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US Gov't. Ending Its Hands-Off-the-Internet Stance
Taco Cowboy writes in with a report from The Register about a US policy shift away from keeping hands off the Internet. "According to Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, Obama's top official at the Department of Commerce, the US government's policy of leaving the Internet alone is over. Instead, an 'Internet Policy 3.0' approach will see policy discussions between government agencies, foreign governments, and key Internet constituencies, with those discussions covering issues such as privacy, child protection, cybersecurity, copyright protection, and Internet governance." Here is the presentation in which Strickling enunciated these changes.
In the US the poor 20% of the population have nothing.
This is utter tripe. It is *not* true.
I've *been a part* of that 20% for a good while, so I know. You always get care. You are never refused care. You get care on a par with most everyone else. I've always had medications and treatments provided. I've never been unable to have any testing done such as X-ray, CT, MRI, blood-work, biopsies, etc.
Yes, they'll send you a bill in the mail. If you're unable to pay, they continue to send bills for a while, then they stop. You are not charged with any crime even if your care has amassed hundreds of thousands in charges. There is Medicare, Medicaid, and a host of other programs...some federal, some state, some NGO, some faith-based, some even provided by those *evil* pharma companies that stand ready to act as safety nets.
It is pure unadulterated political FUD so obviously untrue that even MS would be too ashamed to spread it.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Mexicans who's land was invaded and taken
That's hilariously ironic --- you do realise, don't you, that the Spanish conquered and colonised Latin America in much the same way as other Western Europeans did North America? You think Spanish Mexicans were always 'just there'? They did their share of killing the indigenous populations too - why do you single out the US? You seem to have an agenda.
Africans (kidnapping and slavery)
And yet America fought a civil war partly over slavery, emancipating the African Americans, fought to end the Jim Crow era, and ultimately African Americans now enjoy more liberty than the majority of their 'counterparts' living under despotic murderous dictators in various African countries.
Women and their rights, and the list goes on?
What!? The Western world has been BY FAR the world's leaders in the women's rights movements --- most other cultures are only now slowly starting to "catch up". You think the Middle East leads in women's rights? You think China leads in women's rights? You think Africa leads in women's rights? They are all FAR behind the US, my friend!
In the US the poor 20% of the population have nothing.
This is utter tripe. It is *not* true.
I've *been a part* of that 20% for a good while, so I know. You always get care. You are never refused care. You get care on a par with most everyone else. I've always had medications and treatments provided. I've never been unable to have any testing done such as X-ray, CT, MRI, blood-work, biopsies, etc.
You get a lower standard of care. I also, was part of that lower 20%. Most of the time, they will find the first "easy" diagnosis and claim that is what it is.
Sorry but I need to throw in my two cents: as a college student I started to miscarry my baby, so I showed up at the local hospital in Berkeley. I wasn't even allowed in to see a doctor to be stabilized or sent by ambulance to the county hospital in Oakland. They literally couldn't hurry me off their property fast enough. I had to have someone drive me the half hour to Highland. It was shocking and awful.