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The cynic in me sees this as another overblown mass media bonanza.

I think that graph is polluted by the simple fact most folks didn't live past 50 or 60 back then.

I'll see your Scandinavian and raise you a German.

Grinds me when people say access to healthcare. Everyone already has access to healthcare. What they don't have access to is insurance to pay for it. ACA was supposed to address that but it missed by a mile. Insurance plans with huge deductibles are not viable for poor folks but it's a great soundbite that we've given "access" to people who didn't have it.

I didn't take away anyone's job. Why should I have to payoff someone's student loans? What about the poor fucks who did the right thing and paid off their loans?

I'm all for universal insurance. The only problem I have with any candidate is a pledge to shift student loans onto the general public.

Yes. Bernie probably needs the extra income. doesn't look like the DNC will be buying him off anytime soon.

Bernie Sanders' disastrous answer on '60 Minutes' Cooper: Do you have -- a price tag for all of these things? Sanders: No, I don't. We try to -- no, you mentioned making public colleges and universities tuition free and canceling all student debt, that's correct. That's what I want to do. We pay for that through a modest tax on Wall Street speculation. Cooper: But you say you don't know what the total price is, but you know how it's gonna be paid for. How do you know it's gonna be paid for if you don't know how much the price is? Sanders: Well, I can't -- you know, I can't rattle off to you every nickel and every dime. But we have accounted for -- you -- you talked about "Medicare for All." We have options out there that will pay for it. Bernie has no idea how all this gets paid for. The CBO estimates... Among the most expensive elements of the Sanders plan are: His single-payer health care plan, which would replace all private health insurance with a government-run program. The center-left Urban Institute estimated last year that such a plan would increase federal spending on health care by about $34 trillion over the next decade, an estimate in line with projections by the Rand Corp. and other analysts. Sanders' "Green New Deal" proposal to end the nation's reliance on fossil fuels will cost $16.3 trillion over the next decade, according to the campaign's calculations. Sanders says on his website that he will spend $2.5 trillion over the next decade to build 10 million more units of affordable housing. Sanders has endorsed proposals to spend $1 trillion over the next decade on improving the nation's infrastructure. Sanders has proposed to eliminate tuition and fees at all public colleges and universities and to pay off all $1.6 trillion in student debt. Sanders puts the 10-year cost of tuition-free public college at $480 billion (though other estimates are somewhat higher). That would bring the cost of his higher education agenda to slightly above $2 trillion. Sanders has proposed an array of increases in federal spending on K-12, including a guaranteed $60,000 minimum salary for all teachers, that would likely cost slightly more than $1 trillion over a decade. *Sanders' website also says he supports universal preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds, as well as universal child care support. In a 2016 analysis of Sanders' program, MacGuineas' group put the 10-year cost of that proposal at $350 billion. *Sanders' plan to raise Social Security benefits would cost about $275 billion over a decade, MacGuineas' group has calculated. (Riedl puts the cost much higher in his estimates.) So in the end just another tax and spend, with the emphasis on spend. Any candidate promising to shift the burden of student loans onto the general public can go suck it in my book.

Turns out to be nothing of major significance. Sorry lefties...nothing to see here. US intelligence briefer appears to have overstated assessment of 2020 Russian interference

When did flooding and droughts start? Is this a new phenomena?

Nobody's perfect

Doesn't mean all rich guys are...just some.

Sanders told Russia is trying to help his campaign At least it's a bi-partisan effort.

It would explain a lot. Maybe he's actually a lesbian.

Are you talking about Fonda...or Trump?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/21/california-drought-february-rain-snow-pack-sierra Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability You don't usually have such comprehension problems Bill. It's right there in black and white. Mr. Swain says it all. If you want to believe UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability is a denier site so be it. But as usual the message contradicts itself so let me help you a bit.. California has long weathered these wet and dry cycles. Last year’s snowpack at this time was more than 125% of average 'This hasn't happened in 150 years' Just more of the same hype. I do wish the purveyors of this would get better at coordinating their stories.

OK

What country are we at war with again?

I don't think you quite understand the definition of aid and comfort to the enemy. https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2589&context=ylj

When did I lend aid and comfort to the enemy?

Here';s a quote from a Guardian article today...(bolding mine) Last year’s snowpack at this time was more than 125% of average, an indicator of what Swain calls “precipitation whiplash”. California has long weathered these wet and dry cycles. The state’s future in the climate crisis looks warmer and drier not because of a lack of rain, but because of the extra heat drawing moisture out of the ecosystem. That heat is a major contributor to reduced snowpack, both as less snow falls, and as more of it melts more quickly. Climate science points to a California bound for a future that looks less like endless extreme drought alone. Used to be weather, now it's climate change.

You want to give a cite to that or are you simply being overly dramatic? I keed.

Not hate...why does it always have to be so extreme. I question what motivates someone to aquire that much wealth...more than could possibly be spent in a lifetime of hookers and blow. I think it's somewhat of a character flaw. Greed doesn't really explain it. It's beyond that.

Probably more like "wag the dog"