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Private business is going to sink billions much more efficiently to renovate, modernize and run

Just like they did in Flint, MI when the water supply was privatized?

Private business will do everything they can to take as much profit as they can while performing the bare minimum maintenance that they think will allow them to avoid lawsuits. They don't give a shit if the infrastructure completely crumbles because they're walking away with huge profits that they can use to buy something else to strip all the value out of.

Nothing?

Obamacare makes everybody get insurance. This is the provision that the anti-Obamacore crowd insists is unconstitutional, but it's also the provision that most impacts the "people pay for other people" problem.

How does this "solve" anything? The people not buying health insurance are young and/or poor: http://pittnews.com/newsstory/young-people-comprise-most-uninsured-demographic/

So all Obama has done is forced these people to buy health insurance or pay a fine. All that "savings" we're getting in the system is coming out of their pockets.

Plus individual buyers of insurance can go to Insurance Exchanges, which create risk pools that lower premium costs; currently that kind of risk pooling is only available to people in (usually employer-provided) group health plans.

This is not going to have the effect you seem to think it is. 90% of the country was already on insurance prior to Obamacare and the insurance companies' margins are razor thin. Premiums are much more likely to go up, since no one can be turned down for pre-existing conditions anymore.

Plus you get more rational use of health care (seeing a doctor for preventive care instead of waiting until you're really sick and going to an ER), and that lowers costs

This is an assumption. It's like saying "well now that we've passed a subsidy on apples and exercise equipment, all Americans will eat well and exercise right!" Do you even have any statistics or polls on how many more people will engage in preventative care post-Obamacare?

These facts have been out there for years now, and yet people are still telling each other that Obamacare is about making them pay for other people's pills.

Because it is doing exactly that, quite literally. Just like Medicare and Medicaid were doing the exact same thing prior to Obamacare. And the last thing we need is a third ineffective and wildly expensive attempt by government to handle ballooning healthcare costs.

They did that.. sorta.

http://pittnews.com/newsstory/pitt-offers-10000-reward-for-bomb-threat-information/

Well how about looking for evidence BEFORE making stupid claims? From Police outnumber demonstrators in G-20 protest Friday

"the people gathered in Schenley Plaza appeared to be doing little more than playing games or standing around talking"

That said, this article and this follow up tell of a raid locally on a shop for selling "paraphenalia".

As to the websites, I guess they are treating them as impounded property. Sets an interesting precident for anything that might be considered inappropriate on the web. What about countries without such laws?

That said, this article and this follow up tell of a raid locally on a shop for selling "paraphenalia".

As to the websites, I guess they are treating them as impounded property. Sets an interesting precident for anything that might be considered inappropriate on the web. What about countries without such laws?