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  • Will Obamacare force Americans to start outsource their medical needs?

    In the same way they currently outsource their retirement and savings?

    I don’t know it seems like all the latest companies in biotechnology research are all complaining about Obamacare’s extra regulatory and extra expense in bringing their products to the US market. As a matter of fact Europe seems to be the latest country that all the biotechs are talking about in their earnings conference as the next best thing since there are less regulations and less government involvement there.

    One foreign company in particular is actually being investigated by the FBI and other government agencies. (Yes, they actually did this! As insane as it sounds they actually did do this!) Which is both forcing the company to move to Europe and forcing the company to burn through its cash flow. Which is forcing it to get what the Democrats call vulture capitalists in order to keep conducting its research in the US.

    Yes Obamacare is actually backwards just like the Soviet Union used to be backwards in health care. Its only a matter of time before the government milks the middle class of what little savings they have left. Which will force them into welfare which is what all Democrats want. More people on the dole means more votes for the demonrat party to keep that party in power. So expect old debilitating medical infrastructure with outdated medical procedures due to a fear of the US market.

    Everyone my age remembers the shock we all got when we saw the conditions of the medical care facilities in the old Soviet Union after the Berlin Wall came down. I’m afraid that thanks to Obamacare we will soon experience the exact same thing that the Soviets experienced with their so called Forward health care which is really backwards health care.

    Oh there will be companies that benefit from Obamacare alright. You know those who helped Obama and the demonrat party get elected. By the way most if not all of them have cut back on their research since they said it was too expensive and since it was no longer needed in this environment. After all why worry about competition when even the FBI is investigating and disrupting the much leaner, meaner and far more forward looking future competitors that can easily beat the old and aging medical infrastructure that helped Obama and the demonrats get elected.

    P:S: This is what Warren Buffet calls building a moat to keep the competition out. Good for vulture capitalists who vote democrat but horrible for the American people who will soon have to get the latest health care in foreign countries. That is if the demonrat party allows you to get medical care outside of the country. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the FBI or some other government agency prevented you from getting your treatment for your illness in other countries.

    3 AnswersPolitics7 years ago
  • Does malwarebytes pay yahoo to advertise in their Computers & Internet "Security" section?

    You know like when Coca Cola put their advertisements in that ET movie.

    I have no problems with advertisements but when Yahoo starts removing advice from those who are NOT part of their advertising schemes then that is just plain wrong.

    If you are coming here because you have problems with your computer. I think you should keep in mind that what you have gotten yourself into is a malwarebytes commercial forum. It would probably be easier to avoid Yahoo and go straight to the malwarebytes forum directly.

    These people who work for yahoo are getting paid by them and those people who keep pushing for malwarebytes are nothing more than telemarketers. There are other better Computer help forums out there that you can go to.

    One forum which is really good. At least in my opinion is Geeks to go.

    http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/

    8 AnswersSecurity8 years ago
  • How can intellectuals call themselves Socialist, aren't they part of the Bourgeois?

    In 1957 Mao responded to the tensions in the Party by promoting free speech and criticism under the 100 Flowers Campaign. In retrospect, some have come to argue that this was a ploy to allow critics of the regime, primarily intellectuals but also low ranking members of the party critical of the agricultural policies, to identify themselves.[8] Some claim that Mao simply swung to the side of the hard-liners once his policies gained strong opposition. Once he had done so, at least half a million were purged under the Anti-Rightist campaign, which effectively silenced any opposition from within the Party or from agricultural experts to the changes which would be implemented under the Great Leap Forward.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

    Bolshevik policy toward its detractors, and particularly toward articulate, intellectual criticism, hardened considerably. Suppression of newspapers, initially described as a temporary measure, became a permanent policy. Lenin considered the Constitutional Democrats (Kadets) the center of a conspiracy against Bolshevik rule. In 1919, he began mass arrests of professors and scientists who had been Kadets, and deported Kadets, Socialist Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, and Nationalists. The Bolshevik leadership sought rapidly to purge Russia of past leaders in order to build the future on a clean slate.

    These harsh measures alienated a large number of the intellectuals who had supported the overthrow of the tsarist order. The suppression of democratic institutions evoked strong protests from academics and artists,who felt betrayed in their idealistic belief that revolution would bring a free society. Writers who had emigrated shortly after the revolution published stinging attacks on the new government from abroad. As a result, further exit permits for artists were generally denied.

    The disenchantment of the majority of intellectuals did not surprise Lenin, who saw the old Russian intelligentsia as a kind of rival to his "party of a new type," which alone could bring revolutionary consciousness to the working class. In his view, artists generally served bourgeois interests, a notion that fueled the persecution of intellectuals throughout the Soviet period.

    http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/attack....

    So I don't get it how can you be an Intellectual and a Socialist at the same time? That sounds like a misnomer to me.

