Okay....as long as the education works for that person and they worked to get it....It shouldn't be your worry because it does not cost you shit.....if they want to wear it on a fking T-Shirt....their choice and nobody else's worry.....

you used the "as in" reference....I didn't so don't use it for me.....I hate that dishonest ass approach to dialogue.........say shit on behalf of someone else and then proceed conversationally as if the other person actually said/meant that. Dishonest

I'm good....if my money helps others so be it...I'll just work smarter to make more...I'm not selfish or punitive enough to be a be republican...plus their MODERN record on civil rights does not have the best interest or people who look like me in mind............

your Modus Operandi aka Method of Operation....as GEICO would say, "That's what you do"........

I don't imply or insinuate...that is for cowards. That is what people say on your behalf when they would have liked you to have said something that strengthens THEIR argument. I am a literal guy and that is the only way to accurately interpret what I say. I asked a question about car insurance and you answered it and I will read about it. I do that as an M.O.

I don't care who you are, you could be a Martian and I wouldn't care. I just know who you sound like. you can save the complex bullshit for blacks who believe what racists tell them about themselves. I'm done with the issue, I got mine, get yours since I can't tell people shit. I'm kool with that.......time will tell....all these agencies are not making shit up about the GOP bill...I'm sure many on the right want 24 million kicked off....it is their selfish punitive nature....want everything for themselves and not pay shit for anyone else even though others pay for them.......

I mentioned it first....what makes you think I haven't read about it as a originator of the comment? Can I buy a car policy in TX for a car in CA even if I never leave CA? How would you insure the 24 million at least s well as ObamaCare without gov't regulation in a equitable manner for all?

I'm kool....I posted a chronology for the naysayers who think I have to lie. Should have done that from day one when you people characterized me as a poor, uneducated, destitute black. I don't care but I posted it as a matter of principle to let the ones who make such characterizations see if they have done as much with their own lives before they try to demean the lives of others. I could give a shit less personally. I should have done that from the very beginning. I'm done with it now. We all live and learn.

