25 assuming we don’t blueshirt kids this year. Beaty gave blueshirts to a bunch of juco kids that didn’t have enough eligibility or to kids who weren’t going to stay or be in the program. He was basically sacrificing one and two years down the road to make up for all of the errors he mad with previous years classes.
If everyone around you is lacking in basic self awareness maybe it’s time to ask if you’re the one lacking awareness?
But I guess the guy who is always right in all of his OPINIONS isn’t capable of doing that.
The ACA.
It was a compromise to open the government. Only non-essential workers were furloughed. Non-essential means they aren't crucial to the success of the government. And the dems were the ones who wanted it open and the repubs were the ones who wanted a wall. The repubs succumbed to the dems in favor of honest negotiation. The repubs were the party of compromise.
THERE IS NO RIGHT OR WRONG IN GOVERNMENT. There are ideals. Ideals which each party tries to push upon the other. Look at the venezuela thread. Dems and repubs alike agree on things in that thread. That doesn't mean either is right as there are dems and repubs alike that disagree with other dems/repubs. Right and wrong implies fact based evidence. There is no fact based evidence that tax changes make the economy go or that abortion is evil. It is all belief.
It sounds more like "BT is right and everyone else is wrong so anyone who doesn't think exactly like me is wrong." You can't even admit that your party has ever been wrong dude. You're a radical at that point.
No I won't concede that. I won't concede that because that is one party saying "you're the bad guy not us." Marquee things were never compromised on, just as they aren't now and weren't under Bush. Would you concede that the republicans, who have reopened the government to negotiate in good faith with the dems on border security are the centrist party even though they didn't need to last month? Of course you won't.
Centrism starts when everyone admits they are wrong and want to work toward a solution together. Not when one party wins in being right and telling the other party they are wrong.
That's the problem that most center people don't understand about the center. It isn't a policy position it is a commitment of give and take. There isn't common ground, there is compromise. Chris Matthews said that and it was one of the best quotes I've heard about politics. The "Center" is a bunch of people who are willing to give and take. The problem with the center is that I would give abortion and take on immigration. The guy next to me would cave on immigration to stop abortion. So the center really is a myth because I'd call that guy an idiot and he'd call me a moron. No coalition.
The center doesn't get anyone elected. In many ways, the center are the only adults in the room but we live in a political climate that doesn't reward being an adult and hasn't probably since the 80's (which was before my time).
Sorry for getting the thread off track with the health stuff. Anyone who looks to other countries to solve our problems is only part of the problem.
Back on track... I'm all for Schultz running, but only if he stays in until the end of the race.
Who killed them first? Maduro started the madness. Now his sympathizers want to blame the sanctions that were just placed on oil on the problems that have been culminating for years. Sounds legit.
Life expectancy in france is about 4 years higher than the USA as well. They either have absolute miracle workers for doctors... OR.... they don't sedate their population, encourage them to run to the ER over a cold, feed their people the absolute worst shit in the world, and encourage their people to be a stay at home slob 24/7.
France is doing a ton of things right. None of it has to do with the question "who is going to pay for healthcare?"
The bold sentence is 100% the issue. People are throwing out single payer and M4A like it is going to stop the rising tide of costs. NO. UNEQUIVOCALLY NO. Someone who is going to have 4 heart attacks isn't going to prevent that in any other way than taking care of themselves at home. We also have to better define "Preventative" in our culture. Preventative isn't going to the doctor and getting anxiety medicine so you can prevent your anxiety attacks during normal social interactions. Preventative is seeking the root of your problems, on your own, and working to better yourself as a person and address your issues so you can lead a happy and interventionist free life.
As a country we have decided that it is better to blame our problems on someone else and when we don't do that we never look to ourselves for answers. Our first instinct is "this isn't my fault" and our second instinct is "who can fix this for me". If everyone would take it upon themselves to eat healthy and lead a less than sedentary lifestyle then obesity rates would fall.
Regarding my use of the word "exponential", it is an exponential problem because of CULTURE. OECD predicts that at least 75% of our population will be at least "overweight" by 2020. That includes obesity. Overweight and Obese people are having kids and getting older. Their kids are being indoctrinated into "fat is fine" and 75% will grow to 85% in a generation. As these people age we will only have a growing cost problem because age is a SLOW killer of fat people and there is almost nothing we can do about it medically. The mortality rate of obese people between the age of 40 and 84 has declined at a fraction of the rate of a healthy person. No medical advances are helping those people live full healthy lives, but they are living slightly longer. I would argue that them living longer but not keeping pace with the healthy population means that we are using more resources to keep them alive. Another drain on the greater system.
Finally, to address political issues, politicians want us to hand over the decision making to them. They don't want a healthy and stable population. They want control. Repubs, dems, doesn't matter. A population that gives the reigns to their leaders is a population that is dependent on their leaders. Notice I'm not saying government, I'm saying leaders. There is a reason why our government has something like a 95% retention rate and a 18% approval rate. No health care system is going to cure our problems. Show me one major problem that has been cured since Hilldawg started chirping about healthcare reform in 1992. The system isn't about making people healthy it's about making them quiet so they are willing to give up more control over their lives.
