OP ED-"Little Timmy Wants to Know Why Nobody Likes Airplanes Anymore?

[AndyFromCB]

TBM is financed, I don't get to fly it most of time as I am mostly not in sales in our current venture. It was the cheapest way to get 4 sales guys reliably to see clients all over rural America. I could not personally swing a TBM at this time. It's a business tool. With a $20K a month payment attached to it. Makes my head hurt everytime I think about.

[AndyFromCB]

How about that awesome cash grab redistribution with the college savings plan tax idea? I would love to see a photo of the who was behind that. Give a face to it.

We and my kids grandparents saved from when they were born for their college tuition. A little at a time over 21 years adds up.

What's next? Stay tuned for cash grab redistribution USA style.

 

Me too. But once again, while Obama is far from being a saint, I've seen the same shit from the other side as well.

[scottfromiowa]

So why not provide a catastrophic high deductible plan? People can afford to pay for a broken arm...Breast cancer, not so much.

I want some skin in the game for all be it grants to go to school or healthcare. Gas tax burden for roads is paid for by all that use.

"Free" is just not what I believe the United States was built on.

[AndyFromCB]

And birthing for legal or illegal residents in US of A should cost $2800 bucks, actually, it should cost even less. Our health care costs are extremely out of whack with the rest of the developed world. A C section in Canada gets reimbursed at $4800 a pop, not $30,000. Same wealthy country as US of A. Same cost of living.

 

So why not provide a catastrophic high deductible plan? People can afford to pay for a broken arm...Breast cancer, not so much.

I want some skin in the game for all be it grants to go to school or healthcare. Gas tax burden for roads is paid for by all that use.

"Free" is just not what I believe the United States was built on.

 

Because AMA would never agree to that. Problem with any solution to anything in US of A is entrenched interests. We can never get a clean bill passed on anything. Even John sees no problem with a cardiologist making $3,000,000 a year. Assuming the guy actually works 40 hours a week (yeah right), that's $1500 an hour.

 

And the question is can our checkout girl really afford a broken arm if only has $600 a month left to live on after housing and transportation payments? 

[John Pleisse]

Scott,

 

One, I was being a bit of a pain when I stated I supported 100% inheritance tax. Obviously I don't. However, these dynasties were have, both on the left (kennedy) and on the right (koch) are going to be the end of the republic.

 

As to what I got from my parents: great childhood, great education and seriously $50 when I moved out at 19. My parents are by no means wealthy. I slip them a big check each Christmas. 

 

Neither am I. I can afford some toys but I have to keep on working to support them. Wealthy to me means $30million in the bank.

 

 

So have I.

 

 

John,

 

You're as guilty of this as I am. Lowering taxes and reducing regulation solves everything in your world. When you throw examples like that, I throw 100% inheritance tax. Yes, things are complicated. But I don't seem to lose my shit everytime a Republican gets elected president. 

 

Look...POTUS is a bad guy, who has bad ideas, surrounds himself with really bad people, then together, the mess up our country. Forcing an entire country into $4k to $12k deductibles (Canada-England?) to prop up a bad law, isn't gonna solve the problem, is a bad move. It's that simple. This isn't a "fair share" solution, it is feeding the machine. It'll be filleted to 28 pages and serve its intended purpose, eventually and still be labeled "Obamacare".

[AndyFromCB]

Look...POTUS is a bad guy, who has bad ideas, surrounds himself with really bad people, then together, the mess up our country. Forcing an entire country into $4k to $12k deductibles (Canada-England?) to prop up a bad law, isn't gonna solve the problem, is a bad move. It's that simple. This isn't a "fair share" solution, it is feeding the machine. It'll be filleted to 28 pages and serve its intended purpose, eventually and still be labeled "Obamacare".

 

What's your definition of BAD here? And nobody I think disagrees that any bill with 1000 pages is something we should be proud off. But unfortunately that's the price to pay when you try to combined federal, state and private industry into one bill. It is not handled like this anywhere else in the world, it's a wrong concept, but that's the best we can do here under current circumstances.

