The Hypocrisy of the NFL
This commercial is no longer being aired. Why? The NFL didn’t take too kindly to it being played during a Monday Night Football game so it told Toyota they would no longer air it. As a result, the car company was forced to edit the short clip of the two helmets hitting each other. In the NFL’s mind this would make the viewer not think about the NFL’s concussion issue.
The NFL claims they care about the health of it’s players. They have made new rules about concussions and helmet to helmet hits. In my opinion they started doing this because they want an 18 game regular season and they need new rules so players can compete in a longer year. They don’t care about the players, they care about money. If they gave a shit, they wouldn’t move to censor a TV ad that shows a company trying to come up with new ways to protect athletes.
The point of the ad was to show Toyota working with researchers to help them make a safer helmet. But the NFL only cares about money. They don’t want their advertisers making them look bad by finding better ways to stop brain injuries.
[Unhappy NFL prods Toyota to edit TV ad]
I never understood interventions. What’s the point of being told you drink too much from a room full of reasons why you drink in the first place?
Posted: January 19, 2011 at 7:59 pm | by Ryan
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Political Grand Standing
The Republican controlled House of Representatives voted to repeal the Obama Health Care Bill (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) Wednesday. The Bill which is called, the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act” passed 245-189.
What we have here folks is political grand standing. This legislation will not pass the Senate and the Republicans know this. What’s even more pathetic is Republicans didn’t present an alternative to replace the Health Care Bill. The GOP tried to twist the words of the Congressional Budget Office, by saying the Health Care Bill would kill 650,000 jobs. The CBO came out and said this was not true, but the GOP leaders still moved on with their blatant lies.
Time flows like a river and history repeats.
Barack Obama’s Health Care Bill is good for this country. It’s afforable, helps small businesses obtain it, stops health care companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, ends lifetime caps on coverage and allows families to keep children on their policies until age 26.
Sounds good to me.
[House votes to repeal health care law against long odds]
[The truth about the Health Care Law]
I never understood interventions. What’s the point of being told you drink too much from a room full of reasons why you drink in the first place?
Posted: January 19, 2011 at 7:11 pm | by Ryan
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The truth about the Health Care Law
GOP House leaders are now claiming the Congressional Budget Office has said the Health Care law will kill around 650,000 jobs. Some people just love to distort numbers. The CBO never said that.
What CBO actually said is the impact of Barack Obama’s health care law on supply and demand for labor would be minuscule. A great deal of it would come from people who no longer need to work, or can switch to less demanding forms of employment, because insurance will be available outside that job.
“The legislation, on net, will reduce the amount of labor used in the economy by a small amount, roughly half a percent primarily by reducing the amount of labor that workers choose to supply.” – CBO
Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio and other top Republicans, chose to twist reality and say the CBO “has determined that the law will reduce the ‘amount of labor used in the economy by roughly half a percent.,’ an estimate that adds up to roughly 650,000 jobs lost.”
So basically Boehner and other GOP leaders deleted the fact that the impact would be small, and added the lie of 650,000 jobs would be lost.
From the Associated Press…
The Republican translation doesn’t track, said economist Paul Fronstin of the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute. “People voluntarily working less isn’t the same as employers cutting jobs,” he explained.
For example, CBO said some people might decide to retire earlier because it would be easier to get health care, instead of waiting until they become eligible for Medicare at age 65.
The law “reduces the amount of labor supplied, but it’s not reducing the ability of people to find jobs, which is what the job-killing slogan is intended to convey,” said economist Paul Van de Water of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The center advocates for low-income people, and supports the health care law.
In theory, any legislation that increases costs for employers can lead to job loss. But with the health care law, companies can also decide to pass on added costs to their workers, as some have already done this year.
To put things in perspective, there are currently about 131 million jobs in the economy. CBO projects that unemployment will be significantly lower in 2014, when the law’s major coverage expansion starts.
Some Republicans will stoop to any level. But I expect nothing less from a group of people that claim they are concerned about unemployment in America while supporting legislation and regulations which encourage corporations to ship jobs out of the United States. Oh, and if the Democrats try to keep jobs here, they’re socialists. What a joke.
[FACT CHECK: Shaky health care job loss estimate]
I never understood interventions. What’s the point of being told you drink too much from a room full of reasons why you drink in the first place?
Posted: January 18, 2011 at 7:25 pm | by Ryan
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