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QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 23, 2013 -> 01:34 PM) Shame on the government for trying to make sure everyone can have medical care. How is it that giving people the opportunity to literally be alive is somehow subordinate to "jobs legislation"? I put jobs legislation in quotes since the government has to do things that Republicans don't like in order to create jobs and is thus just a straw man for Republicans to talk about anyway Yeah, shame on the government for passing a bill that took 4 years to be implemented (and still doesn't work) while people still aren't working and there's very little hope in the near future that they will be working. I would have much preferred a massive job spending/tax saving plan than a broken healthcare plan that didn't help anyone for years and years, and will still cost us money in the long run despite its alleged savings.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 23, 2013 -> 01:33 PM) CCC and WPA! Hey i've advocated that in the past. If you're getting some kind of federal aid and are able to work, get to work. Half of Detroit (and other major cities) could use some cleaning up.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 23, 2013 -> 01:12 PM) The obvious trick there is that they're not enumerating the programs they're counting. Clearly they're including Medicaid in that number since they use the phrase "means-tested", but if they wanted to write an honest article, they'd include the list of 15 programs they counted in it. When they don't do that, there's probably a reason. I figured you'd go for the "it's just a big number to scare you!" response. And include Medicaid all you want, that's a gigantic f***ing number. Goes along with the 90 MILLION able bodied people in this country not working right now. So glad we got an extra 5 people insured in ObamaCare before focusing on that number.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/report...ars_764582.html

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 09:51 PM) The Grantland NBA Previews with Jalen Rose and Bill Simmons are epic. I love how Jalen flies/drives in women to different cities.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 23, 2013 -> 09:41 AM) Exactly this. They're old people (50-60's and older) that don't understand how or why someone would send out a fake email designed to trick you into opening an attachment or giving out personal information. This is like wondering why 2 year olds don't understand that sticking their finger in a socket isn't a smart thing to do. They're just ignorant about what's going on and the consequences.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 03:59 PM) Why do you want to punish the wealthy? They earned the money, why do you want to take it from them? Do they use the police more than everyone else? Use the roads? Forest preserves or County hospitals? Why do you want to use the tax code to punish people, because that is what you are saying there. I have this same argument with my dad, who's a staunch Reagan Republican. In a perfect world, I agree with you. Income taxes are bulls***. Taxes on income you derive from your income is bulls***. It goes to pay for a lot of s*** we don't need/shouldn't have. But in reality that world doesn't exist and the people who get stuck with the bill are the middle to upper middle class people out there.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 23, 2013 -> 08:22 AM) We just had about five people get hit with this thing, way to go IT department! I'd recommend just paying the ransom unless you've got a back-up and internal IT dept (i.e., no money spent getting everything back to normal).

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 05:13 PM) Seriously, I have no idea how you can look at the modern NFL and say "it's impossible to completely overhaul one side of the ball in an offseason". The message of the modern NFL is exactly the opposit.e And you don't have to overhaul it. You need to make it average. You need to make it so that it doesn't give up 30 points a game.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 04:47 PM) This talk about "rebuilding" really makes my head hurt. What the hell would you do that for? The defense needs a complete overhaul - obviously - so you get some defensive mind with a solid track record like Wade Phillips (I hate the 3-4 talk, he's just the first name that comes to mind) and then you invest heavily in the defense with your draft picks and what's left in FA. But the offense? It was JUST rebuilt! The price tag hasn't even been cut off of it yet. Why would you rebuild it again? There's no work that needs to be done there, only minor retooling like drafting a replacement for Garza or a #2 TE. You can try to trade Earl Bennett or Michael Bush to make this easier but that's all. Also, of all the options discussed, tagging Cutler and drafting a QB is the worst idea. You immediately use $20 million on Cutler right then and there and you've also burned a draft pick you desperately needed to use for a new DE, S, or CB. If you are moving on from Cutler then just rip off the band-aid and do it and you better damn well be sure you're hitting the jackpot. If the draft is that deep at the QB position, you can still get guys in the later rounds that may develop on the bench and be the future. There's also lots of money coming off the books next year (Tillman, Jennings, Hester, etc). More than half the roster is open. So spending a little more on Cutler (his tag amount was projected at around 16 mil at the start of the season) isn't a huge deal.

Of course, it might have made more sense to focus on job creation and economy recovery BEFORE concentrating on a terrible health care law that will probably cost more in the long run.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 03:05 PM) Well, there's plenty of money to be made as a law school graduate in other industries, guys...I can't tell you how few lawyers are involved in utility/energy regulation, especially out west. And if you can learn a complex industry and then apply your legal background to it, you'll be in a very unique position. Best thing I ever did was NOT go into practicing law after graduation and instead get involved in energy trading. Hey I'll move to Vegas. Find me a job at your company

