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wXw 16 Carat Gold 2016 – Night 1 Results & Review
Posted by Oliver Court | Mar 25, 2016 | Europe, Reviews, VOW
wXw 16 Carat Gold 2016 – Night 1
Turbinenhalle
Oberhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Watch: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/wxwmtw2016/159605235
David Starr def. Aaron Insane, Tyler Bate and Mike Schwartz
A short dark match to get the crowd hyped up with some fast-paced spots, the winner of which will enter the tournament in place of an injured wrestler if someone was to go down. Starr was the star of this match, oozing charisma and jumping all over, and out of, the ring on multiple occasions. Starr is from CZW but has been working in wXw for the past couple of months, and clearly has built up a fan following in Germany, and could be their next big regular import in the future. Tyler Bate also had a good showing here, and is in the same boat as Starr; young, lots of potential, and good fan support. Aaron and Schwartz were filling up the numbers here, this match was about showing off the skills of the youngsters and it certainly succeeded in doing that. *½
Zack Sabre Jr. def. Big Daddy Walter
A fantastic match-up to kick off the tournament, with former Tag Team Champions Zack Daddy exploding. The pair know each other very well, and their rapport was on display here as they crafted a very logical and intriguing match around some basic holds, with Walter using his size advantage to 'lean on' Zack and stay in control. Zack was cut off every time he attempted to slip out or reverse leverage on Walter, and it was obvious that he needed to change up his strategy and stray away from his usual imperious technical skill due to his size disadvantage. The entire match felt like a struggle for superiority because of this very simple but effective dynamic, and both wrestlers sold the effects of their size difference very well, making the match that much more believable. Zack couldn't out-wrestle Walter, so he moved towards a more high-flying style, throwing out dropkicks and tilt-a-whirl moves to throw Walter off balance. Zack now used the size difference to his advantage, as Walter couldn't keep up with the lucha-style moves, allowing him to battle back and eventually hook Walter into a bridging cradle pin for the win; even though he was outwrestled, Zack couldn't resist bringing out that extra signature flair on his winning pin. Walter was pissed off straight after the match, as he should be after dominating but not winning, and didn't allow Zack a moment of celebration before levelling him with a lariat. An excellent, well thought out match to start the tournament off, setting a very high bar for the subsequent matches to reach for. ****
Timothy Thatcher def. Sasa Keel
Timothy Thatcher does nothing for me, and this match was a total Thatcher-style match, with lots of MMA-style ground grappling, complete with Thatcher stumbling around the ring as if he'd just gone 5 rounds with Nate Diaz… even though the match was barely 2 minutes in. Keel was along for the ride here, and was barely able to show off any of his own skills. Unlike Zack and Walter in the previous match showing their audience why they were doing the holds and moves they were doing, i.e. the size difference and Zack needing to overcome it, Thatcher just seemed to do moves because he wanted to do them, seemingly never actually trying to win the match, or build to winning it, with particular holds or a specific strategy. This was evident when, despite the entire match being fought as a grappling contest, the finish was a flash headbutt knockout strike from Thatcher, making the previous 6 minutes of grappling on the ground and wearing down Keel obsolete. And just ignore that the headbutt very obviously hit Keel in the shoulder, and that Keel had to do an embarrassingly good sell-job to bail Thatcher out of the terrible-looking move. If you're a grappler who just has to have a flash striking move as his finisher, you at least need to make that strike look good, not like you're just leaning on the other person. If you like Thatcher, you'll like this match, but he has too many flaws that I can't look past, and Keel could have been anybody else and the match would have been exactly the same. ½
Toni Storm def. Leva Bates
Storm is developing into a really strong performer in 2016. She's clearly gained a lot of confidence by living in the wXw training school and touring with the company for most of the year so far, and she really outshines Bates here. Good for Bates that she has managed to use the funny-while-it-lasted Blue Pants act as a springboard to becoming an import and getting some good money, but she's not great in the ring. She attempted a lot of ambitious moves in this match, most of which didn't come off looking that good, and she received plenty of boos from the crowd for her trouble. Storm keep things more simple, selling for Bates very well and using her impressive strength to score some great-looking slams and pick up the victory. Post-match, wXw's resident female heel, Melanie Gray, attacked Storm, setting up a match for later in the weekend. *½
Ilja Dragunov def. Mike Bailey
No messing around from either man here; this was 8 minutes of straight up war between two renowned strikers. There's no real psychology or story at work here, but the match doesn't suffer because of it since the action is so good; this match would fit tidily into New Japan's NEVER division. Bailey is the smaller man but his kicks are vicious, while Dragunov is just completely insane, throwing dangerous spinning lariats from seemingly nowhere, and willing to take a beating from Bailey. At one point, the two just trade running boots into the corner for almost a whole minute, working the crowd into a frenzy. It's Dragunov's resilience which allowed him to outlast Bailey, defend his kicks, and eventually find the space to hit his Torpedo Moscow finisher to pick up the win in one hell of a sprint that picked up the show after the last couple of slower matches. ***½
Will Ospreay def. Shane Strickland
Will Ospreay in 2016 may well be the best wrestler in the world. He is incredible. There's really nothing more I can add to that assessment of his skills, which were on full display here. Shane Strickland more than matched Ospreay here though, and when you have a match-up of two world-class athletes who move around the ring so exceptionally well, a tremendous contest ensues. The opening minutes were jovial, including a dance-off between the pair to Rich Swann's 'All Night Long' theme, hilariously overdubbed with a generic hip hop riff on the VOD. But as the two continued to attempt to one-up each other with their ridiculously cool moves, their friendly competition turned into a heated rivalry, and the intensity of their strikes went up and up. There were plenty of 'flippy flipz', but they flowed together so well and built up over the course of the match that it never felt gratuitous, just two of the very best flyers trying to prove to the other that they were better. Needless to say, some insane things occur in this match; a reverse rana attempt from the top rope and a shooting star press to the outside are among the highlights. It's both men's excellent selling that really gives their offences bite though, and make it so much more than just a pure show of athleticism, but rather a dangerous war between two flying maniacs. The match went back and forth with multiple close falls, but Ospreay eventually managed to string a brilliant sequence of moves together, including a story-important Rainmaker setup into a Spanish Fly, as excellently noted by commentator Alan Counihan, to pick up the win in one of the craziest matches you'll see all year. Go out of your way to check this one out. ****½
Angelico def. Trevor Lee
This match was never going to live up to the one just before it, so it's odd that wXw chose to put fellow high-flyer Angelico after the crazy showing from Strickland and Ospreay. This match was more of a Trevor Lee match anyway, which meant a lot of jawing with the crowd to rile them up, interspersed with a few big flying spots, such as Lee crushing Angelico, hung up on the ropes, with double knees after an entrance ramp run-up. Nothing really impressed in this match though, and it ended rather abruptly with Angelico hitting two knees and a turnbuckle crucifix bomb for the win. Angelico was likely saving the crazy spots for later in the weekend. **
Drew Galloway def. Silas Young
A very manly match-up, which began the only way it could have; Galloway dragging Young to the bar before pouring and downing a drink. They crowd brawled for a good while, which I'm usually down on, but Galloway has plenty of crowd brawling experience and his fallaway slam sending Young into a barricade was good and satisfying. Once the action got into the ring, Young was more impressive, hitting a nice variety of moves, including his awesome split-legged moonsault. Ultimately though, Young was there to make Galloway look good, and the Future Shock DDT brought the bout to an end quickly. Galloway won't be competing on Day 2, but will have his quarter final match at the start of Day 3 instead. **
Sami Callihan def. Kim Ray
Callihan is a former 16 Carat Gold winner, so he's treated as a big deal in wXw, but the crowd were relatively apathetic to him in comparison to some of the other big stars on this show. Kim Ray is a top mid-carder in wXw, but he really showed up here; getting a busted nose from a Callihan dive very early on seemed to fire him up a bit, and certainly gave him an intense edge. Lots of crowd brawling slowed the match down early on, but once Ray started hitting some vicious looking offence on Callihan with his crazed look, hair drooping over his face and blood all over his top lip, the crowd seemed to properly get behind Callihan. Plenty of stiff offence almost turned very sour when Callihan dropped Ray on his head on a failed piledriver attempt, which could have turned out very bad. Luckily they were able to finish at a high tempo, but the botch took the wind out of the match a little bit. Callihan advanced, and he'll hope for some better showings on the next two shows, but Ray, perhaps knowing this was his only chance to really shine this weekend, had a really strong showing. **½
I Quit Match
Axel Dieter Jr. def. Marty Scurll
Axel Dieter Jr. is being built as the next big star of wXw, and he certainly has all the tools to succeed. As with any budding top babyface these days however, he has been met with some rejection by the crowd, and this match played out in such a way that will only exacerbate the divide between those who really like Dieter Jr., and those who can't stand him. Axel was firmly in the roll of John Cena here, and Scurll was channelling Randy Orton and Batista circa 2009. The pair threw each other around the arena but it was Scurll who took control early on and, almost literally, hammered it home with some vicious looking umbrella shots. From there, the match essentially became a violent segment, with Scurll cutting a long promo on Axel, interspersed with more umbrella shots and submission holds. It was clear from the start that Axel would 'Never Give Up' though, and that this match was designed to display his Cena-esque resilience. Scurll handcuffed him to the ropes and wailed on Axel some more, even knocking him out and having to revive him with water, all the while tormenting him on the mic. Unfortunately, Scurll went to the 'James Bond School of Villainy' and for some reason (because Axel had to win the match) let Axel out of the handcuffs to put on a Chickenwing, which Axel immediately fought out of and regained a measure of control. Marty remained dominant though, locking in another Chickenwing and Axel's own submission finisher, a sitting double leg nelson, all to no avail, before Axel finally locked his submission hold in, leading to Scurll quitting very quickly. If real life logic was applied to this match, it would seem like absolute nonsense. However, the great drama and emotion on display here was enough to carry it off and make it exciting, and Dieter Jr. gains so much as a valiant top face from the win, even if the Cena comparisons are very apt. ***½
A strong opening round of the 16 Carat tournament with two must-see matches in Zack/Walter and Ospreay/Strickland, a drama-filled main event, and very strong commentary throughout as well. There's a few skippable matches here, so it's by no means a perfect show or even an easy one to watch, but it's still a good start to the weekend.
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Winner of age classes from 4-8 years. We are super excited about his forthcoming international career.
An incredibly consistent winner of young horses classes throughout his career. He won the Scope 4yr final at the BS National Championships in 2011; 5yr old classes at Arena UK, Addington Manor and Scope; three wins in the Six Year old Tour Valencia 2013; and in 2015 he won the 7/8 year old final at Hickstead, and was placed 10th and 2nd in two international 8yo classes at the Glocks' show in September.
Arkol has demonstrated at every level asked so far, the potential to top his age group and win internationally.
Arkol's first crop were yearlings in 2015, and a homebred colt out of Mystic Maxine (full sister to It's Magic Max, and Mystic Hurricane, both 1.60m jumpers) was sold for £20,000 at the Bolesworth Elite auction in June 2015, to Arkol's rider William Whitaker.
His offspring are correct and uphill with superb movement and confidence.
Winner of Hickstead's 7 and 8yr final in July 2015 in the international arena.
Arkol's father Argentinus injects scope and power with great elasticity, and is also a notable sire of dressage horses, an improver of all 3 gaits. Offspring such as Arko III, Armitage, Banda de Hus and All Star pave the way for Arkol at the top of the sport.
Dam Karlotta was successful at advanced (S level – 1.40m) jumping. She has also produced the licensed stallion Stonehenge, by Stolzenburg.
Arkol's damsire, Kolibri, won his performance test and then spent his life as a breeding stallion – as a state stallion he produced 1150 registered sport horses with a life time earning of over 2.5 million euro.
He is a notable producer of international jumpers with good frames and minds, including King Kolibri, JL's Komparse, Kleopatra, and Kaimon. Kolibri was known as 'the Landgraf of the East' and a statue has been erected in his memory at Neustadt Dosse, the Eastern German State Stud.
The third sire Marcello, a full TB, can be seen in Arkol's offspring, who all contain plenty of blood in both their type and reflexes.


