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  1. Mercor

    How McDonald's and Wal-Mart Became Welfare Queens

    As soon as the unions get in there or the State forces a "living wage" on the company.
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    Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Premiums By Average Of 41%

    Wait until it hits businesses where 90% of the coverage is now. Co-pays will skyrocket. Businesses will take huge increases in health cost just to subsidize this program. They will find out that companies are people too. And the people will revolt against this.
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    Obama Plays The Victim: 'I've Been Burned' By ObamaCare website

    Obama also got 44%of the white vote. If as they say the electorate is breaking by race then the Democrats have a lot more to lose over the near and far term.
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    9/08/2013 - Krugman Predicts NO Sticker Shock With Obamacare

    I don't want the crappy plan the Government is selling.
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    The housing storm clouds are gathering the horizon

    Home prices are up 20%. Head of household home ownership is at record lows. Somehow Obama has talked the hedge funds and wall street to invest in homes. There is no housing market rally
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    Nobrl peace prize winner: I’ve Gotten ‘Really Good at Killing People’

    Throw in a bunch of women , children, innocents and a few US citizens. LOL
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    Another Obamacare horror story debunked

    Obamacare defines wealthy as someone making over 95k a year who gets no subsidy. This person has been deemed by Dear Leader to pay an exorbitant amount of money over any reasonable market rate.
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    Another Obamacare horror story debunked

    With all benefits being equal the unsubsidized obamacare consumer is paying way over the market price. Is it fair to force a wealthy person to pay double for the same PRIVATE SECTOR service a middle class person would pay?
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    Another Obamacare horror story debunked

    With the subsidies, at the level of the USA medium income the cost of insurance is close to current market rates. If you notice in the news stories the complaints are coming from people who earn more and get less subsidy. If you earn more the 95k and get no subsidy you pay full over...
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    Another Obamacare horror story debunked

    If you go with the argument that people are buying bad policies, is there a problem with that. We have regulated insurance brokers who are to guide these decisions. If all these people have bad policies should the Feds look at the State regulators. I would include regulated real estate...
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    Looking for new markets beyond equities to spread risk. Futures? Options? Forex?

    Futures increase risk? Futures are very liquid, not prone to halts or special announcements. Trade margins are very low, that frees up capital for other investments. Leverage does not increase risk. If you buy long a contract of Gold. Margin is 8K but your buying approximately $130,000...
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    U.S. government loses $9.7 billion in GM bailout

    GM is better because a better company came along and made a better product that forced GM to improve. ( Toyota, Honda) Giving 50 billion dollars in free money is another way to make a company better, for awhile
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    U.S. government loses $9.7 billion in GM bailout

    GM only has 20% of the US car market, all union. 80% of the rest of the USA made cars are made by mostly non union workers. if GM went away tomorrow we would have many USA made cars. Detroit union auto workers are a very small lot 60,000 persons The rest of the USA market has 300.000...
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    CNBC coverage of Sebelius testimony

    .......certain provisions have to be met.... You mean you have no choice.
  15. Mercor

    U.S. government loses $9.7 billion in GM bailout

    If the Government did not give GM 50 billion dollars would there still be cars?. Would state and local tax revenue still be received?
  16. Mercor

    Median Wait Time To See A Doctor: 18 Weeks

    You have to agree this is the best solution to most of society problems. If you agree, then the priority would be to set up a system to help people help themselves. Second priority would be to set up a system of helping others to become self sufficient. Do we currently have these...
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    Obama Tricked me! Help!

    Obamacare is about establishing a tax revenue outside of Congress. Are there guidelines as to how much Obama can monkey around with premiums. Could he just raise premiums at will. For example if he said all unsubsidized premiums will go up 10% starting tomorrow. This is in effect a tax...
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    Obama Tricked me! Help!

    I see health going the route of public education. The poor are stuck in public schools. The better off ones pay for public schools but send their children and pay again for private schooling. Obamacare will end up for the poorer people and the rest of us will pay the annual IRS fine but buy...
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    Report: Obama Regime Purging Military of Commanders They Don’t Agree With…

    The appointment of both Kerry and Hagel , two pacifists is what Obama wants. Look at Obama's strategy so far, it is all for support of Muslim brotherhood. The Saudis have caught on. ________________________ What should worry the Obama administration is that Saudi concern about U.S. policy...
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    Obama Tricked me! Help!

    For the individual who earns the medium average income, he is really not being subsidized. Who sets the retail price for the Bronze or silver program? The government. Then the Government sets the deductible and the coverage. Then they provide some phoney tax rebate to pay for the premium...
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