Comey calls Clinton case letter ‘right’
FBI chief defends his decision to notify Congress 11 days before election about newfound emails.
JAMES COMEY says the notion he influenced the election makes him “mildly nauseous.” (Jim Watson AFP/Getty Images)
By Joseph Tanfani
WASHINGTON — FBI Director James B. Comey said Wednesday he has suffered anguish but does not regret his decision to inform Congress in late October that the bureau would reopen its inquiry into whether Hillary Clinton had mishandled classified emails, a disclosure that roiled the presidential race in its final days.
In his most detailed public comments on the explosive episode, the FBI director told the Senate Judiciary Committee that his decision to disclose the preliminary investigation into newly discovered Clinton emails 11 days before the election was “one of the world’s most painful experiences,” but that he would do it again.
“It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election, but honestly, it wouldn’t change the decision,” Comey said.
“I’ve gotten all kinds of rocks thrown at me, and this has been really hard, but I think I’ve done the right thing at every turn,” he added.
Comey testified a day after the unsuccessful Democratic presidential nominee said that she believed Comey’s unusual letter to Congress on Oct. 28 had essentially tilted the close race to her rival, Donald Trump.
“If the election had been on Oct. 27, I would be your president,” Clinton said in a CNN interview at a women’s conference in New York. She blamed her loss on Comey’s disclosure, Russian hacking of Democratic Party emails and her own flaws as a candidate.
In response, President Trump said on Twitter that Comey “was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!”
“The phony Trump/Russia story was an excuse used by the Democrats as justification for losing the election,” Trump tweeted.
Comey repeatedly rebuffed questions Wednesday about the ongoing FBI counterintelligence investigation into whether any of Trump’s current or former aides cooperated with Russian intelligence agencies during the presidential race.
Comey only disclosed that investigation to a House hearing in March and said it had begun last July, during the heat of the campaign. After the election, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia had deliberately sought to interfere in the race to aid Trump and to undermine Clinton.
On Wednesday, Comey said he did not think he was inconsistent last fall when he disclosed that the FBI had obtained new evidence that might lead it to reopen its investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of State — but did not disclose a separate FBI investigation into whether members of Trump’s inner circle colluded with a foreign intelligence service.
He said he only announced the Clinton email inquiry, which the FBI had code named Midyear Exam, when it was formally closed in July. He said he felt obliged to inform Congress in October when new Clinton emails were found in an unrelated investigation.
Comey sent a follow-up letter two days before the election to say the additional emails did not change his earlier conclusion that charges against Clinton were not warranted.
Comey’s many critics say his news conference in July — when he called Clinton’s handling of classified material “extremely careless” but said that she would not be charged — and then his disclosures to Congress at the end of a bitter national election campaign were improper since the FBI is not supposed to discuss cases unless charges are filed.
In January, the Justice Department’s inspector general said he would investigate whether Comey violated department guidelines in his handling of the case.
Comey said Wednesday that he welcomes the internal inquiry. “If I did something wrong, I want to hear that,” he said.
He specifically declined to say whether the White House is cooperating with the Russia investigation, or whether the FBI has sought to examine Trump’s tax returns for evidence of ties to Russia. Trump has refused to release his tax returns to the public.
The FBI chief said Russia is still interested in trying to affect U.S. politics, and he believes it “a certainty” that Moscow will try to influence the elections in 2018 and 2020.
In a detailed, at times emotional explanation of his actions, Comey laid out the sequence of events that he said led to his July 5 news conference, his Oct. 28 letter to Congress and a follow-up letter three days before the election.
Comey said he decided the Justice Department was too compromised in July to publicly explain why Clinton would not be charged without “grievous damage to the American people’s confidence in the justice system.”
A big reason, he said, was because Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch had met privately with former President Clinton in June in what both later described as a social visit because they were both at the same airport.
Under heavy criticism for meeting the former president while his wife was under an FBI investigation, Lynch recused herself from a direct role in the case. That gave Comey the authority to hold the politically sensitive news conference on his own, he said.
He said he sent the Oct. 28 letter after FBI agents found emails from Hillary Clinton on a laptop computer used by former Rep. Anthony Weiner, the husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and thought they might include what he called “golden missing emails” from Clinton’s first months at the State Department. The FBI had seized Weiner’s laptop in an investigation of sexual texts he had exchanged with a teenage girl.
Agents found evidence that Abedin had passed classified emails to Weiner, who would print out emails for her to read, Comey said. But no charges were filed because the FBI could not “prove any sort of criminal intent,” he said.
Comey said he and his top staff debated whether to go public, mindful of long-standing Justice Department policies that seek to avoid actions that could sway elections.
Breaking that policy would be “really bad,” Comey said. But he said the only other choice, “concealment,” would have been “catastrophic.”
“We’ve got to walk into the world of really bad,” he said he concluded. “We’ve got to tell Congress we are restarting this.”
He said he made the decision even though a deputy said that might help elect Trump. Comey said he couldn’t consider that when making the call.
“Down that path lies the death of the FBI as an independent institution in America,” he said.
joseph.tanfani @latimes.com
Twitter: @jtanfani