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Happy 96th Birthday Cloris Leachman
April 30, 2022 Scott Parker-Anderson read Leave a comment
Today is the 96th birthday of the actress Cloris Leachman. She has had a life and is still grinding. You have to love and appreciate longevity. The world is a better place because she was in it and still feels the loss that she has left.
NAME: Cloris Leachman
PLACE OF BIRTH: Des Moines, Iowa
PLACE OF DEATH: Encinitas, CA
EDUCATION: Roosevelt High School, Northwestern University, The Actors Studio, Illinois State University
OSCAR for Best Supporting Actress 1972 for The Last Picture Show
GOLDEN GLOBE 1976 for Phyllis (television)
EMMY 1973 for A Brand New Life (single performance)
EMMY 1974 for Mary Tyler Moore (episode "The Lars Affair")
EMMY 1975 for Cher (single performance)
EMMY 1984 for Screen Actors Guild 50th Anniversary Celebration
EMMY 1998 for Promised Land (guest)
EMMY 2002 for Malcolm in the Middle (guest)
HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME 6435 Hollywood Blvd. (television)
Father: Berkeley Leachman ("Buck")
Mother: Cloris Wallace
Sister: Claiborne Cary (actress)
Husband: George Englund (film director, m. 19-Apr-1953, div. 1979)
Son: Adam Englund
Son: Bryan Englund (b. 1956, d. 25-Feb-1986 accidental overdose)
Son: George Englund, Jr.
Son: Morgan Englund (actor, b. 1964)
Daughter: Dinah Englund
BEST KNOWN FOR: American actress Cloris Leachman has had a long, successful career in television and film, playing a range of dramatic and comedic roles.
Cloris Leachman was born on April 30, 1926, in Des Moines, Iowa. She is the oldest of three daughters of Cloris (Wallace) and Berkeley Claiborne Leachman. Her father worked in the family lumber business, and her mother encouraged Cloris's early interest in entertaining.
In 1946, while attending Northwestern University, Leachman competed in the Miss America pageant as Miss Chicago. She didn't win the Miss America title, but she used her pageant winnings to move to New York City and begin an acting career. She attended the Actors Studio in its earliest years, studying with famous director Elia Kazan. She was successful in landing theater roles on Broadway: she performed in Shakespeare's As You Like It (with Katherine Hepburn) and the original run of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, among other productions.
Leachman also proved herself as a versatile television actor, working consistently in bit parts on many popular series. In the 1950s and 1960s, she added shows such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Untouchables, Gunsmoke and Lassie to her resumé. She also took roles in motion pictures, including the film noir drama Kiss Me Deadly in 1955.
Leachman gained greater recognition in her film career in the late 1960s and 1970s as she continued to play a variety of roles. She took the small but memorable part of a prostitute in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), appearing alongside Paul Newman. Two years later, her performance as a frustrated, adulterous housewife in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show earned her an Academy Award (best supporting actress) in 1971.
This success was followed by a supporting role in another film directed by Bogdanovich, the literary adaptation Daisy Miller (1974). Leachman went on to act in three comedies directed by Mel Brooks, showcasing her signature combination of willowy, blonde good looks and zany comedic delivery in Young Frankenstein in 1974; High Anxiety in 1977; and History of the World, Part I in 1982.
Meanwhile, Leachman's television career also continued to accelerate. From 1970 to 1975, Leachman appeared on The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Mary's hilariously self-centered landlady Phyllis Lindstrom. After the close of the series, Leachman starred in the spin-off sitcom Phyllis from 1975 to 1977. She reinvented herself each decade with parts on popular sitcoms, including The Facts of Life, from 1986 to 1988, and Malcolm in the Middle, on which she played a grandmother from 2001 to 2006. Leachman has won eight Emmy awards for television performances throughout her career.
Leachman continues to act in film and television. She performed on Dancing with the Stars in 2008, and landed a part on the comedy-drama series Raising Hope in 2010. Leachman published a memoir Cloris: My Autobiography, in 2009.
Leachman has been married once, to film producer and director George Englund, from 1953 to 1979. The couple had five children together: Bryan (deceased), Morgan, Adam, Dinah and George Jr.
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Touched by an Angel Ruth (1997-2003)
Walter & Emily Emily Collins (1991-92)
The Nutt House Ms. Frick (1989)
The Facts of Life Beverly Ann Stickle (1986-88)
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Dr. Kildare Rhoda Kirsh (1965)
I Can Only Imagine (16-Mar-2018)
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? (24-Feb-2016)
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (23-Oct-2015)
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Adult World (18-Apr-2013)
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Beerfest (25-Aug-2006)
Scary Movie 4 (12-Apr-2006)
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The Amati Girls (Oct-2000)
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Music of the Heart (6-Sep-1999)
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Annabelle's Wish (21-Oct-1997) [VOICE]
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Now and Then (20-Oct-1995)
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My Boyfriend's Back (6-Aug-1993)
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Love Hurts (9-Nov-1990)
Fine Things (16-Oct-1990)
Texasville (28-Sep-1990)
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Shadow Play (1986)
Deadly Intentions (19-May-1985)
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (14-May-1984)
The Demon Murder Case (6-Mar-1983)
History of the World: Part I (12-Jun-1981)
This Time Forever (1981)
Foolin' Around (17-Oct-1980)
Herbie Goes Bananas (25-Jun-1980)
The Oldest Living Graduate (7-Apr-1980) as Maureen
Scavenger Hunt (21-Dec-1979)
S.O.S. Titanic (23-Sep-1979)
The Muppet Movie (22-Jun-1979)
Backstairs at the White House (29-Jan-1979)
High Anxiety (25-Dec-1977) as Nurse Diesel
It Happened One Christmas (11-Dec-1977)
The Mouse and His Child (18-Nov-1977) [VOICE]
Death Scream (26-Sep-1975)
A Girl Named Sooner (18-Jun-1975)
Crazy Mama (Jun-1975) as Melba
Young Frankenstein (15-Dec-1974) as Frau Blücher
Death Sentence (2-Oct-1974)
Daisy Miller (22-May-1974)
Thursday's Game (14-Apr-1974)
The Migrants (3-Feb-1974)
Happy Mother's Day, Love George (17-Aug-1973)
Charley and the Angel (23-Mar-1973)
A Brand New Life (20-Feb-1973)
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The Last Picture Show (3-Oct-1971) as Ruth Popper
The Steagle (15-Sep-1971)
The People Next Door (26-Aug-1970)
WUSA (19-Aug-1970)
Lovers and Other Strangers (12-Aug-1970)
Silent Night, Lonely Night (16-Dec-1969)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (23-Sep-1969) as Agnes
The Chapman Report (5-Oct-1962) as Miss Selby
The Rack (2-Nov-1956)
Kiss Me Deadly (18-May-1955) as Christina
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Молодой игрок года по версии футболистов Шотландской профессиональной футбольной ассоциации () — ежегодная награда, присуждаемая лучшему молодому футболисту года в шотландском футболе. Награда была впервые вручена по итогам сезона 1977/78. Лауреат определяется путём голосования среди членов профсоюза футболистов Шотландии — Шотландской профессиональной футбольной ассоциации (ШПФА) ().

