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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #120 on: April 12, 2013, 07:43:28 AM »
1 kronor = $0.15 Australian dollar.
100 000 kronors equal about what I paid in taxes last year. Tax is a bastard but a necessary evil.
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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #121 on: April 12, 2013, 07:44:17 AM »
Ah OK. Misread. Tax sucks.
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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #122 on: April 15, 2013, 12:19:53 PM »
Disability...*sigh*

Some people I know who are on it, have health problems because of poor decisions (drug abuse, addiction, over eating, etc). Taxes ought to go towards prevention...which [according to a recent seminar] involves:

*Public health campaigns more effective than fastfood campaigns
*Urban development which involved sidewalks, parks, and playgrounds to encourage safe activity
*General health practitioner policy changes which gives docs more time with patients (better quality healthcare)
*Proper food labeling in restaurants
*Lowering prices for healthy options, while increasing prices for unhealthy options
*Better access to health clinics and grocery stores in rural, as well as low-income urban environments

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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #123 on: April 15, 2013, 03:53:50 PM »
Life becomes a culmination of he choices we've made....and some luck.

What are we to do with those that made poor choices.  Let them suffer?
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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #124 on: April 15, 2013, 03:59:55 PM »
Life becomes a culmination of he choices we've made....and some luck.

What are we to do with those that made poor choices.  Let them suffer?

Obviously not, because if we did, chances are the next generation will just make worse decisions (continue the cycle)...we'll slip into a downward slope of bad choices on greater and great scales...

That's why we have to figure out why bad choices are made, and do something to facilitate better choices. Sometimes, all that is required is the opportunity to exercise good judgement.

But that's easier said than explained, and easier explained than implemented.




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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #125 on: April 15, 2013, 04:02:31 PM »
Communist China can handle these problems more efficiently.
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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #126 on: April 15, 2013, 04:12:21 PM »
Communist China can handle these problems more efficiently.

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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #127 on: April 15, 2013, 05:49:49 PM »
It's true.
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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #128 on: April 16, 2013, 06:58:03 AM »
Life becomes a culmination of he choices we've made....and some luck.

What are we to do with those that made poor choices.  Let them suffer?

Yeah, actually. In a free society, people should benefit from both the positive and negative consequences of their actions. Its called being an adult and facing the music when you fuck things up.
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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #129 on: April 16, 2013, 07:36:20 AM »
Life becomes a culmination of he choices we've made....and some luck.

What are we to do with those that made poor choices.  Let them suffer?

Yeah, actually. In a free society, people should benefit from both the positive and negative consequences of their actions. Its called being an adult and facing the music when you fuck things up.
exactly. 
I just love how in America we allowed too big to fail walstreet go bankrupt....oh wait, that didn't happen.
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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #130 on: April 16, 2013, 09:23:17 AM »
Life becomes a culmination of he choices we've made....and some luck.

What are we to do with those that made poor choices.  Let them suffer?

Yeah, actually. In a free society, people should benefit from both the positive and negative consequences of their actions. Its called being an adult and facing the music when you fuck things up.
exactly. 
I just love how in America we allowed too big to fail walstreet go bankrupt....oh wait, that didn't happen.

QUIT MAKING SHIT UP, YOU RABBLEROUSER! WHERES MY FUCKING LAWYER?

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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #131 on: April 16, 2013, 09:37:45 AM »
  The guy in that picture ^ has a  really  crooked lower tooth.  :orly:
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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #132 on: April 16, 2013, 11:53:31 AM »
  The guy in that picture ^ has a  really  crooked lower tooth.  :orly:

LOL!

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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #133 on: April 16, 2013, 01:09:31 PM »
  The guy in that picture ^ has a  really  crooked lower tooth.  :orly:
its a brittish thang.
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Re: "Unfit fot work- The startling rise of disability in America"
« Reply #134 on: April 16, 2013, 02:01:11 PM »
  The guy in that picture ^ has a  really  crooked lower tooth.  :orly:
its a brittish thang.

I remember watching something on BBC once, and my father and I were laughing at their teeth.
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