“Average growth fell from 6.9% per year in 2000-2009 to 4.3% per year in 2010-2019 — the slowest sustained period since CMS began tracking in 1960.”
Obamacare did bend the curve despite constant efforts from Republicans to destroy the law.
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Republicans were like “wow, Hispanics turned out for Trump in record numbers!” and, as if recoiling at that, decided “what if we sent masked agents of the state into their communities to terrorize them?”
Always read @MichaelSWinters.
ncronline.org/opinion/whats-…
Bonkers
The WSJ lays out what keeping Gulf oil flowing actually involves:
-50,000 US troops, 20 Navy ships, two carriers across the region.
-$2–3 Billion USD/month or 67-100 Million USD/day above normal military spending
-Aircraft, warships and crews under mounting strain.
-Some US officials see the situation as untenable without more international help. Coalition efforts have failed.
wsj.com/politics/national-se…
The dumbest talking point re the ACA.
1999-2009 (pre-ACA): $5,809 to $13,375 = +130% in 10 years, 8.8% per year
2010-2024 (post-ACA): $13,770 to $25,572 = +86% in 14 years, 4.5% per year
It also doesn’t capture the millions who gained Medicaid or coverage on the exchanges.
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The factoid that '50% of marriages end in divorce' was kinda true decades ago.
But the divorce rate peaked in 1980.
Now, less than 40% of all marriages since 2000 end in divorce.
For college graduates, it's under 30%.
For college graduates who get married after age 25, and who don't have any kids before marriage, it's under 20%.
Anybody promoting the outdated, deceptive 50% rate has some kind of anti-marriage or anti-natalist agenda.
It scares young people away from getting married and having kids. That is their goal.
Financial reasons is one of the main factors in women seeking abortion so this tracks.
We need them all. I want a coalition big enough to include Eisenhower Republicans and FDR Democrats.
Rahm Emanuel writes in The Wall Street Journal that Democrats need McCain-Romney Republicans
“To make its impending victory last, my party should look to the center, not move further left.”
wsj.com/opinion/democrats-ne…
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so i asked @getnickwright about the goat debate and lebron’s place in it and he made perhaps the greatest point i’ve ever heard