Первым обладателем награды стал полузащитник клуба «Данди Юнайтед» Грэм Пейн, первым не шотландским футболистом, получившим этот приз, является Стилиян Петров — на тот момент хавбек «Селтика». Текущий владелец награды — полузащитник «Селтика» Дэвид Тернбулл.

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 Игрок года по версии футболистов ШПФА
 Игрок года по версии Шотландской ассоциации футбольных журналистов
 Игрок года по версии футболистов ПФА
 Футболист года по версии Ассоциации футбольных журналистов
 Молодой игрок года по версии ПФА

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Футбольные награды в Шотландии

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A New Study Discovers Two-Thirds Of All Bankruptcies In The United States Are Primarily Caused By Medical Bills
February 12, 2019 by Michael Snyder
Our health insurance system is theoretically supposed to prevent Americans from going bankrupt when they are hit by huge medical bills. But in case after case, that is simply not happening. Even though more Americans are "covered by health insurance" than ever before, a new study has found that "about 530,000 families each year are financially ruined by medical bills and sicknesses", and most of those families actually had health insurance. These days, most health insurance policies closely resemble Swiss cheese because they are so full of loopholes, and health insurance companies have become masters at finding ways to wiggle off the hook. So every year hundreds of thousands of American families find themselves facing huge medical bills that they did not expect to be paying, and as a result medical expenses are the primary factor in 66.5 percent of all personal bankruptcy filings in the United States…
For many Americans, putting one's health first can mean putting one's financial status at risk. A study of bankruptcy filings in the United States showed that 66.5% were due, at least in part, to medical expenses.
The study, led by Dr. David Himmelstein, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York's (CUNY) Hunter College and Lecturer at Harvard Medical School, indicates that about 530,000 families each year are financially ruined by medical bills and sicknesses. It's the first research of its kind to link medical expenses and bankruptcy since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010.
But wasn't Obamacare supposed to make things better?
Yes, that was what we were promised, but the authors of the study discovered that the percentage of bankruptcies caused by medical bills actually went up by 2 percent after Obamacare went into effect…
The current study found no evidence that the ACA reduced the proportion of bankruptcies driven by medical problems: 65.5% of debtors cited a medical contributor to their bankruptcy in the period prior to the ACA's implementation as compared to 67.5% in the three years after the law came into effect. The responses also did not differ depending on whether the respondent resided in a state that had accepted ACA's Medicaid expansion. The researchers noted that bankruptcy is most common among middle-class Americans, who have faced increasing copayments and deductibles in recent years despite the ACA. The poor, who were most helped by the ACA, less frequently seek formal bankruptcy relief because they have few assets (such as a home) to protect and face particular difficulty in securing the legal help needed to navigate formal bankruptcy proceedings.
Even though more Americans are "in the system" than ever before, clearly what we are doing is simply not working.
As I detailed in my article entitled "$3.5 Trillion A Year: America's Health Care System Has Become One Of The World's Largest Money Making Scams", our health care industry has become all about grabbing as much money as humanly possible. We are being taken advantage of when we are at our most vulnerable, and the level of greed that we see in the system is absolutely sickening.
As Dr. David Himmelstein has astutely observed, most Americans are "just one serious illness away from bankruptcy"…
Dr. David Himmelstein, the lead author of the study, a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York's (CUNY) Hunter College and Lecturer at Harvard Medical School commented: "Unless you're Bill Gates, you're just one serious illness away from bankruptcy. For middle-class Americans, health insurance offers little protection. Most of us have policies with so many loopholes, copayments and deductibles that illness can put you in the poorhouse. And even the best job-based health insurance often vanishes when prolonged illness causes job loss – just when families need it most."
You may think that your health insurance policy is somehow different.
You may actually believe that your health insurance company will be there for you when you need them the most.
And they might be. But the truth is that hundreds of thousands of American families have discovered that most health insurance companies will turn on you the moment it becomes advantageous for them to do so.
It turns out that most doctors dislike the health insurance companies too. Just check out these numbers…
Are health insurance policies creating nightmares for physicians and hazards for their patients? A new study finds that nearly nine in ten doctors believe barriers set by insurance plans have led to worsened conditions for patients in need of care.
Researchers with Aimed Alliance, a non-profit that seeks to protect and enhance the rights of health care consumers and providers, say that doctors are so fed up with the constant headaches caused by insurers, two-thirds would recommend against pursuing a career in medicine, and nearly half (48%) are considering a career change altogether.
If health insurance companies acted with compassion and always fulfilled the promises that they made, then the rest of us wouldn't be so hard on them.
But of course the health insurance companies look like saints when compared to the ultra-greedy pharmaceutical companies. When one pharmaceutical company recently hiked the annual price of a low-cost drug to $375,000, it just about caused Senator Bernie Sanders to cough up a lung…
Sen. Bernie Sanders sent a blistering letter to a pharmaceutical company on Monday, demanding answers about its decision to charge $375,000 for a formerly low-cost drug and calling it corporate greed at its worst.
"Catalyst's decision to set the annual list price at $375,000 is not only a blatant fleecing of American taxpayers, but is also an immoral exploitation of patients who need this medication," the independent senator from Vermont wrote. "Simply put, it is corporate greed.
"I am profoundly concerned that Catalyst's actions will cause patients to suffer or die."
Fixing our deeply, deeply broken health care system has got to be a top national priority, but at this point neither party has a plan that will turn things around.
So we are stuck with what we have currently got, and it is getting worse with each passing day.
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10 Numbers That Prove That We Are Rapidly Becoming A Nation Of Government Dependents
As the middle class disintegrates and poverty grows, more Americans than ever are becoming dependent on the government just to survive. Today, we live in a country where most workers do not earn enough to support a middle class family, and we are seeing the homelessness crisis spiral out of control in major cities on both coasts. During this election cycle, many conservatives have been freaking out that an increasing number of Democrats are openly embracing socialism, but the truth is that we are already most of the way to becoming a socialist country. In fact, as you will see below, more than half of all Americans currently receive more money from the government than they pay in taxes. We have become absolutely addicted to government money, and this is one of the major trends that is eating away at our nation like cancer.
The government is not supposed to take care of us from the cradle to the grave.
Rather, our founders understood that the proper role of government is to create and protect an environment of liberty and freedom where we would be empowered to take care of ourselves.
Today, most Americans cannot independently take care of themselves, and that makes them dependents. And when you are a dependent, you aren't really free.
One of the reasons why I write so much about the decline of the middle class is because it is an existential threat to our way of life. If you look around the world, or if you go back through history, you will see that tyrannical regimes tend to thrive when populations are poor and cannot stand up for themselves. If we want our Republic to survive, we need a strong, independent population that is not economically dependent on the government. That is what we had throughout most of our history, and that is now what we are rapidly losing.
Just because you are working does not mean that you are independent. At this point, most jobs do not pay enough to support a middle class family, and the ranks of the "working poor" continue to explode. In reality, Americans are working harder than ever in 2018, and yet things continue to deteriorate.
The following are a few numbers that prove that we are rapidly becoming a nation of government dependents…
–Over half the country now receives more in government transfer payments than they pay in taxes.
-According to one recent survey, the cost of living is higher than the median income in 42 U.S. states.
-Today, 50 percent of all American workers make less than $30,533 a year.
–62 percent of Americans say that their financial situations have not improved since the last presidential election.
And here are six more from my friend Alan Yerushalmi…
According to a FED report, about 40 percent of adults in the U.S. said that if faced with a $400 unexpected expense, they would either not be able to pay it or would do so by selling something or borrowing money
Almost 1 in 3 U.S. households have challenges paying energy bills
About 40% of the American middle class face poverty in retirement
1 in 3 Americans have hardly any retirement savings
Those over 65 have been filing for bankruptcy in droves
Health spending per capita in the U.S. increased nearly 29 fold in the past 40 years, outpacing the growth of the economy
If things are this bad now, how dreadful will the outlook be once we are deep into the next recession?
History has shown that once national governments begin to expand in size, they usually keep expanding until they ultimately collapse.
Sadly, a large portion of the population has become convinced that the government should be in the business of handing out as much "free stuff" as possible. Housing, healthcare and college education are now being called "human rights", and tens of millions of our fellow citizens feel that they are entitled to be given these things by the government. Needless to say, this has chilling implications for the future of our country, and I really like how Ryan McMaken made this point in his most recent article…
The political implications of this are considerable. As Ludwig von Mises once noted, once we get to the point that a majority of the voting population receives more in benefits than it pays in taxes, then voters will demand more and more wealth be transferred to them through government programs. It will then become politically necessary to extract larger and larger amounts of wealth from a minority in order to subsidize the majority.
Market economics will become less and less popular because the voters will have realized they can — in the words of James Bovard — "vote for a living" instead of work for a living.
Every additional dollar that the federal government spends is an additional dollar that is being stolen from our children and our grandchildren, and we are already more than 21 trillion dollars in debt.
We have been on the greatest debt binge in human history, and that debt binge delayed our day of reckoning, but it did not cancel it.
In fact, one of my contacts just emailed me with some deeply troubling information. He has a customer that is a Bank of America board member, and that board member told him that they expect things to really start falling apart by late March "at the latest". This is word for word what my contact told me…
"I had a customer this past Saturday who was a very high ranking Bank of America board member, and she said in the meetings, they expect late March, at the latest, that things will really start to disintegrate fairly quickly or very quickly. That was AT THE LATEST she said."
When I say that "dark days are ahead", I am not using hyperbole. We really have reached a turning point, and things will never be the same again.
The relentless march of time is inexorable, and eventually the clock runs out for everyone. America has been living on borrowed time for quite a while, and a perfect storm is looming on the horizon.
About the author: Michael Snyder is a nationally syndicated writer, media personality and political activist. He is publisher of The Most Important News and the author of four books including The Beginning Of The End and Living A Life That Really Matters.