    3 AnswersPolitics9 years ago
  • Is the market still in correction or is it going to go down like in 2008?

    I'm thinking of pulling all of my money out of the Market. I think this crash is going to be worse than the Great Depression cause we prolonged it with so much quantitive easing and corporate bailouts.

    7 AnswersPolitics10 years ago
  • Why is everyone getting so uptight about illegal immigration in Israel but not in America?

    I agree with Israel they should protect their borders and they DO have a right to evict and punish those who sneak in their illegally. But so do we and yes we should DO the same thing here in our Country the USA. We should protect our borders and we should punish those who break our laws by sneaking in here under the cover of night. After all it is in every countries interest to protect their Citizens. Is it not?

    The thing that gets to me is that more people in America get upset when Immigration laws are broken in other countries other than the United States. Its like its OK no problem come to America illegally and we will support you and your whole family.

    8 AnswersPolitics1 decade ago
  • You think its possible that Google is coming out with a new open source operating system for computers?

    I don't know but it sure looks like it.

    James mentioned that Intel has been working with Google to get Android deployed on its x86 chips. Jones said that Android 2.3 Gingerbread has already been deployed, with the firm currently optimising Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and that Intel based Android devices will be appearing in stores by the end of the year. James also mentioned that Intel has been working with Google to get its Linux-based Chrome OS running on its chips.

    Intel touted its Wind River Linux distribution for embedded systems and its Yocto open source project. There was even time to mention Meego, the operating system that Nokia dumped in favour of Microsoft's Windows Phone. James said that tablets running Meego will appear in the second half of 2011 and Intel is working with Orange and Samsung among others to get smartphones out, although she did not mention a release date.

    Microsoft's decision to support the ARM architecture is likely to help it more than harm Intel. The popularity of Google's Android has shown that consumers are willing to have Linux running on consumer embedded devices, so the challenge for Intel isn't supporting software, but to make a chip that can run well in smartphones and tablets and deliver respectable battery life.

    Judging by James' presentation, Intel might still have a good relationship with Microsoft but the company believes that Linux-based operating systems are a better long term bet.

    Read more: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2071996/i...

    The Inquirer - Computer hardware news and downloads. Visit the download store today.

    5 AnswersPolitics1 decade ago
  • Why aren't the Japanese dumping lead onto the Nuclear fuel rods to break down the radiation in the fuel rods?

    They can cut the lead into foil that is light enough to float in the sea water. Then deliver it to the fuel rods where it will melt and diffuse the nuclear fuel rods.

    Everyone knows that the only thing out there that can diffuse nuclear radiation is lead. That is why they use lead to diffuse X-Ray radiation in the Dentists office.

    http://www.radiationproducts.com/

    A lead product that is porous enough to float can be added to the sea water. Where the fuel rods would melt it and diffuse the fuel rods.

    7 AnswersPolitics1 decade ago
  • Should we raise import taxes on those companies who don't engage on fair trade?

    What do these companies give us anyway. Its nothing but junk that lasts barely a year and they don't pay taxes or provide jobs. Why are we letting them get away without paying taxes. They conduct all of their business in foreign countries that want to bomb our cities.

    If these corrupt Monopolies leave it would be the best thing for small businesses. Can you imagine how many small businesses would rise up to take their place. I wanna see those big Monopolies sell their junk in those poverty stricken countries.

    We the middle class call the shots and isn't it time we start acting like it?

    http://economics.about.com/cs/microeconomics/a/mon...

    Frack these free loaders!

    5 AnswersPolitics1 decade ago
  • Why are the rich talking so much crap when the middle class pays more taxes then they do?

    Sunday, June 20, 2010

    By Terence P. Jeffrey

    (CNSNews.com) - Middle-class Americans--not the rich or the poor--pay the majority of annual tax revenues taken in by the federal government, according to data released in a new Congressional Budget Office study. Households earning less than $34,300 per year, meanwhile, actually pay a negative average federal income tax rate.

    Middle-class households that earned between $34,300 and $141,900 paid 50.5 percent of all federal tax revenues in 2007 (the most recent year analyzed), according to the CBO study released Thursday, and households that earned between $34,300 and $352,900 paid 66.7 percent of all federal taxes.

    Households in the top 1 percent for annual income (those earning more than $352,900) paid a healthy 28.1 percent of all federal taxes, but households in the lower income brackets paid relatively little. Those earning less than $34,300 paid only 5.2 percent of all federal taxes, and those earning less than $20,500 carried almost none of the federal tax burden (just 0.8 percent of the total) in 2007.

    The average overall federal tax rate (including income, Social Security, Medicare, excise and other taxes) for all American households was 20.4 percent in 2007. But the average rate rose dramatically as household income rose. Households earning less than $34,300 paid an average overall federal tax rate of 10.6 percent, while households earning more than $74,700 paid an average overall federal tax rate of almost two and half times that much--25.1 percent.

    http://www.cnsnews.com/node/68094

    The rich don't even provide us jobs anymore cause they have most of their businesses in foreign countries to hide their true income there.