[rob]

Scott... what do you think a broken arm costs? What do you think an MRI runs? CT? How about the technical and professional component of an X-Ray?

 

Can you afford it? Sure, as long as it doesn't happen too often; but what if it's the cashier we were discussing earlier? She' making what? 20k a year if she's lucky? How is she going to find the cash to pay for that broken arm?

[John Pleisse]

Dennis McDonough, Jack Lew , Dan Phieffer, Valerie Jarret...... That's a baby-straight of Karl Rove's. And never mind the press people who are not evasive and accommodating, but overtly confrontational and adversarial. Especially the girls of "Tri-Delt" over at State.

[AndyFromCB]

An x-ray, cast, plaster, couple of visits and a lot of itching. I don't know, but I would not be having an MRI or CT for a broken arm...

 

Well, depends here. Simple fracture yes. A broken wrist, you want all of that and then some, if you ever want to regain full use. 

[flyboy0681]

An x-ray, cast, plaster, couple of visits and a lot of itching. I don't know, but I would not be having an MRI or CT for a broken arm...

 

No MRI but the visit to the ER only to be sent to an orthopod for setting does add up. My son broke his arm about 8 years ago playing football and all told, the EOB's showed a total "billed" amount of $6k. We stayed in-network so the insurer paid about 1/3 of that.

[AndyFromCB]

I know I am not exceptional in any way. I try to make up for that with a solid work ethic and living within my means. It has worked O.K. so far.

I am "rich". I and my family are employed, healthy and contributing. That is my definition of rich. Thank God because I am destitute if "millions" needs to be in the equation.

 

I think $30 million net worth is what now is considered the entry point to the exclusive club of wealthy. Anyways, with that attitude you're never join it. I have never met a wealthy person who did not think they were "exceptional"   As they say, money is just a way of keeping score. Anyways, cheers. One of the greatest joys in life is being happy with what you have. 

[carusoam]

FB

Was that the end of his football career?

-a-

[flyboy0681]

Was that the end of his football career?

-a-

 

It was just a neighborhood scrimmage game. He's as much a football player as I am a neurosurgeon.

[AndyFromCB]

Dennis McDonough, Jack Lew , Dan Phieffer, Valerie Jarret...... That's a baby-straight of Karl Rove's. And never mind the press people who are not evasive and accommodating, but overtly confrontational and adversarial. Especially the girls of "Tri-Delt" over at State.

I'm sorry, but at that level of politics, they are all backstabbing, conniving felons no matter whether it's R or D in the white house. How many times did saint Ronnie say "I don't recall". You think the cold war ended and got cleaned up without some major shady dealings done by James Baker. Extremely bright individual, extremely shady. It's amazing what comes out years later after things get declassified. Ever read National Security Report 68? It's now declassified. Guess what? We, not the Ruskies, started the cold war. It was in "our interests". Bet you they still don't teach that in public school history classes. Was there some major ulterior motives behind starting he Iraqi war. You bet ya. If you live long enough, you'll find out. By then, it won't make a bit of a difference. It will be studied by academics and children will be taught that Saint Bush saved the world from WMDs. Like I said, I don't vote. The presidents do what the presidents have to do. 

 

And if you still buy that the Ruskies were ever a threat, I have a bridge to sell you. I lived under the Warsaw pact. My Dad was a tank commander officer during his two years of "volunteer service". If 1 in 10 tanks worked at anytime, it was a miracle. Russia was a cluster fuck of an internal mess and without US aid it received during WWII, it was a paper tiger. Still is.

