Pig Farmer? That would be a pretty good insult for a Canadian in the Northwest, but I don't know why you would have to put it in initials.

The Late, Late Show.

Get it?

"We all understand that it's only a matter of time before it strikes and bites somebody, envenoming them."

We had some layoffs, every Federal government customer has DOGE threatening to shut down their IT operations to varying degrees, and some people I know in research, specifically blood cancer and HIV, had grants cancelled.

I get the cancelling HIV research because who cares if the little squeakers like BillJohnson dies, he's dead inside now.

But cancer research? ---- Elon Musk.

"First-time jobless claims decreased by 7,000 to 221,000 in the week ended July 12"

Meanwhile, Snoofy is on his Tenth Time Jobless Claim.

"Biden had his shower"

If he was really that bad a person there would be more that just one event. Like his name would be all over the Epstein Files.

And practically nobody will come right out and just explain what's happening that way.

Some ------- will say "yeah but your investments went up in value too."
As if that makes it fair that you subsidized their gains.
It's like telling a Slave, "We taught you Christianity."

This is great news if you are holding crypto because suddenly there's a new way for people to demand crypto.

This is also true of when we moved away from Pensions and into 401(K)s.

If you were already holding stocks, congratulations, now every worker in America with a 401(k) is buying the stocks you already own, and driving up the price.

401(K)s are a multi-generational wealth transfer to the rich.

Amen. Scotty is one of the good ones.

"Take my wife. Please!"

Playing chicken with Mother Earth has never made much sense to me.

I shouldn't say created, but I think that's how the site became a financial success.

"By the way: News is that Trump is frantically trying to kill a NYT story on Epstein, described as "bombshell"."

Fun Fact: The Drudge Report was created when Time, at the request of the White House, held off on running the Monica Lewinsky story while the White House worked to smooth over some details. In the meantime, Matt Drudge got a hold of the story, put it on his website, and is now worth $100M.

So, if there's really a story, someone might be $100M richer.

I almost pointed out that there are enclaves on this planet where homosexuality is considered WAY worse than pedophilia.
#275 | Posted by eberly

And guess what you'll find when you go there?
Tt's powerful religious leaders, driving the intolerance of homosexuality, or the tolerance of pedophilia, or both.

Still waiting for the difference between Esign/docusign and auto pen, from that key legal perspective.

Keep trying new prompts, eventually ChatGPT will come up with something.

I'm starting to imagine you as Joe Dirt, Snoofy.
#38 | Posted by eberly

Wow, that's quite the compliment!

(Also, I have not seen Joe Dirt, but I know people love to meme on it.)

How many boosters are we up to now?
#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Ya know, the hope with COVID is it mutates to something as harmless as the common cold. That would help it out from an evolutionary perspective because we wouldn't fight it and it could circle the globe relatively harmlessly to humans like the eight or so other widespread coronaviruses we know about do.

Until that happens, I'll stick with the boosters. Oh, and you should understand that the boosters provide positive selective evolutionary pressure which should deliver exactly what I'm talking about. A less harmless COVID that fills the void created by making life harder for the more harmful COVID. You know, like Trump is making room for China and Russia in the world, by pulling Jack Nicholson off that wall.

JPW can correct anything I'm wrong about after he's done sucking your dick. He says it tastes like your mom's ass.

I got fifteen grand, because Trump's failure as our nation's leader led to about a half million extra people dying.

I don't really like it, but it's better than nothing.

I doubt the unemployed will be getting fifteen grand, from Trump's next economic disaster.

"I'll let experts on receiving social services be exactly your pay grade, little fella."

You'd be surprised, perhaps, that unemployment benefits in California are ---- compared to every other state I've gotten unemployment in.

In IT, layoffs are common. I have been on unemployment a lot. For those unfamiliar with the idea, you can't get unemployment if you get fired for cause, like coming in drunk, or spending all day on the Internet. You get unemployment when the company you work for goes out of business, or there's a round of layoffs, or the company "takes a different direction" and your department gets pruned from the corporate tree. Or your President lets a deadly virus rampage the country with no testing and not even enough masks and it's unsafe to even go to work. Then, you get an extra six hundred bucks a week.

