Post-war Algeria, Argentina, Cambodia, Iran (Shah reign and now on a smaller scale), Nicaragua (Somoza dictatorship), Rwanda, Sudan (Darfur). In each of these, there was raping and murdering in the thousands or hundreds of thousands, if not always under the direct control of the state then at least with its encouragement or tacit agreement. None of these nations ever got rated as axis of evil material when those atrocities were committed.
Every thinking (and intellectually honest) man considered those regimes despicably evil, and condemned them in a similar manner to the Axis of Evil. A of E is just a phrase, I wouldn't get too hung up on it. Although, it's true, it was written by a funny Canadian;)
As for why we don't get to the terrorist states that don't have resources -- well, we do, e.g. Afghanistan, and even if we didn't, it'd be far better to do nothing than to support a bunch of mass-murdering psychopaths, e.g. the Iraqi terrorists or any two-bit tyrant who makes a big show of standing up to Amerikkka.
Just out of curiousity, do you think the Healthcare Accord from last autumn will have a positive impact?
No. Judging by the British experience, things will continue to decline. Throwing more money at a bad solution won't improve the bad solution. It may delay some dramatic collapse, it may do nothing, or it may insidiously cause even more harm to the system. I'm betting on the latter.
Have waiting times begun to shrink for certain problems?
I don't know about specific problems; I'm sure there's at least one example you could pull up of waiting lines getting cut down. I'm not an analyst of the system, and I wouldn't have the time to track each and every case even if I wanted to (I don't); but, regardless, a single type of service improving while the system as a whole degrades does not strike me as a sign of progress.
Will the recent push by the CMA for more medical students bear fruit?
I don't know. It doesn't look likely based on the way cities are poaching docs from towns in my part of Ontario, even now. The economy of a socialist health care system just doesn't work, so I don't see how they'll attract new talent at a competitive rate.
Will the recent Supreme Court ruling about private insurance in Quebec impact on the public healthcare system?
If it's not completely ignored by le parti. I know it's binding, but in a one-party state it's often easy for that one party to find ways around anything that inconveniences them, including laws. If they're somehow forced to accept the Supreme Court's decision (what a strange beginning to a sentence), then I would assume it would have a significant impact on the overall healthcare system.
Yes, there are problems. What I find interesting is that those are compelled to list the negatives simultaneously fail to acknowledge that any system is dynamic.
There is no such thing as ideal in the real world hence we must continually evolve the fight as well as our knowledge base.
There are some 40+ million Americans without health insurance. Certainly most will not be denied emergency treatment but thereafter their entire financial future may be up for grabs. That's roughly 15% of their population. The grass is only greener when the view is restricted.
That 15% of the population, assuming your numbers are correct (which I have no reason to doubt -- I just haven't looked 'em up), it's true they'll only get a baseline, "Canadian" healthcare system. Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of Americans have access to modern healthcare, which is something I would like the opportunity to provide myself and my family. Denying your fellow citizens that opportunity out of some kind of spite, or a perverted allegiance to dead ideas, is completely asinine and inexcusable.
As I said above, what do you expect from a society that allows its individuals to freely purchase services for their pets that they're restricted from purchasing for their children? The whole thing's insane, but luckily they haven't taken the next step and restricted freedom of movement, so soon enough I'll be able to follow my forebears to the land of the free -- no, it's not perfect, but in this and so many other matters they at least don't cling to the rotting corpse of socialism -- and use the proceeds of my hard work and saving and investing (money) to purchase what I want (health insurance).
Like most of my posts here, I'm just pointing out something staggeringly obvious, and I don't see why more people aren't ashamed they don't understand.. it's not rocket surgery;)
And yet, you spend all the money in the world on public education and you still end up with illiterate morons who post to Slashdot about Zionist neocons setting up a Christian Republic of America.
John Allen Paulos wrote about that kind of experience in his Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consquences, which is worth a read. (He probably covers similar ground in more recent books, too.)
Ask a lot of people in the US about, say, the Canadian healthcare system and they'll give you lots of stories about people dieing on waiting lists, intolerable waiting times, and a general complete failure of the system. That's so far from the truth it isn't funny.
No, actually, it's quite accurate. Which isn't so surprising in a country where you can buy better health care for your dog than for your daughter, and that shares the distinction of banning a free market in health care with only Cuba and North Korea.
bt for the most part it functions very well, and very efficiently.
