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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By Adam Yoshida
I have longed argued that one of the primary problems with the thinking of
our well-meaning liberal friends is that they tend to live in the world of "
wouldn't it be nice" and then attempt to argue that people who dissent from
this view are just plain bad. Nowhere is that tendency better exemplified
than in the battle over Climate Change.
Most of us are familiar with the concept of the "prisoner's dilemma." It's
an exercise in game theory where two men are arrested for a crime... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 Thirty percent of employers will definitely or probably stop offering health
benefits to their employees once the main provisions of President Obama's
federal health care law go into effect in 2014, a new survey finds.
The research published in the McKinsey Quarterly found that the number rises
to 50 percent among employers who are highly aware of the health care law.
McKinsey and Company, which identifies itself as a management consultant
that aims to help businesses run more productively and c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 By Gary Jason
Two recent reports remind us of how ridiculous the Department of
Transportation is when it comes to passenger rail service and offer
additional insight into why this nation is heading towards bankruptcy.
The first story is that Amtrak, our socialized passenger rail service,
racked up an operating loss of $506 million this calendar year. The bad
news is that this is a considerable increase from last year's loss of $420
million. The worse news is that next year's loss is projected ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 Dr. Victor Davis Hanson拆穿奥巴马的各种此一时彼一时：2006年投票反对提高借贷
上限的奥巴马，现在说反对提高借贷上限是胡闹
Reckless Fiscal Policies”
Why did Obama only enumerate George W. Bush’s big spending as responsible
for the out-of-control $14 trillion-plus debt, while not mentioning his own
contribution of $5 trillion? Why is there a debt limit standoff now, rather
than, say, in 2009 or 2010? Why did this latest $1.6 trillion Obama budget
prompt the current crisis? Why did not Obama earlier start debt limit talks
the moment that his own... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 佩林轰奥巴马治下的裙带资本主义盛行：从通用电气（GE）拿了5亿联邦贷款保证然后
关门大吉的“绿色能源”Solyndra
Crony Capitalism on Steroids from GE to Solyndra
by Sarah Palin on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 8:25pm
In my recent speech in Iowa
, some eyebrows were raised when I took on our government’s enormous
economic problems caused by crony capitalism. As if on cue, just days later
President Obama selected someone who exemplifies a major crony capitalism
problem to sit next to the First Lady when he delivered his “jobs plan”
speech before ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 15 | 6 http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell1.asp
保守派作家中最为睿智的一位，总是能非常简单的说明一个问题。Limbaugh, Coulter,
Hannity 还有FOX的王牌R'reilly虽然都很能舌辩，但是深度上要差一些。
The ‘Ponzi’ Sound Bite
By Thomas Sowell
Many in the media and in politics have gone ballistic over the fact that
Texas Governor Rick Perry called Social Security "a Ponzi scheme."
Although many act shocked, shocked, as if Rick Perry had said something
unthinkable, Governor Perry is not even among the first thousand people to
call Social Security a Ponzi sch... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 October 2, 2011 - 3:59 pm - by Victor Davis Hanson
The Parting of the Clouds
In every literary, historical or cinematic masterpiece, times must grow
darkest before the sunrise and deliverance. Tolkien worked that classical
theme to great effect. A sense of fatalism overtook a seemingly doomed
Gondor — right before the overthrow of Barad-dûr and the dawn of a new
age of men. The historian Herodotus, in literary fashion, also brilliantly
juxtaposed the Greek collapse at Thermopylae (the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 American Crony Capitalism Brings Jobs to Finland
by Sarah Palin on Friday, October 21, 2011 at 1:09pm
Yesterday, another shoe dropped in the chronicles of the Obama
administration’s crony capitalism. A start-up electric car company with
ties to Al Gore got a $529 million loan guarantee from Obama’s Department
of Energy to build luxury electric cars...in Finland! Leaving aside the fact
that to date only two of these $97,000 cars have been sold (one of them to
a movie star), we might at least hop... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 人造全球暖化歇斯底里最后花光了其他人的钱：荷兰无力补贴“绿色能源”风力发电了
，去年砸进去45亿欧元
(Reuters) - When the Netherlands built its first sea-based wind turbines in
2006, they were seen as symbols of a greener future.
