I get your point but the answer is certainly not public housing, unless you want to live in the luxury that NYCHA offers. How rioting will address housing costs eludes me. Landlords have costs that one can't wish away.
For those who believe housing is a right to be provided or financed by the government, I present NYCHA. No sane person would want to live in housing which NYCHA manages.
I'm not sure which areas you're specifically referring to, but I taught in Edgewood ISD from 1985-88. I was from the north where they heavily recruited. We couldn't be at school one minute before or after the allotted times and all of our classroom windows faced the hallway. The playground consisted of fire ant hills and the district sued to the State Supreme Court for more fair funding.....and they won. It was an experience of a lifetime and I'm glad I did it but three years was all I could muster. I could go on and on with the tragic stories of my 1st graders.
Yep! I had a 1st grader who lived with her great-grandmother (no English) because her mother and grandmother were off in Houston snorting spray paint from soda cans. She was the angriest child I've ever known. I think about her often. My para-professional had two missing front teeth due to her abusive husband and then she told me how he raped her with a beer bottle. I was 25 and completely unprepared for this! I also had a student who told me with the help of her friend that her uncle was raping her. I told the principal that I was going to report it as a mandated reporter. She told me she wouldn't support me. I did it anyway. A week or so later I saw the mother walking toward my classroom door and prayed. She thanked me profusely (not what I expected) because her 18yo brother was doing the same to two other nieces. Thank God I went forward with reporting it despite no help from my principal. It was a hellacious 3 years but I'm forever grateful to play some small part in those kids lives. It's weird to think that they'd be in their mid-40s now!
Agree completely: riots and looting are never appropriate, for any reason.
Housing is much cheaper in communities far from the big cities. But there are few to no jobs, medical facilities are few and far between, broadband is hard to find. Cheap housing comes with a cost.
Yes. Everything is a tradeoff, you just have to pick the things that mean the most to you and deal with the rest the best you can. It is as unrealistic for residents of a small country town to expect to have city-level services as it is for city dwellers to expect a nice house on an acre of land for 60k.
I'm open to ideas but leave the feds out of them. The COVID clown show we witnessed has convinced me completely that the government should have 0 to do with health care because they then use that power to coerce people as they do now and muzzle doctors.
In the late 'sixties, the estimable editor Jim Comstock wrote an opinion piece in The Hillbilly, one of the last two weekly (He called it "weakly") newspapers in the country. Paraphrasing: "To my friends the doctors, whom I hold in highest regard. Your government has a plan for you. It is called, "Medicare." It will make some of you rich. It will destroy your profession. Run from it as fast as your feet will carry you."
How prophetic. Retiring after forty years of medical practice, I now see precisely how that long thin wedge into medicine foretold its utter destruction. And its real victims? The patients themselves.
Egg costs in my expensive area are about $0.20 per egg. Thus a healthy meal of 2 eggs and a small amount of oil or butter can be had for $0.50. We do a terrible job of providing nutritional information and thus health services (healthy eating enhances health in general) here in the US.
Like any other service, medical care is subject to the same three factorsтАФ-cost vs. availability vs. quality. If you want cost to go down, the other two will be impacted. And that is what we are seeingтАФ-less availability, lower quality care. The problem with progressives is that they donтАЩt accept this dynamic. They want low cost AND high quality AND high availability. So how to achieve this? Make people have only one choice for health insuranceтАФObamacare, which now costs my husband $970/ mo in premiums and has a $7,000 deductible. He hardly uses healthcare, so he is being forced to pay for others to have тАЬaffordableтАЭ healthcare. They donтАЩt pay $970 in premiums. Some pay zero. For us, his Obamacare is our single biggest expense. Does that seem fair to you? Before Obamacare we had a joint policy for $380/mo with $3000/yr deductible. Obamacare has been a disaster for our budget. It is another tax, layered over all the other taxes we already pay.
I agree. The Unaffordable Care Act took my premiums from $150/month to $650/month for a worse policy.
ObamaтАЩs great lie of: тАЬIf you health insurance and like it, You can keep it.тАЭ Got a HUGE pass by the media as multitudes of millions of Americans had their policies canceled as being non-compliant.
Steven... and here we sit, after being sold on the idea "Insurance for those 30 million who are without", OK now what, since we still have 30 million Without Insurance".
I get your point but the answer is certainly not public housing, unless you want to live in the luxury that NYCHA offers. How rioting will address housing costs eludes me. Landlords have costs that one can't wish away.