You obviously haven't used it much. Or are you a member of parliament..?
Per captia health spending in Canada is significantly less than in the US.
Per capita health spending in Canada is significantly less than public spending in the U.S., let alone overall spending. And it shows.
If you see more construction cranes in China, have you thought about what stage their society's at? It's rapidly developing, and starting from a less developed point. Of course they're building more stuff, but they're still a looong way away from U.S. infrastructure. Maybe another reason is that China isn't full of stupid collectivists who raise an uproar any time a developer tries to build something;) -- I suppose in part because those who disagree in China can't really object to much without getting carted off for re-education.
As for long-term research, well, where do you think cures for AIDS, cancer, etc., are likely to come from? Or new discoveries in physics? Etc., etc., it's all pretty obvious, hence my pointing out how stupid your post was.
You're absolutely right, and of course all the evil-Bush comments are retarded -- I suspect they're mostly trolls, in the original sense of the word. Further privatization of schools would no doubt be a good start.
BTW, what's your problem with Hilary? She may not be ideal, and as a person she's pretty awful, but for a politician I don't think she's in the bottom quintile..
He does live in America and he IS free to emit greenhouse gases to help warm up the environment. Hell, we'd appreciate it up here in Canada, I think we get worse winters than Ohio.
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Oops, you already drank the Kool-Aid.
Heh, it looks like I sure know how to bring out the Amerikkka morons ;)
(No, it wasn't intentional.)
Post-war Algeria, Argentina, Cambodia, Iran (Shah reign and now on a smaller scale), Nicaragua (Somoza dictatorship), Rwanda, Sudan (Darfur). In each of these, there was raping and murdering in the thousands or hundreds of thousands, if not always under the direct control of the state then at least with its encouragement or tacit agreement. None of these nations ever got rated as axis of evil material when those atrocities were committed.
;)
Every thinking (and intellectually honest) man considered those regimes despicably evil, and condemned them in a similar manner to the Axis of Evil. A of E is just a phrase, I wouldn't get too hung up on it. Although, it's true, it was written by a funny Canadian
As for why we don't get to the terrorist states that don't have resources -- well, we do, e.g. Afghanistan, and even if we didn't, it'd be far better to do nothing than to support a bunch of mass-murdering psychopaths, e.g. the Iraqi terrorists or any two-bit tyrant who makes a big show of standing up to Amerikkka.
Hmm, right... raping and murdering hundreds of thousands of innocents -- not evil.
...?). Let me know when you grow up.
You've sold out your morals (or your common sense) for a retarded idea (anti-Americanism? socialism?
Just out of curiousity, do you think the Healthcare Accord from last autumn will have a positive impact?
;)
No. Judging by the British experience, things will continue to decline. Throwing more money at a bad solution won't improve the bad solution. It may delay some dramatic collapse, it may do nothing, or it may insidiously cause even more harm to the system. I'm betting on the latter.
Have waiting times begun to shrink for certain problems?
I don't know about specific problems; I'm sure there's at least one example you could pull up of waiting lines getting cut down. I'm not an analyst of the system, and I wouldn't have the time to track each and every case even if I wanted to (I don't); but, regardless, a single type of service improving while the system as a whole degrades does not strike me as a sign of progress.
Will the recent push by the CMA for more medical students bear fruit?
I don't know. It doesn't look likely based on the way cities are poaching docs from towns in my part of Ontario, even now. The economy of a socialist health care system just doesn't work, so I don't see how they'll attract new talent at a competitive rate.
Will the recent Supreme Court ruling about private insurance in Quebec impact on the public healthcare system?
If it's not completely ignored by le parti. I know it's binding, but in a one-party state it's often easy for that one party to find ways around anything that inconveniences them, including laws. If they're somehow forced to accept the Supreme Court's decision (what a strange beginning to a sentence), then I would assume it would have a significant impact on the overall healthcare system.
Yes, there are problems. What I find interesting is that those are compelled to list the negatives simultaneously fail to acknowledge that any system is dynamic.
There is no such thing as ideal in the real world hence we must continually evolve the fight as well as our knowledge base.
