I gather there’s minimal confidence around here that Barr will see it through. Why not? He seems to have the probity. And he plays bagpipes.
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Thanks for the response, Andrew.
I work at the community college that handles EMT licensure in my county, and I know several people who have been licensed/certified through it. It’s a 120 hour cert (about 3 weeks of full-time training), which in my view is not substantially different from the handful of shifts worth of experience required to pull your weight as an hourly worker at Home Depot. When you consider that most jobs that offer health insurance benefits and a decent lower-middle class salary now require a 4-year degree, I think that to say that the training/talent levels required in both jobs are fairly similar.
As to your second point, I’m not saying that $400 is nothing in absolute terms, but I do think it’s pretty much fair to say that there is not a significant difference in relative terms. According to this calculator (Income Percentile Calculator for the United States [2020]), $12 is 14th percentile and $14.50 is 19th. Of course, it’s not literally exactly the same, I’m just saying that anyone who has to survive off these salaries is downtrodden and economically strapped. The EMT is making $2240 a month before taxes; a two-bedroom apartment costs half of that, and health insurance for a family of four chews through the rest without even accounting for food, transportation, emergency expenses et al. I believe that EMT’s do meaningful work, and thus I believe they deserve to make enough money to raise a family, save up and own real estate one day, and just generally live a dignified life free out of outsize material deprivation.
The money a man needs to live ought to be between him and his employer, whether that employer is himself or some type of commercial/public enterprise. This bullshit where we tax Rip, Satch, and Hurling to pay for food and HC for poor people’s kids rather than simply compelling the damn organizations that employ the kids' parents to pay a fair wage is one of the serious problems with the U.S. post Clinton. Which part of this do you not agree with?
The events of the last three and a half years were not a scandal: they were a coup. A group of people in the government weaponized the alphabet agencies, gaslit the opposition, and tried to remove a lawfully elected president because he didn't have any strings they could pull. I don't think there's a precedent for something like this in America's history. Does Trump get a redo term by default? Do we just remove all standing Democrats from federal office? I think a lot of people are going to have to go to jail or resign before America starts trusting in its government again....
So predictable...
Breaking: Crew member on Biden's campaign charter plane tests positive for covid19
Biden exit stage left?
Big Mike enter stage right?
Are they really this stupid? Am I the one who's stupid? What's going on?
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If Trump is a conman and an all around bad guy, then I think you'd have to admit that Obama, Hillary, the Bushes, and dozens of other politicians are just as bad if not worse. Bill Clinton literally had an affair in office. If you used today's standard I'm sure it qualifies as sexual assault. Kavanaugh was practically crucified for his alleged sexual assault, while Biden's own accusations were swept under the rug. Look at what's going in with his son Hunter right now on Twitter. Can you really call Trump a conman in light of what's currently unfolding?
Whatever you think of all that, why has the media thrown Trump through the gauntlet while giving all these other politicians a pass? Was Trump University categorically worse than Obama drone-striking a bunch of goat farmers in the Middle East? Joe Biden pretends he's Catholic, why can't Trump pretend he's Christian.
Assuming the moral high ground while calling people on the board "unprincipled" is just crass hypocrisy.
That is almost a verbatim quote from the best-selling book Economics in One Lesson, which goes into great and painstaking detail explaining exactly how this principle applies specifically to economics. It was originally formulated by Frederic Bastiat about 160 years ago in his That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen , and Hazlitt elaborated on it in great detail, with numerous examples, in Economics in One Lesson.
Patrick is a midwit mired in the depths of Dunning Kruger, so there'll be no convincing him. Hopefully everyone else here is enjoying a laugh at his expense, and if that's the case, his presence here won't have been a complete and utter waste.