Towering over the waves of the North Sea like an army of giants, blades
whipping through the wind, the turbines were the country's best hope to curb
carbon emissions and meet growing demand for electricity.
The 36 turbines -- each one the height of a 30-storey building -- produce
enough electricity to meet the needs of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 By ROBIN SIDEL
Jason Scherr had a lot on his mind the day after he opened his fifth Think
Coffee shop in Manhattan last week. The fan was blowing too hard, the
classical music was playing a little too loudly—and he was trying to figure
out how to get more customers to pay with cash.
Manhattan coffee-shop owner Jason Scherr says his debit-card fees are higher
since the Dodd-Frank law.
A new law that was supposed to reduce costs for merchants that accept debit
cards has instead sent Mr. Scherr's m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 Top 10 Inconvenient Truths about Global Warming
by Human Events
12/10/2011
Global warming alarmists are getting a chilly reception these days as the
public is starting to catch on to something that we have been yelling about
for years: The whole thing is a scam. And here are the reasons why: The
Top 10 Inconvenient Truths about Global Warming.
1. Climategate, Part 2: A second, massive batch of damaging e-mails has
been released that casts into question the scientific integrity of climate
re... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 By Greg Autry and Peter Navarro
December 11, 2011
A Los Angeles firm has quietly assembled a Trojan horse electric car
designed to carry the Chinese military-industrial complex deep into America'
s auto market. Detroit should be afraid, very afraid. And anyone in the U.S.
unemployment line — along with American taxpayers, who are subsidizing
this sham — should be outraged.
The car is branded Coda and debuted at the L.A. Auto Show. While Coda
Automotive salespeople were eager to portray it as "Al... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 December 17, 2011
By Matt Palumbo
There are many myths that proponents of socialized medicine commonly use to
advance their cause. One thing that is true, however, is that rising costs
are a major flaw in the current system. In due time, this problem could
well constitute a "crisis."
There are many different ways to combat rising costs: rationing and price
controls, increasing subsidies to health care (and thus further masking
costs), or market competition. Rationing has its obvious consequen... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 Posted on December 12th, 2011
post by Steve Oliver
The current #Occupier of the White House loves to tell us about the “failed
policies of the past…” But let’s have a look at what the real failed
policies of the past are:
The War on Poverty.
According to the Census Bureau, in 1966 the poverty rate was 11.8%. It has
remained in a range between 8.7% and 12.3% for the last 46 years. Fail.
Giving money to people with no strings attached does not eliminate poverty.
Helping those who cannot help ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2406 | 15 Ron Paul is a Medical Doctor, and is still practicing in theprivste sector
while serving in the Congress.
Ron Paul also served in the Air Force.
Ron Paul also voted NO on all that can or draw explicit authorization from
the Constition.
Romney signed government mandate od health insurance.
Perry signed off on taxpayer money subsidizing illegal aliens.
I would rather fewer 实事 like those get done.
Romney will lose in general election for sure. He can't pass the healthcare
debate against OB, and he ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4050 | 16 Newt Gingrich is smarter than you. Don't feel bad, he's smarter than
everybody else, too. Just ask him. Or look at what he's done.
Repeated adultery with younger women, while each successive wife was
seriously ill --- and all along Newt was proclaiming himself a champion of
family values. Attacking mortgage lender Fannie Mae, while secretly getting
paid $1.6 million as a lobbyist for them – and claiming he was a "historian
," not a lobbyist. Attacking Congress for gridlock, when personally led t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 January 25, 2012 | Posted by Rick Rice
Calvin Woodward is going to pay a price for this one:
It was a wish list, not a to-do list.
President Barack Obama laid out an array of plans in his State of the
Union speech as if his hands weren’t so tied by political realities. There
can be little more than wishful thinking behind his call to end oil industry
subsidies – something he could not get through a Democratic Congress, much
less today’s divided Congress, much less in this election year.
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发帖数: 4050 | 18 why is this called fact-checking in in the first place?
