Re: If your regional supplement was voted down - now what happens?
Did not know Rush's company was Excellence in Broadcasting.
Never heard of it although I have heard him talked about or referenced on here. I've never listened to him.
I find it funny that probably 90% plus of my friends and co-workers were conservatives but I never heard them talk about Rush.
It was only the liberals that talked about Rush.
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An ad buy on Limbaugh & Fox News is outrageous, especially given that their audience is old white men with a median age in the late 60s. Yet they tend to be influential, hence the cost. And while I know what you're getting at, you're dead wrong -- FOX News, Limbaugh, and other conservative commentators are clearly the driving influence of the policy making within the GOP. FOX wanted to distance itself from Palin's antics, but she was so popular among the conservative circuit that they ended up rehiring her.
Although my social views, like the overwhelming majority of people my age, tends to be liberal, my fiscal views are actually pretty conservative. Yet it's hard for me to support the GOP (its stance on social issues aside), given that it tends to support the interests of ubber-affluent people over middle class Joe. As for my ideology, I grew up in an ubber-affluent community; my neighbor was an officer for one of the largest companies in the world and frequently had guests such as the Romneys over (I should add that this was well before he went into politics). I KNOW how these people think. In relation to UPS, the thought process of the people running the company is something like this: we make the decisions & share the risk that determines the success of this company; FT drivers are fly-by-night plug-and-play positions that we should be offering just enough to cover -> it's ridiculous that we're paying them over $100K in total compensation, when people would be willing to do the job for less than half that. These weren't meant to be career jobs -- it's something to do for a few years while you acquire a skill, then move on. [Of course, we have plenty of BrownCafe members who truly believe that the company would like to offer them $150K/year with gold benefits, but the Teamsters are screwing them.]
My position is that people should be paid fairly for their work. Even in the go-go 90s, companies de facto colluded to keep entry-level jobs at minimum wage, despite near 100% turnover. In 2013, paying somebody $7.20/hour without benefits to work FT at Walmart - while it earns billions - is ridiculous; it creates a system in which they depend on public assistance. This is America, and anybody willing to put forth an honest effort should be rewarded. They shouldn't have to turn to public assistance, they shouldn't have to live in a cave with no luxuries drinking water and eating Roman Noodles. The thought process that 'well, they should acquire a skill and move on' is flawed because there aren't enough professional or skilled jobs in this country to accommodate everybody, and we still need people to stock shelves and scrub toilets at Walmart.
It angers me as much as everybody else when I see people playing the system, purchasing Red Bull with Food Stamps, but most people in position of collecting assistance need it and are embarrassed about it. It angers me that we've created welfare states in places like Cleveland, Detroit, portions of Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York City, etc. But how do we fix it? You simply can't cut off the funding, and no politician (even on the Right) would do so anyway. We've created welfare states because we don't want these people living & working in our communities, and we're not going to change that. Even if it bothers us.
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I support health care reform because I've lived with (what will be) a fatal condition my entire life. No insurance company is going to extend private insurance for me, since they're in the business of making profits. And if I joined a small company, despite HIPPA laws, they'll quickly figure out something's up when their premiums soar after a year.
Do I like ObamaCare? I think it's the only compromise we're ever reach in creating a de facto national health care system. I support socialized medicine (but with the option to buy up in coverage), because I think health care's a fundamental right & should not be dictated or a burden for employers (especially in search of profit), but know it'll never materialize. People would rather @$!~ and moan about the real problem -- a lack of doctors -- then fix it. Every year, tens of thousands of students apply to medical school, but only a small number are accepted. The biggest challenge is the cost of a med school program, and attracting people to teach within it. Rather than overhauling our education system, we pretend that our best and brightest are so afraid of ObamaCare, they're going into package car driving. Total B.S.
It's amazing that in 2013, students (or their parents) are paying $25K/year in most states to sit in a lecture hall with 300 other people. We have the ability to overhaul our higher education system, with taped interactive lectures, leaving students to go to campus only for the purpose of Q&A and assessment. Instead, we push toward the 1800 ways because we and our kids want an opportunity to experience "college life."