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12-02-2024, 12:04 AM
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Now, we have Bernie Sanders on our side for DOGE.
https://x.com/SenSanders/status/1863268770371772863
This is what uniting against the elite establishment looks like.
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I do not trust socialists like Bernie.
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12-03-2024, 01:10 AM
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(12-02-2024, 08:32 PM)Ares Wrote: I do not trust socialists like Bernie.
I don’t trust him either.
I know he likes the idea of a 10% cap on credit card interest rates that Trump proposed.
The problem is that it could limit access to credit cards to only those with high credit scores or reduce the number of companies offering them. That’s the issue with price fixing.
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12-03-2024, 06:54 PM
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Funny how you are both suddenly skeptical the moment a socialist agrees with a policy that Trump has.
A broken clock is right twice a day.
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12-04-2024, 01:31 AM
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Here's a woke policy that the government spends your taxes on, in addition to funding transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants in prison.
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1862884929954017308
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12-04-2024, 01:51 AM
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Yea, the role of the NIH is to fund medical research. That is why they were established.
Medical treatment and research should be made by doctors, not billionaire oligarchs like Elon Musk, who just so happens has been running a company that conducts unethical medical experiments.
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12-04-2024, 02:54 AM
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(12-03-2024, 06:54 PM)NotJoeBiden Wrote: Funny how you are both suddenly skeptical the moment a socialist agrees with a policy that Trump has.
A broken clock is right twice a day. Socialist Sanders who is literally one of the dumbest individuals to serve in the Senate and run for president in my lifetime only agrees to cut the Pentagon budget and it is not because he really cares how money is spent in Washington.
(12-04-2024, 01:31 AM)LevelUP Wrote: Here's a woke policy that the government spends your taxes on, in addition to funding transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants in prison.
![[Image: DOGE-rasism.png]](https://i.ibb.co/BKZhMQ5/DOGE-rasism.png)
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1862884929954017308 Those are absolutely insane wastes of tax payer money.
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Racial health disparities are a health problem proven by unassailable statistics. While some complaints about racism can be disputed as subjective, these are objective.
Significant racial health disparities continue to exist even when obvious covariates are controlled for. A black person in the US can have high education, high socioeconomic status, live in a healthy neighborhood, demonstrate great health behaviors, but they are still statistically more at risk for some significant health problems than a white person matched by these same criteria. Glad you mentioned cardiovascular health, because that's a well-demonstrated area of racial health disparities.
These disparities are not explained either by the race-essentialist hypothesis that racial minorities are biologically less healthy than white people in most of these respects. Yes, there are some specific health problems that specific racial minorities are more susceptible to because of hard biology, like sickle cell anemia among black people everywhere. But there are similarly health problems that white people are more susceptible to because of hard biology, like cystic fibrosis among white people everywhere.
And the biologically less healthy hypothesis falls apart when you compare racial health disparities in countries where one race is a minority to the same measures in countries where that same race is not a minority or where racial stratification in the countries is otherwise very different. That said, similar racial health disparities exist in the US and in peer countries like Canada and the UK.
If America is going to be great its scientists had better get what they need to, to use some words from the president-elect, "figure out what the hell is going on."
"Perceived racism" is a measurable construct that arose out of this research. The hypothesis is that some of the racial health disparities are explained by built-up stress from the perceived experience of racism. It's especially pertinent to the study mentioned above, since it's well established that stress can correlate with cardiovascular disease risk.
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12-04-2024, 07:22 AM
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I don’t really have a problem with the government spending money to research problems with healthcare for racial and ethnic minorities, but to each their own.
I have a much greater problem with Trump spending $141 million of taxpayer money golfing, primarily at his courses and pocketing tens of millions of dollars in payments directly from the government.
I love the irony of the leader of the most expensive presidential administration in history complains so much about government wasting money.
I love the irony of Republican politicians who take credit for funding packages that they vote against. And then, they are the ones who load up bills with the most pork spending through the earmarking process. And then they have the gaul to go home to their districts and talk about how much they have done to help their constituents.
I feel bad for the people who are actually impacted, but part of me hopes Musk does what he says and cuts $2 trillion from the budget, just to show people what they actually voted for. One of Musk’s highest priorities (and one of the easiest things to cut, actually) for instance is $150 billion in VA funding that pays to operate rural clinics and pay VA medical practitioners. Most of those doctors, nurses, etc are on the GS payscale, and make considerably more than regular federal employees. When all those clinics close that the VA loses tens of thousands of medical professionals and there is no money to pay for veteran’s healthcare at public and private hospitals, maybe people will notice. Probably not though. It’s ok to let thousands of veterans suffer and die if it means preventing a professor from spending $100,000 to help better train psychologists who work with black patients.
There isn’t $2 trillion in the budget to cut, unless you make substantial cuts to the military, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Veterans’s healthcare and benefits. Realistically, there are going to have to be reductions in Medicare reimbursements (which is going to make it a lot harder for older people to get care as doctors drop Medicare patients), means testing of Social Security (since a tax increase on SS receipts seems off the table), administrative bodies that limit health spending at end of live (death panels)c wholesale cuts to the military, and a dramatic reduction in the Medicaid nursing home benefit. The last one probably does need to change, and that is coming from a confirmed Liberal. The laws surrounding long term care insurance and the 5-year spend down need to change. If you/your spouse have money, you need to pay for your nursing home care. The current laws allow wealthy and middle class people to shield millions of dollars from the clawback, while they are placed in Medicaid-funded nursing home beds. It’s absurd that we have a whole insurance industry (long term care) whose sole purpose it to allow people to protect assets before going on, essentially, welfare.
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Give me a break cardiovascular health primarily has to do with diet, exercise and lifestyle. Being brainwashed about "racism" is a mental disorder not a medical condition that needs to be researched.
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