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[quote=spdrun]Simple solution: limit working hours to 35 per week + 4 weeks mandatory vacation + holidays for most W-2 employees. Combine that with national health insurance for all, so that employers would have to provide very minimal benefits — cost of hiring goes down.
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No, that does not do it.

As OCR pointed out, it’s really two working issue. Even with two not working, the two issue is a problem because the income expectations are all geared to two working.

Even with 35 hour weeks, two working will be an issue. I know one major challenge we’re already looking at is once our child starts school, drop-off is 8AM and let out is 2:30PM, plus once every two weeks they either have a full day off or a half day off.

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Would you like to volunteer a blood and saliva sample. Pay no attention to my uniform and gun and the fact that we have a roadblock, it’s voluntary.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]According to surveys, the majority of Americans are OK with the metadata sweeps to identify patterns of behavior and possible terrorist activity.

We could use the same technology to watch and follow potential mass shooters.[/quote]

No they’re not. When the poll really clarifies what happens the support vaporizes. The poll question was worded like “Is it okay if the NSA potentially breaches a persons privacy when pursuing terrorist activities”

That they support. Most probably think that the NSA is on a hot trail and maybe violating a few individuals that are identified somehow. Not the NSA is blanket collecting everything…

And if you ask them point blank “Are you okay with the NSA collecting all your data in the pursuit of terrorism”, I suspect you’ll get answer in the teens.

The one thing that has been consistent is the more information the people have, the less they agree with it.

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UCG, I saw those at early-retirement.

Quite a bit of planning people will do now as you point out $94,000 in AGI garners an estimated $236/month credit but $94,001 is nothing. And a $50,000 AGI is a $700/month credit.

Pay off the home, reduce your income or multi-year hit your income (until mandatory withdrawals.)

Now, how to semi-retire and restructure my income so that I have $50,000 of realized AGI while not reducing my standard of living. 🙂

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A typical ER run is $30,000.

We had an accident a while back and even though no-one was hurt beyond soreness and bruising, with an toddler in the car, the trip was warranted, but the combined bill for mom and son was around $28,000.

SK, I was hoping the exchange plans were worst case scenario since they assume you have pre-existing conditions. Or do regular plans now not exclude them too starting next year? I would think ‘regular’ healthy person plans would actually go down.

But alas, according to Forbes, they’ve gone up, a lot.

Still the primary benefit is knowing you can get insurance, the cost may be ugly though.

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I’ve met people like that guy too. I don’t find them particularly smooth. Bold face liars, yes, smooth, no.

I’ve also known women that fall for schmucks like that guy in the video. Everybody knew he was a schmuck and a liar. I suspect she really did too, but she was accept virtual any halfassed lie as a rationale for his behavior. She wanted to believe.

I’ve also know confidence men like Madoff, literally sitting in Fed prison now having swindled millions. Not really smooth either. Again, pretty bold face liar. He played their greed and somewhat ignorance. But I’ve seen some of the promises and the BS meter went right off.

The common thread is they want to believe. The liars aren’t particularly good.

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They’re desperate. They’re already playing the nuclear card.

[quote]Mueller disagreed, and told the story of Sept. 11, 2001, hijacker Khalid al-Midhar, a muscleman on the plane that hit the Pentagon that morning.

Mueller said that during the period before the terror attacks, U.S. intelligence officials were following but “lost track” of al-Midhar and then “at the same time intelligence agencies found an Al Qaeda safe house in Yemen.”

He said agents had the phone number but did not know who was calling into the safe house. “We came to find out later that the person was al-Midhar who was in this country in San Diego at that time,” Mueller said.[/quote]

FBI Director defends surveillance programs.

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[quote=SK in CV][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
SK: And yet you have out-of-wedlock births in some black communities approaching 70%. How to explain the statistical significance of that?[/quote]

Maybe they wanted to have babies. No chance they wanted to have babies with this guy, “knowing what they were getting into”.[/quote]

22 babies say you’re wrong.

With only 14 mothers, at least 8 of them are number 2 or higher.

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What I’m saying is they wanted to have a baby. I seriously doubt many were accidents.

As for whether they believed smooth lines, wanted to believe smooth lines, or just didn’t care, who knows. Whether or not they wanted him there, whether or not they care, who knows and frankly, I’ve seen that said, many don’t care if the dad is around.

In the end, they wanted a baby. 22 accidents didn’t happen.

Do they have the kid to get welfare. No. Do they have the kid and know welfare will provide? Yes.

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[quote=CA renter]Wow, watching that is definitely an Idiocracy moment!

He does NOT “love” women, and he certainly does NOT “love” his children. He loves sex, and expects everyone else to pay for it.[/quote]

No CAR, my gut tells me the women involved knew exactly what they were doing.

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One’s of my points was mandatory gun liability insurance isn’t about compensating victims it’s about trying to attach an annual cost of ownership to firearms. A gun ownership tax isn’t going to pass but if you disguise it as insurance maybe it will. [/quote]

Sure and we can have a breathing fee too. In reality, breathing is just as much to blame as law abiding gun owners.

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Irony

[quote]A 72-year-old grandmother who fired her .357 magnum revolver at a man allegedly trying to break into her Orange County home said Tuesday that she was trying to defend herself and her 85-year-old husband.[/quote]

Meanwhile, Santa Monica College gunman had bomb materials in 2006 when Police searched due to violent threats

Yea, more laws will improve this issue.

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It’s okay, no oversight needed…

[quote] The Los Angeles Police Department investigates incidents involving the use force by officers in a way that makes it impossible in most cases for the city’s police watchdog to evaluate the thoroughness of those investigations, according to a recent report. [/quote]

LAPD Watchdog Find Short Paperwork on Use of Force

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cvmon, why didn’t you get the electric car plan and separate meter? I thought those were like 12 cents/KWH.

OC, the market probably has been changing in the last year or so, it’s gotten very trendy and I suspect the installers are milking a premium out of it.

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Number of people killed in mass killings in California since 1982: 131

Number of people winning $1 million or more playing the lottery in California since 1982: 247

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