I Called In Sick Today

[brvheart 1,752]

On Facebook this week Randy Reed and one of his friends gave me crap for saying something similar about a Mother Jones article and a talkingpointsmemo article. They said I was too lazy to read, and just because the source was biased, didn't mean it was wrong. That being said:

 

Wall Street Journal

 

HealthZette article by Dr. Ramin Oskoui, a cardiologist

 

Forbes article about how great it is and how no GOP members will even talk about getting rid of it

 

Politico article about how they dropped it 2 years later. (Jonathan Gruber, a member of the Connector board and also an MIT economist who helped model the state and federal health laws. Only days ago, Gruber had termed the odds of a move to HealthCare.gov as “low.” "If it can fail in Massachusetts, it can fail anywhere,” Ryan Williams added.)

 

Reason.com

 

Washington Post

 

 

 

I think with macro-economic policy, it's almost impossible to have a reasonable conversation, because it's just SO complex. There are so many moving parts, that it's nearly impossible to see the effects and understand the causes and solutions.

 

Also, as I was saying before, teachers salaries vary wildly by state, but get high near retirement age.

 

"A teacher with 32 years of experience would have made a top-of-the-scale salary of $81,000 in 2010, according to the Royal Oak teacher’s union contract."

 

http://www.northjers...336376?page=all

[Napa Lite 3,278]

The sooner we go to universal health care and some type of universal basic income in lieu of "welfare" the better IMO.

[Napa Lite 3,278]

Also, my insurance premiums haven't gone up a none normal amount but maybe that's cause we've always had really good insurance and were already obamacare compliant.

[hank213 1,823]

Oh I'm not going to read any of that other stuff either, there's just no particular motivation behind it like there was with cato institute hackery. I simply wanted you to provide a source that, at least on the surface, tries to paint itself a little more neutral for the edification of the sucker who might read your sources.

 

 

bazinga?

[brvheart 1,752]

No problem. It was fun reading about that stuff.

[Essay21 2,385]

 

I use 'ignore conversation' in outlook to avoid the reply all dumbasses.

 

I knew there must be a way. But it all happened so fast. It stopped at 1588. What a wild afternoon.

[brvheart 1,752]

Strat, here's a link to a .pdf of teacher salaries at one district in Illinois.

 

http://www.ipsd.org/...Report_FY14.pdf

 

 

You might notice a presumably married couple toward the top with 27 sick days per year and a combined 189k/year in base salary.

[David_Sklansky 1,903]

You might notice a presumably married couple toward the top with 27 sick days per year and a combined 189k/year in base salary.

 

Obviously gender is a social construct, but call me old fashion, because I believe that a woman's place is in the home. If your partner identifies as female, and you have to rent her out like a donkey to local businesses to make endsmeat, you probably need to work smarter.

 

I'm sure Tilty agrees with me.

[SuitedAces21 2,722]

tilty is dead and buried. let no one even speak his name from this time on.

 

teachers making 90k is interesting. are we talking a high school cause that seems like a lot.

[Theraflu 1,035]

administratin's the way to go. Head admin in my town of 8k is pulling in 90k+ and she's like 40. She does very little.

[InternetExplorer 2,609]

I don't ever want to be blatantly overpaid. sounds stupid to say that, and I'd find a way to deal with the stress if I ever find myself in that position, but I don't want to be a mark for some efficiency-minded person. I don't want to get used to something that's probably not going to last.

[Ron_Mexico 4,219]

... in my town of 8k is pulling in 90k+ and she's like 40. She does very little.

 

This is rich.

[CobaltBlue 662]

Doesn't that just mean that they get the 3% now and then also another 3% later in her retirement pool? Or is this pool for other people and she's not expecting to ever see that money?

The latter.

[CobaltBlue 662]

 

 

Obviously gender is a social construct, but call me old fashion, because I believe that a woman's place is in the home. If your partner identifies as female, and you have to rent her out like a donkey to local businesses to make endsmeat, you probably need to work smarter.

 

I'm sure Tilty agrees with me.

Like a rump roast?

[David_Sklansky 1,903]

Did Tilty explicitly leave or has he just disapeared?

 

Like a rump roast?

 

There are all different ways for a woman to make money, and I'm not sure any of them are any more respectable than the last.

[Napa Lite 3,278]

Xe vanished like a fart in the wind. I tried doing a search off his listed FCP birthday of deaths in California and Oregon and came up with nil. brvy insists xe's still active on LinkedIn, though.

[brvheart 1,752]

The latter.

 

[David_Sklansky 1,903]

Xe vanished like a fart in the wind. I tried doing a search off his listed FCP birthday of deaths in California and Oregon and came up with nil. brvy insists xe's still active on LinkedIn, though.

 

Maybe being associated with a gambling website was bad for his career. You know how puritanical the shed game can be.

[brvheart 1,752]

Xe vanished like a fart in the wind. I tried doing a search off his listed FCP birthday of deaths in California and Oregon and came up with nil. brvy insists xe's still active on LinkedIn, though.

 

I still don't think he ever understood why we were saying obtuse. *Shrug*

 

I have been checking for Northern CA and Wash deaths with his name and nothing has come up.

[Napa Lite 3,278]

It's a damn shame, too. In my researching of starting a tax prep business one of the biggest money makers is offering return advances. I thought if anybody could talk me into it, it would've been Tilt.

[Theraflu 1,035]

This is rich.

 

Why? I mean, she's obviously good at her job, but it doesn't entail a whole lot. Mostly just overseeing other people, helping with budget stuff. Getting grants. It's a good gig.

[Ron_Mexico 4,219]

Because you also do very little work with lots of days off and make a solid wage

 

It was very symbiotic

[Theraflu 1,035]

I mean, I'm not anywhere god damn near close to 90k.

[Theraflu 1,035]

I also have never complained one iota about my job in any way.

[JubilantLankyLad 1,957]

administratin's the way to go. Head admin in my town of 8k is pulling in 90k+ and she's like 40. She does very little.

 

Doing very little is the hallmark of someone who is good at their job. If I look like I'm doing a lot, that means I have bad systems in place. If I do my job right, it looks easy.