Ken Block on his Huffy...

I miss Murilee Martin's old car features and junkyard stories along with his never ending projects. It bought personality and a relatable element to this site that doesn't exist anymore. Its acknowledged the core of what I think car guys understand, that machines can have a personality based on what we instill in them.

Thats what alot of the buff book mags do all the time though, they take the new *make/model* across the *geographic/area* and stop at the *random touristy place* while talking about vehicular attributes. Its a good review method, its just pretty common.

In basic economics competition is the force that lowers prices. Right now healthcare companies cant compete over state lines to offer coverage for fear of increased regulations by the government. Just that alone would lower prices because you could cross shop health companies and have real options. The government…

I think it might have had something to do with the fornication of constables. I'm not entirely sure though...

Seconded and heartclicked.

I think college should be more affordable in the first place by getting rid of alot of the bureaucratic overhead and allocating the money better, thats the first problem. I think student loans should be set up so that people can actually pay them off instead of paying a never ending landslide of interest payments,…

You raise some very good points, very logical arguments, kudos and heartclicks to you. I think student loans should be much more reasonable too, the interest rates are ridiculous and I know people who are still making payments on student loans from the 80s they never paid off and they didn't even finish college. They…

Well no actually they will strike it down because its unconstitutional. There is nothing in the constitution that construes healthcare as a service to be handled by the government, and there is nothing in the constitution that can be construed to endorse requiring people to purchase a service...

I agree, think of the taxes. The economy is already shit and instead of meaningful reforms to the healthcare system, we are stuck with hamfisted pork filled government intervention over private sector reforms that will actually lower the price of healthcare.

If the government paid for it the healthcare bills would come out of taxes instead of direct healthcare bills. Same difference. Liberals are preventing people from being rich by taxing the private sector that generates 96% of the jobs in this country.

Who cares what their major is? They agreed to the loans and if some people actually have to pay for the responsibilities they agreed too, shouldn't everyone have to pay? Why do people who quit paying their mortgages get loan assistance and refinance programs when people who pay on time every month don't. Paying for…

Republicans want to open it up for healthcare companies to compete across state lines and get rid of anti competitive regulations protecting insurance companies over humans. Republicans aren't against healthcare, they just want to find a way to make it affordable. A 2 trillion dollar program is not the solution.

Wait, so how do we tackle the national debt again? By increasing the budget deficit with the ACA? That makes complete sense!

Heartclick. This is precisely it. And its a balance between idealism and pragmatism, what would work in a perfect society is not always what works here. It always comes down to who actually pays for the programs.

Its like throwing a sausage down a hallway!

No, they have a problem with the objectification of people.

*slow clap* your futile attempts at condescension are adorable.

Did you watch the documentary I spoke of a few posts up? The one that talks about places like New Jersey that spend the highest in the nation on education and yet has some of the highest dropout rates and lowest test scores.

Perhaps they are looking at longevity and they aren't sold on twin turbos? Maybe fogeys trust a V8 for long term reliability over some newfangled nonsense?