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Medicare For All? Shock Poll Discovers That 70 Percent Of Americans Want Single-Payer Healthcare To Happen
August 23, 2018 by Michael Snyder
Should the U.S. government provide medical care for everybody? A shocking new poll that was just released found that 70 percent of all Americans actually want this to happen. Of course if they also asked people if they wanted their taxes to double in order to pay for such a system, the percentage of favorable responses would have probably been a lot lower. But still, this poll result shows that Americans are willing to embrace socialism to a degree that would have been absolutely unthinkable a decade or two ago. Of course "Medicare for all" is not going to happen as long as Donald Trump resides in the White House, but if future polls keep returning similar results it is only a matter of time before a Democratic administration will implement such a policy. And as we have seen with Obamacare, once a new social program is in place it can be nearly impossible to get rid of it.
We all knew that a high percentage of Democrats were in favor of "Medicare for all", but what really shocked me was that this poll found that 52 percent of Republicans are now in favor of it….
A vast majority — 70 percent — of Americans in a new poll supports "Medicare for all," also known as a single-payer health-care system.
The Reuters–Ipsos survey found 85 percent of Democrats said they support the policy along with 52 percent of Republicans.
At one time I was pretty certain what a "Republican" was, but things have changed so dramatically that I am not really sure anymore.
Of course nobody likes paying the sky high health insurance premiums that have been forced on us thanks to Obamacare, and so I definitely understand the hunger for change.
But fully socialized medicine would greatly accelerate our trip down the road toward national bankruptcy. According to one recent study, a "Medicare for all" system would result in a rise in federal spending of more than 30 trillion dollars over a 10 year period…
Medicare for all has been in the headlines after a study by the libertarian-leaning Mercatus Center at George Mason University found it would lead to a $32.6 trillion increase in federal spending over a 10-year period.
The study's author, Charles Blahous, wrote in The Wall Street Journal earlier this month that even doubling taxes would not cover the bill for a single-payer health-care system.
I don't know about you, but I sure do not want my taxes doubled so that the left can implement a government-controlled healthcare system.
But what we have today is certainly not working. That is why many of us are deeply, deeply frustrated with the Republicans in Congress. They had a golden opportunity to repeal Obamacare during this two-year period that they have been in control, and they have completely fumbled the ball. It is a political failure of the highest order, and millions upon millions of American families are deeply suffering as a result.
Just recently, Bloomberg profiled one of those families…
When their son Sky was born four years ago, Lindsie and Chris Bergevin were hit with a big surprise: $7,000 in bills for the birth that their health plan didn't cover. Sky was two when the couple jettisoned their medical insurance, which helped them eventually pay off the debt.
Now that they're ready to have a second child, they're not going back to their old coverage, with its premiums of more than $350 a month. Instead, they've patched together an alternative through a religious group and a primary-care doctor whom they can visit anytime for a monthly fee.
The health insurance system that we have today is a complete and utter failure. Families are paying ridiculously high premiums for deeply flawed policies with extremely high deductibles, and a lot of people are saying enough is enough.
For example, it is being estimated that more than one million Americans have now joined "health sharing ministries"…
The number of people joining so-called health-care sharing ministries—religion-based cost-sharing plans—rose 74 percent from 2014 to 2016, according to the latest Internal Revenue Service data. An alliance for the groups said that more than 1 million people now participate in such programs. Similarly, primary-care clinics like the one Julie Gunther started in 2014 have grown to almost 900 from just a handful in the early 2000s, according to the Direct Primary Care Coalition, a trade group for the clinics.
There are free market solutions out there that actually work. In addition to health sharing ministries, direct primary care and association buying groups are other free market models that have shown that they have tremendous potential.
Unfortunately, that is not where society is trending.
Even though Republicans are in control of Washington for the moment, the federal government just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Earlier today, I was astounded to learn that 52 percent of all U.S. children live in a household that receives benefits from the U.S. government each month…
In 2016, according to the most recent data from the Census Bureau, there were approximately 73,586,000 people under 18 in the United States, and 38,365,000 of them — or 52.1 percent — resided in households in which one or more persons received benefits from a means-tested government program.
These included the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), Medicaid, public housing, Supplemental Security Income, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the National School Lunch Program.
All throughout American history, social programs have steadily expanded, and until things completely collapse they will probably continue to expand.
In addition to wanting free government healthcare, it turns out that most Americans also want free college education…
The new Reuters poll also showed that a majority of Americans supports free college tuition. Forty-one percent of Republicans said they supported the policy, pollsters found, compared with 79 percent of Democrats.
"Free stuff" always sounds great until you figure out that someone has to pay for it.
And in our case, we have already stolen more than 21 trillion dollars from future generations to pay the bills. How in the world are we going to be able to afford everything else that the socialists want to do?
This article originally appeared on The Economic Collapse Blog. About the author: Michael Snyder is a nationally syndicated writer, media personality and political activist. He is publisher of The Most Important News and the author of four books including The Beginning Of The End and Living A Life That Really Matters.
Categories CommentaryTags Doctor, Health Insurance, Health Insurance Plans, Health Insurance Premiums, Insurance, Medical, Medical Care, Medicare For All, Single-Payer Healthcare, Socialism, TaxesLeave a comment
Handout Nation: Combined Enrollment In America's 4 Largest Safety Net Programs Hits A Record High Of 236 Million
Margaret Thatcher once said that the problem with socialism "is that eventually you run out of other people's money". As you will see below, the combined enrollment in America's four largest safety net programs has reached a staggering 236 million. Of course that doesn't mean that 236 million people are getting benefits from the government each month because there is overlap between the various programs. For example, many Americans that are on Medicaid are also on food stamps, and many Americans that are on Medicare are also on Social Security. But even accounting for that, most experts estimate that the number of Americans that are dependent on the federal government month after month is well over 100 million. And now that so many people are addicted to government handouts, can we ever return to a culture of independence and self-sufficiency?
On Wednesday, CNN ran an editorial by Bernie Sanders in which he called President Trump's proposed budget "immoral" because it would cut funding for government aid programs.
But is it moral to steal more than a hundred million dollars from future generations of Americans every single hour of every single day to pay for these programs?
Of course the answer to that question is quite obvious.
There will always be some Americans that are unable to take care of themselves, and we should want to help them.
But as millions upon millions of Americans continue to jump on to the safety net, eventually we are going to get to the point where it is going to break.
As I mentioned above, the combined enrollment in the four largest safety net programs has reached a new all-time record high…
–More than 74 million Americans are on Medicaid and CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program).
–More than 58 million Americans are on Medicare.
–More than 60 million Americans are on Social Security.
–Approximately 44 million Americans are on food stamps. And even though we are supposedly in an "economic recovery", this number is still dramatically higher than the 26 million Americans that were on food stamps prior to the last financial crisis.
When you add the figures for those four programs together, you get a grand total of 236 million, and that doesn't even count any of the other federal programs which are helping people.
Once again, there is overlap in enrollment between these various programs, but even accounting for that most experts believe that well over a third of the country is currently receiving benefits from the government each month.
How far down this road do we have to go before people start calling it "socialism"?
As I was writing this, I was reminded of one of Benjamin Franklin's most famous quotes…
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic."
In our country today, many politicians have discovered that one of the best ways to win elections is to promise the voters as much free stuff as possible. This is one of the primary reasons why Bernie Sanders did so well. Young people loved his socialist policies, and he received more votes from Millennials in the primaries and caucuses than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton combined.
As older generations of Americans continue to die off, the Millennials will just become even more powerful politically. And considering the fact that they are far more liberal than other generations, that is a very alarming prospect…
In the minds of 80 percent of baby boomers and 91 percent of elderly Americans, communism was a major problem in years past and remains a significant concern today. But millennials, aged 16 to 20 years, see it differently. Only 55 percent of the younger generation take issue with communism, 45 percent say they would vote for a socialist and 21 percent say they'd vote for a communist.
And millennials made all that clear during the Democratic presidential primary, when many of them cast their vote for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-avowed socialist. In fact, the report credits the New England lawmaker with a "bounce" that led to less than half of millennials — 42 percent — having a favorable view of capitalism.
At this point, the Republic that our founders established is barely recognizable, and if it is going to be saved we need a conservative revolution as soon as possible.
A good place to begin would be to dramatically reduce the size and scope of the federal government, and there are some promising signs in the budget that President Trump has proposed. He wants to completely eliminate 66 federal programs, and liberals are screaming bloody murder over this.
Of course Trump's budget is "dead on arrival" in Congress because many among his own party do not support him. Most Republicans campaign as conservatives but govern like Democrats, and it is high time that we held them accountable for that. In 2018 we are going get Trump a whole bunch of friends in Congress, and a lot of those establishment Republicans that have been betraying conservatives for years are going to have to find a new line of work.
We simply cannot afford to keep sending the same cast of characters back to Washington time after time. Just look at the debacle that the effort to repeal Obamacare has become. According to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, getting any sort of bill through the Senate is going to be extremely challenging…
Referring to behind-the-scenes work among Senate Republicans on a healthcare bill, McConnell said, "I don't know how we get to 50 (votes) at the moment. But that's the goal."
Under a scenario of gathering the votes needed for passage in the 100-seat chamber, Republican Vice President Mike Pence would be called upon to cast any potential tie-breaking Senate vote.
McConnell opened the interview by saying, "There's not a whole lot of news to be made on healthcare." He declined to provide any timetable for producing even a draft bill to show to rank-and-file Republican senators and gauge their support.
And yet somehow when Obama was in office the Republicans in the House and the Senate were able to easily pass a bill to repeal Obamacare and get it to Obama's desk.