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OBAMA: “We have subsidized oil companies for a century. That’s long
enough. It’s time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that’s
rarely been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that
’s never been more promising.”
THE FACTS: This is at least Obama’s third run at stripping subsidies
from the oil industry. Back when fellow Democrats formed the House and
Senate majorities, he sought $36.5... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 19 he amount of money the federal government hands out in direct payments to
individuals steadily increased over the past four decades, but shot up under
Obama, climbing by almost $600 billion — a 32% increase — in his first
three years.
According to the Census Bureau 49% now live in homes where at least one
person gets a federal benefit — Social Security, workers comp, unemployment
, subsidized housing, and the like. That's up from 44% the year before Obama
took office,
This year, more than 46 mil... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 20 这些车都不便宜.基本上富人才去买的.
这明明就是obama在劫贫济富.
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 Lawmaker wants answers after cost estimate for health insurance aid rises by
$111B
Published March 02, 2012
WASHINGTON – Cost estimates for a key part of President Obama's health
care overhaul law have ballooned by $111 billion from last year's budget,
and a senior Republican lawmaker on Friday demanded an explanation.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., wants to know by
Monday why the estimated ten-year cost of helping millions of middle-class
Americans buy health insur... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 March 5, 2012 | Posted by Baron Von Ottomatic
I have a vagina, and I insist someone pay to maintain it. You’ve come a
long way, baby. I remember when you could bring home the bacon, fry it up
in a pan, and never – never – let me forget I’m a man. A woman needs a
man like a fish needs a bicycle. You’re gonna make it after all!
It turns out a woman needs a man like a fish needs a taxpayer to subsidize
its spawning. Who knew being born with a vagina entitles you to a lifetime
of free vagina ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 23 Winning!
Warren Buffett Company: Please (Hike) Cut Our Taxes
As the parties battle over taxes, the deficit and economic inequality, two
arguments that have been marshaled to advocate for the Democratic position
are that taxpayers should not be subsidizing private jet travel and that
Warren Buffett's tax bill is way too low -- lower, Democrats and Buffett
himself have repeatedly noted, than his secretary's.
Berkshire Hathaway-owned NetJets Inc. spent more than $2.5 million on a
squadron of lobbyi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 24 Winning!
Warren Buffett Company: Please (Hike) Cut Our Taxes
As the parties battle over taxes, the deficit and economic inequality, two
arguments that have been marshaled to advocate for the Democratic position
are that taxpayers should not be subsidizing private jet travel and that
Warren Buffett's tax bill is way too low -- lower, Democrats and Buffett
himself have repeatedly noted, than his secretary's.
Berkshire Hathaway-owned NetJets Inc. spent more than $2.5 million on a
squadron of lobbyi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 25 fact does not have a liberal bias, fact is the liberal bias.
The Chevrolet Volt is everything that is wrong with Washington on four
wheels, and investors (that’s you and me) should be furious.
Wrong #1: The Volt should be re-named the Vote. Who can forget that Super
Bowl ad, with the pseudo-assembly line of Volts rolling through Hamtramck,
Michigan, and the voice overlay that “this isn’t the car we wanted to
build; it’s the car America had to build…from the heart of Detroit to the
help [sic] of ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 By John O'Sullivan
March 14, 2012 4:00 A.M.
Where is conservatism heading in the English-speaking world? This question
is currently being answered in the four countries of the Anglosphere —
namely, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Britain — in four distinctive ways.
THE UNITED STATES
I will assume that American readers have a rough grasp of the state of
conservatism in the U.S. as revealed in the Republican primaries. It is
currently — as it has been for many years — a struggle for dominance in
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Keith Koffler at Politico is being quite perceptive:
Barack_obamaPresident Barack Obama seems to be governing in some
parallel universe — where the United States exists without mortal dangers
threatening its economy and the nation’s most pressing exigency is the
reelection of its president.