There are some 40+ million Americans without health insurance. Certainly most will not be denied emergency treatment but thereafter their entire financial future may be up for grabs. That's roughly 15% of their population. The grass is only greener when the view is restricted.
That 15% of the population, assuming your numbers are correct (which I have no reason to doubt -- I just haven't looked 'em up), it's true they'll only get a baseline, "Canadian" healthcare system. Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of Americans have access to modern healthcare, which is something I would like the opportunity to provide myself and my family. Denying your fellow citizens that opportunity out of some kind of spite, or a perverted allegiance to dead ideas, is completely asinine and inexcusable.
As I said above, what do you expect from a society that allows its individuals to freely purchase services for their pets that they're restricted from purchasing for their children? The whole thing's insane, but luckily they haven't taken the next step and restricted freedom of movement, so soon enough I'll be able to follow my forebears to the land of the free -- no, it's not perfect, but in this and so many other matters they at least don't cling to the rotting corpse of socialism -- and use the proceeds of my hard work and saving and investing (money) to purchase what I want (health insurance).
Like most of my posts here, I'm just pointing out something staggeringly obvious, and I don't see why more people aren't ashamed they don't understand.. it's not rocket surgery
Christ, are you autistic?
Thanks for the choice between two idiotic misreadings. Your reading ability is disgraceful.
Wow... good job taking a quote out of context.
dollar bills, of BIG denomination.
;)
... in 2001 [under Saddam]... Iran... Venezuela... OPEC
Hm, I'd be interested in acquiring some of those. How much do they cost? A dollar?
Iraq
Egads, are the Europeans doing something truly evil, or do evil-doers just prefer doing business with them because of the brioches?
Their universities are pumping out new research developments like water out of a tap...
;)
Actually, we've had that one for quite a while
Where's the +5: Retarded fucker?
I mean, he did call the average American a "blithering idiot," doesn't that count for anything any more?
And yet, you spend all the money in the world on public education and you still end up with illiterate morons who post to Slashdot about Zionist neocons setting up a Christian Republic of America.
John Allen Paulos wrote about that kind of experience in his Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consquences, which is worth a read. (He probably covers similar ground in more recent books, too.)
(Amazon link, not a "partner" link)
Bah, who cares if it's corporations or Bush or Zionist neocons, we'll get a "decline and fall of Amerikkka" article every week anyway.
Can someone fire Zonk already?
Ask a lot of people in the US about, say, the Canadian healthcare system and they'll give you lots of stories about people dieing on waiting lists, intolerable waiting times, and a general complete failure of the system. That's so far from the truth it isn't funny.
No, actually, it's quite accurate. Which isn't so surprising in a country where you can buy better health care for your dog than for your daughter, and that shares the distinction of banning a free market in health care with only Cuba and North Korea.
bt for the most part it functions very well, and very efficiently.
You obviously haven't used it much. Or are you a member of parliament..?
Per captia health spending in Canada is significantly less than in the US.
Per capita health spending in Canada is significantly less than public spending in the U.S., let alone overall spending. And it shows.
Wow.. stupid post.
;) -- I suppose in part because those who disagree in China can't really object to much without getting carted off for re-education.
If you see more construction cranes in China, have you thought about what stage their society's at? It's rapidly developing, and starting from a less developed point. Of course they're building more stuff, but they're still a looong way away from U.S. infrastructure. Maybe another reason is that China isn't full of stupid collectivists who raise an uproar any time a developer tries to build something
As for long-term research, well, where do you think cures for AIDS, cancer, etc., are likely to come from? Or new discoveries in physics? Etc., etc., it's all pretty obvious, hence my pointing out how stupid your post was.
You're absolutely right, and of course all the evil-Bush comments are retarded -- I suspect they're mostly trolls, in the original sense of the word. Further privatization of schools would no doubt be a good start.
BTW, what's your problem with Hilary? She may not be ideal, and as a person she's pretty awful, but for a politician I don't think she's in the bottom quintile..
Heh, good enough :)
I think you need another footnote to explain why you were drinking a lager.
It's kind of sad how stupid you are.
Yeah.
Apparently, our elementary school systems are failing us.
Then what do you think it means? ;)
He does live in America and he IS free to emit greenhouse gases to help warm up the environment. Hell, we'd appreciate it up here in Canada, I think we get worse winters than Ohio.
Good God, you seem to get stupider by the minute.