Why can't they get that exact same bill to Trump's desk?
We definitely need to "drain the swamp" in D.C., and we can start with Congress.
But the alliance between big money and big government is going to be hard to defeat, and so if we want our country back we are going to have to fight harder than we have ever fought before.
Categories Commentary, Government DebtTags Benefits, CHIP, Debt, Food Stamps, Government Benefits, Government Handouts, Government Money, Medicaid, Medicare, National Debt, Social Security, Socialism295 Comments
Watch Venezuela, Because Food Shortages, Looting And Economic Collapse Are Coming To America Too
The full-blown economic collapse that is happening in Venezuela right now is a preview of what Americans will be experiencing in the not too distant future. Just a few years ago, most Venezuelans could never have imagined that food shortages would become so severe that people would literally hunt dogs and cats for food. But as you will see below, this is now taking place. Sadly, this is what the endgame of socialism looks like. When an all-powerful government is elevated far above all other institutions in society and radical leftists are given the keys to the kingdom, this is the result. Food shortages, looting and rampant violent crime have all become part of daily life in Venezuela, and we all need to watch as this unfolds very carefully, because similar scenarios will soon be playing out all over the planet.
The funny thing is that Venezuela actually has more "wealth" than most countries in the world. According to the CIA, Venezuela actually has more proven oil reserves than anyone else on the globe – including Saudi Arabia.
So how did such a wealthy nation find itself plunged into full-blown economic collapse so rapidly, and could a similar thing happen to us?
The president of Venezuela has declared a 60 day state of emergency in a desperate attempt to restore order, but most people don't anticipate that it will do much good. Social order continues to unravel as the economy systematically implodes. The Venezuelan economy shrunk by 5.7 percent last year, and it is being projected that it will contract by another 8 percent in 2016. Meanwhile, inflation is raging wildly out of control. According to the IMF, the official inflation rate in Venezuela will be somewhere around 720 percent this year and 2,200 percent next year.
If people are able to get their hands on some money, they immediately rush out to the stores to use it before the prices go up again. This has created devastating shortages of food, basic supplies and medicine.
Electricity is also in short supply, and a two day workweek has been imposed on many government employees in a desperate attempt to save power. Violent crime is seemingly everywhere, and most law-abiding Venezuelans lock themselves in their homes at night as a result.
Much of the crime is being perpetrated by the mafia and the gangs, but sometimes it is just normal people looking for food. Desperate people do desperate things, and according to the Guardian there have been "107 episodes of looting or attempted looting in the first quarter of 2016″…
Crowds of people in Venezuela have stolen flour, chicken and even underwear this week as looting increases across the country in the wake of shortages of many basic products. Many people have adopted the habit of getting up in the dead of night to spend hours in long lines in front of supermarkets. But as more end up empty-handed and black market prices soar, plundering is rising in Venezuela, an Opec nation that was already one of the world's most violent countries.
There is no official data, but the Venezuelan Observatory for Social Conflict, a rights group, have reported 107 episodes of looting or attempted looting in the first quarter of 2016. Videos of crowds breaking into shops, swarming on to trucks or fighting over products frequently make the rounds on social media, though footage is often hard to confirm.
One example of this looting took place on May 11th. Thousands of hungry people stormed Maracay Wholesale Market in central Venezuela, and the police seemed powerless to stop them…
"They took milk, pasta, flour, oil, and milk powder. There were 5,000 people,"one witness told Venezuela outlet El Estímulo.
People from across the entire state came to the supermarket because there were rumors that some products not found anywhere else would be sold there.
"There were 250 people for each National Guard officer… lots of people and few soldiers. At least one officer was beat up because he tried to stop the crowd," another source told El Estímulo.
You can see some rough footage of this incident right here…
¡VENEZUELA TIENE HAMBRE! #Video Saquean Mercado Mayorista Maracay #11May pic.twitter.com/DGRZ1bgkgI vía @venezolanodecen #CNERevocatorioYA
— El llanero (@llaneroVen) May 11, 2016
It is important to remember that this was not an isolated incident. As people have become hungrier and hungrier, there have been reports of looting at "pharmacies, shopping malls, supermarkets, and food delivery trucks". During some of these episodes there have actually been people chanting "we are hungry".
Other Venezuelans have resorted to digging in dumpsters and trash cans for food. This many seem detestable to many Americans, but when you are desperately hungry you may be surprised at what you are willing to do.
And as I mentioned above, some Venezuelans and now actually hunting dogs and cats for food…
Ramón Muchacho, Mayor of Chacao in Caracas, said the streets of the capital of Venezuela are filled with people killing animals for food.
Through Twitter, Muchacho reported that in Venezuela, it is a "painful reality" that people "hunt cats, dogs and pigeons" to ease their hunger.
You may be tempted to dismiss these people as "barbarians", but someday Americans will be doing the exact same thing.
There has been a breakdown of basic social services in Venezuela as well. Acute shortages of drugs and medical supplies are having absolutely tragic results. When I read the following from the New York Times, this crisis in Venezuela become much more real to me…
By morning, three newborns were already dead.
The day had begun with the usual hazards: chronic shortages of antibiotics, intravenous solutions, even food. Then a blackout swept over the city, shutting down the respirators in the maternity ward.
Doctors kept ailing infants alive by pumping air into their lungs by hand for hours. By nightfall, four more newborns had died.
So once again I ask – how did such a thing happen to such a wealthy nation?
Here is Business Insider's explanation…
The real culprit is chavismo, the ruling philosophy named for Chavez and carried forward by Maduro, and its truly breathtaking propensity for mismanagement (the government plowed state money arbitrarily into foolish investments); institutional destruction (as Chavez and then Maduro became more authoritarian and crippled the country's democratic institutions); nonsense policy-making (like price and currency controls); and plain thievery (as corruption has proliferated among unaccountable officials and their friends and families).
Are not the same things happening here?
The U.S. government is mismanaging our money too. During Barack Obama's eight years in the White House, the U.S. national debt has risen by more than eight trillion dollars. We waste money in some of the most bizarre ways imaginable, and at this point our national debt is nearly the double the size it was just prior to the last major financial crisis.
Institutional destruction is also a legacy of the Obama regime. With each passing day, our society resembles the Republic that our founders originally intended less and less, and it resembles socialist dictatorships more and more. We may as well not even have a Constitution anymore, because at this point nobody really follows it.
The third thing that Business Insider mentioned, "nonsense policy-making", is a perfect description of what has been going on in Washington D.C. these days. Perhaps that is why Congress only has a 12.8 percent approval rating right now.
Lastly, thievery and corruption are also out of control in our nation too. The elite and special interest groups spend massive amounts of money to get their favorites into office, and in turn those politicians shower their good friends with money and favors. It is a very sick relationship, but that is how our system now works.
We are sitting on the largest mountain of debt in the history of the planet, and our debt-fueled prosperity is completely dependent on the rest of the world lending us gigantic amounts of money at ridiculously low interest rates and continuing to use our increasingly shaky currency which we are debasing at a staggering pace.
We consume far more than we produce, and unlike Venezuela we aren't sitting on hundreds of billions of barrels of oil. The amount of "real wealth" that we actually have does not justify our current standard of living. The only way that we are able to live the way that we do is by stealing consumption from the future. One study has found that our debt level is the highest that it has been since the Great Depression of the 1930s, and yet we continue to race down this road to economic oblivion without even thinking twice about it.
What you sow is what you will reap.
And just like Venezuela, America will ultimately reap a very bitter harvest.
Categories The Next Great DepressionTags Food Shortages, Looting, Socialism, Venezuela, Venezuelans564 Comments
The Future Of America? – More Than Half Of All U.S. Adults Under Age 30 Now Reject Capitalism
A shocking new survey has found that support for capitalism is dying in America. In fact, more than half of all adults in the United States under the age of 30 say that they do not support capitalism at this point. You might be tempted to dismiss them as "foolish young people", but the truth is that they are the future of America. As older generations die off, they will eventually become the leaders of this country. And of course our nation has not resembled anything close to a capitalist society for quite some time now. In a recent article, I listed 97 different taxes that Americans pay each year, and some Americans actually end up returning more than half of what they earn to the government by the time it is all said and done. So at best it could be said that we are running some sort of hybrid system that isn't as far down the road toward full-blown socialism as most European nations are. But without a doubt we are moving in that direction, and our young people are going to be cheering every step of the way.
When I first heard of this new survey from Harvard University, I was absolutely stunned. The following is from what the Washington Post had to say about it…
The Harvard University survey, which polled young adults between ages 18 and 29, found that 51 percent of respondents do not support capitalism. Just 42 percent said they support it.
It isn't clear that the young people in the poll would prefer some alternative system, though. Just 33 percent said they supported socialism. The survey had a margin of error of 2.4 percentage points.
Could it be possible that young adults were confused by the wording of the survey?
Well, other polls have come up with similar results…
The university's results echo recent findings from Republican pollster Frank Luntz, who surveyed 1,000 Americans between the ages of 18 and 26 and found that 58% of respondents believed socialism to be the "more compassionate" political system when compared to capitalism. And when participants were asked to sum up the root of America's problem in one word, 29% said "greed."
This trend among our young people is very real, and you can see it in their support of Bernie Sanders. For millions upon millions of young adults in America today, Hillary Clinton is not nearly liberal enough for them. So they have flocked to Sanders, and if they had been the only ones voting in this election season, he would have won the Democratic nomination by a landslide.
Sadly, most of our young people don't seem to understand how socialism slowly but surely destroys a nation. If you want to see the end result of socialism, just look at the economic collapse that is going on in Venezuela right now. The following comes from a Bloomberg article entitled "Venezuela Doesn't Have Enough Money to Pay for Its Money"…
Venezuela's epic shortages are nothing new at this point. No diapers or car parts or aspirin — it's all been well documented. But now the country is at risk of running out of money itself.
In a tale that highlights the chaos of unbridled inflation, Venezuela is scrambling to print new bills fast enough to keep up with the torrid pace of price increases. Most of the cash, like nearly everything else in the oil-exporting country, is imported. And with hard currency reserves sinking to critically low levels, the central bank is doling out payments so slowly to foreign providers that they are foregoing further business.
Venezuela, in other words, is now so broke that it may not have enough money to pay for its money.
