StrangeSox

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 23, 2016 -> 12:11 AM) Your model is far too simplistic and doesnt account for the fact that with people making more money they will have more money to spend. Also some of your assumptions are faulty, just because the lowest wage earner was given a raise, doesnt mean everyone else gets a raise. If jobs are scarce, then people who may have been normally paid $25 may have to settle for $17 or else be replaced by a cheaper option. That being said, in general increasing price not based on demand/supply usually ends in some sort of inefficiency. But the real problem is restricting immigration which has a much worse impact. But for some reason that is the boogeyman of the economy. Apparently it's impossible to do anything but pay most people less and give tax cuts to the rich otherwise the economy will collapse.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/201...gender-equality

Trump winery applies to hire more foreign workers https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/8119...src=twsrc%5Etfw

QUOTE (Brian @ Dec 22, 2016 -> 11:16 AM) Trump tweeting about getting more nukes already. Sweet. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/...src=twsrc%5Etfw That is... Wow.

Something a lot of people don't understand, including sometimes will off lawyers or doctors, is how marginal tax rates actually work. If you're in the top bracket which is 38℅ iirc, you don't pay that percentage on all of your income. Just the income that's in that top bracket.

And relying on random wealthy people having a particular tragedy befall them is an extremely poor and unreliable way of funding medical research. The NIH on the other hand has a pretty solid record.

The effect of tax policy on charitable giving is pretty much the opposite of what jerksticks is suggesting. Private charity alone is also not enough to meet all of the needs which will only increase once Medicare, Medicaid, social security and the affordable Care act are gutted. And even putting that aside, charitable giving won't make up for wealth inequality climbing even faster than it already is.

Carl Ichan for special advisor in regulatory overhaul, also to help pick next SEC head. https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/81168034...src=twsrc%5Etfw I honestly wonder what everyone who allegedly voted for Trump out of economic populism makes of all his ridiculous picks and the Republicans rush to funnel even more money to the wealthy while screwing everyone else

Donald Trump is holding a government casting call. He’s seeking ‘the look.’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/don...m=.81e31f96781e

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 21, 2016 -> 02:49 PM) DEATH PANELS!!!! It's really too bad that Republicans decided to double-down on that incredibly stupid and dishonest complaint since end-of-life counseling and planning is something that can: 1) ensure that decisions about care are made ahead of time and with some thought and care rather than in the middle of an understandably emotional and difficult period 2) reduce overall health care spending by lessening the amount of extremely expensive end-of-life care that may only prolong life for a short while with little or no quality 3) actually improve quality and length of life for terminal illness even if the chosen path is minimal treatment but hey, had to go all-in on making Obama a "one-term President"

And that, to him, is somehow an example of how our healthcare system should work. These people are going to be happy when tens of millions of people lose coverage and it directly leads to thousands of otherwise preventable deaths and untold amounts of preventable or treatable suffering.

The Republican vision for healthcare

Trump's budget director pick: “Do we really need government-funded research at all” It'll be great if we set ourselves back economically by decades because we stupidly gut research funding.

FCC Republicans vow to gut net neutrality rules “as soon as possible”

Probably due to his legacy of supply-side economics or, on a more focused level, his horrible handling/complete neglect of the AIDS crisis. He ran and governed as a right-wing conservative, so it's unsurprising that a bunch of people opposed to that ideology wouldn't exactly revere him. By the end of his Presidency his mind was really gone, too.

And a Democratic Congress who didn't just give him carte blanche.

Under political pressure, Kuwait cancels major event at Four Seasons, switches to Trump’s D.C. hotel I mean it's not like there's a specific clause in the Constitution dealing with this or anything...

Donald Trump's sons behind nonprofit selling access to president-elect https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/12/19/...president-elect

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Dec 19, 2016 -> 12:42 PM) What's worrisome is if Russia and Turkey, a NATO state, go to war. Turkey shot down a Russian fighter that strayed into its airspace for a few seconds last year as well.

Duterte abuses opioid painkillers http://m.thenational.ae/world/southeast-as...-in-philippines

A perfectly bears ending

He's so bad

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 16, 2016 -> 02:55 PM) What do you want him to do? Not say something that's obviously dumb and makes him look naive at best like that?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 16, 2016 -> 02:56 PM) I don't know the site, it showed up in one of my feeds (probably guess where). Can you add some details about what that was? it's a garbage site on the same tier as "natural news"

Pretty disappointed that Obama thinks that coming into the Oval Office will "sober up" Trump. What has he ever done to convince him that he won't walk in and just start pissing on the floor like he's done with everything else in his life?