Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

actually he could have listened to me in 2010 and kept the house. he ruined his presidency on a "reform" bill that he has already pulled parts out of and which will soon be hit with the tsunami of a Supreme Court decision.

This is interesting
 

It seems like NGDP level targeting is picking up steam, as summarized here by Business Insider. Krugman joins in here. Less notably, Brad Delong and Matt Yglesias too.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

You're gonna have to help me through your thought process here. You think the OWS movement is made up of government employees, K Street lawyers and defense contractors? Why?

ETA: Oh. I get it now. You are incorrectly asserting that all of these people at the 1%, thus the 99% should make them their enemy. Uh huh.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

not the 1%, the 1% is too small to be the problem. The dem operatives that have fueled the OWS movement should be tazered for the distraction.

The problem is a city that creates nothing, nothing but taxes and ruinous health care laws, is now the greatest center for wealth in this country.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

less colorful, but what I was initially looking for
 

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

Tell us again about how HCR -- most of which hasn't gone into effect yet -- has wrecked the economy.

Oh wait, you just did.

Re: less colorful, but what I was initially looking for
 

This needs to be on Twitter. Actually, it needs to be on CNN. And Fox. And MSNBC.

Re: less colorful, but what I was initially looking for
 

FWIW, I think I originally found it on Twitter. I agree -- I think it's awesome.

Re: less colorful, but what I was initially looking for
 

Do you have a link to it?

Nevermind. I found it.

Depressing cuz it's true!
 

How the austerity class rules Washington.

Re: Depressing cuz it's true!
 

Oddly timed, as if anything the OWS folks seem to be having some effect in moving the discussion back away from deficits to unemployment. But otherwise very good.

Choose 9!
 

Herman Cain gets cornered into taking the pro choice position:

Yeah, that isn't going to stand.

Hey, Hank
 

Matt Yglesias discusses why small business owners don't like universal health care, and concludes that it's ideological disagreement. Is that right?

Cause this sure sounds right to me:
What does your experience as a business manager and health care decision maker tell you that undermines this line of thinking?

Re: Hey, Hank
 

who is Cooper?

Re: Hey, Hank
 

No idea, except that he's the person Yglesias was quoting.

Looks like he's a writer for Washington Monthly.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

Anthony Bologna feels "tortured," and has been docked ten vacation days. If he wasn't a cop and did what he did, he'd be facing criminal charges.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

He "didn't mean to spray those women?" But would do it the same thing if he could do it over again? He should be fired just for being a bad liar.

Of course he meant to spray those women. It's on tape. Own it or not, but you can't have it both ways.

Re: Hey, Hank
 

The biggest concern with universal care is there is one flavor and it isn't as good a's what I have. I don't is there us a cheaper way to get vanilla, I don't want vanilla. I was happy with my HSA (hi Ty!).

Now, will you ask the know it all blogger and columnist how come there are so many Ontario plates at my hospital's parking lot?

Re: Hey, Hank
 

So your answer is that you are concerned about the quality of your own personal health care, and don't particularly care about the costs presented to your business?

I can see how that works for you individually, but it's still curious to me how small business, to the extent that it can be viewed as a monolithic lobbying interest, wouldn't prefer not to be saddled with a health care policy that expects them to provide insurance for workers.

Perhaps they believe that labor markets are sufficiently efficient that they will just have to pay the same in total compensation even if they aren't providing health insurance? Sounds insane to me, but then I guess so does preferring to keep paying for employees in order to protect yourself. Seems like you could spend some of your cost savings on making sure you can get what you want.

Re: Hey, Hank
 

I want the 30 families I buy health care for to have what I want them to have, it is above the minimum. I don't talk econ or markets so plug my subjective wants into your equation and realize that a blogger and a columnist know about a's much about what drives small business HC choices a's say, Ty?

Re: Hey, Hank
 

You know, I think the discussion would be much more easily understood if this was the argument that was made.

But you never hear the GOP, or anyone, say they don't care about the costs to small businesses because what business people care about is the quality of care available to their employees.

I wonder why that is.

Re: Hey, Hank
 

1st paragraph: 2! There is advantage in diversity of options, competition, and all that good stuff. I like it here in Boston where we have tax exempt university affiliated hospitals that are vastly better than the grubby for-profits that dominate much of the south and mid-west, for example.

However, has there ever been a serious one size fits all proposal? Even single payor plans generally centralize payment and often purchasing while leaving options available based on provider, market area, purchaser, etc.

2nd paragraph. Because people think there is better care. That's the same reason why you'll find a lot of Maine and New York license plates in hospitals north of the border. I think you'll find there are large parts of Ontario where Detroit is a lot closer than Toronto, and the best care, especially for specialists, tends to be in the cities.

If I have a ski accident in Northern Vermont, I hope I get to Montreal as soon as possible, not Burlington or Montpelier or, god forbid, St. Johnsbury.

Re: Hey, Hank
 

Hi! What happened to it?

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/warrenme...e-than-an-suv/

This is where the stimulus money went? To Finland? Is there anyone in the administration that is even marginally competent?

Apart from that, keep up the good work.
 

Those are good questions, except that I can't tell what this has to do with the stimulus money, Finland, or the administration.

Re: Apart from that, keep up the good work.
 

The administration bit I sort of get, in that he's suggesting that the EPA has made up an incoherent MPG measurement for cars that do not use fuel by the gallon.

Finland and stimulus I have no idea.

Re: Apart from that, keep up the good work.
 

we paid to develop cars to be made in Finland. I don't care about MPG because we are already past the tipping point that algore warned of. The Earth is doomed, have an ice cream.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

Re: Apart from that, keep up the good work.
 

"Paid" or guaranteed loans?

Re: Apart from that, keep up the good work.
 

http://i.imgur.com/THn6t.jpg

When I first saw this, I immediately saw Hank's avatar in one of the faces. Then I looked and it was gone.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

I have to say, BO is quickly becoming the most bad ass President in history. First the Pirates, then OBL, and now MK? Hopefully, he can take care of Mugabe, Chavez and Castro before exiting office in 2013.

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

I took Castro off my Death Pool list for 2011 so I hope he's not this year. :D

Re: My God, you are an idiot.
 

I read today that Ariel Sharon has gained weight while in his coma. Bastard.

Re: Apart from that, keep up the good work.
 

Or maybe not:
Yglesias. The referenced Dave Roberts piece.

Re: Apart from that, keep up the good work.
 

better read the longer one. we spent money to have cars built in Europe and hire 120 people here. Maybe someday they'll build something here, maybe not. buying a factory don't mean fuckall

and "As founder Henrik Fisker said, "There was no contract manufacturer in the U.S. that could actually produce our vehicle. They don't exist here." So the Karma is being assembled at a plant in Finland."

What does that mean? There are no companies capable of manufacturing an electric car? What? And if so, how can we hope for the other one to be built here.

Who is minding the store Adder? It seems there are plenty of bloggers to give trite answers to the dull witted, but no one in the administration capable of making even the most basic decision.

Re: Apart from that, keep up the good work.
 

You missed the bit about how all of the money that was lent was to be spent in the U.S.?

Gee, maybe it means there are no contract manufacturers here.

Perhaps you should call your buddies at the big three and ask why they wouldn't take this contract work.

Re: Apart from that, keep up the good work.
 

You were one talking about a dollar spent turning into many dollars generated. Those generated dollars will be in Europe- and even if the people there we make rich visit, you know those fucks don't tip, right?



what does it mean that there are no manufacturers here? why didn't obama give money to some company to be one? why can the second car be made here? there are more holes in your argument than there are in ppnyc's hymen.

Suck My Dick, Herman