aninnymoose
If you were one of the top people in an MLM, would you leave? You know it’s wrong and predatory but you’re making butt load of money. Tom (I wonder) is in a similar boat. Maybe he doesn’t believe it’s predatory but the money and power makes it that much easier to look the other way.
Money/resources.
I think it’s more than just money. The judge in this case was also worried about optics. Throwing someone like the orange turd in jail for contempt, while warranted, could look like election interference because he is the nominee for president. It could rile up his base even more and we could have another January 6th on our hands.
How do you “simply” remove the corruption of insurance? The sole purpose of insurance is to take in as much money as possible and pay out as little as possible. I would argue that it’s not corruption, it’s greed but that is by design. Government already provides plenty of other services that aren’t profit driven. The roads that the government builds using tax payer money isn’t generating profit. The public school that the government runs using tax payer money isn’t generating profit. Social security, medicare, medicaid, fire department, VA, public libraries, all run using our tax dollars. Even the army that the government runs isn’t profit driven but there are other companies that have propped up to take advantage of it and have bought lawmakers to be able to easily take advantage (toilet seat that costs 10k anyone?) My argument is that the government inherently isn’t bad or inefficient, it’s the lawmakers that we vote for and don’t vote out that are the problem. Because it’s the government for the people by the people we can vote them out but we can’t vote out a CEO of an insurance company or board of directors of military contractor company.
It’s not free. We pay using taxes. Instead of paying a middle man whose sole purpose is to make money, you have a government run service that isn’t profit driven. Is it efficient? No. Is there a better alternative? Also probably no but I haven’t heard of one. If there is one that is being used somewhere in the world and isn’t something theoretical, I would love to learn about it.
I don’t speak Spanish but I love the word “El sacapuntas” which sounds like a bad word but means pencil sharpener.
That’s why I say “dub dub dub” it confuses people and I have to explain that it’s www which is short for world wide web but I saved a little bit of time by saying dub dub dub…wait a minute…
Nepali has quite a few.
का. म. पा. (Ka ma pa) - Kathmandu Mahanagar Palika - Greater Kathmandu Metro.
मा. प. से. (Ma Pa Se) - Madak Padartha Sewan - directly translates to taking of illicit substance but is used to describe DUI
ने. बि. (Ne Bi) - Nepal Bidhyarthi - Nepal student (Association)
भु. पु. (Bhu Pu) - Bhoot Purva - Past/previous.
There are more that I’m blanking out on right now.
