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Hundreds fired at NOAA, Weather Service. Here’s what that means for Americans and economy.
You’re not old enough to remember how much colder and snowier winters were in the 50s 60s and 70s? Seriously ? Lots and lots of data on that, some of it just recently. Do you recall all the huge West Coast fires, the scale and scope and temperatures and intensity, from back then ? really? Staff firable because fired, or is it fired because firable? This would be comical if not so stupid. Jesus. You can’t even track the temperature rise over 2+ centuries.
Equivocate away in ignorance, you two. Go talk to the insurance industry.
NOAA's specialized workforce provides products and services that support more than a third of the nation's GDP. But in MAGA narrative, our country will be "saved" by cutting 50% of the 12,000 NOAA workers. Approx. $600M per year in Comp savings....in the scheme of things, a veritable drop in the bucket.
JD wrote: "$600M per year in Comp savings......in the scheme of things, a veritable drop in the bucket."
To paraphrase an old Senator of many years ago, $600M here -- $600M there and before long you are talking about real money.
Well @hondo, I hope that you don't live in Hondo, Texas. The folks there are very worried that cuts in Medicaid will close down their only local hospital, leaving them with almost no local medical care facilities. Before long you are talking about real problems for taxpayers.
Potential Medicaid cuts could devastate America’s teetering rural health-care system
HONDO, Tex. — Jaylee Williams needed to find somewhere to deliver her son. The 19-year-old knew little about the complicated metrics of who takes what health insurance. But relief for Williams came when they realized Medina Regional Hospital — just 15 minutes from their home — accepted Medicaid, the federal-state program that covers medical costs for lower-income Americans. Provider groups an hour away in San Antonio had refused to take the insurance.
But the lifeline that the 25-bed critical-access hospital offered to Williams could disappear in Hondo and other communities like it. Rural hospitals across the United States fear that massive Medicaid cuts Republicans would have to consider under the current House budget proposal could decimate maternity services or shutter already struggling medical facilities in communities that overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump.
Nearly half of all rural hospitals nationwide operate at a deficit, with Medicaid barely keeping them afloat. Already, almost 200 rural hospitals have closed in the past two decades, according to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Rural hospital leaders in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas who spoke to The Washington Post warned that the enormous cuts congressional Republicans are weighing could further destroy limited health-care access in rural America. Proposals to slash up to $880 billion over 10 years — which is expected to be accomplished largely by scaling back on Medicaid — would also affect those who do not rely on the program but do rely on the medical facilities that are financially dependent on the program’s reimbursements.
People who have had no experience with a government agency or worked there and who claim there is massive fraud and abuse in Government have absolutely no idea of what they are talking about.
The facts about the VA, for example are indisputable. It provides pretty decent medical care at a much lower price than the rest of the US Health System. I worked there for ten years. There are crazy rules, and some employees take advantage of the fixed hours etc, but sending those patients to the US private health system would cost far far more money, and there is really no room for them.
Their medical problems with TBI, Burn Pits, PTSD and years of drug and cigarette abuse make them far far sicker than the average American. There are NO primary Care docs left anymore, so "privatizing" the VA will drive their care into numerous specialists who will charge an arm and a leg.
I have a good friend in Western Massachusetts who says his neighbors, who are all veterans and who depend on the VA for health care are abandoning their support for Trump because while he promised during the election to support the VA he is cutting 80,000 jobs.
These cuts are not useless clerks and "deep state" conspirators. They are cancer researchers who can't run their trials, secretaries who make appointments, doctors and social workers.
What are the investment implications? Buy health care stocks, but not hospitals who will go broke. The Dollar and the wildly over valued US market are going down, as chaos is not good for predictions of the future.
sure, but mercy or anything like it is not the point, not when cruelty explicitly is, making public sector workers wake in fear and revulsion each morning, libtard tears etc etc
by which I mean thinking along those lines and making the personal moral or humane argument is useless --- time for much more hardheadedness, so as not to give the sadists the satisfaction, among other things
"Rural hospitals across the United States fear that massive Medicaid cuts Republicans would have to consider under the current House budget proposal could decimate maternity services or shutter already struggling medical facilities in communities that overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump."
Yeah, his loyalists in the heartland will be taking it every which way. At some point, some of them might even figure out that he is nothing more than a con man. Stubborn, stupid and poor - these traits go together.
You really cannot believe this is rational. Time to sell airline stocks too.
Anyone who supports these cuts needs to do a deep dive into the mechanics and demonstrate how the employees who are dismissed are really worthless freeloaders.
There was an article a week ago demonstrating among the people fired was the only locksmith at Yosemite National Park.
Now if you are locked out of your room ( or locked in the bathroom) too bad!
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You’re not old enough to remember how much colder and snowier winters were in the 50s 60s and 70s? Seriously ? Lots and lots of data on that, some of it just recently. Do you recall all the huge West Coast fires, the scale and scope and temperatures and intensity, from back then ? really? Staff firable because fired, or is it fired because firable? This would be comical if not so stupid. Jesus. You can’t even track the temperature rise over 2+ centuries.
Equivocate away in ignorance, you two. Go talk to the insurance industry.
Potential Medicaid cuts could devastate America’s teetering rural health-care system Above are edited excerpts from a current report in The Washington Post.
People who have had no experience with a government agency or worked there and who claim there is massive fraud and abuse in Government have absolutely no idea of what they are talking about.
The facts about the VA, for example are indisputable. It provides pretty decent medical care at a much lower price than the rest of the US Health System. I worked there for ten years. There are crazy rules, and some employees take advantage of the fixed hours etc, but sending those patients to the US private health system would cost far far more money, and there is really no room for them.
Their medical problems with TBI, Burn Pits, PTSD and years of drug and cigarette abuse make them far far sicker than the average American. There are NO primary Care docs left anymore, so "privatizing" the VA will drive their care into numerous specialists who will charge an arm and a leg.
I have a good friend in Western Massachusetts who says his neighbors, who are all veterans and who depend on the VA for health care are abandoning their support for Trump because while he promised during the election to support the VA he is cutting 80,000 jobs.
These cuts are not useless clerks and "deep state" conspirators. They are cancer researchers who can't run their trials, secretaries who make appointments, doctors and social workers.
What are the investment implications? Buy health care stocks, but not hospitals who will go broke. The Dollar and the wildly over valued US market are going down, as chaos is not good for predictions of the future.
by which I mean thinking along those lines and making the personal moral or humane argument is useless --- time for much more hardheadedness, so as not to give the sadists the satisfaction, among other things
I mean, check this sick shit out:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-federal-layoffs-c41ae32800a7f170484de79572543da2
a bad time now
Yeah, his loyalists in the heartland will be taking it every which way. At some point, some of them might even figure out that he is nothing more than a con man. Stubborn, stupid and poor - these traits go together.
You really cannot believe this is rational. Time to sell airline stocks too.
Anyone who supports these cuts needs to do a deep dive into the mechanics and demonstrate how the employees who are dismissed are really worthless freeloaders.
There was an article a week ago demonstrating among the people fired was the only locksmith at Yosemite National Park.
Now if you are locked out of your room ( or locked in the bathroom) too bad!