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Kasz216 on 17 December 2010
Rath said:
Kasz216 said:
 

Yeah, that's what i get for shorthanding it.  Though 700 to 350 million does still seem VERY high for people with cancer... i've known people who've gone through various cancer treatments... including my mom.


You mean thousand =P

Can I blame this all on nighttime cold medicine.

I mean, it'd be a lie... but still.

I was on my schools freaking Math team for god's sake... and we won first place!



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Kasz216 on 17 December 2010
leatherhat said:
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Slimebeast said:

Wow apparently the bill that the Republicans voted against would have cost $7.1 billion!

$7 billion just to cover the medical expenses for supposed health problems of emergency workers due to 9/11.

LOL!

Ridiculous. If it was $7 million it would have been reasonable, or even $70 million. But $7,000 million for a few rescue workers' supposed health problems. USA is crazy.


It was going to be paid for by closing a corporate tax loophole. So it wouldn't have cost tax payers anything.

Or they could just close the loophole and just lower peoples taxes by 7 billion.  Or just paid for stuff that's already not being paid for.

There is no way it should cost 7 billion to treat them.

Assuming there were 1 million rescue workers... which, there was nowhere near that many... that's 700 Million a piece.

What?

It's like the Healthcare Health Exchange that's going to cost us billions of dollars... when it's going to be a website like Orbitz... where the fuck does all this money go?  I'm guessing Orbitz doesn't spend BILLIONS on their website.


You might want to check your math on that one. Theres only a thousand million in a billion

My bad on that one.  Still 70 million is still ridiculious.... I mean 7 million a piece would still be VERY high, and there weren't nearly that many workers.


Still wrong. 7 million a piece would only be one thousand people. 70 million a piece would be one hundred.

Eh, regardless it's ridiculiously high number, doing the math quickly without thinking about it honestly, because it's just such a ridiculious number.

The number of people who have filed complaints is 10,000. (looked it up it's over 10,000, but not worth saying "tens of thousands."

So

7 billion into 10,000.  Maybe 20,000 if your lucky and the numbers explode.

So, taking my time this time... it actually is 700 million per person, or if "lucky" 350 million.

Why not just cut everybody a check for 5 million?


Not to nitpick, but with 10000 people it would be seven hundred thousand for each person. Which seems reasonable if you know how high medical bills for cancer and things of that nature can run. 

How is it several hundred thousand per person, on a 7 billion cost?


7 billion/ 10000 = 700,000 

Thats how

Yeah, that's what i get for shorthanding it.  Though 700 to 350 million does still seem VERY high for people with cancer... i've known people who've gone through various cancer treatments... including my mom.

I think it depends on severity and length of treatment, but 700,000 isn't out of the question.

maybe if you have no health insurance it's a possibility.  Which would be another more useful way to use that money... just fund their healthcare, or medicare.

 

700,000 has to take into account other shit too, like lost jobs and such.  Some of which is unrelated due to the shittiest economy in a while.



Vetteman94 on 17 December 2010
FreeTalkLive said:
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FreeTalkLive said:
Galaki said:

of the Republican party?


Senate Filibusters are almost always good.  The less amount of time the US Senate is in session, the better as it usually does bad things.  So this is great news. 

Thank you Mitch for talking about your friend instead of voting to increases taxes and spending with that time.  Mitch usually does the wrong thing while in office but in this case, he did all of the people of the US a good service.

Thank you Jon for discourging the Senate from meeting that week.  The less the US Senate does, the better it is for everyone.

Please tell me you are kidding?

About what?  Congress goes to DC and spends other people's money worse than the people would have spent it.  Almost everything Congress does is bad.  The less Congress meets, the better it is for everyone.  I think this is the popular opinion of the people in the US.  People certainly feel this way in New Hampshire, the Live Free or Die state.  Where do you live?

But how would this have cost us any money



Rath on 17 December 2010
Kasz216 said:
Rath said:
Kasz216 said:
 

Yeah, that's what i get for shorthanding it.  Though 700 to 350 million does still seem VERY high for people with cancer... i've known people who've gone through various cancer treatments... including my mom.


You mean thousand =P

Can I blame this all on nighttime cold medicine.

I mean, it'd be a lie... but still.

I was on my schools freaking Math team for god's sake... and we won first place!

Haha, first time I did these calcs I forgot about three of the zeroes.



The_vagabond7 on 17 December 2010

Disgusted, but no more so than usual. Our political system is shot and it's only a matter of time before china and india take over and the US just becomes a bloated dumb lummox.



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richardhutnik on 17 December 2010
FreeTalkLive said:
Galaki said:

of the Republican party?


Senate Filibusters are almost always good.  The less amount of time the US Senate is in session, the better as it usually does bad things.  So this is great news. 

Thank you Mitch for talking about your friend instead of voting to increases taxes and spending with that time.  Mitch usually does the wrong thing while in office but in this case, he did all of the people of the US a good service.

Thank you Jon for discourging the Senate from meeting that week.  The less the US Senate does, the better it is for everyone.

So, in the future, if another 9/11 happens, no one should volunteer to help out, because they may get medical bills to bankrupt them, right?  You are in a building like the WTC complex had, and there is burning, just die.  Hey, life is hard, right?  Live free AND die!



Kasz216 on 17 December 2010
The_vagabond7 said:

Disgusted, but no more so than usual. Our political system is shot and it's only a matter of time before china and india take over and the US just becomes a bloated dumb lummox.


Well, I wouldn't say BECOMES a bloated dumb lummox... so much as being a bloated dumb lummox finally catches up to it.



The_vagabond7 on 17 December 2010
Kasz216 said:
The_vagabond7 said:

Disgusted, but no more so than usual. Our political system is shot and it's only a matter of time before china and india take over and the US just becomes a bloated dumb lummox.


Well, I wouldn't say BECOMES a bloated dumb lummox... so much as being a bloated dumb lummox finally catches up to it.


lol, point taken.



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FreeTalkLive on 17 December 2010
Vetteman94 said:
FreeTalkLive said:
Vetteman94 said:
FreeTalkLive said:
Galaki said:

of the Republican party?


Senate Filibusters are almost always good.  The less amount of time the US Senate is in session, the better as it usually does bad things.  So this is great news. 

Thank you Mitch for talking about your friend instead of voting to increases taxes and spending with that time.  Mitch usually does the wrong thing while in office but in this case, he did all of the people of the US a good service.

Thank you Jon for discourging the Senate from meeting that week.  The less the US Senate does, the better it is for everyone.

Please tell me you are kidding?

About what?  Congress goes to DC and spends other people's money worse than the people would have spent it.  Almost everything Congress does is bad.  The less Congress meets, the better it is for everyone.  I think this is the popular opinion of the people in the US.  People certainly feel this way in New Hampshire, the Live Free or Die state.  Where do you live?

But how would this have cost us any money

That's all that Congress does.  They sit in a room and find new things to spend money on.



 

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FreeTalkLive on 17 December 2010
richardhutnik said:

So, in the future, if another 9/11 happens, no one should volunteer to help out, because they may get medical bills to bankrupt them, right?  You are in a building like the WTC complex had, and there is burning, just die.  Hey, life is hard, right?  Live free AND die!

I disagree.  Their government innsurance should pay for their bills.



 

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