But when Obama swore to defend the Constitution, and therefore the
nation, he did it in the dimension where the rest of us exist, where the
economy appears to be headed... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 28 Remember when Obama was railing on about "the tax-break for corporate jets,"
during the debt-ceiling fights of 2011? He repeatedly invoked this "tax
break," which was really about how some corporate jets were depreciated over
five years instead of seven. The message was clear: Republicans are in bed
with corporate-jet owners. His loyal legions on the Left joined the chant.
But today, Obama's export-subsidy chief promised a billion dollars in
taxpayer-backed subsidies for corporate jets, accordin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2198 | 29 Yes, I don't have a job, each month I get a $1200 check to cover my housing
and in fact I only pay $400 for a government subsidized 2-bedroom apartment,
then I get another $600 of food stamps, plus free healthcare with zero co-
pay for my entire family. My kids go to schools for free, college tuition is
paid for too because we are poor.
Why the fuck do I want to work for $3000 a month and pay taxes, healthcare,
mortgage, ...?
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 By LOUISE RADNOFSKY
Economists have been puzzling over whether a three-year slowdown in the
growth of health-care spending, prompted by the economy, portends a
permanent change. Federal projections indicate that isn't the case.
A forecast released Tuesday said the growth rate for U.S. health spending of
all types would stay historically low the next two years. But it would
increase if most of the federal health-care overhaul takes effect in 2014.
After that, the rate would drop, but spending sti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 By JUSTIN SCHECK and IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN
BLUE LAKE, Calif.—Malodorous brown smoke from a power plant enveloped this
logging town on April 29, 2010, and several hundred residents fled until it
passed.
Six months later, the plant got $5.4 million from a federal program to
promote environmentally preferable alternatives to fossil fuel.
The plant, Blue Lake Power LLC, burns biomass, which is organic material
that can range from construction debris and wood chips to cornstalks and
animal waste. It is... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 By: John Hayward
8/16/2012 10:17 AM
President Obama loves to tout the General Motors bailout as the signature “
achievement” of his presidency, even though current taxpayer losses on the
deal are estimated at over $25 billion. The exact degree to which the rest
of us got soaked so Obama could give GM to his union allies changes
constantly as the value of the stock held by We the People fluctuates. You
don’t remember being asked if you would like to become a GM stockholder and
willingly acc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 By Jeffrey Folks
Obama's campaign speeches always seem to include a line about how he can
take credit for increasing domestic oil and gas production. As the official
White House website has it, "domestic oil and gas production has increased
every year President Obama has been in office."
On Wednesday, however, his administration put into effect yet another new
regulation making it harder for America's oil and gas companies to increase
production. In fact, that regulation, as the head of the Am... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2215 | 34 Just several examples:
1) Failing to attack Boeing for building a nonunion plant in South Carolina
might not have fixed everything.
2) Directing stimulus dollars to useful, practical projects rather than
propping up public-sector unions and subsidizing green energy boondoggles
might not have fixed everything.
3) Spending the president's valuable political capital to clean up the
excesses of our tax system rather than doubling down on the excesses of our
health system might not have fixed everyth... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 789 | 35 are you stupid?
Agriculture is heavily subsidized by US government.