[John Pleisse]

I'm sorry, but at that level of politics, they are all backstabbing, conniving felons no matter whether it's R or D in the white house. How many times did saint Ronnie say "I don't recall". You think the cold war ended and got cleaned up without some major shady dealings done by James Baker. Extremely bright individual, extremely shady. It's amazing what comes out years later after things get declassified. Ever read National Security Report 68? It's now declassified. Guess what? We, not the Ruskies, started the cold war. It was in "our interests". Bet you they still don't teach that in public school history classes. Was there some major ulterior motives behind starting he Iraqi war. You bet ya. If you live long enough, you'll find out. By then, it won't make a bit of a difference. It will be studied by academics and children will be taught that Saint Bush saved the world from WMDs. Like I said, I don't vote. The presidents do what the presidents have to do. 

 

 

Yeah......

 

 

“After we win this election, it’s our turn.  Payback time.  Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay.  Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.”

 

Valerie Jarrett

 

I'll have the Valerie Jarrett wiff a side of fries. The internet is a big place.....go find something comparable. Let's see...Republican Congress, no Judges..... just the first two. You know their ideology is bad when RB Ginsberg refuses to retire.

[flyboy0681]

 How many times did saint Ronnie say "I don't recall". 

 

 

Well, given that he probably had Alzheimer's while in office, he was probably telling the truth.

[rob]

An x-ray, cast, plaster, couple of visits and a lot of itching. I don't know, but I would not be having an MRI or CT for a broken arm...

Ok. So let's say you got away lucky and there isn't a joint involved. It's a clean break in the forearm. What do you expect the x-ray, (technical and professional) will cost? Let's forget about the cast and follow up, just the imaging....

[carusoam]

seen the news for the pipe line...?

[John Pleisse]

. My Dad was a tank commander officer during his two years of "volunteer service". If 1 in 10 tanks worked at anytime, it was a miracle. Russia was a cluster fuck of an internal mess and without US aid it received during WWII, it was a paper tiger. Still is.

 

I spent time in Russia in the mid 80's St. Petersburg (then, Leningrad), Novogrod and Moscow. Bring your toilet paper to the opera. And don't get lost wearing Levi's.

[John Pleisse]

Not veto-proof, but at least he will have to officially say "NO".

 

Agreed...leave office with a record, not hiding behind Harry Reid or bunch of executive orders.

[flyboy0681]

"No to jobs". "No" to part of the "all of the above" to create energy independence.

 

 

I'm all for the pipeline, but the conflicting numbers I get from the resultant jobs once it's built run the gamut from 75 to 75,000. I'd like to know what it would really be.

[John Pleisse]

I'm all for the pipeline, but the conflicting numbers I get from the resultant jobs once it's built run the gamut from 75 to 75,000. I'd like to know what it would really be.

 

Mike...you could buy an old beat-up Huskie and move to the plains for fly pipeline patrol. Jobs everywhere! No wait.....buy some drones.

[flyboy0681]

Mike...you could buy an old beat-up Huskie and move to the plains for fly pipeline patrol. Jobs everywhere! No wait.....buy some drones.

 

No future in it, I bet drones will find their way into powerline and pipeline monitoring.

 

What scares me is when some zit-faced 16 year old is flying his modified Johnny Lightening Home Drone kit around the traffic pattern area.

[jkhirsch]

As mentioned several pages ago, with which Andy and I agree. Equality continues to be and always has been oversold in America.

 

I'm all for taking care of "the bottom." I'm not at all for trying to legislate equality because it will never work, people are not equal for any and all reasons you can come up with.

 

In the past the government has been here to protect "the bottom" when "the top" went too far. Unfortunately the pendulum has swung beyond the point of protection; outside of personal gains that people receive from being involved in politics I truly think some people believe that they can legislate away "the bottom."

 

Helping people is an intra-personal thing, and that's between you and your brain/heart/soul/god, not between you and the government and those people.

 

Government exists for protection, not pro-action.

 

To that point, the insurance/healthcare sector needed reform and correction. I'm not sure that's what we got.

[jkhirsch]

Let's fix a problem, not legislate a plethora of new ones.

 

This administration appears to have done more of the latter. Two prominent ones are Dodd-Frank and ACA.