DOGE

[Pat Hartman]

The Fed saved the world in 2008.

Deflection. Come on, let's hear it. Tell us who really controls the Fed since it isn't the government

Good reason for musk to get rid of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, right?

This is Elizabeth Warren's baby and is not controlled by the Executive Branch as it should be. It also doesn't actually help the consumer. Typical name for a bogus Democrat "solution" that does the opposite of what you would assume given it's name. It protects the big banks who are trying to screw the public. Have fees gone down? Have CC interest rates gone down? Have terms for medical debt gotten fairer for consumers? NO, Hospitals bill the uninsured $5,000!!!!!!!!!!!! each for an MRI that you can get at the local imaging center for < $500. That isn't protection.

 

[Mike Krailo]

Usually I am asked "press #1 for English" only to be transferred to someone from India

Never had that happen before.

Which is why I love live chat if available. If that's not available, then your screwed.

 

[Isaac]

The idea of just forcibly telling companies that defaulted medical debt can no longer affect their credit score is essentially decimating the collection industry and causing rates to go even higher for hospitals and other debt buyers to account for it

 

[Isaac]

Never had that happen before.

Which is why I love live chat if available. If that's not available, then your screwed.

I found myself totally frustrated by live chat because they always offer it and they aggressively push it so hard as an option, but as soon as you start chatting with someone it seems like they are empowered to do absolutely nothing and I always ended up getting told to call customer service anyway

Then 90% of the chat bots are bots only and not people and all they can do is refer you to the FAQ or some other help article, and out of the other 10%. They're unattended half the time

 

[Mike Krailo]

I found myself totally frustrated by live chat because they always offer it and they aggressively push it so hard as an option, but as soon as you start chatting with someone it seems like they are empowered to do absolutely nothing and I always ended up getting told to call customer service anyway

Then 90% of the chat bots are bots only and not people and all they can do is refer you to the FAQ or some other help article, and out of the other 10%. They're unattended half the time

Not my experience at all. Yes, if you don't get a human right away, just keep demanding to speak to a human or supervisor. I've had really good luck with live chat. I'm sure there are some that are not as good, but usually there is a way to reach a human to chat with.

 

[Pat Hartman]

The idea of just forcibly telling companies that defaulted medical debt can no longer affect their credit score is essentially decimating the collection industry and causing rates to go even higher for hospitals and other debt buyers to account for it

Hospitals are the masters at manipulating cost accounting systems. They can prove to you that two aspirin actually cost them $10 and a pair of paper slippers $15 dollars. Let's not get into the $5,000 they charge for MRI's. If hospital's standardized their rates and stopped charging the uninsured grossly inflated prices, their uncollectible rates would go way down.

 

[AccessBlaster]

Elon sporting a Half-life T-shirt, got to love it! Will Steam be next? Haha.

 

[Isaac]

Hospitals are the masters at manipulating cost accounting systems. They can prove to you that two aspirin actually cost them $10 and a pair of paper slippers $15 dollars. Let's not get into the $5,000 they charge for MRI's. If hospital's standardized their rates and stopped charging the uninsured grossly inflated prices, their uncollectible rates would go way down.

You make an excellent point

 

[Thales750]

As you earlier said, the Fed is not part of the government. You live in a world completely dominated by right wing propaganda. There is subject that you choose to agree with, other than the party line.

Do you really believe that you tactics score points with with normal people? Or are you so much like Trump you are content to only be recieved by the furthest right wing.

People like you are the main reason (actually symptom, you really aren't powerful enough to be an actual reason) for our divided nation.

A house divided... Is not great again, we were not great in the civil war, we were great in WWII.

All Trump, and by proxy, you, are interested in is dividing the nation, and blaming Democrats for every possible failing. Hed does that by playing on your personal contempt. There is actual evidence in these writing of how you believe that Liberals and Mexicans are sub human.

I feel sorry for you, I really do.

Actually I feel a little trepidation writing anything on here that could be cut up and misquoted. It is one of your favorite tools for sowing misinformation, and pretending you are always right.

Sorry access. I thought Pat was being obtuse.

 

[AccessBlaster]

Sorry access. I thought Pat was being obtuse.

Thanks, I thought I was having a memory issue

 

[Pat Hartman]

As you earlier said, the Fed is not part of the government. ===

OK. You agree that the Fed is not a part of the government. Great start. Why do you then devolve into a rant calling me names? Was I not supposed to point out your error in telling people that the Fed was "federal". Naming the "Fed", the Federal Reserve Bank was typical leftist bulls**t. ALWAYS use a name that obfuscates the actual purpose of a bill or agency. If you obfuscate the real purpose of something, you can pull the wool over lots of uninformed eyes.

 

[Steve R.]

 

[Pat Hartman]

Are the Democrats so dumb that they don't think their statements live forever on the internet? Schumer could have at least owned his prior statements and then lied about what DOGE was finding

 

[Mike Krailo]

Pat, there is a big problem with the public in general forgetting what happened or was said in the past. This is why we need to remind everyone about all this stuff when it comes to election time again. People will forget and then they will have to rely on the top search results in Google.

Look at this search "Who let California burn down". This is the crazy world we live in now. Go a head and type that search into your favorite browser. They are trying to redefine history as we know it. If you didn't know that Gavin Newsom was responsible for this entire debacle, you would totally get misguided by the search engines.

 

[Pat Hartman]

We are doomed if we can't get the search engines and AI to stop being so biased and hiding truth from us all.

 

[Steve R.]

Apple shakes up AI executive ranks in bid to turn around Siri, Bloomberg News reports
Just tossing this in for the irony. The, DOGE effort is to shake-up the federal government. The Democrats have gone ballistic asserting how the DOGE shake-up violates all sorts of laws, that the public needs to be protected, and files all sorts of lawsuits against DOGE in District Courts. Since the Apple shake-up doesn't affect the grifters in government living off of "free" money, the supposedly ethical Democrats standing up for worker rights will never file lawsuits to protect the poor executives at Apple who are being deprived of their jobs by an uncaring selfish corporation.

 

[AccessBlaster]

 

[Thales750]

What a perfect example of the application of dumbed down conservative misinformation. Your average German citizen would never have fallen for this. Goabels would be proud.

 

[AccessBlaster]

What a perfect example of the application of dumbed down conservative misinformation. Your average German citizen would never have fallen for this. Goabels would be proud.

Or it's just funny trolling

 

[Pat Hartman]

What a perfect example of the application of dumbed down conservative misinformation. Your average German citizen would never have fallen for this. Goabels would be proud.

And yet you believe the dumbed down misinformation of the left wing media and the Democrats in Congress. What does that say about you? You believe that Musk is running the show rather than making recommendations. You believe that Musk is going to cut SS payments. You can't tell the difference between legitimize benefits and waste/fraud/abuse. Just like the media and you can't tell the difference between legal and illegal immigration. I know it is only two letters but the difference is HUGE as is the cost to the average taxpayer.