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Re: Politics, Religion, etc. (4.15.14 - 9.10.15)
By: guest118 Date: April 16, 2014, 5:36 pm
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"I strongly disagree. The biggest problem is that it is a major
step toward socialism and a massive expansion of the power of
government. The problems with its cost are insignificant in
comparison."
True that. 100%
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc. (4.15.14 - 9.10.15)
By: otto105 Date: April 16, 2014, 7:17 pm
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The long-awaited Rand Corp. study of Obamacare's effect on
health insurance coverage was released Tuesday and confirmed the
numbers that had been telegraphed for more than a week: At least
9.3 million more Americans have health insurance now than in
September 2013, virtually all of them as a result of the law.
That's a net figure, accommodating all those who lost their
individual health insurance because of cancellations. The Rand
study confirms other surveys that placed the number of people
who lost their old insurance and did not or could not replace it
-- the focus of an enormous volume of anti-Obamacare rhetoric --
at less than 1 million. The Rand experts call this a "very
small" number, less than 1% of the U.S. population age 18 to 64.
The Rand study was eagerly anticipated in part because of the
dearth of hard information from other sources, including the
federal and state governments, which are still compiling their
statistics and may not have a full slate for months.
Rand acknowledges that its figures have limitations -- they're
based on a survey sampling, meaning that the breakdowns are
subject to various margins of error, and they don't include much
of the surge in enrollments in late March and early April. Those
3.2-million sign-ups not counted by Rand could "dramatically
affect" the figures on total insureds, the organization said.
A few other important takeaways:
--The number of people getting insurance through their employers
increased by 8.2 million. Rand said the increase is likely to
have been driven by a decline in unemployment, which made more
people eligible for employer plans, and by the incentives in the
Affordable Care Act encouraging more employer coverage. The
figure certainly undermines the contention by the healthcare
law's critics that the legislation gave employers an incentive
to drop coverage.
--Of the 3.9 million people counted by Rand as obtaining
insurance on the individual exchange market, 36% were previously
uninsured. That ratio is expected to rise when the late signups
are factored in. Medicaid enrollment increased by 5.9 million,
the majority of whom did not have insurance before signing up.
--These figures are only the leading edge of a long-term trend.
"It's still early in the life of the ACA," Rand said. Its
experts expect more enrollments "as people become more familiar
with the law, the individual mandates increase to their highest
levels, the employer mandate kicks in, and other changes occur."
But their bottom line is that the law already has led to "a
substantial increase in insurance coverage."
HTML http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-rand-20140408,0,6208659.column#ixzz2z67iGVpB
HTML http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-rand-20140408,0,6208659.column#ixzz2z67iGVpB
Enjoy that beerflabby
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc. (4.15.14 - 9.10.15)
By: Pekin Date: April 16, 2014, 9:05 pm
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Bullshit!
Do you ever get tired of carrying the water for this
administration? The law is a disaster as is this
administration.
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc. (4.15.14 - 9.10.15)
By: Keysbear Date: April 16, 2014, 9:14 pm
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He's posted that same article at least 3 times. He's running out
of material. Can't wait to hear the whining from all the people
who used to go to the emergency room for free now show up there
and find out that they owe $200 or more for the ER co-pay.
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc. (4.15.14 - 9.10.15)
By: otto105 Date: April 16, 2014, 9:19 pm
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Ignorant wingbutts
Its a Rand Corp study of the PPACA, not a press release from the
Administration.
Idiots.
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc. (4.15.14 - 9.10.15)
By: Keysbear Date: April 16, 2014, 9:35 pm
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Rand Corporation calls itself independent but as they
say...follow the money. Interesting article showing political
contributions of "think tank" employees including Rand.
Rand employees donations between 2003-2010 91.20% to democrats
vs 8.80% to republicans. Why would anyone be skeptical about the
results of the survey?
