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Officers Lose 243 Homeland Security Guns
In a screw up so big it could only be brought to you by the government or a famous athlete, 243 guns were lost by Homeland Security agencies between 2006 and 2008. 179 guns, were lost "because officers did not properly secure them," an inspector general report said. One of the worst examples of carelessness cites a customs officer who left a firearm in an idling vehicle in the parking lot of a convenience store. The vehicle was stolen while the officer was inside. "A local law enforcement officer later recovered the firearm from a suspected gang member and drug smuggler," the report said.
And we really need this huge, bloated, self-justifying, all-powerful organism to run our health care system because...?
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
who care more about delivering value to stockholders, than delivering you life
the idea that there will be government death panels is hilarious, since we currently have corporate death panels: ex-nurses in cubicles looking at your list of CPT codes purposefully working hard to make sure you don't cost so much as you die
besides, i wonder if you've ever dealt with the maze of paperwork between hospitals, doctors, health insurers. now THAT'S a bloated bureaucracy. not that the feds won't indulge in odious amounts of waste, but it might actually be an improvement, since there are currently so many entities in the game throwing reams of paper at each other. and it would COST less, since there is no profit motive to run 900 tests on you every time you have a chest pain, while completely ignoring things like preventative medicine because its not profitable. instead, forcing uninsured diabetics to sit in expensive emergency rooms because they can't afford a doctor. which you pay for, and its more expensive. pathetic
no one says universal socialized healthcare is perfect. i advocate for it, and openly admit it would suck in many ways
the point is it would suck WAY LESS than the bullshit system we have no
so i accept admit and endorse every criticism of universal socialized healthcare you can imagine
and then challenge you to defend our current bullshit system as remotely better in any way
wake the fuck up
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it