A case study in state-run health failures
California shows why the Republican plan to replace Obamacare with local programs may not work.
By Noam N. Levey
WASHINGTON — Richard Figueroa still shudders at the memory of the calls he fielded as enrollment director of California’s special health plan for sick patients who’d been rejected by insurers.
Desperate callers plead-ed to get off the waiting list as cancer or other illnesses worsened. Enrollees struggled to understand why the plan would not cover all the treatment they needed.
Most heart-wrenching were the quiet, polite calls from those who’d received a letter that a sick relative could finally get on the plan. “They would say, ‘Thank you, but you can give our slot to someone else, because my brother or my wife or my daughter has died,’” Figueroa recalled.
California’s high-risk pool — like similar overstretched state plans around the country — became obsolete when the Affordable Care Act established a new federal system to guarantee coverage to Americans even if they’re already sick.
Now President Trump and congressional Republicans are trying to shift responsibility for overseeing health protections back to states. This approach, including re-creating state high-risk pools, is a cornerstone of the healthcare bill that Republicans are laboring to get through the House this week.
GOP House leaders announced late Wednesday that they would hold a vote Thursday. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy predicted they have enough votes for passage, despite earlier struggles to win over moderates and conservatives.
California’s experience underscores the limitations of what states can do on their own.
The nation’s most-populous state tried repeatedly over the years to plug the many holes in its healthcare system. Yet even with a huge economy, extensive medical system and committed advocates, including in powerful industries, California came up short, again and again.
“We did all these things as stopgaps,” said Figueroa, who now works at the California Endowment, one of the state’s largest foundations. “None of it was enough.”
When President Obama signed the federal health law in 2010, nearly 20% of Californians — about 6 million people — lacked health coverage.
Today the state’s uninsured rate is below 9%, as California has used the federal funding and insurance rules enacted through the Affordable Care Act to extend health protections to hundreds of thousands of previously uncovered Californians.
“Once we had that framework and the federal funding, we were off to the races,” said Anthony Wright, the longtime head of Health Access California, one of the state’s leading consumer advocates. “But without it, it was very, very hard.... We have the experience to show that if health reform was easy at the state level, California would have done it. We couldn’t.”
The state’s healthcare struggles are hardly unique.
In the decades before Obamacare, some states — including Arizona, Washington, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota and New York — tried to expand health protections for their residents by bolstering safety net health programs or rewriting insurance rules to ensure sick customers could get coverage.
But most states — including many with the highest uninsured rates, such as Texas, Florida and Georgia — never undertook serious efforts to guarantee coverage.
And although there were some modest successes, mostly in expanding Medicaid coverage, nearly every state effort to guarantee coverage failed until Obamacare made such protections possible nationwide.
In fact, in the last two decades, only Massachusetts successfully crafted a healthcare overhaul that provided all of its residents with insurance protections . That 2006 initiative — which was heavily subsidized by the last Bush administration — became the model for Obamacare.
California officials labored for years to build their own system of health protections. The state long had among the highest uninsured rates, despite being a hub of healthcare innovation whose leading medical centers have been international destinations.
Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid safety net, was perpetually overburdened as it struggled to care for millions of poor Californians.
And insurance companies worked aggressively to exclude sick, costly customers, in many cases rescinding policies after customers got ill by alleging they had misrepresented their medical histories.
“The market was a disaster,” said Tom Epstein, a former senior executive at Blue Shield of California, one of the state’s leading insurers.
Among other things, California tried to make large employers provide health coverage to workers, though that effort was defeated in a statewide referendum just months after it was enacted.
The state adopted insurance rules to give consumers more power to challenge decisions by health plans, though state leaders were never able to make insurers cover all sick patients.
In 1991, the state set up the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program, commonly called “Mr. Mip,” a high-risk insurance pool to offer a lifeline to patients who’d been turned down for coverage on the commercial insurance market.
By the late ’90s, the plan, which was funded in part by premiums and in part by a voter-approved tobacco tax, was serving 22,000 people.
But as premiums soared because insuring sick patients was so expensive, the program became increasingly difficult to sustain. Enrollment was capped, as were benefits. The plan would cover only $75,000 of enrollees’ medical costs per year.
By 2010, when Obamacare was signed, the cost for a 50-year-old in the Sacramento area who wanted a PPO plan had soared to $878 a month.
“It was a nice little program for a few thousand people,” said Lucien Wulsin, former head of the Insure the Uninsured Project, a state advocacy group. “But we never got close to reaching the hundreds of thousands of Californians who needed help.”
Finally in 2007, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, launched a sweeping campaign to push through a major healthcare overhaul to extend coverage to millions of uninsured Californians.
The landmark effort, in which Schwarzenegger worked with Democrats in the state Assembly, picked up crucial support from hospitals, patient groups and even some insurers and leading businesses.
But the effort ultimately collapsed amid opposition from advocacy groups on the left and right, and questions about how the state could pay for extending health coverage.
“Engaging in comprehensive reform is not for the faint of heart,” said Kim Belshe, who served as state health secretary under Schwarzenegger. “You are talking about nearly 20% of the state’s economy. You are talking about issues that affect people in the most personal way. And you are dealing with the pocketbooks of a diverse array of healthcare providers, each of which have their own interests.”
Belshe and others credit that effort for helping set the stage for the state’s aggressive implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which Schwarzenegger and other state leaders enthusiastically embraced.
California has undertaken a massive expansion of its Medicaid program and runs an insurance marketplace — Covered California — that is widely seen as a national model . The state has recorded among the largest drops in its uninsured population, and though costs remain a challenge, most Californians can still shop among many health plans that are required by the state to offer lower out-of-pocket costs for some medical care than the federal standard.
Doctors, hospitals, insurers, patient advocates and elected officials worry that progress in California will be reversed if the federal law is rolled back and the state is once again left on its own.
Said Figueroa: “It’s so odd to think that we would even consider going back to the bad old days.”
noam.levey@latimes.com

I'm the one mentioned it..Tuskegee..didn't need you to re-hash it. I can't tell you people shit and I have no insurance issues. When people disagree with what I think, I don't argue...I just tell them what I am not buying into and good luck with their own thinking. Taking 24 million people off of healthcare, making the poor end elderly pay more and the rich pay less is the GOP way....unless one is rich, they have no reason being a republican, unless they are selfish. The racial and puritan politics is the reason poor people are republican. Good luck with that!!!