We are losing an entire generation of young people. These days, there is quite a lot of talk about how we need to get America back to the principles that it was founded upon, but the cold, hard reality of the matter is that most of our young people are running in the opposite direction as fast as they can.
And Americans under the age of 30 are not just becoming more liberal when it comes to economics. Surveys have found that they are more than twice as likely to support gay rights and less than half as likely to regularly attend church as the oldest Americans are.
Well, the truth is that our colleges and universities have become indoctrination centers for the progressive movement. I know, because I spent eight years at public universities in this country. The quality of the education that our young people are receiving is abysmal, but the values that are being imparted to them will last a lifetime.
And of course the same things could be said about our system of education all the way down to the kindergarten level. There are still some good people in the system, but overall it is overwhelmingly dominated by the progressives.
Meanwhile, the major entertainment providers in the United States are also promoting the same values. In a recent article entitled "Depressing Survey Results Show How Extremely Stupid America Has Become", I discussed a Nielsen report which detailed how much time the average American spends consuming media on various electronic devices each day…
Watching live television: 4 hours, 32 minutes
Watching time-shifted television: 30 minutes
Listening to the radio: 2 hours, 44 minutes
Using a smartphone: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Using Internet on a computer: 1 hour, 6 minutes
Overall, the average American spends about 10 hours a day consuming one form of entertainment or another.
When you allow that much "programming" into your mind, it is inevitable that it is going to shape your values, and our young people are more "plugged in" than any of the rest of us.
So yes, I believe that it is exceedingly clear why we should be deeply concerned about the future of America. The values that are being relentlessly pounded into the heads of our young people are directly opposed to the values that this nation was founded upon, and it is these young people that will determine the path that this country ultimately takes.
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America: Where Hard Working, Productive Members Of Society Pay For The Health Care Of Everyone Else
August 4, 2013 August 4, 2013 by Michael Snyder
Everybody in America wants health care – but most Americans seem to want someone else to pay for it. In the United States today, the way that our system works is that the hard working, productive members of society pay for the health care of everyone else. At least under socialism everyone gets the same benefits. Our system of health care is a very twisted version of socialism where millions upon millions of very hard working people are forced to pay for the health care of others, but often can't afford to purchase decent health insurance for themselves. Personally, I don't have a big employer paying for my health care so I have to buy it myself, and I just got a letter from my health insurance company telling me that I have another massive rate increase coming up. Have you gotten a similar letter? Health insurance premiums are going up all over America, and this is just the beginning. In fact, the CEO of Aetna says that health insurance rates for many Americans will double when the major provisions of Obamacare kick in next year.
It would be bad enough if hard working Americans just had to pay for their own health insurance. But no, they are also expected to pay for the health care of members of Congress, employees of the IRS and other federal agencies, state and local government employees, their adult kids (because they can't afford health insurance), the elderly, the poor, and now under Obamacare they will also be expected to subsidize the health plans of tens of millions of other Americans that are not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid.
When you add it all up, the hard working, productive members of society are at least partially subsidizing the health care of well over half of all Americans while having to pay for their own health care at the same time.
Needless to say, it isn't too hard to see who is getting the raw end of the deal.
Members of Congress certainly don't want to pay for their own health care. There was panic in the halls of Congress recently when they started realizing that due to certain provisions in Obamacare they may soon be forced to pay for their own health insurance plans. There was widespread moaning and complaining about how they would be facing "thousands of dollars in additional premium payments" every year.
Things got so bad that Barack Obama got personally involved in the effort to find a solution. Thankfully, members of Congress can relax because a ruling is being issued that will allow the federal government to continue to subsidize 75 percent of the cost of their health plans…
Lawmakers and staff can breathe easy — their health care tab is not going to soar next year.
The Office of Personnel Management, under heavy pressure from Capitol Hill, will issue a ruling that says the government can continue to make a contribution to the health care premiums of members of Congress and their aides, according to several Hill sources.
A White House official confirmed the deal and said the proposed regulations will be issued next week.
And the IRS, which has been put in charge of imposing the rules of Obamacare on all the rest of us, is freaking out about the fact that some members of Congress would like to force them to personally participate in Obamacare…
The union that represents IRS employees is urging its members to write to their congressmen to help get the union out of Obamacare.
The following are some excerpts from a letter that the union that represents IRS employees sent to members of Congress…
"H.R. 1780 would put federal employees in a special class where they would be prohibited from receiving health insurance through their employer. It would treat federal employees differently from state and local government employees and most employees of large private sector companies who receive health insurance benefits through their employer. The primary purpose of the Affordable Care Act was to provide a marketplace for the sale and purchase of health insurance for those who do not have such coverage – not to take coverage away from employees who already receive it through their employers," the letter reads.
"I work hard and am proud of the services that I provide to your constituents every day. One of the main benefits I receive as a federal employee is the ability to purchase health insurance coverage through the FEHBP with an employer contribution towards those benefits. Please let me know your views on this legislation. I look forward to hearing back from you," the letter concludes.
This is just shameful. If the IRS is going to impose Obamacare on the rest of America, then it should be good enough for them too.
Just check out acting IRS chief Danny Werfel begging for employees of his agency not to have to go on Obamacare…
But we have always had to at least partially subsidize the health plans of federal, state and local government workers.
The big change under Obamacare is that we will soon be subsidizing the health plans of tens of millions of our fellow Americans.
CNN says that 26 million Americans will be eligible for health insurance subsidies, but others believe that the true number is far, far higher than that.
For example, according to CNBC, a family of three in New York that earns $78,120 a year would be eligible for a subsidy of more than five thousand dollars…
In New York, a family of three whose annual income totals $78,120, would pay $12,784 for the second-lower-priced silver plan on that state's insurance exchange. After getting a $5,363 tax credit, the family's net cost for the insurance would be $7,421.
So who pays for that?
You and I do through our tax dollars.
And if you can believe it, Obamacare actually provides an incentive to not work too hard, because if you make too much money you could lose your health insurance subsidy…
Working more could ultimately mean thousands of dollars less for you under a quirk in the new health-care law going into effect this fall. This could prompt some people to cut back on their hours to avoid losing money.
"Working more can actually leave you worse off," the price-comparison site ValuePenguin.com notes in a new analysis.
"It's sort of an absurd scenario," said Jonathan Wu, ValuePenguin.com's co-founder. "It's something for people to be aware of."
In that scenario, an individual or family whose annual income surpasses maximums set by the federal government—if only by $1—will totally lose subsidies available to buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
What a perverse system.
And of course Obamacare will allow young adults to stay on the health insurance policies of their parents until they reach 26 years of age. As I mentioned the other day, 36 percent of all young adults in the 18 to 31 age bracket are currently living with their folks. In most of those cases, the parents have to end up footing the bill for health care because the kids simply cannot afford it.
Medicaid continues to expand as well. Certainly helping the poor is a very good thing, but unfortunately the number of poor just continues to explode.
Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid. Today, one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid, and things are about to get a whole lot worse.
Right now, there are more than 56 million Americans on Medicaid, and it is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.
It is going to take a whole lot of money to support 72 million Medicaid patients.
And then of course there is Medicare.
When Medicare was first established, we were told that it would cost about $12 billion a year by the time 1990 rolled around.
Instead, it actually cost the federal government $110 billion in 1990, and it will cost the federal government close to $600 billion this year.
But if you think this is bad, just wait until all of the Baby Boomers retire. It is being projected that the number of Americans on Medicare will grow from a little bit more than 50 million today to 73.2 million in 2025. By then, we would be spending well over a trillion dollars a year on Medicare.
As you can see, under Obamacare the vast majority of all Americans will have their health care at least partially subsidized.
And it expected that our tax dollars will somehow be enough to pay for all of this.
The truth is that we have a deeply broken system. Costs are spiraling out of control and nobody is quite sure how to fix things. The following statistics come from one of my previous articles entitled "50 Signs That The U.S. Health Care System Is A Gigantic Money Making Scam"…
–This year the American people will spend approximately 2.8 trillion dollars on health care, and it is being projected that Americans will spend 4.5 trillion dollars on health care in 2019.
–The United States spends more on health care than Japan, Germany, France, China, the U.K., Italy, Canada, Brazil, Spain and Australia combined.
–If the U.S. health care system was a country, it would be the 6th largest economy on the entire planet.
–Back in 1960, an average of $147 was spent per person on health care in the United States. By 2009, that number had skyrocketed to $8,086.
The sad thing is that many hard working Americans in the private sector are being forced to subsidize the health care of others, but they can't even afford decent health care for themselves.
For example, I know of one hard working couple that has a health plan that has a $1,000 deductible. Even with that deductible, their health insurance premiums are absolutely ridiculous. Their health care strategy is simply to avoid going to the hospital or visiting a doctor as much as possible.
And of course health insurance companies make money by providing as little health care as possible. Many Americans have discovered that when you need them the most, some health insurance companies will try to get out of covering you any way that they possibly can.
The reality is that just because you have health insurance that does not mean that you are "covered".
According to a study that was published in The American Journal of Medicine, medical bills are a major factor in more than 60 percent of all personal bankruptcies in the United States. Of those bankruptcies that were caused by medical bills, approximately 75 percent of them involved people that actually did have health insurance.
So what is the bottom line?
The bottom line is the system stinks, and Obamacare is going to make things a whole lot worse.
Categories CommentaryTags Aetna, America, Decent Health Insurance, Hard Working, Health, Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Insurance Company, Health Insurance Premiums, Health Insurance Rates, Insuance, Michael T. Snyder, Obamacare, Rate Increase, Socialism129 Comments


