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jeeeep said:
I would also add what Obama Care did to tuition costs because of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
These numbers are from a 2013 article:

"According to the Congressional Budget Office, $8.7 billion of the money collected in student loan interest payments actually goes to pay for ObamaCare. The CBO estimates that the interest rate on these loans could be reduced from 6.8 percent to only 5.3 percent were the funds not used to subsidize the healthcare reform law and other federal programs.

{mosads} The profits from student loans are divided as follows: $8.7 billion goes to pay for ObamaCare; $10.3 billion goes to pay down the federal debt; and $36 billion goes to Pell Scholarship grants.

The 16 million American students who now have student loans are paying for ObamaCare out of their meagre incomes just at the point when they graduate from college and need funds to start their lives, buy their first homes and begin a family."

I remember it hitting the MSM after ACA was pushed thru for a couple of days as "the funny accounting of ACA" but it was crickets afterwards and I have yet to see a single Republican bring that up whenever ACA is discussed - how is it possible they were not all over it even when biden was trying to forgive the loan crisis the democrats created!!

How was it not highlighted when Republicans were trying to turn back ACA, seems like it would've been a good thing to point out for the student votes.

All those dominos are toppling, and IMO we have yet to feel the full brunt of it.
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Some of this may be the reason for 2025 having the biggest FY start wit the biggest jump in defecits ever. Since sleepy Joe forgave all those student loans the interest payments are no longer financing the debt. The Republicans never wanted to stop Obamacare they saw all that power and money so they played Washington generals to the democrat harlem globetrotters trying just enough to keep their constituents from running them down.
 
AZVAJKU said:
Plenty of blame to go around that’s for sure.

I would add the Fed-Gov to that list. The market distortions they caused such as Obama Care and price capping drugs has caused a significant rise in costs and lowered the quality of care. For instance Big Pharma had the cost of insulin ‘capped’ by Fed-Gov but was given billions of our tax dollars for the COVID vax. Also don’t forget the onerous FDA regulations that hamper the timely development and marketing of new drugs. When you can go to Mexico and pay for advanced treatments not yet available in the US something is wrong.
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I thought about adding them to the list... but IMO, the govt is more like a whore in this case. Big pharma, and the AMA are the johns. 2 of the biggest lobbies in the country with bottomless pockets to pay and pay.

But my analogy sort of falls flat because it's the American citizenry getting f*cked.

To "close the circle"... Same for other govt entities like the FDA. They're just doing what they're "paid" to do by some seriously evil people in the ag lobbies. Good luck to RFK on making any serious headway at all. That's gonna be a tougher nut to crack than the one in front of DOGE I bet.

And the list goes on.
 
AZVAJKU said:
I’m with you Mike. I used to be a big believer in it until I did some research and realized it was not what I thought. We live in the country now and pay directly for trash and recycle but that’s about to stop.
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Yeah we have a service here now finally. Forty bucks a month but it’s 55 if we want a recycle bin. Nah we’re good just put it all in the big green can.
 
Mike Pierson said:
I’ve been recycling less and less over the years… this seals it for me. I’m out.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1867243766605828401
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There’s that pesky John Stossel again blowing up our feelers that we thought we were doing something beneficial.😵‍💫😡
Here’s what the city of Visalia requires of us.IMG_9427.jpeg
I swear the big loud stinky noisy truck drives by and picks up the trash bin, then does another loop and dumps the recycle bin in the same truck.🤷‍♂️
I could be wrong. Why don’t they just take it all at once and have prisoners/inmates sort it out at the land fill? Worked fine that way in the Marine Corps.
 
Aceisback said:
There’s that pesky John Stossel again blowing up our feelers that we thought we were doing something beneficial.😵‍💫😡
Here’s what the city of Visalia requires of us.View attachment 418000
I swear the big loud stinky noisy truck drives by and picks up the trash bin, then does another loop and dumps the recycle bin in the same truck.🤷‍♂️
I could be wrong. Why don’t they just take it all at once and have prisoners/inmates sort it out at the land fill? Worked fine that way in the Marine Corps.
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that's too much sorting
 
Aceisback said:
There’s that pesky John Stossel again blowing up our feelers that we thought we were doing something beneficial.😵‍💫😡
Here’s what the city of Visalia requires of us.View attachment 418000
I swear the big loud stinky noisy truck drives by and picks up the trash bin, then does another loop and dumps the recycle bin in the same truck.🤷‍♂️
I could be wrong. Why don’t they just take it all at once and have prisoners/inmates sort it out at the land fill? Worked fine that way in the Marine Corps.
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Chances are they ain’t sorting shit. It all ends getting incinerated they sort out any of the metals after everything else is burned off and send it to china or India only to be turned into shiny baubles that will end up in WallyWerld next year. Rinse repeat.
 
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