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Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
... in the current news. #1: --- Rick Santorum just advocated emplyers getting away from offering their employees health insurance. Just another way for them to invest less in us, yet still expect us to do a good job for them. Sha, as if. Sure, go with that, Rick. Watch more of America in turn be less willing to invest themselves in their jobs for their employers. |
BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
Sarge, actually, in the developed world (and regarding the handling of health care, the US is not quite in that group), employers mostly don't pay for healthcare (directly anyway), as most countries have a single payer system where the costs are integrated into the generalized tax base instead of the employer. That can help employers be more competitive in the global market place. Of course those countries DO have health care programs which are not 'employee centric'. The unfortunate thing for Santorum (and his Teapublican ilk), is that they would move toward a totally for profit health care system where those who can afford health care, pay for it, and those who don't -- don't get it. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
#2: --- Activist judges on The Supreme Court rule you can be ... searched ... when arrested for any level of violation. Bur I'll bet they'd be very upset if searcher and searchee began a relationship after such an intimate search. This is from the group that brought you "Corporations are people" and SuperPACs. |
BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
It used to be the cry of the right against activist judges. Since Gore v Bush, the shoe has moved to the other foot and now the true activist legislative judicial decisions are coming from Republican judges. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30591 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Judicial Activism: Any decision a nut case doesn't agree with! |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
Activist judges are those that try to legislate from the bench instead of doing their job which is to interpret the Constitution. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Judicial Activism: Any decision a nut case doesn't agree with! Well, when the Arizona state troopers come to Cali for a "visit" with you, regarding your "annoying" S@H posts, decide to arrest you, then proceed with the "full cavity searc", despite NO PROBABLE CAUSE for believing you might be smuggling something ... in the cavity known as YOUR BUTT ... . Well, maybe you'll feel things differently afterwards. Er, I mean, feel differently. :) |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Activist judges are those that try to legislate from the bench instead of doing their job which is to interpret the Constitution. Gee, is something about probable cause in the Constitution? |
GPS41 Send message Joined: 22 Mar 12 Posts: 3 Credit: 3,795 RAC: 0 |
Misunderstanding about the Healthcare Act is widespread, to say the least! Distortion and misinformation is readily available to anyone of any persuasion. Take a position, take any position and that position is subject to immediate, vociferous and "irrefutable" verification. In a manner of speaking, the search for healthcare truth is a search for terrestrial intelligence. If and when the healthcare issue makes contact with terrestrial intelligence there will be no healthcare issue! The health insurance industry may have to adjust to market based profits. However, health "insurance" issues (profit or otherwise) are not "healthcare" issues! A popular "movement" to disjoin one from the other would be a welcome sign of terrestrial intelligence. |
Terror Australis Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 1817 Credit: 262,693,308 RAC: 44 |
Sigh. I look back with nostalgia at the personal freedoms and freedom of expression the population of old Communist Russia used to have. Someone, somewhere is quietly snickering up their sleeve. T.A. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Head Scratcher #(n+1) In the 2010-2012 age of ca;;s for cutbacks, there are less computers for the crunching of census data and less government employees to act as button pushers? |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
A census is inherently inaccurate. There has to be canvassing and it will still be inaccurate since where people live is fluid and uncertain. This is especially true in the age of illegals and migrants. Better to take a poll and divide up districts by other numbers ( registered voters, tax rolls, jury lists, school populations etc) |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
A census is inherently inaccurate. There has to be canvassing and it will still be inaccurate since where people live is fluid and uncertain. This is especially true in the age of illegals and migrants. William, I am surprised you have misread Guy's question. Data gathering, which is what is done by the canvassers, is done. Guy is also not asking about the flaws of our continued attempts to call it a census. He is asking, why, 2 years after the data has been gathered, the analysis is not complete. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30591 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Head Scratcher #(n+1) Because it is a poll tax. Ask yourself, is that state issued ID card free? |
GPS41 Send message Joined: 22 Mar 12 Posts: 3 Credit: 3,795 RAC: 0 |
[quote]Head Scratcher #(n+1) How is requiring voters to present a state issued identification card in order to vote preventing minorities from voting? A state issued ID card doesn't prevent anyone from voting . . . unless they don't have one! An ID card (photo or otherwise) is normally acquired as a consequence of driving a car or for some other purpose not related to voting. However, some people fall outside the norm and do not have an acceptable form of identification. Curiously, a "Voter Registration Card" is not an acceptable ID for voting in some states. Therein lies the problem. Registration ID should be available as a "Voter Information Card" or a "Voter Identification Card" as needed by individual voters. Supervisors of Elections should be required (by state law) to meet this need. |
BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
Guy, it isn't the requirement for an identification that bothers me -- that's fine, it is the differential procedures (from state to state) for obtaining that identification that is a source of concern. In some states the process is simple, straightforward and neither expensive nor time consuming. In other states, not so much. Head Scratcher #(n+1) |
BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
Guy, in addition to Sarge's explanation, you need to consider the response from some of your libertarian buddies to the imposition of questions from the 'blue hats'. Some of those folks might also run afoul of state election identification requirements. Head Scratcher #(n+1) |
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