    Why are we paying taxes for these free loading rich welfare losers.

    9 AnswersPolitics1 decade ago
  • Would you vote for Donald Trump if he ran for President in 2012?

    Donald Trump Opposes Korea FTA, Supports Fair Trade

    Today on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Donald Trump launched into a tirade about the Korea FTA, unprompted.

    “Have you seen what’s happened recently with the trade pact with South Korea?” said Trump. “They ask us to sign something that only a moron would sign.”Donald Trump on Morning Joe

    Trump went on to say, “I think that fair trade is a much better word than ‘free trade.’ I listen to these people saying, ‘Oh, that’s going to hurt free trade.’ What’s ‘free trade’ when a country has imbalances of hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars…?”

    We think The Donald has a clear message to USTR: Fix the deal, or YOU’RE FIRED!

    http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2010/11/don...

    I would!

    14 AnswersPolitics1 decade ago
  • Aren't the free trade agreements and Obamacae the same thing?

    Aren't they forced on us Americans with all kinds of hidden regulations and laws? If these agreements were shown to us would we vote for them?

    3 AnswersPolitics1 decade ago
  • Aren't the free trade agreements and Obamacare the same thing?

    Aren't they forced on us Americans with all kinds of hidden regulations and laws? If these agreements were shown to us would we vote for them?

    2 AnswersOther - Politics & Government1 decade ago
  • Is the state of Illinois nuts? Don't they realize that increasing taxes by 66% in a free market is a mistaket?

    Illinois' tax pain

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    By R.W. Hafer, Special to the Beacon

    Posted 5:00 am, Fri., 1.14.11

    In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, Illinois lawmakers pushed through a massive tax increase. With the November election a distant memory, Gov. Pat Quinn and the Democratic majority pounced on the opportunity to raise the personal income tax rate 66 percent, to 5 percent from 3 percent. They also increased the corporate income tax rate by 46 percent, raising it to 7 percent from 4.8 percent.

    This decision will have dire consequences for the Illinois economy. It also will not solve the enormous budget deficit confronting the state.

    Supporters of these huge tax increases assert that they are necessary to increase the tax revenues needed to pay down the state’s outstanding bills. Some see this as a step in the right direction to solve the state’s embarrassing fiscal imbalance. Until there is a coherent plan to cut state spending, however, it is a step in the wrong direction. As governors in California and New York have recognized, erasing budget deficits requires state spending cuts as well.

    Increased personal and corporate income taxes may reduce the budget deficit in the short run. But this action also imposes significant economic costs, in the short and long term on Illinois households and businesses. The legislature’s myopic decision could exacerbate the state’s future fiscal woes.

    The immediate effect of the tax increase on households is substantial. The Illinois Policy Institute provides some useful estimates. Census data indicate that the median household income in Illinois is about $53,000. Based on the Institutes's calculations, the average Illinois household will now pay more than $800 more in income taxes in 2011 than in 2010. The tax increase takes a substantial bite out of stagnant household spendable income just as many are struggling to recover from the recession. With many facing no pay raises, the tax reduces spendable incomes even more.

    http://www.stlbeacon.org/voices/columnists/107458-...

    Did any of those Politicians take an economics course?

    16 AnswersPolitics1 decade ago
  • Why won't our Politicians stand up to the Federal Bank like Andrew Jackson did?

    "Experience should teach us wisdom Most of the difficulties our Government now encounters and most of the dangers which impend over our Union have sprung from an abandonment of the legitimate objects of government by our national legislation, and the adoption of such principles as are embodied in this act. Many of our rich men have not been content with equal protection and equal benefits, but have brought us to make them richer by act of Congress. By attempting to gratify their desires, we have in the results of our legislation arrayed section against section, interest against interest, and man against man, in a fearful commotion which threatens to shake the foundations of our Union. It is time to pause in our career to review our principles, and if possible revive that devoted patriotism and spirit of compromise which distinguished the sages of Revolution and the fathers of our Union. If we can not do at once, in justice to interests vested under improvident legislation, make our Government what it ought to be, we can at least take a stand against all new grants of monopolies and exclusive privileges, against any prostitution of our Government to the advancement of the few at the expense of the many, and in favor of compromise and gradual reform in our code of laws and system of political economy."

    ---President Andrew Jackson

    Bank Veto, July 10, 1832

    Upon President Andrew Jackson's veto of the Charter of the Second Bank of the United States, the predecessor of the Federal Reserve Bank.

    There is a lot more I just copied the ending.

    http://mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/2009/02/pres...

    Andrew Jackson was an amazing President.

    1 AnswerPolitics1 decade ago