'what does this bill do to reduce Health Care costs?' Absofirickinlutley NOTHING. This bill was about changing the relationship between the government and the governed. That's all. And they really couldn't have cared less what that cost.
There is process to extend constitutional 'rights' and that is via a constitutional amendment. This bill is nothing less than an end-run around the constitution.
Will this save anyone a dime? Can the U.S. Government provide heath care less expensively or more efficiently than the private sector? Health care Insurance companies had around a 2% profit margin. My guess is that insurance companies are actually going to come out of this happy happy feelgood government oversight and regulation bill with more profits then they had before. Same with drug companies. Democrats could have included such crazy ideas as allowing health insurance companies to compete across state lines but somehow that didn't make it into the bill. You know, the same way car insurance works? And just so everyone is clear on this, few people actually know what is going to happen because this law is over 2000 pages long and was cooked up behind closed doors with NO debate. In a nutshell - we've been taken to the cleaners and the grins will soon disappear.
'Our goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.' Sweet, I'll send this link to some of my tea party buddies.
I'll just come out and say I really believe money spent of government programs that are supposed to help people is mostly smoke and mirrors and ends up doing very little real long term good.
I grew up in the NASA era, I saw the first moon landing in first grade on a black and white television and it was easily the most memorable moment for me until I saw breasts.
So I say screw almost every other budget item. Pour money into space exploration. Hell, split the difference and call them 'shovel ready jobs'. I don't care. The return on investment is so much greater investing in space related technologies then studying the 'reproductive traits of prairie dogs' or other uninspiring tripe.
To boldly go where no man has gone before. That's the ticket.
Having seen Avatar at least six times I would hope all exploration / exploitation of space cease immediately. Shouldn't the Na'vi and other extraterrestrial cultures have a say in this?
I applaud Scott Adams for his research. It seems while some economists may find BHO a good pick people who own websites favor Senator McCain.
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"Want to know what the Web's small entrepreneurs think of the election? Domain registry Register.com polled its customers and found... nearly 50% intend to vote for John McCain in November compared to just over 35% for Barack Obama."
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In short, those who are actually hoping to make money, create jobs and survive as business people don't favor the Democratic nominee.
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'what does this bill do to reduce Health Care costs?' Absofirickinlutley NOTHING. This bill was about changing the relationship between the government and the governed. That's all. And they really couldn't have cared less what that cost.
There is process to extend constitutional 'rights' and that is via a constitutional amendment. This bill is nothing less than an end-run around the constitution.
Will this save anyone a dime? Can the U.S. Government provide heath care less expensively or more efficiently than the private sector? Health care Insurance companies had around a 2% profit margin. My guess is that insurance companies are actually going to come out of this happy happy feelgood government oversight and regulation bill with more profits then they had before. Same with drug companies. Democrats could have included such crazy ideas as allowing health insurance companies to compete across state lines but somehow that didn't make it into the bill. You know, the same way car insurance works? And just so everyone is clear on this, few people actually know what is going to happen because this law is over 2000 pages long and was cooked up behind closed doors with NO debate. In a nutshell - we've been taken to the cleaners and the grins will soon disappear.
That's very interesting. Have you ever seen 'Tank on the Moon?' http://science.discovery.com/tv/tank/tank.html Those were some real engineers.
'Our goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.' Sweet, I'll send this link to some of my tea party buddies.
I'll just come out and say I really believe money spent of government programs that are supposed to help people is mostly smoke and mirrors and ends up doing very little real long term good. I grew up in the NASA era, I saw the first moon landing in first grade on a black and white television and it was easily the most memorable moment for me until I saw breasts. So I say screw almost every other budget item. Pour money into space exploration. Hell, split the difference and call them 'shovel ready jobs'. I don't care. The return on investment is so much greater investing in space related technologies then studying the 'reproductive traits of prairie dogs' or other uninspiring tripe. To boldly go where no man has gone before. That's the ticket.
Having seen Avatar at least six times I would hope all exploration / exploitation of space cease immediately. Shouldn't the Na'vi and other extraterrestrial cultures have a say in this?
I applaud Scott Adams for his research. It seems while some economists may find BHO a good pick people who own websites favor Senator McCain. ... nearly 50% intend to vote for John McCain in November compared to just over 35% for Barack Obama."
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"Want to know what the Web's small entrepreneurs think of the election? Domain registry Register.com polled its customers and found
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In short, those who are actually hoping to make money, create jobs and survive as business people don't favor the Democratic nominee.