When I was still active on Facebook, I got into a #healthcare argument with someone who used to be a friend. While they moved around a lot and changed the subject more times than I can remember, one point in particular stuck with me. They called out that if we moved to a #SinglePayer system that this would put all those people from #UHC and #Anthem and all the other #insurance providers out of work.

Unemployment as a result of systemic change is likely inevitable but it being permanent is optional. People seem to forget that this too is the role of government. Retraining, job placement, whatever is needed to cushion the blow is the job of the government to provide. It’s not their job to hold us hostage and keep us bound to a broken system. It has become their job though because this is what happens when those same institutions pay to keep supporters in power and exist as for-profit entities.

I used to be an agency driver in Britain, driving different trucks almost every week.

Most of them were dirty and full of rubbish.

I work in Finland now. Today, after more than 3 months of sharing a truck with randomly allocated drivers, I found, for the first time, a piece of rubbish - somebody forgot to throw away his takeaway coffee cup.

I miss a lot of things about Britain, but their terrible litter problem is not one of them.

#britain #litter #HGV #trucking

La #CasaBianca conferma la visita di Biden in Papua Nuova Guinea

Il presidente statunitense vi farà tappa a fine maggio, tra il vertice del G7 in Giappone e il summit del Quad in Australia. Biden vuole rafforzare i rapporti tra Stati Uniti e i paesi del Pacifico, in funzione anticinese

#WhiteHouse confirms Biden's visit to Papua New Guinea

The US President will stop there at the end of May, between the G7 summit in Japan and the Quad Summit in Australia. Biden wants to strengthen relations between the US and the Pacific countries, in an anti-Chinese function

9-5-2023 19:37 #Domani https://www.editorialedomani.it https://www.editorialedomani.it/politica/mondo/la-casa-bianca-conferma-la-visita-di-biden-in-papua-nuova-guinea-yhgakdzn

A quick history lesson. From 1940-1980:
•Wealthiest paid 70-94% marginal tax
•0 of them went broke from taxation
•0 of them left USA
•All remained exceedingly wealthy
•Manufacturing boomed
•The middle class was 62% of US economy (It's now 40% post 'trickle down scamenomics)
•We had the strongest middle class growth in US History

Let's do that again. Stop protecting billionaires. Start taxing them.
#TaxBillionaires

Bed Bath & Beyond has filed for bankruptcy shortly after spending $1B in stock buybacks & cash payments to shareholders. Employees of 20 years got 0 notice & $0 severance.

It wasn't inflation. It wasn't labor cost. It is 100% corporate greed.

Tax billionaires. Unionize workers. Protect our economy.

I don't usually go for conspiracy theories. But sometimes my mind drifts, especially when I think about who funded Musk's Twitter takeover.

I wonder: Would these people have paid billions for a third-tier social network? Or would they have paid billions to poison the watering hole where journalists and activists worldwide gather?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-funders/