Stamps for Weed? Yep, It's Happening in Colorado
by John Hayward 25 Feb 2014
This should not surprise anyone who has been paying attention to the growth
of Food Stamp Nation. According to National Review, EBT cards have been
used in Colorado to pull quite a bit of taxpayer cash at stores that sell
marijuana:
At least 64 times, public-assistance benefits were accessed at
businesses selling marijuana. A total of $5,475 in public benefits was
withdrawn at ATMs in establishments that sell ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 In the midst of chaos in Venezuela, a dependent Cuba and its economic future
is walking on a tight rope.
As Venezuela's economic woes deepen, with an annualized inflation rate
reaching 57 percent, and violent clashes between pro- and anti-government
protesters escalate, the probability of a new government is high, making
Cuba's future uncertain. Even if Nicolas Maduro, who succeeded the late Hugo
Chavez as president, stays in power, he could be forced to cut aid to Cuba
to help alleviate Venezue... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 Obamacare: State Dems’ Worst Nightmare
Troubles with liberal states’ exchanges are dragging down their Democratic
governors.
By Michael Tanner
As the bad news about Obamacare’s federal operations keeps on coming, it’s
worth keeping in mind that the law is a mess at the state level as well.
The big question will be whether the failures will hurt Democratic state
politicians as much as Obamacare appears likely to drag down national
Democrats. Most of the 17 states that chose to set up and operate ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21627 | 36 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: Military
标 题: America’s Crazy, Upside-Down Immigration System
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jul 21 14:17:03 2014, 美东)
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/07/americas-crazy-u
By VIVEK WADHWA
July 20, 2014
Does America's immigration system make sense to anyone?
The recent influx of thousands of migrant children from Central America has
highlighted the failure of reform efforts and gripped the nation’s
attention. This is a hum... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5601 | 37 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: truth (翠溪·永乐·民主·枫林·桃园·红卫), 信区: Military
标 题: Over 10 million adults gain coverage in Obamacare
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jul 24 22:26:06 2014, 美东)
http://news.yahoo.com/over-10-million-u-adults-gain-coverage-un
July 23, 2014 6:00 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An estimated 10.3 million American adults have gained
health coverage since Obamacare enrollment began last October, with the
biggest gains among young adults and Hispanics, according to a study
published on Wednesday.
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 Dick Cheney Is Still Right
Obama's return to Iraq reveals how wrong he has been about the world.
Sept. 9, 2014 7:24 p.m. ET
President Obama will lay out his plan to counter the Islamic State on
Wednesday night, and we'll judge the strategy on its merits. But the mere
fact that Mr. Obama feels obliged to send Americans to fight again in Iraq
acknowledges the failure of his foreign policy. He is tacitly admitting that
the liberal critique of the Bush Administration's approach to Islamic
terrorism ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 Companies Try to Escape Health Law’s Penalties
Some Employers Seek to Shift Employees to Medicaid; Others Plan to Offer ‘
Skinny’ Benefit Plans
By
Anna Wilde Mathews And Julie Jargon
Updated Oct. 21, 2014 9:17 p.m. ET
With companies set to face fines next year for not complying with the new
mandate to offer health insurance, some are pursuing strategies like
enrolling employees in Medicaid to avoid penalties and hold down costs.
The health law’s penalties, which can amount to about $2,000 per ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 via Breitbart Feed
According to Gov. Jerry Brown’s top policy aide, Brown wants to let illegal
immigrants protected by Barack Obama’s new executive amnesty become
eligible for state-funded Medi-Cal coverage.
Nancy McFadden, speaking Wednesday at an event run by the leftist Public
Policy Institute of California, implied that one hurdle to Brown’s action
would be the cost, according to the Los Angeles Times: “We’re still
evaluating, but the president’s recent action on undocumented immigrants
cou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 Democrats lost the South through culture war and elitism
By Timothy P. Carney | December 9, 2014 | 6:00 pm
If not for Southern Democrats, Republicans would have nearly had a
filibuster-proof Senate supermajority after the 2002 elections, giving
George W. Bush some real clout. Without Southern senators, Democrats wouldn
’t have taken over the Senate with Jim Jeffords’ party switch in 2001. If
not for Southern Democrats, Obamacare wouldn’t have become law.
