The Beast

Is this cause for concern? http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-stock-market-falls-20181010-story.html

My brother is a PT. Too bad I wasn’t on the normal science/math track in high school since I might have enjoyed Anatomy and Physiology and perhaps Physics. I didn’t care much for Chemistry (I got a C when I took it) and I don’t remember Biology. Not sure how much chemistry is needed in a PT program but doing a job where you can be on your feet all day and help people sure sounds good! I’ve got responsibilities now with a house and wife, but maybe when my job gets automated or if I fail at Data Science maybe I will check out Health Care careers again.

It was useful, if I actually liked literature and not just newspapers.

Just curious, did you have great math skills growing up and just majored in journalism? I decided against journalism for fear that I wouldn’t get a good job and because I could still write as a business major. I would be curious to hear what you would have done otherwise knowing what you know know then and would be curious about what you and others think about your last sentence.

Yeah, I can’t buy that either. I originally went to school to be a high school English teacher and wound up with a business degree and work in insurance. Before all of my responsibilities happened, I wish I would have become something useful, like a Physical Therapist or a Nurse.

McConnell’s action in 2016 is mostly was is upsetting to me about the whole thing, in addition to the limited FBI investigation. I do wish to know what the constitution actually says about the senate’s obligation to confirm Supreme Court Justices though. That has been hard for me to find online.

What is the likelihood that the changes you have suggested would occur? Would a constitutional amendment need to be voted on to change the lifelong sentences?

He at least was the wildcard. I don’t see Bart as the wildcard now, he’s reliably conservative. I’d love to see Roberts be the median vote but I will beliebe it when I see it. Hopefully the democrats win the presidency in 2020 so they can let the older justices retire and get replaced with younger justices. I’m not counting on it though. And I don’t know that these lifetime appointments are fair, either.

I hate doing it since I have obligations but sometimes you have to do things like canvass to try and change things. I hope his base shrinks significantly going forward, in particular the voters who aren’t the ones that attend his rallies.

How will Kavanaugh be the swing vote like Kennedy was? If you mean he is the ninth vote, okay, but if you mean he is a moderate like Kennedy was, I don’t see it.

Reviewing her record, she was probably going to be a yes all along. It’s too bad Murkowski couldn’t get her to vote with her and it’s too bad they couldn’t wait until tomorrow to just vote then. I’m concerned for women’s rights if Roe v Wade gets overturned. I’m also concerned about how the court will rule if Trump is impeached (I think they have a hand in it?) and I worry about the balance of the court with the liberal justices aging. It’s not necessarily fair that the courts are stacked with Trump nominees now, but that’s why the democrats need to win in 2020. I’m sick of the shit republicans have pulled since Trump got elected and can’t believe McConnell’s gambit in 2016 actually worked. The pendulum has to swing back to balance things.

She has to be gone if she votes yes. It would be awesome if she just announced “no” today. Then they would have to get Manchin on board. But the GOP are spineless, want their outrageous congressional salaries and pensions and there are no term limits to stop them. Collins can’t seriously believe that Kavanaugh would uphold a woman’s right to choose, would she?

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-rally-minnesota-october-2018/h_5ed677700957726c3147d5ebe726b690 What a fucking liar. That sack of crap is so full of it, any educated voter knows what the democrats stand for. His supporters eat this up but I hope the rest of the American public doesn’t.

I wish the redistricting would be done by an independent commission, something my moderate state representative (David Olsen) is proposing. I’m just talking about what will happen if the unpaid liabilities hit the fan and they need to cover them somehow, hence the property tax increase. Unless I am wrong and the general assembly would cut services or raise income taxes first.

Both options are garbage and make me cringe. I don’t know what I will do if property taxes go through the roof and I can’t pay my mortgage.

I can’t trust that Pritzker would do this. I can’t trust Rauner either, but it is more likely that a republican would say this as opposed to someone like Pritzker. And SS2K5, I just read what your property taxes were and my stomach dropped as a new homeowner in the northwest suburbs.

Beware Jeanne Ives in 2022 then. I’d take Rauner over her any day of the week.

Mitch McConnell is a despicable human being. First for Garland and now for his pre-emptive “we will vote this week” garbage. He’s a partisan sack of crap. Unless Kavanaugh lied and the FBI found something, he will get confirmed. Hopefully voters boot out some GOP in the senate in 2020 and 2022 in case 2018 is already a lost cause.

I bet they all will vote yes, unfortunately.

Can someone with a finance background explain this to me? Is this really an issue or is this just business? https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/casten-shades-truth-story-about-business-meltdown

So it has to go to the DOJ first before congress? If the DOJ didn’t release it you would have to think the administration would lose the 2020 election.

So they either halt the investigation or Mueller releases something soon? Hopefully he gets to finish his investigation.

Exactly. They are their own issue and need to pay into the pensions. And it is definitely a whole different issue, they are going to suffer consequences from all of the borrowing they are doing someday and won’t have enough Cook County taxpayers to fund their problem, unless it is a whole statewide issue.

If Madigan was out, there’s at least a chance that the person getting in could work with the governor (whoever that is) to fix problems. Then, if they don’t want to fix the financial issues, they will be voted out. Term limits wouldn’t hurt either party, as would independently drawn maps to eliminate gerrymandering. I would vote for Rauner to try and get a change to the pension system as opposed to Pritzker who may never address it. You are right that we can’t worry about a future election and given Trump’s and Pence’s “popularity,” Ives would probably lose. I suppose you’re on to something about a bad budget rather than no budget. I wish we could have a balanced budget where services could be provided, taxes could be reasonable and we aren’t overspending, but it might be a pipe dream. i would like to see Madigan work with Rauner but that might also be a pipe dream. We will see what happens, Pritzker will probably win anyway. At least you and I agree on rich assholes taking over executive branch roles!

I didn’t know the last budget was that way but I also don’t like how the constitution is written. I don’t think people need to be taken advantage of, but I also don’t think people need to live on such high salaries in retirement since they should be cutting back. I’m not saying the solutions I am proposing are perfect, but eventually we will not have a choice and will need solutions instead of just partisan bickering.