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Business, Economics, and Taxes 2: That's Why We Fight to Take the Means Back

Handyman said:
I used it...still hate it. The thing was dreamed up by the Heritage Foundation, put into place by Mitt Romney in Mass and would 100% be the "Repeal and Replace" of what real Health Care Reform should have been (either Medicare for all or the Public Option) if that had been done. The reason the GOP has no plan is because Obama stole it and we are living with it.

Outside of protecting pre-existing conditions all it was was a huge cash grab for insurance companies. We were now forced to use them (you get dinged on your taxes if you dont have insurance) which made them billions. Trump may not know why, but his rhetoric is correct ObamaCare was a boon for Health Insurance Companies.

ObamaCare sucks and the lack of subsidies is going to show why it should have never been the plan without a public option. Obama not forcing that into the fight was his first true failure and showed he wasn't as transformative as he should have been. They sold it to us that it was "step 1" and 15 years later we are still stuck on that step and it is crumbling.
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There was a hell of a lot more in the ACA than a personal mandate and some subsidies.
 
Stauber1 said:
There was a hell of a lot more in the ACA than a personal mandate and some subsidies.
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Did the ACA create the mandate that generic versions of certain maintenance drugs be made available at no cost to patients with a prescription? If so, that one has been huge for me. I know generics are generally cheaper but I am on a few different things and not having to pay for them is pretty significant. The only one I do have to pay for is less than $50 for a 3 month supply so that's not bad either.
 
If there was one thing I could accomplish before I die, it would be to figure out how to demonstrate to people how much we're getting ripped off, how bad our outcomes are, and how bad our prices are. I'm so fucking sick of stupid people, who think the rest of the fucking world is insane for having universal coverage, while sneering at "death panels" and going broke because cleetus knocked up his half sister again and the baby has development issues, and meemaw fell and broke her hip while screaming at a black person.

someone in the tv thread asked where the guy was who liked firefly, and handy named who he thought it was. If he's right, its the guy who screamed at me about how much every other system sucks, while never having spent a fucking second working or living in those systems and just gargling the slop that republicans spurt into his waiting mouth.
 
Seeing on social media that Target stores are facing an issue with online ordering and store pickup, apparently the corporate system is allowing customers to place their order, pay for their order, and then doing nothing with the order. Local stores aren't seeing the orders to fulfill, and people are arriving to nothing.
 
Stauber1 said:
There was a hell of a lot more in the ACA than a personal mandate and some subsidies.
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I know...it was like 940 pages ;)

Look it was it was better than what we had...but the fact that we are still dealing with it now and trying to use it as a band-aid on a broken arm (a band-aid that barely sticks let alone heals) is the problem. It was supposed to usher in a better system...do you think this system works? Because honestly you might be the only person I have ever heard say that.

I get that Americans are individualist and we believe in free markets and all that crap...but Health Care for profit no matter the system is a joke. And we can quibble about various aspects of ObamaCare being decent, but we are still the laughingstock of the civilized world for the crap ass health care we have. And this is where some Con will say "then why do Kings and Presidents come here for surgery (well they did anyways) and we tell them that its cause they are the only ones who can afford to. Go abroad and discuss Health Care with people...they legit have no idea why we put up with this.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
If there was one thing I could accomplish before I die, it would be to figure out how to demonstrate to people how much we're getting ripped off, how bad our outcomes are, and how bad our prices are. I'm so fucking sick of stupid people, who think the rest of the fucking world is insane for having universal coverage, while sneering at "death panels" and going broke because cleetus knocked up his half sister again and the baby has development issues, and meemaw fell and broke her hip while screaming at a black person.

someone in the tv thread asked where the guy was who liked firefly, and handy named who he thought it was. If he's right, its the guy who screamed at me about how much every other system sucks, while never having spent a fucking second working or living in those systems and just gargling the slop that republicans spurt into his waiting mouth.
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She ain't lying people. She spent a long time dealing with all of this and 100% made me realize just how friggin barbaric we are.
 
The 2025 Pedo Panic explained, in 1910, by Emma Goldman.

Our reformers have suddenly made a great discovery – the white slave traffic. The papers are full of these “unheard-of conditions,” and lawmakers are already planning a new set of laws to check the horror.

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from a great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency, gambling, saloons, etc. And what is the result of such crusades? Gambling is increasing, saloons are doing a lively business through back entrances, prostitution is at its height, and the system of pimps and cadets is but aggravated.

How is it that an institution, known almost to every child, should have been discovered so suddenly? How is it that this evil, known to all sociologists, should now be made such an important issue?

To assume that the recent investigation of the white slave traffic (and, by the way, a very superficial investigation) has discovered anything new, is, to say the least, very foolish. Prostitution has been, and is, a widespread evil, yet mankind goes on its business, perfectly indifferent to the sufferings and distress of the victims of prostitution. As indifferent, indeed, as mankind has remained to our industrial system, or to economic prostitution.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested – for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day. The “righteous” cry against the white slave traffic is such a toy. It serves to amuse the people for a little while, and it will help to create a few more fat political jobs – parasites who stalk about the world as inspectors, investigators, detectives, and so forth.

What is really the cause of the trade in women? Not merely white women, but yellow and black women as well. Exploitation, of course; the merciless Moloch of capitalism that fattens on underpaid labor, thus driving thousands of women and girls into prostitution. With Mrs. Warren these girls feel, “Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day?”

Naturally our reformers say nothing about this cause. They know it well enough, but it doesn’t pay to say anything about it. It is much more profitable to play the Pharisee, to pretend an outraged morality, than to go to the bottom of things.

However, there is one commendable exception among the young writers: Reginald Wright Kauffman, whose work The House of Bondage is the first earnest attempt to treat the social evil – not from a sentimental Philistine viewpoint. A journalist of wide experience, Mr. Kauffman proves that our industrial system leaves most women no alternative except prostitution. The women portrayed in The House of Bondage belong to the working class. Had the author portrayed the life of women in other spheres, he would have been confronted with the same state of affairs.

Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men. Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.

Just at present our good people are shocked by the disclosures that in New York City alone one out of every ten women works in a factory, that the average wage received by women is six dollars per week for forty-eight to sixty hours of work, and that the majority of female wage workers face many months of idleness which leaves the average wage about $280 a year. In view of these economic horrors, is it to be wondered at that prostitution and the white slave trade have become such dominant factors?

Lest the preceding figures be considered an exaggeration, it is well to examine what some authorities on prostitution have to say:

“A prolific cause of female depravity can be found in the several tables, showing the description of the employment pursued, and the wages received, by the women previous to their fall, and it will be a question for the political economist to decide how far mere business consideration should be an apology – on the part of employers for a reduction in their rates of remuneration, and whether the savings of a small percentage on wages is not more than counterbalanced by the enormous amount of taxation enforced on the public at large to defray the expenses incurred on account of a system of vice, which is the direct result, in many cases, of insufficient compensation of honest labor.”
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It's always capitalism.
 
The only positive thing I have to say about Kentucky is the Blue Ridge Mountains are lovely and surreal.

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Fig. 1 How it looks. For real.
 
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