Don’t forget the amusement park right next to the waste disposal facility.

Which congress person were referencing is irrelevant to the initial point.

The obviously implication is that I meant “that, working in congress”… I didn’t mean exactly you in your current life situation.

Sure… If you exclude her husband, but theres only one reason you would do that…

The money isn’t that great, that by itself doesn’t explain anything; your chances of being the next Nancy Polosy is about 0%.

I’d like to think that if I was in their situation that I wouldn’t be in that 70%.

If I was in a situation where I could screw everyone behind me, but make the county better in the process I’d do it in a heartbeat.

Oof, so you think that greater than 70% of the people in congress care more about their take home pay than the success of the country they represent?

It’s hilarious that even with all of that going on, there’s still not a single issue that the two parties can agree on and implement.

Term limits? Profiting from your position/insider trading?

Both popular issues with both parties, but absolutely zero attempt from either side to implement them.

It’s my boot.

It tastes like your tears.

Good job, now you too can be implicated in a conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement at your court hearing.

Do you need a permit to stalk and obstruct a law enforcement agency?

How many of the above listed rights disappear when you’re involved in a conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement?

However the biggest difference between those health systems still seems to be how providers bargain for lower prices.

I disagree, that would be true if they were selling televisions or something, if you don’t like the price buy a different brand; but this isn’t possible on exclusive drugs. Hospitals have zero room negotiate by shopping around on a patented medication. Their literal only trick to lower prices is by government legislation.

Pharma companies can set the prices to whatever they want because they have government protected monopolies over their products.

True, it’s about what you value.

And if you don’t care about privacy or punishing google for some reason or another, then there is nothing empowering about switching services.

Okay, let me empower you with living on Mars in a small shack that’s temperature controlled with oxygen

Wow so much privacy… you’re so empowered now.

Tell me what motivated you to go through that?

No offence but comments like yours serve no purpose other than to impede non-tech-savvy people’s digital empowerment.

I would argue that empowerment is more associated with capability rather than privacy or social justice (Whatever reason people are protesting Google); and having an all in one stop is incredibly convenient, and thus capable.

A pair of safety goggles that seal well against your eyes will help you a ton against tear gas. You’re still going to have breathing issues but you’ll avoid the eye pain.

I used this trick when I needed to cut lots of onions.

Gas masks just aren’t practical for large crowds due to the expense/training required. You’re looking at $150 new, filters being about $40+ new. Sure you can get surplus for cheaper if you can find it, but most people can’t, not enough to go around.

Also filters should be replaced after being esposed to chemicals they’re designed to protect against. You probably could get away with using tear filters exposed to year gas.

This is like switching from Walmart to 15 other stores just to buy the same stuff. It’s going to be extremely difficult to convince anyone to make this jump.

It’s a actually harder because whoops, three years later you try to log into a service and it asks for a verification code sent to your Gmail address that you no longer have access to, oh well.

High prices are due to government regulation.

The consumer is saved by the government from problems caused by government regulation.

The consumer thanks for government for saving them from the problem the government created.