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unbillievable

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  1. She's no longer a student, of course it's going to get more expensive and she'll shoulder more of the burden. That makes sense. The deductible amount is kind of a poor barometer of an exchange plan... Yes it's 6k, but if she is 24 it is very unlikely her care for the year will cost anything more than her monthly premium, which I'm guessing is pretty low.

     

    I told her that now that she has a job, it's time to start paying her fair share!. She punched me.

     

    It's kind of cliche to think that her (and her friends) were all about helping the unfortunate and re-distributin' the wealth until it was her wealth that was being taken. I expect more pain once her student loan payments kick in....

  2. One of the best reasons for a national sales tax or Fair Tax or whatever you want to call it is people will know exactly how much they pay in taxes to the Fed. Now most people don't know. They know their net but not their gross. Once people got wind of it, they may change their tune.

     

    Also a good reason why the governing class is so against. it.

    That's why countries with high sales taxes (and VAT) enacted laws forcing businesses to include the tax in their pricing to hide just how much the government is confiscating.

  3. We swam naked in Gym. Required. Anyone else do that? The transgenders weren't accommodated very well then.

    NO different that having to shower afterwards.

    I actually wouldn't mind going Starship Troopers. Just build one big locker room at the gym.

    Why no do like the Romans did? No walls, no stalls, just a little side modesty panel if they must. Have the ladies plunk their arses down side-by-side next to their neighbor on an open trench and do their business for #1, and let them have stalls for #2 like the gents do. That'd be equality too. They're the ones who need a water closet

    Remember when the Russians had toilets facing each other at the Olympics? It was a culturally thing. Not uncommon in Russia, but the western countries freaked out.

  4. Think of it like this, you're in a race that you've never been allowed to run. Some smart people get together and say, "we are going to put the finish line in the same place for everyone." It's just that some people start the race 200 meters further ahead always.

     

    The equality of the "finish line" doesn't matter then.

     

    Sowell misses that too.

    I agree with the analogy for the problem, what the debate boils down to, is the solution.

     

    The Liberal solution is to hamstring the faster runners with boulders.

    The Conservative solution is to move the finish line closer to the start.

     

    If "equality" is your only goal, then the choice is obvious....

     

    Free people are not equal, and equal people are not free.

  5. http://news.yahoo.com/baltimore-residents-fearful-amid-homicide-spike-083758282.html

     

     

     

    "There was a shooting down the street, and the man was standing in the middle of the street with a gun, just shooting," Lee added. "Usually, you can't walk up and down the street drinking or smoking weed. Now, people are everywhere smoking weed, and police just ride by, look at you, and keep going. There used to be police on every corner. I don't think they'll be back this summer."
    Veronica Edmonds, a 26-year-old mother of seven in the Gilmor Homes, said she wishes the police would return, and focus on violent crime rather than minor drug offenses. "If they focused more on criminals and left the petty stuff alone, the community would have more respect for police officers," she said.
    What they really want is the freedom to break a few laws now and then. A couple of car jackings, some mild looting, a few drug deals... what's the harm? They're just keepin' it real yo!
  6. You guys are confusing "manners" with "etiquette."

     

    The lessons involving using a knife, fork, with a napkin on the lap is etiquette, and it is obviously culturally biased. (Since many cultures don't have forks,) Of course, the argument can be made that the children should learn about American culture.

     

    Manners have to do more with polite behavior. How to treat the servers. Don't double-dip. Don't talk and chew at the same time, etc.

  7. I attended a medical school graduation where it started and ended with prayer including a key-note speaker about how the graduates are going out to do God's work, (with reading of scripture); which was surprising since I didn't know it was a religious school. (my graduation sure didn't include either). No mention of Obamacare, or any other liberal policies like global warming.

     

    I would suspect that it has more to do with the University's philosophy than some Obama edict.

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