Republican hypocracy example 2

This article is a hilarious new example of Republican hypocricy.

Rand Paul puts coal company profits before workers safety.

Rand Paul: Regulating Black Lung Could Be Too Pricey For Big Coal: via HuffPost

GOP Insanity.....Lower taxes on richest Americans.

Here is an article from CNN, which talks about Wisconsin Republican congressman Paul Ryan's budget proposal. Note the disconnect from reality within the GOP when they unveil a budget which actually LOWERS the tax rate on the richest Americans from 35% down to 25%. And this is after a majority of the American people have been screaming for the rich to pay higher taxes, and thus pay their responsible share of the US economy which affords them their wealth. Simply incredible. How does anyone actually vote for these idiots?

Large cash prize for health risk algorithm interesting, implications frightening.

Company Offers $3 Million for an Algorithm That Predicts Whether You'll Get Sick 15 Years From Now (via PopSci Android App)

This article about the $3 million prize for an algorithm that can predict whether you will get sick is interesting, but doesn't have a lot of information. On first guess, this sounds like an attempt on behalf of insurance companies to find ways to continue charging more for the sick and the poor. I could see it used as a good engine for a preventative medicine and health improvement tool, but it doesn't sound likely that this is the case.

[Update] Upon further inspection, the company's website does say that they are not an insurance company and that they do not stand to gain financially by solving this 'problem', but I fail to see how this is a huge problem in the first place. Their website claims that there are $30 billion in unnecessary hospital visits a year, which doesn't sound accurate to me. People get symptoms, and doctors are unavailable, what do they do? Go to the hospital. This shouldn't be construed as unnecessary, as one of the main tenets of the Hippocratic oath is to ease pain. If more doctors aren't willing to make house calls or be on call 24-7, then they should expect many of their patients to go to the hospital for problems that could be easily diagnosed elsewhere. I also don't really see how this will decrease hospital visits, unless used as I described in heavily specified preventative medicine and health improvement, but I don't see this simply ending up in a 'HealthChecker' app...Seems to me like the method of use of this algorithm that the company is describing could only be used well in some setting like a website where your information was gauranteed to be private, and you could check in and track health, get tips, or check symptoms....kind of like WebMD.

\\

Firefighters, Cops warn anti-union republicans.

Firefighters, Cops Warn Republicans Anti-Union Stance Has Consequences: via HuffPost

The GOP needs to check themselves before they riggedy-wreck themselves! Seriously though, they need to heed this warning.

Wisconsin GOP Rep. "I struggle to meet my bills" with $174,000 per year salary.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/video-of-rep-sean-duffy-complaining-about-his-174000-salary-hits-internet-wisconsin-gop-tries-to-get-it-off/

Here's a good article about Sean Duffy, the GOP Congressman from Wisconsin, talking about how he feels the pain of the budget crunch along with his constituents because he only earns a paltry $174,000 per year salary. Poor guy! In related news, the Democrats, in their never ending humanitarian efforts, have started a clothing and food drive...

GOP Rep. defends rights of drunk drivers....No, really. This is not an April Fool's joke...

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/31/montana-rep-alan-hale-says-dui-laws-are-destroying-a-way-of-li/ Seriously? Can the GOP sink any lower? This Montana Rep. says drunk driving laws are "destroying a way of life" that is important to Montana. Apparently, the freedom to drive drunk is more important to this guy than the freedom to live. Here is the Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl_QNa-bCKc&feature=player_embedded