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Cash for clunkers pulled like 700k out of the market.
The auto industry was making millions less cars and trucks per year from 2008-2012.
At $16 a pound I'd much rather get some high quality meat or fish. If it comes down in price to something reasonable I might add it to our rotation.
I will say that I can see the damage here in the Detroit region from another untreated addiction epidemic, the crack crisis from the 80s. So much of the regions ills come from treating it as a criminal justice problem instead of a health crisis. A generation was lost to either the drugs themselves or the war on drugs.
If you want to tackle a good portion of the high cost of higher education tackle medical costs. It influences the cost of everything in the US. If you earn $50,000 a year the university is paying another $10,000 - 20,000 for insurance.
I understand the drive to make government more efficient, run better, but I'm not sure if that's the goal of the current conservative movement. At least here in Michigan the state government under republican control has caused all sorts of issues, like the Flint water crisis.
There always is a balance to strike, not providing too many services at too high a cost, but killing off a library? Not being able to have police?
How is someone supposed to apply for a job if they don't have internet? How are they supposed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps? The library provides ways for people to get ahead.
Manufacturers are cranking out too many cars for the US market.
Between myself and my employer, it costs about $20,000 to insure my family a year. My employer shares much of the cost breakdown and it's interesting how goes to prescriptions and how much of that goes to specialty drugs to keep a handful of people alive.
$500 million dollar spend on healthcare.
$120 million goes to prescriptions.
$40 million of that went to specialty drugs, representing 1.7% of the prescriptions.
"The average ingredient cost of a single-source brand prescription increased by 14.9% in 2016 to an average $745 per prescription, mainly driven by high-cost specialty drugs. The average ingredient cost of multiple-source brand prescription increased by 49.5% to an average $585 per prescription. The average ingredient cost for a generic prescription decreased by 10.9% to an average cost of $34.04 per prescription. "
Read it here. It's pretty low key for a code of conduct.
My example is from the harassment section.
If they'd volunteer and put the time in to organize I'd probably take them more seriously.
Seems reasonable. You might think you can go back to the old days without a code of conduct but with 2000 people attending there will be issues. It's best to have everything documented and rules in case something goes wrong. That's why a convention like penguicon keeps going after 15 years.
My friends both liberal and conservative enjoyed the con this year. Both sides also said fuck these guys, if they can't have a good time at a great convention which features all sorts of perspectives, then maybe they can't enjoy themselves anywhere outside of their social bubble.
Are you including retirees, who paid into the system?
We are looking at a number of these rapid development tools. Hopefully google opens it up soon before we select a different one.
I'd be curious if this platform has sticking power. Google rolls these sorts of offerings out from time to time and then shuts them down. If I knew there was a couple years of runway for this offering my fears would go away.
I'd say the one exception is the soundtracks. Movies used to have memorable soundtracks. Nowadays the soundtracks are pretty boring. They use a process of filming using another movies soundtrack nowadays and then going back and recording a soundtrack afterwards. It makes movies sound the same. It's cheaper to make but it makes the movie going experience cheaper too. It reduces one of the best parts of going to the theater, the sound system.
I'm pretty sure that Marvel used the soundtrack to Mad Max for the filming Winter Soldier and then went out and recorded for the winter soldier.
Upper class women are not selected for interviews because there is a perception that they won't be as committed, implying they might get married and stay home with the kids.
My wife is vegetarian so I'm exposed to quite a bit of different sources of veggie protein. My concern is that the fake meat stuff is actually kind of expensive compared to meat. If it was cheaper I can see more folks move in that direction.
Science has been driving our economy for years.
They are also proposing cutting funding for clean water in the Great Lakes region 97%. Largest source of fresh water in the world and we are gonna cut almost all of the funding?