Friday, April 29th. Health insurance and its affordability has been a topic of political contention mostly in the past two decades, but the social need was recognized much earlier. On this date in 1942, Rhode Island became the first state to set up a health or temporary disability insurance program for its working citizens unemployed because of sickness. The covered workers — not the employers — funded the program with a 1 percent tax on wages of less than $3,000 a year. Most Americans are without disability insurance, although Social Security provides some coverage to qualified workers. But health insurance is another matter. In 2014, over 208 million private policies were in force, with 170 million based on employment. Over 36 million Americans remained uninsured. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at <www.census.gov>.
Saturday, April 30th. This is the anniversary of perhaps the greatest real estate deal in American history — one that doubled the size of the U.S. and put the nation in position to become a world power. The year was 1803, and the deal was the Louisiana Purchase. The young U.S. under President Thomas Jefferson bought nearly 830,000 square miles from France at the cost of four cents an acre. The land stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border. The sale encompassed all or parts of 14 of today’s states. After the treaty was ratified, the U.S. took possession at the end of 1803. Appropriately enough, Louisiana became a state on this date in 1812. At the time, just 77,000 people lived there. Now, Louisiana is home to well over 4.6 million. Profile America is completing its19th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sunday, May 1st. Construction began on this date in 1884 in Chicago for a radical new building design — destined to be America’s first skyscraper. It was the Home Insurance Company headquarters, designed by engineer William Jenney. For many centuries, thick outer walls supported multistory buildings, limiting the height that could be safely or usefully attained. Jenney’s building used a metal frame for support, like a skeleton. The exterior walls were attached to the frame, and so these so-called curtain walls weren’t load bearing. Soon, skyscrapers using Jenney’s method thrust up across the country and today dominate city skylines around the world. Lately, the construction industry in the U.S. has erected some $400 billion worth of private nonresidential buildings annually. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at <www.census.gov>.
District Attorney Michael Waters’ letter to the Henderson paper on Sunday made it seem as if he was trying to justify the reason why his office failed to do the right thing and DROP all the charges against this 11 yr. old child. If you’ve ever visited the Courtroom in Dist. 9 it is laughable with the amount of plea deals that are given on a daily basis. Maybe Waters could have learned a little more from his dad….Dist. 9 is known as nepotism 9…..father retires & what do you know? Son is the next Dist. Atty.
You can’t make this stuff up if you tried!!!
#goldenspoonsyndrome
4got that joke of a Dist. Atty. Currin was there for awhile. Heard him say from his own mouth from his office regarding a case “to charge defendant “x” & let his Defense Atty. worry about proving his innocence”!!! Even though the charges should have never been pressed……needless to say ALL charges were dismissed. Here’s a novel idea, when the DA’s office charges someone who in turn has to pay bail and/or a defense atty. & the charges get dismissed then why can’t they get their bail $$ & atty. fees back? Especially when Dist.9 overcharges most cases…..thus the high dismissal rate & plea bargains!!! I could shed so much light on Dist.9 shenanigans it would scare you into wearing your seat belt when you drive down your driveway to check your mail!!!!
#silverspoonsyndrome
I see Decept has got itself a new dead horse to flog.
Oh shallow lil’ fairy….I see you offer nothing informative to this blog so do all the HiH readers a favor and don’t waste your $$$ on internet service & that will allow you to buy morw Boone’s Farm! You wanna know what’s wrong with that dump you live in? Look in the mirror lil’ fairy b/c each & everyone of your posts are in response to something I post. I told you one time boy that FACTS don’t LIE….PEOPLE lie. Had you had the intestinal fortitude to meet me when you said you would I seriously doubt your keyboard muscles would be as big as you think they are. Go get you a fifth of Strawberry Hill & come back later & post something else stupid!!!
#idiotAA
I find the island Scotchs to be more to my taste. Wish they weren’t so expensive.
My advice to you would be to stop spending so much $$$ at Hardee’s or do like the majority of Vance County residents and run over to Social Services and maybe they will give you a voucher to get your booze!!! If that doesn’t work, get you a big paper bag and walk the LITTER FILLED streets and pick up some of the beer cans and go sell them. Maybe that will give you enough $$ to afford your booze!
Also, I would recommend that you put your keyboard/computer away when you start hitting the bottle b/c your posts make you seem a lot dumber than you are……and that’s hard to do!!!!
#SMH at the amount of stupidity in Henderson/Vance area……maybe it’s in the county-wide water?
Poor Decept. It loves to dish it out, but can’t take return fire.
Lil’ fairy….i could get better dialogue with a donkey…..especially since your posts could be mistaken for an A##!!!
#AA
Pour out a lil’ liquor for your lost homies!!! Man Vance County has some dumb a## people residing there. If you were 1/2 the fairy you claim to be why did you back out on the day we were to meet? Were you scurred? Or ashamed? Or just a coward? Who knows…maybe all 3!!!$
You are the weakest link lil’ fairy….GOOD BYE. When you can get someone to post something for you of substance I’m sure HiH readers would appreciate it instead of your drunken rants.
#AA
For the final time, No Decept I will not go out with you.
Publius could you please just IGNORE Deception. Its ridiculous the way you two behave. SMH!
hhh, you’re right. It’s childish of me, but I get a little thrill poking sticks at it.
And as usual the lil’ fairy’s post have no substance. If you will notice while I was in Hawaii for a couple of weeks & took a break from the “tech” world you will see that the fairy didn’t post 1 single thing. Is it b/c he can’t add anything to a post/topic or was the fairy in rehab? Alcoholism is a serious disease that can be treated but 1st you must admit you have a problem….c’mon fairy….you can do it!!
#AA
I admit I check HiH out every couple of weeks…for the single purpose of reading what Deception has to write. Inside the name calling and sarcasm are kernels of truth. Deception reminds me that hatefulness is not dying out, which really serves to bury the truths that could help us. Hatefulness obscures enlightenment, so I can only conclude D isn’t trying to do that. It only goes for the negative reaction.