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发帖数: 9084 | 36 没错，美国医生每年要个自己交几万到十几万的保费，这笔钱全部转嫁到病人头上，然
后被律师吸走。具体数字忘了，大概病人交的1刀里面就有0.2-0.3刀是付医生保险。
lawsuit来个losers pay就能控制不少，现在没有限制，律师就是空手套白狼，赢了发
财，输了反正各种法庭费用也是纳税人买单。然后就是运行医疗保险可以夸州买，跟汽
车保险一样，这样增加市场竞争。
不过这些都是触动了律师，保险业的利益，民主党根本动不了，自己总统就是律师，动
个毛。
obamacare当然是有些积极措施，但这些措施没有触及根本，全民健保只能增加已经有
保险人的保费，同时国家subsidize去cover那些没有保险的人, 肥了保险公司，律师也
高兴。很多人就是听了pelosi/reid/clinton/O8吹嘘那些鸡毛蒜皮的积极措施，芝麻说
成西瓜，觉的真是天大的好事，自己保费每年涨20%还叫好。。。
另外医生不知道病人保险，这个的确会有帮助。如果真是病人自己掏钱，医院都会给打
个很大的折扣。凡是那种deductible保险的病人，医院收钱都相对便宜。如果医院看到
是medicaid/medicare的，... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9084 | 37 有个id给我发信，说他是世界日报的记者（姑且认为是真的,不是左派恶作剧，呵呵)，
觉的我帖子很好+很强大+很中肯，说要电话采访我，谈谈美国大选。这个还是算了，其
实就是灌了一堆破帖子。我说，我帖子随便引，引不引我id都无所谓。然后要了些我的
信息,说报纸出来通知我，哈
要真能印出来，我通知大家去买报纸哈，到时候我subsidize每人1个包子，也欢迎左派
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发帖数: 1637 | 38 不自封派别的人可否领啊？ 看来世界日报是 中右 的报纸了，不过只要理性不是极端
，都不会没有市场。
＂要真能印出来，我通知大家去买报纸哈，到时候我subsidize每人1个包子，也欢迎左派
来领, 呵呵。＂ |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 39 人们突然意识到，电动汽车的制造过程比传统汽车要不“绿色”的多，而且如果发电来
自传统燃料，“绿色”更无从谈起
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/10/06/electric-
Electric Cars Hurt the Environment
The U.S. and other countries have spent billions subsidizing electric cars,
an environmentalist solution which has been met with only lukewarm
enthusiasm from customers. And it turns out environmentalists are split over
whether these things are in fact worse for the environment than what we’ve
got. A new research paper from the Norwegian Univer... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1268 | 40 4. Low income individuals and families above 100% and up to 400% of the
federal poverty level will receive federal subsidies[21] on a sliding scale
if they choose to purchase insurance via an exchange (those at 150% of the
poverty level would be subsidized such that their premium cost would be 2%
of income, or $50 per month for a family of four).
$50 per month 就和原来给穷人的 0 down payment的APR一样无耻。
federal subsidies就是下一个freddie and fannie。
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发帖数: 9084 | 41 福利的确要帮助需要的人，但过了头就是鼓励懒惰了。而且这些制度根本无法改革，连
碰都不能碰，一碰就说你不关心群人。obama不愿意碰这个烫手山药也能理解，反正问
题就堆着呗，迟早有一天雪崩，到时候再解决吧
有人说如果以后自己没工作了，生了大病，如果没有obamacare就破产了。其实没了工
作，收入到了贫困线以下，你就基本符合medicaid了，看病基本不交钱的。如果岁数大
了，工作了几十年，就是medicare，一样费用很低。 obamacare针对的很大一部分就是
那些收入高于贫困线，但又不够medicaid的家庭。比如家庭收入3万美元，买个保险一
年就1万多，这样的家庭就不买保险了。当然其实美国也有很多形形色色的医疗救助
program,即使没有保险，又不符合medicaid,不少家庭还是有办法的。 anyway,这些家
庭现在要买保险，但费用哪里来？正确的办法应该是，通过一系列措施把保费大幅度降
低，然后由国家和中产阶级subsidize这些家庭，大家都受益。但obamacare除了鸡毛蒜
皮的措施，没有采取任何实质的措施来降低保费。obamacare以后，中产阶级保费每年
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发帖数: 9084 | 42 这些东西都是民主党promote全民健保时候的理由，我听的都耳朵都起茧子了，pelosi
他们当初天天讲，只不过现在不讲了。。。不好意思讲了。
有几点
1. 真正穷的人大部分符合medicaid,他们看病是不要钱的。有没有obamacare对于没影响
2. 老人有medicare,他们也没影响
3. 全民健保其实应该包括三部分，medicaid+medicare+obamacare, medicaid/
medicare现在花费每年越来越多。
4. 没保险的人基本分两种，一种是有基本收入，但又相对高不够medicaid标准人，他
们比如家庭收入4万美元，花1万多美元买健保他们根本不愿意，所以就不买。另外一类
是年轻力壮人，他们花个几千买保险，一年基本不生病，他们也不愿意。 obamacare要
保的就是这两批人。没有保险的人看病的确存在你提到的现象，既平时不看病，有急诊
才去花国家很多钱。obamcare的计划是希通过强制保险，让年轻人交钱保险，然后去铺
贴上面提到的第一类没有保险的人，同时国家补贴些，大家都有保险，从而达到你说的
“病人的总支出没有增加甚至还有可能降低，而总的治疗费也... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 How Conservatives Can Win in Blue-State America: Lessons from South Africa's
Opposition
The new conventional wisdom in the aftermath of the 2012 elections is that
Republicans face two challenges: first, that the United States is no longer
a center-right nation, but a center-left one; second, that the country’s
demographic shift away from whites will make it tougher for Republicans to
win votes. The proposed solution is that Republicans must compromise on the
party’s core policies, from immigrati... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2324 | 44 I admit I don't have a house, but I plan to buy a house now.