HTML http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/03/03/think-tank-employees-tend-to-support-democrats
However, employee contributions from some of the top moderate
think tanks skew decidedly to the left. For example, the Center
for Strategic and International Studies and the RAND
Corporation, two of the policy institutes with the most generous
employees, have 84 percent and 91 percent Democratic giving
records, respectively. The two think tanks with the most
bipartisan spread of campaign contributions--the Council on
Foreign Relations and the Aspen Institute--still have seen more
than two-thirds of their employees' reported contributions going
toward Democrats and liberal PACs since 2003. Even employees of
the Congressional Research Service, sometimes called "Congress'
think tank," have given 100 percent of their donations since
2003 to Democratic candidates and committees.
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc. (4.15.14 - 9.10.15)
By: Jackiejokeman Date: April 17, 2014, 12:07 am
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Who started the Rand Corporation ? Yer gonna shit when you find
out.
Look it up.
As far as the 29 aircraft pics go ... Im gonna post them, may
take some time ... ;D
Just to let all of us know who died so that we can do this.
>:(
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc. (4.15.14 - 9.10.15)
By: Jackiejokeman Date: April 17, 2014, 1:21 am
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo's recently fired chief operating
officer, Henrique de Castro, left the Internet company with a
severance package of $58 million even though he lasted just 15
months on the job.
The disclosure in a regulatory filing Wednesday may lead to
more second-guessing about Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to
hire de Castro as her second-in-command in October 2012.
Mayer dumped de Castro in January after concluding he wasn't
executing on her plan for reviving Yahoo's lackluster ad growth.
De Castro had been in charge of ad sales.
"Ultimately, Henrique was not a fit and that's a very
regrettable conclusion," Mayer told analysts in late January.
"And it's a conclusion that we tried very hard to avoid, but it
was the right decision in the end for the company." After making
the expensive mistake, Mayer has said she won't pick another
chief operating officer.
De Castro's severance pay more than doubled the amount that
Yahoo paid Mayer last year. Mayer's compensation was valued at
$24.9 million, a 32 percent decline from the previous year. The
decrease stemmed primarily from a stock award of $35 million
that she received in July 2012 when Yahoo persuaded her to leave
her previous job as a top Google Inc. executive to become its
CEO.
Yahoo Inc. previously disclosed de Castro would be getting a
severance package, but didn't reveal the amount until Wednesday.
The company's board said most of the severance stemmed from the
costs of luring de Castro from his previous job at Google. Like
many other senior Google executives, de Castro would have
received millions in stock by staying at the company. That
prompted Yahoo to make up for some of the Google awards he had
to relinquish when he defected.
"The board believed at the time Mr. de Castro was hired that he
had a unique set of highly valuable skills and experiences that
would be key to returning the company to long-term growth and
success," Yahoo's compensation committee said in its defense of
de Castro's severance pay.
The compensation committee ended up having such a dim view of
de Castro's performance in 2013 that it decided not to give him
a bonus, according to Wednesday's filing. He was eligible for a
bonus of up to $540,000, or 90 percent of the $600,000 salary
that he received last year.
De Castro's severance package wouldn't have been worth nearly
as much if Yahoo's stock hadn't more than doubled during de
Castro's brief tenure with the company.
But those gains had little to do with the managerial acumen of
de Castro, Mayer or any other Yahoo executives.
Analysts trace almost all the increase in Yahoo's stock price
to the company's 24 percent stake in China's Alibaba Group,
which is running some of the world's fastest-growing and
most-profitable e-commerce sites. Alibaba is planning to go
public on the New York Stock Exchange and when that happens,
Yahoo will be able to reap a multibillion dollar windfall from
its holdings in the company.
Yahoo's own business remains in a funk. The Sunnyvale, Calif.,
company's revenue, minus ad commissions, dipped 1 percent last
year. Advertising sales showed some signs of modest improvement
during the first three months of this year, but Yahoo is still
lagging the overall growth of Internet marketing.
Had Yahoo's stock price remained at roughly the same level as
when de Castro joined the company, his severance package value
would have been worth about $17 million.