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Washington's iconic cherry blossoms grace the city only for a brief time in the spring, but the Tidal Basin where the trees are located is fun all year round. Walk along the path that surrounds this artificial lake and stop to check out the many memorials, including the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Jefferson Memorial and Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.
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I've decided long ago to use this blog to help people understand what it's like dealing with my type of disability on daily basis. It might be embarrassing and it can get private, but I feel the only way I can create some kind of awareness is by being able to talk about myself honestly. I have always feared large dogs. Loud, unexpected noises make me jump. I'm not sure if this is a Cerebral Palsy thing, but I have seen children with my condition freeze up in panic every time an animal came along, even at a distance, a siren went off, a balloon popped or a firework exploded. I've seen kids react like that even to things we don't really consider threatening like horses and dachshunds. It's not simply that you're afraid of something and your heart is rushing. The feeling makes your entire body tense and stiff, that makes it more difficult to compose yourself. Often it feels like you're fighting your own physicality to make a movement. I don't really have that reaction to most animals anymore, especially at a safe distance. But I used to ride horses as a child, and one of the things you have to do to allow the therapeutic benefits of interacting with them is relax and trust them and letting your tensions go. I had a dog as a child and my parents decided I should have it exactly for that reason- to have my fear of dogs lessen. Now, that doesn't mean than that whenever a pony-sized puppy gets too close I feel comfortable. Dogs sense fear and discomfort and you never know how they will react when they see a wheelchair if they have never seen one.
Just yesterday a girl let her dog run loose outside my door and when she asked me if I wanted to pet it, I said: No, and I'd appreciate it if you kept it away from me. But other things make me tense up even more. Whenever I need to focus on something that requires a great level of precision or care, like spooning instant coffee into a cup that I don't wan't to have all over my counter or holding a glass with boiling hot liquid or a plate on my legs hat may fall off or break. I remember giving a speech in Hungary 11 years ago at the Central European University and while my upper body seemed cool and collected, my legs were involuntarily moving up and down under the table. I was hit by a bus during my first semester in America while crossing the street. I wouldn't attempt it by myself for many months.
Even today there are times when this feeling comes over me when I notice, "Oh, I'm in a crosswalk". And my right arm gets stiff and heavy, the feeling of panic comes over me and I have to really press myself to work through it and move. This is what happens when I take a time-pressured exam. My limbs gets stiff, I get red spots all over my face and chest and I'm fighting my body to work with me. The more I do things, the more I'm accustomed to things, the less is at stake or the less personal it is the less it happens. John Quinn in his book "Someone like me" says every move of a CP person is planned. He was born with it, but always walked walked and was able to conceal it. I wouldn't go that far, but I'm definitely more aware of when I move and how I move and it requires more effort, especially if I need to transfer or balance my center of gravity or switch positions.