There is a nugget of truth in this. Honestly an extra six hundred bucks a week was too much for people on the bottom end of California's unemployment, which was $135 a week. Now they're getting $735 a week. Giving poor people a bunch of free money doesn't result in good financial outcomes for poor people. What they need is the things the state could provide if you gave the state $600 for every person on unemployment. At scale, that money could make a difference. Left in the hands of poor people it isn't going to self-organize into something greater than the whole of its parts.

So I don't really like handouts, but in the absence of a proper welfare state, it's better than nothing.

"I think Danforth makes a reasonable point about the additional costs that render no real benefit and recipients are being asked to do more."

We agree. Kumbaya.

"Snoofy wants everything to be delivered to their door(which is also being given to them for free)."

Actually I'm the conservative here. Hard, hold the line, conservative:
I literally don't think anything needs changing when it comes to Medicaid.
Now of course there are tweaks and adjustments. But this is a major evolution of the program.

Now, how did I get to be such a conservative. Probably from working in a lot of complex environments. Situations where the cost of making a change includes hidden costs that come to the fore that weren't foreseen when making that change.

For example, as I described above, The State of Louisiana now needs to find payroll for 1,500,000 labor hours that they didn't have to supply before, in order to check all these documents.

Who is Louisiana going to tax, to pay for that?

If you know who pays for tariffs, you just might get the right answer!

I have to wager this program, even with the disenrollment of lost of otherwise eligible people, will not be revenue positive.

And if it is revenue positive, it is not considering the externalized costs.

The reason to be a conservative in all matters health care is found in the answer to a very simple inquiry about cost:
"Does it cost society more when everyone has health insurance? Or does it cost society more when some people, particularly the poor, don't?"

I mean, even this value judgment about people being lazy and needing to be punished by having their health care taken away
Setting aside how barbaric that is
The real fix here is for everybody to have health care all the time regardless of the circumstances, because you need health care when you're not working in life too.

And dhat absolutely terrifies Republicans, so they completely ignore the fact that their fear is why health care is so expensive here.

They want health care to be expensive here, to punish the poor for existing.

Republicans are cutting government to starve out the poor, the same way we slaughtered the buffalo to starve out the Indians in the 1900s.

Engineering a massive die-off of Indians... I mean the poor... will Make America Great Again.

"I guess anything is an additional barrier if it takes time."

Oh, so you can answer, when spoon-fed the correct answer!
Look at you, big boy!

The lion's share of the money will be spent on tracking and enforcement. None left for recipients.
#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-17 05:15 PM | Reply | Flag
Source?
Show your math.
#26 | Posted by lfthndthrds

^
You show your math, not that you're enough of a thinker to even hazard a guess.

How much do you think Louisiana will have to spend to track 1.5M Medicaid recipients?
That's 3M appointments per year to review eligibility, if they all show up.
Let's say each appointment is 30 minutes.
That's 1.5M man-hours of work per year.
So right there is tens of millions of dollars in additional expense, just in the labor cost of doing these pointless interviews.

currently, I show up at my actual office around 200 times a year.
It's likely I could add 2 visits somewhere in addition.
#25 | Posted by eberly

But you have to do it without a car, because you're on Medicaid and you don't get a car on Medicaid.
How long is that gonna take you?

"I almost pointed out that there are enclaves on this planet where homosexuality is considered WAY worse than pedophilia."

Here in the Untied States, those are Republican enclaves.
Republicans consistently vote against a minimum age for marriage.

"Only mooches like you have an issue with it."

You don't know anything about what it means to really work.
My paycheck, by virtue of getting one, is bigger than yours.
And my dividend check is smaller. Because I wasn't born with a rich mommy and daddy to hand me a future, that I squandered.

"So they're cutting $35 billion over a decade, AND requiring the states pay for a system of tracking and enforcement?"

Spoiler Alert:
The lion's share of the money will be spent on tracking and enforcement. None left for recipients.