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redistributed.
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc. (4.15.14 - 9.10.15)
By: chifaninva Date: April 17, 2014, 5:00 am
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Rand employees donations between 2003-2010 91.20% to democrats
vs 8.80% to republicans. Why would anyone be skeptical about the
results of the survey?
Who couldn't trust them? LOL!!!
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Re: Politics, Religion, etc. (4.15.14 - 9.10.15)
By: WshflThinking Date: April 17, 2014, 7:13 am
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No IRS scandal? Its all Issa's fault? NO, its coming out and its
going to explode.
[B]How High Does It Go?: New Emails Could Implicate Holder’s DOJ
In IRS Targeting Of Conservatives[/B]
April 17, 2014 by Sam Rolley
How High Does It Go?: New Emails Could Implicate Holder’s DOJ In
IRS Targeting Of Conservatives
New emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
indicate that former Internal Revenues Service official Lois
Lerner’s targeting of conservative groups was part of a broader
assault on right-leaning groups by other Federal agencies.
The emails, obtained by Judicial Watch, reveal communication
between Lerner and Justice Department officials regarding the
possibility of prosecuting tax-exempt groups for making “false
statements.” The email exchange took place just days before
Lerner was forced to apologize for the IRS’s unfair targeting of
conservatives.
In a May 8 email to Nikole C. Flax, former chief of staff to
former-Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller, Lerner wrote:
I got a call today from Richard Pilger Director Elections Crimes
Branch at DOJ … He wanted to know who at IRS the DOJ folk s
[sic] could talk to about Sen. Whitehouse idea at the hearing
that DOJ could piece together false statement cases about
applicants who “lied” on their 1024s –saying they weren’t
planning on doing political activity, and then turning around
and making large visible political expenditures. DOJ is feeling
like it needs to respond, but want to talk to the right folks at
IRS to see whether there are impediments from our side and what,
if any damage this might do to IRS programs. I told him that
sounded like we might need several folks from IRS …”
Lerner, who was heading up the IRS’s tax-exempt organizations
division at the time, was referencing suggestions Senator
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) made during a Senate hearing on
campaign finance last April.
In a reply, Flax said, “I think we should do it — also need to
include CI [Criminal Investigation Division], which we can help
coordinate.” She went on to suggest that the IRS should partner
in the undertaking with the Federal Elections Commission.
In a later email to top IRS staff, Lerner sought to alleviate
any concern that the targeting was politically motivated:
As I mentioned yesterday — there are several groups of folks
from the FEC world that are pushing tax fraud prosecution for
c4s who report they are not conducting political activity when
they are (or these folks think they are). One is my ex-boss
Larry Noble (former General Counsel at the FEC), who is now
president of Americans for Campaign Reform. This is their latest
push to shut these down. One IRS prosecution would make an
impact and they wouldn’t feel so comfortable doing the stuff.
So, don’t be fooled about how this is being articulated — it is
ALL about 501(c)(4) orgs and political activity
In other emails, however, Lerner acknowledged that the finding a
legal means for the prosecutions would be difficult.
The emails largely serve to indicate that in the days leading up
to inevitable bad press about the Federal government using the
IRS to bully conservatives, top government officials were
working feverishly to manufacture evidence that the targeting
was justified via criminal prosecution.
They also provide evidence that Attorney General Eric Holder’s
DOJ was well-aware of the targeting.
As House Republicans continue to in attempts to get more
information about the extent of the IRS targeting, the newly
released emails will likely be a major help to Congressional
investigators.
“These new emails show that the day before she broke the news of
the IRS scandal, Lois Lerner was talking to a top Obama Justice
Department official about whether the DOJ could prosecute the
very same organizations that the IRS had already improperly
targeted,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a
statement. “The IRS emails show Eric Holder’s Department of
Justice is now implicated and conflicted in the IRS scandal. No
wonder we had to sue in federal court to get these documents.”
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