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She doesn't need help, she's broken beyond repair. The assistance she gets is for those children, both in concept and in execution. The reason you and I aren't worthless drains on society is that we had parents who took the time to raise us properly. We can't force her to raise her kids right, and it'd be a gross government overreach to take her kids away without some sign of child abuse, so this token amount of money we give her for food to feed her kids is our way of trying to make sure that the kids are fed and the mom has time to raise them for at least part of the day instead letting them eat cockroaches and get raised by gangsters. After all, these kids could either be paying your social security in 40 years, or they can be robbing your house. You have a stake in their future because that's how societies work. Nobody likes giving money to people like that, and there's never going to be a perfectly efficient way to make sure that recipients of government assistance are using it 100% wisely. For example, you're telling me that my tax dollars are going towards your college education. That's great! I'm happy to do it because it will make you a more productive member of society. How would you feel if I put conditions on that money saying that while you were receiving FAFSA benefits you could only eat ramen and drive a 1998 Ford Taurus? It's a tricky thing, see. I myself get huge tax breaks because I have kids and a mortgage, but nobody gets furious when I blow money foolishly (which I do a lot, ask me about my chumpcar team sometime). If I didn't get those tax breaks I'd have to cut back on my foolish spending. The only reason I ever speak up is to correct misconceptions and try and put things in perspective. Conservatives of late have this all-consuming hatred of anything government, and that's just not what life's about. I don't think the ACA is the right answer, but I also don't think it's going to destroy America. I can't understand why conservatives are expending so much effort in hating this thing. I understand that it's frustrating knowing your tax dollars are going help poor people pay for insurance, but wouldn't you rest better realizing that you're a 22-year-old college student, which means you probably pay nothing or next to nothing in federal income taxes? Especially when you consider that you're getting financial aid? Doesn't that perspective make you feel better?

Sorry, I didn't intend to condescend to anyone. Carry on.

How is it different? No offense, but I'm not sure I can explain it to you any better than I just did. Maybe I'll try an analogy. Right now you can get phone insurance for like $10 a month. You can sign up at any time, but if your phone is already broken they're obviously not going to cover that phone. They only cover unbroken phones. But congress passes a law that says they can't reject people who try to sign up with broken phones. So do you sign up for the insurance when you first get your phone? Or do you wait for it to be broken and then go sign up? You can spend $120 year and maybe never use the insurance, or you can spend $10 once, cancel right away, and get a new $200 phone. Nobody's done any studies on whether that would actually happen because the idea is broken on its face. Insurance companies would never go for it. Right now they deny people with pre-existing conditions because they have to in order to remain competitive in the marketplace. They do it because those people are very expensive to insure, so if they're forced to accept them the insurance companies will need more money. You can get them more money by raising rates (i.e., your insurance goes up), with subsidies (i.e, your taxes go up) or by increasing their customer base (the individual mandate). But the ACA is decidedly NOT the Euro style of life. That would be universal coverage. I already see the ACA as being a messy compromise -- it's a pretty centrist idea, really. Fix health care but continue to leverage the benefits of the free market by allowing private companies to compete. It's not unlike the school voucher concept that conservatives are so fond of. Are you OK with your health insurance money go dead weight? Because every time an ER treats someone without health insurance, where do you think that money comes from? You can't stick your head in the sand and pretend that the current system is good. You're already paying for the dead weight.

The major, glaring flaw in this is that nobody will get health insurance until they need it. And then they will drop their coverage as soon as they're better. Timmy broke his arm? Call up Blue Cross, sign up. Cancel 6 weeks later. Get face aids? Call up Kaiser, sign up. Cancel 2 years later. Insurance companies need a constant influx of cash from people who aren't sick in order to pay out for those who are. If they have to shell out insurance to sick people but can't get any money from those who aren't, the system will collapse. Hence... your #1 pretty much needs an individual mandate in order to work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_03AgMpc8z0

I mean, people inside the capitol started hearing gunshots. That really seems like it should be hyper-mega-news, so you can understand why everyone went nuts over it. Ends up it was just the cops shooting a crazy, so meh. It's like that guy who crashed his plane into the White House back in the 90s. Holy shit! Plane crashes into White House! But it was a Cessna and he hit the lawn and died. Meh.

Mostly everything. I don't know the best sidearm for shootin' dogs.

At me? No. I've broken up dog fights at the dog park by tackling and restraining dogs. I have opposable thumbs, a giant brain, and 100lbs on most dogs, it's really not hard. Also I have man testicles. But I guess if all you have is a gun, everything looks like a target.