Looking to politicians to change the path is the absolute worst thing we can do, but they have convinced us it is the only way. Look across the aisle from your perspective.. You think trump or AOC or Booker or Bush or Rove or Gore or Kerry or Mitt is a blithering idiot? You're right! So why the hell would we look to a group of 536 blithering idiots to make us healthier? Look in the mirror. Or fuck, go to the thread on this site about weight loss and look at the champions who are changing their life right before our eyes. Not one politician is encouraging them or telling them to get it together because they're costing a billionaire money. They are doing it on their own like the true fucking hero of their life.
Those are obviously the most likely wins, but we have 2 games against Tech, KSU, and OSU left on the schedule. OSU is the only likely sweep remaining on the schedule. Great, we win at KSU. That can still be negated by a home loss to them and in this league, with the fundamental problems that KU has, I wouldn't count on sweeping all 4 of those teams.
The winner of the conference needs 4 road wins. I don't think KU is going to get there. Our 5 road games remaining are; KSU, TCU, Tech, OSU, OU.
I think KSU and OSU are the most likely wins, but they are also very likely losses. HCBS is notorious for losing to OSU and KSU is both a rival and top team in the conference. OU and Tech are obviously going to be tough games and we'd be lucky to win 1 in those series, not even thinking about winning both. TCU I guess could be a win but that hardly helps. Unless some light switch turns on I just don't see the wins adding up unless it is only going to take 10-11 wins to take the championship.
Our GDP is 7.5x greater than theirs. This is true. But we tax on everything but GDP (btw, I would love to just tax anything that contributes to GDP by 15% and kill all other taxes, no loopholes). If you're talking about HOW to pay for something then GDP doesn't really matter.
From www.healthdata.org, I see that France spends aobut $4,741 per person on healthcare. The US spends $9,839 per person (2017). Why are we spending so much more? If the argument is that we can do socialized medicine because France can then why don't we have better results than France? France's overall obesity rate is 19.8%. At a population of 65M they have 12.87M people that are obese. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is estimating that about 41% of the US's total population will be obese BY 2020. At 325M people that means we have 133.25M people who either are slated to, or already have, health problems. The cost of obesity in America is estimated at $147Billion by the CDC. That means the cost of obesity in America is half of France's entire spending on healthcare.
That is representative of just one problem in the US that makes M4A completely unaffordable and why the US cannot be compared to France at all. If we were as healthy as a population as France then we can start to compare the two, but we aren't so we can't. We have problems that will be EXPONENTIAL contributors to our costs over what france has.
The biggest focus should be on getting people healthy, not treating ailments over and over again. We can stop certain forms of diabetes by losing weight. We can eliminate certain surgeries (orthopedic and gastro) by being healthy and losing weight. We can slow the biggest killer of our citizens in heart disease by being healthy and losing weight. None of that requires a doc or medicare for all. It requires looking in the mirror and assigning guilt to the only person who is responsible for their own body. Let's look there before we talk about how some incredibly healthy country does better in healthcare than us.
We sanctioned their oil. Big deal. We have sanctions on half the countries on the planet or companies within those countries and no one is accusing us of intervening in an effort to topple a government.
There aren't a lot of people on this thread calling for intervention. There are a lot more people saying that people are calling for intervention. Most people in this thread that think Maduro has to go aren't advocating for anything with the US actively trying to topple him (boots on ground/CIA). The US has taken the same position as many other countries have. Maduro's clock is ticking and it is wholly his own doing.
The problem is we aren’t exactly doctors, more like chiropractors who say we fix a problem but you’re going to need to keep coming in for the rest of your life.
Sinple truth is that people are going to have to die. People are probably already close to, or actually, dying but they are dying of hunger and not of action.
When Syria was getting out of hand I read a study that said 5% of a population ACTIVELY revolting against a regime has always ended the control of the government. Venezuelans need to step up and die for their country if it is really as bad as we are to believe. Right now they are just dying for their dictator. If they die for their own personal liberty then every western nation in the world should be busting their balls to help them.
I am kind of a guy who wants someone to prove their dedication to a cause before I invest in it. Without them learning a lesson and taking ownership of that core problem we would be back in their country within a generation. That only hurts our tax payers.
Allegedly Maduro is loading up the gold and sending it to Russia.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-30/venezuela-has-20-tons-of-gold-ready-to-ship-destination-unknown
Bloomberg
and we should absolutely not get the CIA involved. If true and maduro is going to steal the gold and run then that could be the lesson that the citizens need to understand that dictators like him should be ousted immediately and violently. You can’t give someone democracy, they have to realize that they need to demand it as people.
I don’t know what to think anymore. If any team in the big 12 had any balls they would win this fucking league this year. If KU wins it’s because the other coaches have battered wife syndrome and feel the need to give it to Ku.
I’ll say this, KU has tech and KSU up next. They lose both of these games and it’s over. They win one and we need a lot of help to win the league. We win both and we’re in the driver’s seat.
Allegedly Maduro loading up 20% of Venezuela’s gold reserves and taking them to Russia. This is either hinting that he’s about to make a run for it or he is just outright stealing the money. If he is such a good leader then why does he feel that 20% of their gold is his to take?
Really doesn’t have much to do with it really. KU wasn’t a part of the investigation really. We were listed as a victim. We did get caught up in it though. We signed the 3 transfers over a year before the investigation broke so that would mean self knew we were being associated with an investigation, specifically into our players being paid, over a year before anyone else knew.