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Q: ADB copy the newest file I am using the following command to copy the most recently added file from a connected device into the directory that I want:
adb pull sdcard/Robotium-Screenshots/filename.jpg D:\jenkins\jobs\

But it can copy only the file that I specify.
How can I copy the newest file from sdcard/Robotium-Screenshots/ to D:\jenkins\jobs\ without specifying it by name?

A: Here is a one-liner which would pull the last modified file from a specified folder:
adb exec-out "cd /sdcard/Robotium-Screenshots; toybox ls -1t *.jpg 2>/dev/null | head -n1 | xargs cat" > D:\jenkins\jobs\latest.jpg

Known limitations:

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*It relies on ls command to do the sorting based on modification time. Historically Android devices had multiple sources for the coreutils, namely toolbox and toybox multi-binaries. The toolbox version did not support timestamp based sorting. That basically means that this won't work on anything older than Android 6.0.

*It uses adb exec-out command to make sure that binary output does not get mangled by the tty. Make sure to update your platform-tools to the latest version.

A: If you use a bash-like shell, you can do:
adb pull /sdcard/Robotium-Screenshots/`adb shell ls -t /sdcard/Robotium-Screenshots/ | head -1` ~/Downloads

You can get a bash-like shell through cygwin, msys, git for windows (based on msys). If you are on mac or linux, you already have a bash-like shell.

A: One way to do this would be to grab the file name using the following command:
adb shell ls -lt /sdcard/Robotium-Screenshots | head -n2 | tail -n+2 | awk '{print $8}'

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Q: How to access nested class member function from enclosing class where all the members are public in c++? I am using nested classes in a sensor library development and running into errors. Below is sample code and explanation.
MainClass.cpp
class MainClass
{
 public:
     class nested_class;
     void func1(){
       nested_class1.print();
     }
};

NestedClass.cpp
class MainClass::nested_class
{
 public:
      virtual void print() = 0;
};

Nested1.cpp
class nested_class1: virtual public MainClass::nested_class{
    public:
        void print();
};
void nested_class1::print(){
        cout<<"This is for 1\n";
    }

Nested2.cpp
class nested_class2 : virtual public MainClass::nested_class{
    public:
    void print(){
        cout<<"This is  for 2";
    }
};

I am trying to use it to extend the concept of abstraction in my sensor library. But on doing so following is the error:
print() was not declared in this scope.
I am newbie to this concept and hence having a hard time finding the issue here. Where am I going wrong here? I can provide more details if required.
Thanks in advance!

A: nested_class1.print(); isn't how you'd call the print member of an instance of nested_class1, even if it were declared before there.
The definition of MainClass::func1 must be after the definition of nested_class1, which must be after the definition of MainClass::nested_class.
#include <iostream>

class MainClass
{
 public:
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};

class MainClass::nested_class
{
 public:
      virtual void print() = 0;
};

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    public:
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};

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    public:
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};

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}

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    std::cout<<"This is for 1\n";
}

void nested_class1::print(){
    std::cout<<"This is  for 2";
}

int main(){
    MainClass instance;
    instance.func1();
}

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