I'll give it to you fools one last day:


Don't have to lie to you or no motherfker.....being highly educated allows one to be highly independent because they have limitless options. That is what I had in mind at 18 once I went to engineering school and that is exactly how it worked out.....so fk you and your klan fear attempts....I'm about to retire and concentrate on teaching online for several universities and run my management consulting firm....unless I get to telecommute with my main career and have 3 careers online and never need to retire. I'll reach my goal of a greater 6 figure income than what I have now.


so yeah, since you're so preoccupied with thinking I have to lie to a psychotic uneducated apple, here is my chronology for you to spend your life trying to see it as a lie:

1979-1983: Electrical Engineering Degree
1981-83-3 Engineering Student Internships with Houston :Lighting and Power, Project Management, Systems Planning and Instrumentation and Control Divisions
1984-87:Naval Air Warfare Center-China Lake-Electronic Engineer and 80% of Masters completed-ages 23-26
1987(partial) to Jan 1988-Cape Canaveral: Radar Engineer and Ship Systems Engineer Training
1988: USNS Observation Island-Ship Systems Engineer
1988-1991- Space Shuttle Endeavour-Electronic Engineer
1990: Masters Degree
1991-Present: Municipal Advisory Organization (26 years)
1991-1996 Doctoral studies, completed Doctorate in 1996
1994:University 1: Professor -Masters of Organizational Management Program-IT for Management, taught in Doctoral Program also while student in it.
1999-2002-University 2-Professor-Masters of Public Admin Program
1996-Present-University 3-Professor-MBA Program, Online from 1997-present
2010-Consulting Business startup with dba only.

So there you have it, a illustrious career-now I'm just cruising trying to figure out what is next. Most likely teaching at numerous Universities simultaneously and consulting. I hope you think this is one big ass lie. Won't discuss it with you since you never answered shit and ran from it when offered the chance to do so. I'll just post this. By the way, I could give details of what was performed on each job. Wish I could lie this well. I would have skipped college....haha

Read my chronology and see what you didn't learn in prison-other ways people spend their time.

fk you...AL will tell you who the awards went to.........I'm not a criminal and I'm not at the mercy of no one for my existence..don't have to lie to you or no motherfker.....being highly educated allows one to be highly independent because they have limitless options. That is what I had in mind at 18 once I went to engineering school and that is exactly how it worked out.....so fk you and your klan fear attempts....I'm about to retire and concentrate on teaching online for several universities and run my management consulting firm....unless I get to telecommute with my main career and have 3 careers online and never need to retire. I'll reach my goal of a greater 6 figure income than what I have now.

You're just mad that you didn't know what the fk you're talking about with the Shuttle actually being moved out of the hangar as my black ass was about to be laid off.......your dumb ass don't even read what you post so busy trying to call me a lie....fking idiot!!!... I just got my Masters in 1990 and used it to change careers altogether and get accepted into my Doctoral program....both in 1991. Started my new career 1 month before my layoff date. That was one helluva strategic move wasn't it?

so yeah, since you're so preoccupied with thinking I have to lie to a psychotic uneducated cracka, here is my chronology for you to spend your life trying to see it as a lie. Share it with Al you fking liar:

1979-1983: Electrical Engineering Degree
1981-83-3 Engineering Student Internships with Houston :Lighting and Power, Project Management, Systems Planning and Instrumentation and Control Divisions
1984-87:Naval Air Warfare Center-China Lake-Electronic Engineer and 80% of Masters completed-ages 23-26
1987(partial) to Jan 1988-Cape Canaveral: Radar Engineer and Ship Systems Engineer Training
1988: USNS Observation Island-Ship Systems Engineer
1988-1991- Space Shuttle Endeavour-Electronic Engineer
1990: Masters Degree
1991-Present: Municipal Advisory Organization (26 years)
1991-1996 Doctoral studies, completed Doctorate in 1996
1994:University 1: Professor -Masters of Organizational Management Program-IT for Management, taught in Doctoral Program also while student in it.
1999-2002-University 2-Professor-Masters of Public Admin Program
1996-Present-University 3-Professor-MBA Program, Online from 1997-present
2010-Consulting Business startup with dba only.

So there you have it, a illustrious career-now I'm just cruising trying to figure out what is next. Most likely teaching at numerous Universities simultaneously and consulting. I hope you think this is one big ass lie. Won't discuss it with you since you never answered shit and ran from it when offered the chance to do so. I'll just post this. Show this to AL.he'll like it.

Read about the Tuskegee experiment and black people.....you're the naive one..........lots of people will die under the GOP plan....it hits red states the hardest.....1500 counties that are 90% trump voters will be hit the hardest......look it up and see what you don't know.....