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"Obamacare" worked today. Help me spread the word.

trifecta -1 points0 points 7 days ago[-]

Yes. The poor should just die. Preferably they should expire on the lawns of libertarians so they can at least be put to good use as fertilizer for the noble pasture of John Galt.

Sometimes, libertarianism just means being a selfish douche.

Lack of adult booster shots and child vaccinations cause worst outbreak of whooping cough outbreak in California.

trifecta 1 point2 points 23 days ago[-]

not true. Mild autism might be easier to diagnose. Profound autism, there is no mistaking it. The numbers are climbing ridiculously fast, and causes likely are some unknown environmental (not vaccine) combined with some genetic markers is causing it.

Mommy, Mommy When I Grow Up I Want to Be A Federal Worker -- Forbes — government employees seem to work shorter hours, have more vacation time, access unbelievable healthcare, never worry about job security and even make more money than people slugging it out in the private sector.”

trifecta 6 points7 points 24 days ago[-]

Forbes and the National Chamber of Commerce crowd only care about the giant international corporations.

They don't give two shits about 5 employee shops. Get real.

In the U.S. plutonomy, the top 5% of Americans by income now account for 37% of all consumer outlays

trifecta 0 points1 point 1 month ago[-]

5% of the US population is 15 million people. They have sold about 4 million I-phones. Or less than 2% of people have bought them. Do math. It's fun.

US underemployment is 28.4% for the ages 18 to 29

trifecta 5 points6 points 1 month ago[-]

Gen X'er checking in. What my Baby Boomer bosses have decided to do was to give us pay cuts, lay off the younguns, and keep us on salary doing 2 jobs for the price of one. It sucks for all involved.

You all aren't finding work, our souls are being sucked away from us.

Noone is talking about this but Citibank is getting caught in the middle of a ponzi scheme

trifecta 0 points1 point 2 months ago[-]

Peter Noone is a very wise man.

Paul Krugman - The Third Depression: "...while long-term fiscal responsibility is important, slashing spending in the midst of a depression, which deepens that depression and paves the way for deflation, is actually self-defeating"

trifecta -2 points-1 points 2 months ago[-]

You are being just doctrinaire. In fantasy Qualude von Mises land that is ok. In reality, there is no "rational" market response to things like wars being fought over oil resources, and terrorism being funded by it.

What the fuck does going Galt do to stop that situation exactly? Businesses are interested in oil now because it's cheaper. They are being "rational". They also are fucking us up big time because they are more interested in quarterly profits than what is going to happen 30 years from now to their business that is so dependent on cheap abundant fossil fuels. Hey, wait, they aren't so rational actually.

The free market is bound to cure diseases that aren't profitable. They are bound to conduct pure research with no guaranteed profit. They are bound to act responsibly when drilling for oil.

Just go Galt already. Try Somalia. Very limited government jack booted thugs there.

Paul Krugman: The Third Depression

trifecta 3 points4 points 2 months ago[-]

Honestly something like a serious "green stimulus" would do a world of wonders and pay most of it self off if it was done. If the government massively retrofitted all of it's buildings, changed lighting, put solar panels on all gov building roofs, changed the entire fleet of all cars, including all postal trucks over to hybrids or full electrics, retrofitted all public housing units to reduce energy usage, this would stimulate all those industries. It would create jobs in those areas, from economies of scale it would reduce prices for those green items, creating more demand from other areas of the economy.

Or we could cancel unemployment benefits, lay off workers and see how well that does to turn things around. The problem with the people advocating pain is that they don't expect to feel much of the pain. They expect the little folk to suffer for the excesses of tax cuts for capital gains, give away tax breaks to big oil.

Fuck em. Seriously fuck em and the austrian horse they rode in on.

12 Things I Learned From The Saved By The Bell Oil Spill Episode

trifecta 2 points3 points 2 months ago[-]

I want to buy a buddy band right now.