For the foreseeable future, though, Democ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times - Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Jonathan Gruber, the White House adviser infamously captured on video
crediting Obamacare’s passage to the “stupidity” of the American people,
admitted in a 2009 policy brief that the health care package was
unaffordable — and the way to trim costs was to make the insured pay for
expensive treatments.
The Daily Caller first reported the existence of the policy brief, which
included Mr. Gruber’s view that Obamacare was abs... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 The New Privileged Class: Illegal Immigrants
By Michael Bargo Jr.
The belief is widely held that those who are wealthy or possess great
political power are above the law and do not have to respond to the legal
constraints endured by the great masses of Americans. Those on the left
who profess to support the poor and middle classes are quick to point out
that the wealthy class can afford to have better access to the legal system.
They can afford the best lawyers and rarely receive lengthy pri... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 Ill. Governor Challenges Union Bosses’ ‘Unconstitutional’ Forced Dues
Powers
March 23, 2015 - 2:17 PM
By Mark Mix
On Monday, February 9, 2015, Rauner issued an executive order prohibiting
unions from collecting so-called fair share fees from non-union members. (AP
Photo)
Three Illinois state employees have moved to intervene in support of
Governor Bruce Rauner’s federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality
of union officials’ power to force nonmember state employees to pay union
fees as a c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 Thanks to the EPA, Even If You Like Your Shower, You Can't Keep It
March 24, 2015 - 4:38 PM
By Ernest Istook
A good shower is one of life's simple pleasures. Until it gets interrupted
by government.
If you like your shower, you probably can't keep it once the bureaucrats are
done. The War on Women and Men Taking Showers began with a 1992 law that
restricts how much water can flow through each nozzle. In 2010, the feds
cracked down against multiple-nozzle showerheads. Now the EPA wants to limit
h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3158 | 46 OMG, you think TW signing a few treaties with China Mainland was to
right their ship, and you wanted to use this as your arguing point?
North Korea could sign such treaties in a heart beat if China was to
subsidize them that much.
Even you think this is at least an action from their democratic system
to right their ship, the key is still how to execute the policy.
Did'nt you follow up with this and realize that the majority of the ECFA
such as 服务贸易协议 and 货品贸易协议 have been blocked in TW thanks to
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d*b
发帖数: 4184 | 47 OK liberals, this list is your top ten most liberal cities in the US. These
are your cities.
1 Detroit Michigan
I don't think much needs to be said about Detroit.
Detroit also came in second in crime. The crime in Detroit is so bad, the
crime has it's own wiki page. Serious, look it up. The most financially
insolvent city in this country just happens to be the one with the second
highest crime rate. Therefore, we can assume based on this city alone that
if your cities economy goes into the toile... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 48 Mike Rowe Gently Smacks Down a Stupid Liberal
We love Mike Rowe. Everything we know about him, we love. We especially love
Mike’s work ethic and his direct way of speaking. You really can’t
misunderstand Mike. Take this, for instance.
Mike Rowe has a foundation and he promotes blue collar trades work. Please
note the name of this scholarship, “Work Ethic Scholarship.” He’s taken
some heat for that.
Mike answered Craig in his patented Mike Rowe way .
Hi Craig, and Happy Sunday!
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 49 More Obamacare Sticker Shock: HMO Rates Up 20%, EPO Up 18%, 12% Overall;
Death Spiral for Insurers?
If you did not have insurance before Obamacare, but do now, or if you are
heavily subsidized, you may consider Obamacare a blessing.
If you are not in those select groups, then you are highly likely to be
paying more for insurance now than before. And it's going to get worse. Some
plan types really take a premium hit.
Premiums Jump 12% On Average
Health Pocket reports Obamacare Insurers Propose 12... 阅读全帖 |
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r*****p
发帖数: 1964 | 50 非法移民哪里领得到food stamp，住得到subsidized housing？ |
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