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And if only everyone was as smart and hardworking as A2O, we'd all have MS's and BA's and PhD's, and nobody would make minimum wage - we'd all be orthodontists and everyone would be successful. {{snark /off}} The fact that anybody can make it if they work hard does not necessarily mean that everyone can make it. Somebody…
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I said the Immoral/Amoral line and I think it's accurate. I didn't "corporations should be..." or "I wish corporations were..." - I said Corporations are: a·mor·al adjective 1. not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral. 2. having no moral standards, restraints, or…
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I certainly did not 'benchmark' anything based on the performance of GWB. I was asked a specific question, "would I call BHO's first term a success?". My answer to the question is: Given the monumental disaster left by GWB,,, and the profound obstructionism, blind seething hatred and naked attempts at utter destruction by…
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I lack time and energy to continue this point by point (less),,, but this one I just got to respond to: ""The production is in Canada anyway so the environmental impact wouldnt affect us, if that is a huge concern of yours."" Really? Are you not kidding? A - yes, I'm an air breathing mammal, so this a concern. B - "The…
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When Bush left office the economy was in freefall and losing 750K jobs a month. That's like moving out with the house on fire and blaming the next guy for the damage. There was no Supermajority. When the minority party is willing to filibuster a dry cleaning bill, it takes 60 disciplined votes to do anything, and Democrats…
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Obama has run trillion dollar deficits because of unfunded wars, vastly reduced revenues due to a tanked economy and slashed tax rates, and huge mandatory outlays to keep people from starving to death. There was also the stimulus and TARP, initiated by GWB, that kept unemployment out of the 20's it was heading for. Obama's…
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In the first piece - my point was that nobody really has a great idea to run a successful business and holds off because of "Uncertainty" about the tax code in the future. That doesn't even make sense. If you were raring to go with AlphaOmega.com and you thought you could do well, would you really hold off because you…
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That's actually 3 words MM.
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Yes, this administration discussed raising the top marginal tax rate from 36% to 39.5%. Clearly this is the reason companies are not hiring. If I make a million dollars next year, I don't know if my after-tax profit will be $640,000 or if it will be a mere $605,000. Clearly the only prudent thing to do is stuff my capital…
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Two words,,, "Harriet Myers". OTOH - she didn't get in. So maybe the system worked.
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2 words,,,, "Zombie Apocolypse". :laugh:
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I was not aware that it is illegal to practice private medicine in Canada - I stand corrected, thank you. There are lots of countries with universal coverage - including France & Germany which have hybrid private/public systems that function very well. In many countries the gov program is the baseline, those who wish can…
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I don't think that's the case. In reality, some people will always have better access to better care than others. What universal systems do is establish a baseline. They provide a minimum level of care that everyone is entitled to - and like any other large program there are problems and it's not perfect. As always, those…
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Imagine a car repair place where they get called automatically when you break down on the side of the road - haul you to the garage whether you want to or not - make all the repairs your car needs - and charge whatever they damn please... Think that would last long? Delivery of health care is not influenced by market…
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[/quote] [/quote] It's not one of those, I don't watch porn. Those edited things are just cherry picking - "Talk to 100 people - 94 of them are reasonable folks with a point of view - 6 are idiots and/or monsters - USE THOSE - paint the whole group as idiotic monsters". Not fair, not cool, and not accurate. I don't like…
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But don't you understand that you can't have all those cool things without the individual mandate. You just can't, it will destroy the entire system. Let's imagine that I can walk in to any insurance office, and they have to cover me for a given charge without regard to preexisting conditions. They can't turn me away (you…
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"Write a good chuck of those losses off",,, that's strictly a tax writeoff. Many medical care providers are getting 30% or 40% of their revenue from the fed from Medicare-Medicaid-S-chip programs etc. Writing stuff off just takes money from the fed that's paying the bill - and therefore it is passed on to the taxpayer aka…
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In 2004, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office calculated malpractice costs amounted to “less than 2 percent of overall health care spending. Thus, even a reduction of 25 percent to 30 percent in malpractice costs would lower health care costs by only about 0.4 percent to 0.5 percent, and the likely effect on health…
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Random disorganized thoughts from a layman. Blow this full of holes, I don't care. Here's reality folks - every human being in the united states already has medical coverage for life threatening medical issues. Here's how: If you are a homeless unemployed troubled etc.etc.,,, and you're chilling out at Walmart soaking up…
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It's a tough call. I attend a smaller church, and I enjoy it very much. It's a very open group, and we all see the budget. I know how the numbers work. Our minister is an educated woman with a master's degree. Her salary is not high for her education. Our numbers balance every year - every dime in goes back out, usually…