For those who believe housing is a right to be provided or financed by the government, I present NYCHA. No sane person would want to live in housing which NYCHA manages.
I'm not sure which areas you're specifically referring to, but I taught in Edgewood ISD from 1985-88. I was from the north where they heavily recruited. We couldn't be at school one minute before or after the allotted times and all of our classroom windows faced the hallway. The playground consisted of fire ant hills and the district sued to the State Supreme Court for more fair funding.....and they won. It was an experience of a lifetime and I'm glad I did it but three years was all I could muster. I could go on and on with the tragic stories of my 1st graders.
Yep! I had a 1st grader who lived with her great-grandmother (no English) because her mother and grandmother were off in Houston snorting spray paint from soda cans. She was the angriest child I've ever known. I think about her often. My para-professional had two missing front teeth due to her abusive husband and then she told me how he raped her with a beer bottle. I was 25 and completely unprepared for this! I also had a student who told me with the help of her friend that her uncle was raping her. I told the principal that I was going to report it as a mandated reporter. She told me she wouldn't support me. I did it anyway. A week or so later I saw the mother walking toward my classroom door and prayed. She thanked me profusely (not what I expected) because her 18yo brother was doing the same to two other nieces. Thank God I went forward with reporting it despite no help from my principal. It was a hellacious 3 years but I'm forever grateful to play some small part in those kids lives. It's weird to think that they'd be in their mid-40s now!
Agree completely: riots and looting are never appropriate, for any reason.
Housing is much cheaper in communities far from the big cities. But there are few to no jobs, medical facilities are few and far between, broadband is hard to find. Cheap housing comes with a cost.
Yes. Everything is a tradeoff, you just have to pick the things that mean the most to you and deal with the rest the best you can. It is as unrealistic for residents of a small country town to expect to have city-level services as it is for city dwellers to expect a nice house on an acre of land for 60k.
I'm open to ideas but leave the feds out of them. The COVID clown show we witnessed has convinced me completely that the government should have 0 to do with health care because they then use that power to coerce people as they do now and muzzle doctors.
In the late 'sixties, the estimable editor Jim Comstock wrote an opinion piece in The Hillbilly, one of the last two weekly (He called it "weakly") newspapers in the country. Paraphrasing: "To my friends the doctors, whom I hold in highest regard. Your government has a plan for you. It is called, "Medicare." It will make some of you rich. It will destroy your profession. Run from it as fast as your feet will carry you."
How prophetic. Retiring after forty years of medical practice, I now see precisely how that long thin wedge into medicine foretold its utter destruction. And its real victims? The patients themselves.
That's why dentists and vets continue to successfully resist any such proposals in their own professions. They see what happened to doctors
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Every person NEED to eat almost every day. Every person does NOT need to see a doctor nearly every day.
Trying to equate health care to food is simply hyperbole and does not advance any discussion.
Egg costs in my expensive area are about $0.20 per egg. Thus a healthy meal of 2 eggs and a small amount of oil or butter can be had for $0.50. We do a terrible job of providing nutritional information and thus health services (healthy eating enhances health in general) here in the US.
Like any other service, medical care is subject to the same three factorsтАФ-cost vs. availability vs. quality. If you want cost to go down, the other two will be impacted. And that is what we are seeingтАФ-less availability, lower quality care. The problem with progressives is that they donтАЩt accept this dynamic. They want low cost AND high quality AND high availability. So how to achieve this? Make people have only one choice for health insuranceтАФObamacare, which now costs my husband $970/ mo in premiums and has a $7,000 deductible. He hardly uses healthcare, so he is being forced to pay for others to have тАЬaffordableтАЭ healthcare. They donтАЩt pay $970 in premiums. Some pay zero. For us, his Obamacare is our single biggest expense. Does that seem fair to you? Before Obamacare we had a joint policy for $380/mo with $3000/yr deductible. Obamacare has been a disaster for our budget. It is another tax, layered over all the other taxes we already pay.
I agree. The Unaffordable Care Act took my premiums from $150/month to $650/month for a worse policy.
ObamaтАЩs great lie of: тАЬIf you health insurance and like it, You can keep it.тАЭ Got a HUGE pass by the media as multitudes of millions of Americans had their policies canceled as being non-compliant.
Steven... and here we sit, after being sold on the idea "Insurance for those 30 million who are without", OK now what, since we still have 30 million Without Insurance".