Stephen Hawking has died

Re:Stephen Hawking has died by tim333 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @01:40AM (#16582618)

We have rising inequality and also about 137,000 less people miserably poor each day. It's complicated. https://www.cato.org/blog/what-newspapers-reported-real-news...

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died by ekianjo on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:00AM (#16582690)

Inequality is not that bad when everyone is getting richer even at the very bottom. Inequality speech is the tree hiding the forest.

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died by coldtea on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:06AM (#16582712)

Only people have not been getting richer for a long while in some places, including the US. If anything the opposite.

https://hbr.org/2017/10/why-wages-arent-growing-in-america

That's difficult for those in upper middle class jobs to comprehend though, but in less fortunate areas and slices of the population, it's everyday life.

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died by ekianjo on Thursday March 15, 2018 @10:05AM (#16592930)

The world is not limited to the US.

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died by Bud on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:02AM (#16582696)

Cato Institute is about as trustable for facts about poverty as my cat is for facts about quantum mechanics.

Here's a rebuttal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/03/1...

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died by sigil on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:16AM (#16582743)

This “rebuttal” itself contains no facts, and more specifically, none that refute the 137,000/day figure in the parent.

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died by cft on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @01:53AM (#16582656)

As Thatcher has famously said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t37Oy8dD-U4

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died by knuththetruth on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:03AM (#16582700)

Let’s please honor the man and not link to her wretchedness. Steven Hawking hated Thatcher and regretted never having the chance to run over her toes[0]

[0] “Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind,” page 91.

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died by jwdunne on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @02:14AM (#16582739)

It seems his spent his final days fighting her legacy - a backdoor attempt at privatisation in the NHS by her party.

Thatcher should never be mentioned in a thread dedicated to his legacy. He wouldn't have got this far if she had her way.

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died by fiftyacorn on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:13AM (#16583362)

Stephen Hawkings stance on the NHS is an important part of his legacy. Any time there has been moves to further privatise he has always came out against it, and it has been hard for the government to argue against him

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died by DanBC on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @08:43AM (#16584344)

There's nothing back door about it. It's an open and transparent defunding of the NHS to push a privatisation agenda.

Privatisation already exists within the NHS, and the programme is already well under way.

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Re:Stephen Hawking has died by jwdunne on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @09:08AM (#16584487)

I meant with regards to ACOs. The public have no idea what they are. They sound public.

Stephen Hawking was fighting the government on this in court when he died. I'm guessing you know that.

As for the past 8 years, it's obvious what the Tories are trying to do. Privatisation is the 'perfect solution' when public approval for the NHS hits the floor.

No other way for them to do it. Political suicide. Bastards.

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