I’m sorry you are scared of trans people. :(

Not at all important. The president makes a decision that essentially removes approximately 2500 soldiers from being able to serve in the military, and bars others from joining, and this is not important?

You believe the removal of LGBT rights aren’t an important issue? Ok then. That’s cool.

I wouldn’t. If I was an Uber driver a person being negligent and not keeping track of their own belongings is wasting my time and is inconveniencing me to return their item(s) both time-wise and monetarily speaking. If a driver has to return someone’s items that’s time wasted that they could have otherwise used to…

Oh I see what you’re saying: Things were a lot better before the evil, nasty ole’ gubbermint got involved. Yes... back in good ole’ 1910 when anyone, and especially the poor and underprivileged were often not given any treatment whatsoever.

Oh, by all means, do be pedantic about 94.6 miles for the sake of acting superior to poor people. Jolly good, old chap.

I would question your lack of “natural talent”: you either have some innate analytical ability or your Eng. degree didn’t include multivariable calculus, dynamics and/or linear algebra. This is anecdotal, of course, but I don’t know any P. Eng that didn’t gravitate to or have some level of “mathematical thinking”.…

Yes life expectancy has increased, and no doubt costs have increased as a result. But profits have also soared as hospitals and medical conglomerates look to maximize shareholder values. But what you are overlooking, if what you say is true, then lower cost of health care in other countries should result is lower life…

... I’ll gladly pay for the healthcare of my fellow Citizen, when I can also prevent them from drinking alcoholic beverages, smoking, having unprotected sex, driving dangerously or carelessly... see where this is going?

Show me a industry desperate for workers, and I’ll show you an industry who isn’t willing to pay for them. It’s like the trucking industry. They constantly complain about workers, but they pay very little, and it’s by mileage. Someone else pointed out they need local drivers - ha. You don’t get paid much sitting in…

I have a “normal” 9-5 office job. I don’t feel like the “free” market works at all. People who already own all of the wealth get to decide how I dress, what hours I work, what money I get paid, and what healthcare I have access to. I am “free” to go to the next employer who will do those same things, or I am “free” to…

I know where one can get the training, my point is the affordability of getting trained (and trained well) and certified, and all of the other hidden costs that mechanics incur (eg- tools and toolboxes, which employers don’t provide, and which can cost thousands of dollars to get fully kitted out).

I make a lot of money, too. Before taxes, Social Security, Out of Pocket costs for benefits, and retirement.

Holy crap. Someone who’s been looking at this from the same perspective I have been. This whole debate is framed around the an answer to the wrong question. They keep trying to answer “how do we get everybody insured”... but that is the wrong question.

Your employer is subsidizing the vast majority of your insurance, then.

I’m sorry, I didn’t realize when you say that it isn’t the most cost effective solution that pointing out that per capita the US spends more on healthcare than similarly developed countries was a narrow minded conclusion. Certainly not as narrow minded as saying that single payer is not a cost effective solution…

Please, do enlighten us: what, exactly, is a “real job?”

If you’re unwilling to persue training to expand your career prospects, you should stick to driving Uber.

And what do you consider a real job? These people provide a service and we pay them for it. Sounds like a job to me.

I know one guy that’s happy about this