Due to a bizarre tax law passed by George W. Bush, during 2010 billionares pay no estate tax. Dan Duncan, a texas energy tycoon, just left his kids $9 Billion tax free!

trifecta 0 points1 point 3 months ago[-]

That is why they have exemptions. Some years every dollar before 10,000,000 is not taxed. It's only taxed on dollar 10,000,001.

Where is the hyperinflation that the Libertarians promised us last year?

trifecta -5 points-4 points 3 months ago[-]

I am not a libertarian. I think they are silly dogmatists. That being said, we printed a ton of money. The answer to why there isn't hyperinflation has to be hoarding by the rich. If the wealthy took all that printed money and gave pay raises to the peons, we should/would have high inflation.

Plummeting Marijuana Prices Create A Panic In California

trifecta 0 points1 point 3 months ago[-]

By my math, they are getting $15.62 an eighth ounce. My guess is they could still make a profit at that price.

Not 5,000 barrels a day. 70,000 barrels a day.

trifecta 38 points39 points 3 months ago[-]

The spill really is much worse than we can actually see. Over a week ago, they dumped 1/3 of the world's supply of chemical dispersants on the thing. Then they purchased some more. Much of that oil has sunk to the bottom. The dispersants haven't been tested well. The oil is still there. It is quite fucked.

American manufacturing: A battery maker's struggles illustrate what's wrong and what's possible

trifecta 3 points4 points 4 months ago[-]

Companies really want to rape the environment too. Think of the BP spill. There was potentially $350,000,000 in oil there and they were too cheap to install the $500,000 sonar device. Worker's safety, OSHA, worker's comp, health care, dumping sludge are all things considered along with paying employees $.17 an hour that go into the minds of the money folks when they consider where to put a plant.

Fox News viewers condemn Biden and Dems for saying the F-Bomb on TV; sorry, but didn't your VP SHOOT SOMEONE IN THE FACE?

trifecta 27 points28 points 5 months ago[-]

Cheney also told Senator Leahy to "go fuck himself", but in a nice way.

Pope 'led cover-up of child abuse by priests'

trifecta [S] 0 points1 point 5 months ago[-]

I am surprised that a former member of the Hitler youth could be so evil.

Pope Forgives Molested Children

trifecta [S] 3 points4 points 5 months ago[-]

Dude chill. I posted it only because the Onion twittered it today on their feed. Take a chill pill. I had never read it before, and probably am not the only one.

R rating for "It's Complicated" comes not from any raunchy sex scenes, but from a scene in which Steve Martin and Meryl Streep share a joint.

trifecta 6 points7 points 8 months ago[-]

9 to 5 in the early 80's was PG with a pot smoking scene.

China's empty city, built for no reason other than to maintain an 8% growth rate! Madness! [VID]

trifecta 0 points1 point 9 months ago[-]

That makes sense to me though. Unless you have totally remodeled, a house is used just like a car. Your heating/AC system is older more likely to bust, same goes with the plumbing, the roof, foundation, etc.

Draw ignites FIFA World Cup fever

trifecta 1 point2 points 9 months ago[-]

been away for too long from SF. But there was an Irish pub there that showed all the WC games back in 94. Probably still around.

Becoming vegetarian will help save the planet: study

trifecta 5 points6 points 9 months ago[-]

Be fruitful and multiply. If it wasn't for religious objection to not just birth control, but contraception as well, overpopulation could be managed better.

Onion, this is too much.

trifecta 13 points14 points 9 months ago[-]

You forgot Gary Condit

What’s killing at least 1 million bats in the past three years?

trifecta -2 points-1 points 9 months ago[-]

Bob

Those crazy German Socialist are at it again, this time demanding higher taxes for the rich. Oh no, my mistake, actually the RICH are demanding higher taxes for the rich.

trifecta 14 points15 points 10 months ago[-]

sorry. The sweat of your brow is considered the intellectual property of your employer. It was in your contract on page 58 paragraph 5 clause C

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