And I live in a very expensive area. One of the top expensive area in the
country.
It's not about the saving money from tax deduction. The morgage interest /
property tax deduction inflated the house so much, that people actually can'
t afford it any more.
It's about attitude to life. I am a conservsative person, so I support any
conservative measure. TAX deduction on irressponsible spending is encourage
people to make bad decisions. Y... 阅读全帖 |
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C****n
发帖数: 2324 | 45 Interesting finding. I have spent about $20 on lottery all my life, and
gambled probably total of $1000 in Las Vegas all my life.
Lottery/Gamble, is essentially a entertainment, that's why in Las Vegas they
call it Gaming industry. It's for entertainment! Not for Profit!
This means these poor families spent over $1000 each year on Luxury
entertainment! Subsidized by the government, by the way. Right or wrong, you
decide!
On the other hand, this helped Las Vegas! :-)
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发帖数: 2324 | 46 Agreed. The left make my "dream" look "greedy"! And especially after I
realized my dream, they say it's a result of "greedy"! Not a result of hard
work.
The left, has no idea how hard I worked, and how many difficult decision I
have to made with my life, and how many things I have sacrificed with my
life to get where I am today, and they want to call me greedy!
Give you an example: It's a RIGHT to spend time with your family. It seems a
noble and reasonable request, right? Well, I sacrificed my ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1509 | 47 I decided to support Barack Obama pretty early in the Democratic primary,
around spring of 2007. But unlike so many of his supporters, I never
experienced a kind of emotional response to his candidacy. I never felt his
election would change everything about American politics or government, that
it would lead us out of the darkness. Nothing Obama did or said ever made
me well up with tears.
Possibly for that same reason, I have never felt even a bit of the crushing
sense of disappointment that at... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 15-24岁年轻人失业率，法国22%，意大利36%，西班牙51%，这还不包括那些离开学校和
就业市场的人
Young, Educated and Jobless in France
By STEVEN ERLANGER
LILLE, France — Justine Forriez wakes up early to go onto the computer to
look for a job. She calls university friends and contacts; she goes to the
unemployment office every week, though mostly for the companionship, and has
taken a course in job hunting. She has met with 10 different recruiters
since May and sent out 200 résumés.
Ms. Forriez is not poor or disadvantaged, and she holds ... 阅读全帖 |
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C****n
发帖数: 2324 | 49 I don't see how.
The morgage deduction capped at $25K or $17K, should be more than enough for
most middle class.
Again, if you have a bigger morgage, you are either irresponsible, or you
are already rich!
That's why I like this idea. It encourage people to work, encourage people
to live within their means.
Obama's plan will force people to be IRRESPONSIBLE! If you are a responsible
person, you will punished, taxed. If you are NOT a responsible person,
guess what, you will be rewarded by governme... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 50 How did the U.S. reach a 'fiscal cliff' and what does it mean? Here are the
facts.
Posted on November 30, 2012
Summary
The U.S. faces the possibility of another recession — the third in 11 years
— if President Obama and Congress cannot find a way to avoid the so-called
fiscal cliff. The one-two combination of massive tax increases and spending
cuts scheduled to take effect, beginning Jan. 1, would push the
unemployment rate back above 9 percent, according to the Congressional
Budget Office.
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