Sunday, August 4, 2019
Saturday, August 3, 2019
Friday, August 2, 2019
Wall Street Journal admits economic conditions have shrunk as millions go into deep debt to stay in the middle class
Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class :
Cars, college, houses and medical care have become steadily more costly, but incomes have been largely stagnant for two decades, despite a recent uptick.
Rush Limbaugh gets more out of touch with every passing day: "People like their health care from their employer"
Talk about delusional.
In my household we haven't had employer provided health insurance since 2008, but recently a new employer offered us some. My jaw hit the floor when I saw the price: $2,033 per month for family coverage.
Currently I pay $532 a month for family coverage, because I have a plan grandfathered in from pre-2010, which I get to keep as long as I don't make any changes to it. The new employer's plan is almost FOUR TIMES more expensive than what I'm paying now.
Compared to what I'm being offered by an employer right now my current plan looks mahvelous, right?
Well guess what it cost just eight years ago?
$227 a month.
That's right. Despite the fact I'm not hostage to Obamacare or employer provided insurance, my premiums have still risen 134% in eight years. And it would be even worse had I not raised the deductible. Needless to say, my coverage is nearly useless for office visits and routine tests; that's all 100% out of pocket, too.
But look at the scale of what's happened. The coverage I had in 2011 now costs me about two and half times as much as it did then, but this new employer plan costs NINE TIMES as much as privately purchased coverage cost me eight years ago.
That is insane.
But look at the scale of what's happened. The coverage I had in 2011 now costs me about two and half times as much as it did then, but this new employer plan costs NINE TIMES as much as privately purchased coverage cost me eight years ago.
That is insane.
OBAMACARE IS A CURSE AND A BLIGHT ON THE NATION, WHETHER YOU HAVE IT OR NOT, and Rush Limbaugh is as out of his mind as the Democrat hucksters trying to sell us Medicare for All or some other bottle of government elixir when he says people like their health care from their employer. They do not. The LA Times in May:
Health insurance deductibles soar, leaving Americans with unaffordable bills:
The 2010 healthcare law — often called Obamacare — provided landmark protections to Americans once shut out of health coverage. But as Democrats and Republicans fought over the law, Altman said, neither focused on the rapid run-up in costs for people covered through work. ... Over the same time, insurance premiums also increased, rising at more than double the rate of inflation and outpacing wage gains.
Meh: Total nonfarm payrolls increased 164,000 in July 2019
Average to date from November 2016 inclusive is 183,000 per month. Not a boom.
Clinton era average: 243,000 per month for eight straight years.
Reagan boom average: 248,000 per month for six years Nov 1982-Nov 1988.
Richard Spencer falls for silly all the time, including Andrew Yang, fangs come out even for allies with the temerity to point it out
Touchy much? Belies the inherent insecurity and missing center of Richard Spencer.
Spencer: 0
Greer: 1
"Sphere of influence", what rot: The Republic of Ireland knows all about "sphere of influence"
The West used to be the friend of freedom everywhere, sphere of influence be damned. Now we're full of servile bootlickers like this guy, who might as well be a paid apologist for the Chicoms or Vladimir Putin:
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Rush Limbaugh can't even get the differences between the Declaration and the Constitution right
He reveres them, just never reads them.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness aren't in the preamble to the Constitution, not now, and not in 2009 when he first made the mistake:
We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
CROWD: (louder applause)
RUSH: We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an
inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain
inalienable rights, among them life.
CROWD: (cheers and applause)
RUSH: Liberty, Freedom.
CROWD: (wild cheering and applause)
RUSH: And the pursuit of happiness.
Hey Rush, you miserable grifting idiot, tell the British enemy in 1775 that the Continental Colors flag wasn't political
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| First hoisted on the colonial warship ALFRED in December 1775 |
And, see, we don’t think the flag is political. We don’t think the
flag deserves equal time to people that don’t like it. We don’t think
that Betsy Ross is political. We don’t think people need or deserve
equal time to respond to Betsy Ross. These are symbols of our founding
and our freedom and our liberty. They’re symbols. The left has
politicized them, and they’re not political. They shouldn’t be by any
stretch of the imagination. So we came up with the Stand Up for Betsy
Ross T-shirt for people to push back — and in under three weeks, we sold
enough $27 T-shirts to be able to donate $3 million and counting.
Trump today, bright and early: There is always plenty of time to cut
There's always plenty of time to cut spending, by definition, just not right now.
NEVER right now, always later. And when later comes, NEVER right now.
What a fool, and what fools we.
This is about 5x the price the coverage would cost him now had Obamacare never passed
Too bad Americans didn't give Republicans control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in 2016 to fix this and gave all that to Democrats instead.
Biden should absolutely run on deportation of illegal crossers because it will be easy to show how Trump is all talk about it and no action
[T]he only reason this particular part of the law is being abused is because of Donald Trump.
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