StrangeSox

the only answer to underachieving players is to cut them, even if its the first year of a huge contract. its impossible for a manager to simply bench them and try it again next year.

The Heritage Foundation is a right-wing anti-government think tank that routinely publishes misleading or factually incorrect studies. They compare every private sector employee, from fry-cooks on up, the the whole public sector. It's a crap comparison because there's a lot more low-wage, low-skill, low-education private sector jobs that just don't exist in nearly the same proportion government.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 03:00 PM) Bench him? Why use a roster spot on him? Tens of millions of reasons.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 02:35 PM) GM should get rid of players like that, better yet not even acquire them. managers should bench those players, not play them in the 4-hole.

I'm pretty sure that when you account for experience, education and the types of jobs in questions public sector pay is lower, but I could be wrong.

"a" not "the"

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 01:51 PM) And it still won't make a difference. this could be absolutely true and still doesn't absolve Guillen one bit.

See? The government sucks so bad it can't even privatize right!

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 01:43 PM) Where is the line you intend to draw? If you can't foreclose on a 101 year old, why should you be able to foreclose on a family with young children where the parents' lost their jobs? If you do not protect creditors' rights to collect a debt, then what incentive is there for a creditor to make a loan in the first place? I don't know where you draw the line, I'm asking open-ended questions. I would argue that there should be a line and that circumstances should be taken into account. Defining that line is a much more difficult problem than saying it should exist and how it should function.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 01:47 PM) That's correct. Unless you want to re-write the FDCPA and allow debt collectors to show up at your home, how the hell is the bank supposed to know the sob story surrounding each delinquent account they try to collect on? Isn't that the point of judicial review on these sorts of things and why BoA is getting hammered for their robo-signing?

good answers on the age discrimination thing

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 01:42 PM) Why do you get to create random hypotheticals to fit your argument? To explore the moral implications of positions followed through to their conclusions? That's a pretty standard method of evaluating ideas.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 01:39 PM) Well, being a conservative, clearly my answer is to let her die on the streets. Can't pay for your house. DEATH SENTENCE. Didn't the story say she moved in across the street? I'm sure she's being provided for by us in some capacity. Let's hypothetically say she had nowhere else to go. What should happen to her?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 01:36 PM) Not when she and/or her caregivers are given years and years and multiple opportunities to fix the problem BEFORE being evicted. Let's assume that this 101 year old woman no longer had the ability to manage her own finances and this situation is no fault of her own. Why should she suffer? Is protecting creditors' rights to collect debt more important than not evicting 101 year olds?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 01:34 PM) This is such bulls***, the idea that Republicans are stonewalling the country from getting better simply to win elections. BIG SURPRISE: People actually believe that what Obama wants to do would do MORE harm than good. GASP! NO! So it ain't so! I can't believe everyone doesn't agree with liberal fiscal policy. What a tragedy! Hey calm down I specifically said its a partisan political narrative. It's basically the Democrat's version of the same "they want America to fail" stuff over Iraq for years.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 01:29 PM) Sadly, I know one or two people, who are Democrats mostly...who are probably endeared to hear by this. Yeah the anti-vax crap seems to be predominately dumb upper-middle class liberal/left-leaning people.

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 12:51 PM) Wow, maybe I am in too Republican Texas but my read is Obama has a losing hand right now and needs to draw a couple winners to have a chance. And no, this isn't my usual pre-election hyperbole. His approval has dipped pretty low, the economy hasn't recovered as much as promised. His big initiatives aren't playing out too well. The Republican base is really fired up to defeat him, more so than any otehr Dem president in my lifetime. I think he's in trouble out the gate. I don't know that anyone would disagree with this right now? The whole (liberal) narrative surrounding that jobs bill is that Republicans will pass a few token pieces to counter obstructionist claims but not anything significant that will actually help the economy, since a weak economy means a weak Obama.

As a society, what should we value more? Ensuring that debt is always paid to creditors, damn the consequences or ensuring that 101 year old women don't get evicted from their home.

Bachmann's being attacked even by right-wing blogs for her vaccine crap.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 11:35 AM) that ditka analogy totally doesnt work. Ditka didnt go to New Orleans and win a bunch of titles, and Ozzie will definitely do that in Miami lol

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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 10:22 AM) Last I saw, PA won't be splitting. The PA state Congress and the governorship are controlled by the GOP. They have very recently proposed plans to change PA's electoral distribution, and the governor supports it. Change proposed for state's electoral vote process

there's no reason that these states couldn't change their methods of selecting Electors for the 2012 election.