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Not so fast. There is a flip side to the story: Multi nationals not to blame for unemployment Caterpillar and other U.S. multinationals tend to hire workers at home when they are hiring workers abroad. When global business is good, employment tends to ramp up throughout a multinational company’s operations, whether in the United States or abroad. (Earlier this month the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News ran a story about Caterpillar hiring 600 new workers at a local distribution center.) It is simply false to argue that, if U.S. multinationals did not add jobs to their operations abroad, thos

Energy Subsidies and support by type of fuel See Table ES1 Renewables were subsidized a a rate about twice it's nearest competitor in FY 2007. I say that we end subsidies for all energy production, promote conservation, regulate by science, and establish a fund and program for energy independence based completely in economic, scientific, and technological competitiveness, not political fiat. I like the NASA sort of approach. But that just makes too much damn sense to be done by our government.

Refineries were reaching the end of their useful life, and the cost to build a new one is prohibitively expensive due to environmental regulations. In fact the production in the existing US refineries are severely stifled, and will be more so, due to the same EPA. I'm not saying that there should be no environmental regulation, simply that those regulations should be reasonable. The reason that there has not been a new complex gasoline refinery built in the US since Garyville, Louisiana in 1976 has absolutely nothing to do with the price of crude. It has to do with the EPA regulating the em

It's a lot easier to clear land to grow corn than to create dead dinosaurs. I don't think that is a pi$$ing match we want to engage in.

It's my understanding that English is taught in school and if you stay in the major metropolitan areas, you can get by without learning Chinese. I'd go, but that's me. You might want to see if you can join any day tour groups while you have days to yourself.

I have read the original House version of Obamacare and the Patient's Choice Act in their entirety. I have also read the salient points of the amended conference version of Obamacare as passed, although I have not reread the entire bill word for word. I don't have to rely upon NPR to shape my opinions on the subject. The thread goes where the thread goes, and I was involved in a discussion with the OP. That may be your point, but it isn't mine.

That was Robert's idea a couple of weeks ago. I guess that is now dashed.

History is what history is, and unfortunately slavery was a part of the history of American agriculture. Removing the picture will serve no useful purpose, but in the overall scheme of things, there are far bigger fish to fry both in race relations and the agricultural industry in Georgia.

What I find telling is that in the 80's we supplied about 10 million bbls per day of domestic crude. Right now we supply about 5 million bbls per day of domestic crude and import 12 million bbls per day. If domestic production just matched our 1980 output, we would cut our dependence on foreign oil nearly in half. There is a need for valid and enforceable safety regulations in the offshore industry. There is no need for stopping the sale of leases all together. In fact, when the government proposed the moratorium, they totally misquoted a panel of scientists as saying that they were beh

Fortunately, not all doctors have that same attitude. I have discussed treatments and options with a whole spectrum of doctors over the last two years. By nature, I am not a timid individual that worries too much about "possible" side effects of most treatments that are listed simply to cover the arses of the drug companies or surgeons in a lawsuit. I usually pick the most aggressive reasonable treatment, but I certainly wouldn't go to Mexico to see a witch doctor, or undergo painful stage 4 treatments to prolong life by weeks or a few months. In the end, it is my decision, not the doctor'

Let me borrow that magic wand of yours when you are done.

Fixed it.

The CBO scores what they are told to score by the individual congress persons requesting the score. They are not legally able to say "wait a minute, you are getting some of your facilities, and some of your policing and other administrative functions from other sources not paid for in this bill, you are not counting all of the additional medicare costs, and your payments to doctors that you are stating have no basis in reality. You are counting money from discontinued programs that you are going to spend elsewhere in this bill as savings, and you are paying for 7 years of care with 10 years

Quote the passage in the bulletin, or any official Medicare or CMS document for that matter, where it says that Medicare will now extend it's payments for services other than stated, and I quote once again from the document in question, "Voluntary Advanced Care Planning refers to verbal or written information regarding an individual’s ability to prepare an advance directive in the case where an injury or illness causes the individual to be unable to make health care decisions and whether or not the physician is willing to follow the individual’s wishes as expressed in an advance directive."

Subby, I'm really sorry.

I didn't forget. Read post # 8. And why should H & R Block suffer because they did business with a foreign owned bank? Why are there two different sets of rules and two different sets of regulators and two different bureaucracies to do a singular job?

Read the Medicare Bullitin You are just making stuff up.

Perhaps I should type slower. The regulation released on December 3 2010, which is the subject of this thread, will pay for the discussion of “voluntary advance care planning,” to discuss end-of-life treatment, as part of an annual visit. It says nothing about Hospice, or dietitians, or geriatric specialists, or any other straw man that you are trying to bring into the discussion. It will pay for a conversation. Medicare Bullitin December 3, 2010 Note: Voluntary Advanced Care Planning refers to verbal or written information regarding an individual’s ability to prepare an advance directive

You might try reading what I wrote instead of making stuff up to argue against. I said that there are two different regulators with two different standards, a FACT which had the effect of giving an advantage of one private corporation over another. I didn't say that the government shouldn't regulate banks.

From what I am hearing, maybe you and Zoo need to find a new family physician.

Where does it say that Medicare will pay for "holistic medicine"? it doesn't.

BS. That's all Medicare is paying for, is the discussion of voluntary advance care planning during the annual wellness visit. The final version of the health care legislation, signed into law by President Obama in March, authorized Medicare coverage of yearly physical examinations, or wellness visits. The new rule says Medicare will cover “voluntary advance care planning,” to discuss end-of-life treatment, as part of the annual visit. Facts are your friend I really don't give a good howdy doody if this is discussed or not, in fact my point is that it already is being discussed an

Am I wrong? No. The fact is that that a bureaucracy intervened in a law suit between two private entities, and it did so to the detriment of one business over another that deals with a financial company with a different regulator. Prior to the OCC’s recent action, H&R Block and HSBC had reached agreement on a proposal that would have allowed HSBC to honor its contractual obligations to H&R Block during tax season 2011. Under the revised terms agreed upon by both parties, H&R Block would have in effect covered essentially all credit defaults experienced by HSBC, thereby maki

I call BS. There is no billing code for discussing end of life decisions. These types of discussions can be and are frequently a part of any discussion between a patient and a physician WITHOUT anybody, a government or an insurance company, incentivizing the discussion. Again it is an expensive government program in search of a problem. If the government wants patients and physicians to have these types of conversations, then their money would be better spent actually covering the entire cost of a wellness visit.

It is interesting that because Block had a deal with a foreign entity that is differently regulated than the domestic financial institution used by others that Block is screwed. This is basically a contract dispute that was settled by the government, not the courts, and it gives Block's competitors a huge advantage. That's the news story, not that one tax preparer is out of the anticipation loan business, but that government bureaucrats are again picking winners and losers basically at random with no rhyme or reason. Had HBSC differently regulated, this never would have happened.