I'd also have the sense to pick my kid up out of the wagon before reaching for a gun. And then I'd say, "No skittles. Bad dog."

It's a dog and you're a grown-ass man, don't be a pussy. Tackle that bitch.

Don't underestimate online classes. It seems like they replace academic rigor with a shitload of work and call it good. I did a few years at OSU but finished up my degree at a brick and mortar college that had recently been co-opted by a private company that was essentially an online degree mill. Do your research because a lot of online programs are like that -- a company comes to a private college with an existing accreditation, especially one that's struggling financially, and offers to run their online program whilst turning a big profit. Anyway, I did my last 18 months of college at that school, and about half of that was online. It's a ton of reading (100+ pages a week) and a ton of writing (mandatory minimum forum posts + weekly reports on whatever we were reading). I basically worked my real job, read/wrote for school, and slept. You can still learn stuff, but you have to be motivated to slog through all the reading on your own. A lot of my online classmates were foreign students who could barely string together two English sentences, but they still got decent grades because they were willing to put in the work. I'm the exact opposite of that, a slacker who likes to succeed while doing the bare minimum. It wasn't my sort of environment; I still take classes in-person when given the option.

The numbers seem a bit hinky. For starters, he's using a 2020 projection 16.6 trillion, deriving from that an interest payment based upon a hypothetical interest rate, and then using the 2012 federal income tax payment to show a scary 85%. But in 2020 federal income tax receipts won't be 1.1 trillion like they were last year (per the article, assuming that's accurate). It will be like 1.5 trillion based on inflation alone, meaning his big scary percentage is already down to 62%. And that's assuming the economy stays flat and taxes don't increase. If the GDP continues to grow at the rate it has been the last couple of years, it'd be down to 52%. Which is indeed higher than the 24% we pay now, but again, I'd like to point out that his interest rate (average of last 20 years) is chosen completely arbitrarily. Furthermore, he's talking about personal income taxes, which excludes payroll taxes and corporate income taxes, along with other forms of revenue. Is there any logical reason to only focus on personal income taxes for this comparison? I can't think of any, except to elicit a response. Given that he's made the rather boneheaded move of comparing 2020 expense to 2012 income, I'd say the author has a pretty obvious motive here.

Good luck to you, but 31 over means you were doing 51. "Your honor, I didn't notice the school zone signs." "Even then you'd still have been speeding." "Your honor, I thought it was a 50mph road." "Again, still would have been speeding." That's essentially how it went down for me when I went to court back in the day. I think it was a 47 in a 25, speed trap in some dinky little town. I went to court, said I didn't see the change from 45mph to 25mph, and she essentially said, "So you're admitting that you were doing 47mph... in a 45." No leniency.

Lambo driver was probably speeding but not by enough to put the blame on him. He was 100% visible when the Corolla or whatever it was decided to be a dumbass. OTOH, relatively low-speed collision rips Lambo in half. Do not buy Lambo.

I know it's an old thread, but Jet Auto Sports. Mirrors the existing name but everyone should know what it means.

The building would have to be huge. Most indoor courses are sufficiently tight that the car wouldn't really be any faster than a kart.

Good enough for me.

Can someone confirm that this will be worth a shit before I plunk down $50?

Well there goes my money.

Yeah, this is why I drive a 23-year-old shitbox instead of a C6Z. I can't even imagine how much that would suck.

There's the damage, it's really not too bad considering. New fender and headlight and I'll call it good. Impact was probably 15mph or so. Not Brian is right, one of my front brake pads exited the vehicle. You can hear the clunk as my foot goes to the floor, not sure what the wobbling sound is but with only 3 pads in the front I'm not sure what it's supposed to sound like I was an idiot for driving on pads that probably should have been replaced, and also for not bringing a spare set. A huge idiot. I'm really lucky that it turned out as well as it did. That early apex is how I typically do the chicane, I find it's faster to carry the speed through there than track left for the keyhole entry.

Short vid:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/10/climate_change_sea_ice_global_cooling_and_other_nonsense.html

Minivans are boss in the snow, 4500lbs and FWD. Never had an issue. We've put 80k miles on our Sedona in the last 5.5 years. At the time, it was hands down the best value on the used market. I've been pleased with it and still recommend it to everyone.

I love my Honda because it's dirty cheap to operate and is faster than GT40. True story.