I’m not expressing an opinion here. But doesnt this mean that such “proponents” are indisputably anti-America? There’s no other conclusion to reach, if you believe racism is the foundation of American society.
I tend to believe that inertia is the foundation of American society - if you just spin your wheels, you’ll never move ahead. Sure, there are any number of reasons why a person or demographic have fallen behind, but literally anyone can catch up if they stop wallowing in their own misery and start working to take steps forward. Instead, we’ve regressed to just beating down those who are ahead of us.
AOC appeared on Meet the Press earlier today and she made an interesting observation which I believe is correct.
Referring to the 50/50 split in the US Senate, AOC stated that the 50 Democrat Senators represent millions more Americans than do the 50 Republican Senators. I have not done the math or checked out her numbers. But my gut says she is correct, and her words offer insight into her thinking.
From the pledge:
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands . . . .
The USA was founded as a Republic, something AOC and her fellow travelers find, to say the least, uncomfortable. Our Republic is underpinned by our Constitution, the latter specifying each state is allocated two Senators, regardless the population of the state.
AOC’s observation this morning on national TV, while correct, is hardly noteworthy among those of us who still rally around our flag and our Constitution. Regrettably other Americans, like AOC, who do not, are a genuine threat to that Constitution and to our country as founded.
Hospitals have dedicated administrators who’s job is to help enroll existing patients for retroactive medicaid coverage. A lot of medical debt is due to people not worrying about coverage until it’s too late to worry about coverage. And that really isnt the system’s fault.
And most of the remaining debt is due to American’s perverse insistance that medical care is an immediate entitlement regardless of cost. In a socialized system, you have no choice but to wait until your number is called. You get what you pay for.
Medical debt is the no. 1 cause of bankruptcy in the United States, which is something that’s obviously a uniquely American problem,” Allison Sesso, executive director of RIP Medical Debt
You may recall this statistic was invented by our Indigenous Senator to further her health care agenda. The methodology involved asking anyone who filed for BK if they had medical debt and concluded somewhat more than half of them did. This was subsequently spun into the above self-serving lies, while a similar analysis would find that credit card debt is involved in 95%+ of personal BK, so clearly we need to cancel all credit card debt, student loan debt, mortgage debt, and federal government debt… socialism here we come!
You are the one ignoring the facts, just because you dont like what they say.
Or do you seriously think that “have medical debt” has the same meaning as “caused by medical debt”? Because it doesnt. Although I guess it’s been shown that the extreme left does just ignore the actual meaning of words so that they can make up a much-more-convenient meaning.
It’s been lied about since 2005 when a white lady masquerading as an Indian was involved in that political scam masquerading as academic research. Even the NYT covered how it was bogus research.
Craig Garthwaite, a health economist at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, who also studies medical debt, offered a more negative assessment: “There are no reputable economists who I deal with who believe the number in the paper or the methods in the paper are appropriate in trying to get at the true underlying question.”
Then surely you can find one that’s got good methodology, because that one is shit too and uses the same Warren worthless approach -
The number of debtors who cited medical issues as a contributing reason for their bankruptcy actually increased slightly after the law’s implementation — 67.5 percent in the three years following the law’s adoption versus 65.5 percent prior.
Any debt is a contributing factor. Idiots or ideologues, or both.
But I could’ve overcome the hundred-thousand of credit card debts and being 21 months behind on my mortgage, if only I didnt have to pay out-of-pocket for that broken leg xray!
Because that isn’t the conclusion these “studies” are making.
You mean like Drumpf, orange man, and covidiot?
Their “study” was looking at bankruptcy cases to see how many included some amount of medical-related debt. Then declare those to have been caused by medical debt.
No, it’s based on misleading questions leading to left wing talking points.
You might learn something from people who studied the matter.
I did, and I reported on it here previously. You might learn something from reading those sources and prior discussion.
around $5k in average medical debt (much less than the average total debt) should be clues the real cause lies elsewhere. Guess what? Credit card debt is “a reason” that contributes to 99% of bankruptcies, because nearly all BK cases involve credit card debt. Apparently the average CC debt in BK is $25k, and somehow that’s less of a problem than the $5-8k of medical debt? Clearly we need to reform the credit card system, right? Here’s a study by debt collectors (who would know), citing the largest debts of BK filers are CCs in about 3/4 of cases, with medical being about 20% (most of the rest). Asking BK lawyers about their clients suggest that top causes of BK is overspending followed by job loss, with divorce and medical debts much less common.
Your efforts to falsely claim that an attack on a general’s support for CRT is an attack on “the military” are transparent and weak.
I posted the video of what the General said and what the congressman said (a first hand account) and gave my opinion. You posted a third hand account, an article giving an opinion on what someone else’s opinion was, and then didn’t give your own opinion. Then you posted a FOURTH hand account, an opinion, about a reaction, about an opinion, and that opinion you posted contained a clearly false claim, which I exposed.
I never once even got into what Tucker said. I provided my own opinion based on the facts. We can have a discussion about why my opinion is wrong and yours is right, but only if you are honest about what I said.
You are forgetting that the military is infallible and all-knowing, so we should hang on every word they utter as if it were gospel. Unless they’re saying something nice about Trump, then they’re clearly just idiots.
Transgender Men may now use the men’s restroom. To make particular TM more comfortable. Up to a point they had to use the nurses bathroom in school. Now they may also bathe at the community shower.
As far as a Transgender Woman . I suppose it’s just the same issue. High School girls placed in this predicament does bother me.
I don’t have daughters, but just being a woman, I object to having a TF using the ladies bathroom. To include bathing together is outlandish.
The Roberts court avoiding the inevitable as usual. In Bostock, they acknowledged that their decision would open the door to a reinterpretation of Title IX, but assured us that the decision didn’t extend that far. Now with a chance to clarify, they refuse to take up the case and essentially require all states in the 4th circuit to allow Transgender students all the rights of their chosen gender. Now it will be up to another circuit (likely the 11th if they do the right thing - see below) to decide the case differently before SCOTUS is forced to rule. In the meantime, the court will be hoping that the public opinion tide will turn much like it did for gay marriage and that a pro-transgender ruling will be welcomed when they are eventually forced to write it. I think their prediction is way off. The tide is NOT turning in favor of males in female spaces.
I still fail to understand what this even has to do with transgender rights. Bathrooms and changing rooms are segregated by anatomy, that’s the entire purpose of having separate facilities. It’s a very clear, very unambiguous line, not some abstract concept based on how a person happens to feel. If your relevant organs are on the outside, you use the men’s room - that is what the mens room is for, it’s why most have urinals and only a couple seats.
Maybe we need to just formally re-label restrooms as the “d!cks” room and the “pu$$y” room? Then it wont affect anyone offended by the sexist terms "man’ and “woman”, and they can simply look down their pants to learn which room they should use. (Sorry if that’s being too crass, this is just such an asinine subject for there to be lawsuits over)