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 02:25 PM) People are really like this? I thought I was the most irresponsible person in college but its like the exact opposite of what I thought/did. I went to law school because I wanted to change the way people think/act. I really should have been a teacher, but law school was an easier sell than graduate school for whatever reason. I still like what I do, I just don't like not getting paid what I thought I'd be paid, on top of having to pay a s*** ton in loans. It doesn't help that I have a friend who made 150k+/year, paid off her loans in like 6 months, quit after a few years, and traveled the world for a year with her husband.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 12:08 PM) Size depends on what you need it for, and personal preference, no? I find that most people claim they do more with their phones than they really do...IE, they send a few emails, text, and MAYBE make a phone call 99.9% of the time, and the other 0.01% of the time, they do something more complicated, or try out a feature only to never use it again. I checked it out this weekend and it's really not as big as the reviews make it seem. I was still able to operate it one handed (operated in the sense that I could swipe horizontally with my thumb from one side to the next, definitely not vertically though I can't really do that with my phone now). It's also fit into my pocket with ease. I think I even talked my wife into getting one too (she wanted the Droid Maxx) $299 with a new contract is the sticking point, on top of the bulls*** $30 "upgrade fee" that Verizon charges per phone. $800 for two new toys is a nice chunk of change, but maybe worth the price given that we both use our phones most of the day.

I'd play but can't make the draft. And in auction formats an auto draft is a death sentence.

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QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 01:02 PM) Which is appreciated. Now how many middle class folks start and maintain businesses of less than say 50 employees versus those that go on to be mega employers? Without any research, my guess is the real job creators in this economy are middle class folks that start and keep running small businesses. If we put more money in the middle class pockets it will create more jobs than concentrating it with the rich. This is absolutely true. Small and midsize businesses are the most important part of our economy, and unfortunately, our government and policy is set up to completely screw small/mid-size business and middle class people. Poor can't pay for anything. Rich don't pay for anything. The middle gets stuck supporting everyone.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 12:53 PM) I cant speak for everyone, but cost of graduate school was the main factor in my decision. Because your parents were going to pay for it? That's a totally different discussion.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 12:38 PM) OK, how about Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple, etc. Where there founders rich or middle class? The founders or their investors. I think you're ignoring the investor portion of the vast majority of businesses out there. You may start a business by taking out a personal loan on your house or something, but at some point if the business is really profitable you're going to find investment dollars from rich people to expand the business.

1% was clearly an exaggeration. You were making it sound like people that go to law school do so after evaluating the cost of going to school. I totally disagree. The focus is on salary potential and employment rate post-graduation. If it cost 100k a year and you think that you can get a good paying job afterwards, you're going to do it. Whether you can afford it is irrelevant since you're taking out loans anyway (or, at least 80-90% of students will)

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 12:23 PM) Right, which is why people with money can afford to invest in it, where people without money cant. Here are the % of law students who walk away from law school with debt: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandrevi...d-debt-rankings Not seeing a lot of low percents there.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 12:19 PM) So the outcome will be less people who need loans go to medical/law and more people who have money do, regardless of how smart or talented they are. Im not sure what you guys are arguing here. When your parents are offering you 3 more years of vacation, you dont really have to worry about your friends at the iron plant or what they are making. I don't think the price going up has changed anyone's decision not to go to law school the last decade. Until you get the degree you're just signing a meaningless piece of paper obligating you to decades of repayment. At 18 or 22 you're more concerned about the hot blonde that just smiled at you at the financial aid office.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 12:12 PM) On average this really isn't true over the long term. It might seem that way when you compare 22 year olds but basically every study finds that the added earnings from a Bachelor's degree compared to a high school degree over a lifetime is at least a million dollars, if not up to 3 million. Yes, that definitely does vary by major, but the data still says that the payoff for education is enormous. Yeah, I still would tell people to get that piece of paper. But the graduate degree? Eh, probably not. And a private school for college? f*** no.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 12:08 PM) My wife says the same thing every day regarding law school. If she hears someone considering law school, she'll do anything she can do basically talk them out of it. As it is, we'll be paying back that loan for the next 15 years. She's also not a "hot shot" attorney making bank, so it's not like the payments are small compared to overall compensation. Meanwhile, she gets very frustrated when she goes on depositions and sees these HS-educated workers that are making like $25+ an hour and they don't have a college degree, let alone loans from a secondary degree to pay back. We've all seen the articles and the math - if you jumped into the work force as an "unskilled" worker immediately after high school, you really aren't that bad off compared to the person that went to 7-8+ years of college and has possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay back. Takes a long time to catch up to the HS worker that didn't take out loans and started earning immediately for an extra X amount of years. Oh man, this is me on a weekly basis. Taking deps of City employees who are dumb as s*** making 60-70k/year (plus their pension, plus the 2-3 bogus WC claims during their 20 years with the city), etc. For 31, I make decent money and my wife makes decent money. But we're aren't living like kings either paying 15-1600/month on loans.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 22, 2013 -> 11:35 AM) And here is where the wealthy have an advantage again. You make law school/med/etc so price prohibitive that it no longer becomes where the best and smartest go, it becomes where the people who can afford it go. I bet approximately 1% of people that go to med school/law school are able to actually afford it. The rest sign away their financial freedom for decades take out loans.