The scary thing is that I have heard people say that something has to be done and it is better to do something bad (that they imagine will somehow lead to something better) than to do nothing at the present time.
No, we are on our way to a health system that might work in other countries, but will not work here.
Unless you define "work" as "provide more ways for politicians to milk more from the people".
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You have forgotten one thing: Americans do not take care of themselves very well. It does not matter how good or available health care is, if you lead a sedentary life and eat too much food you are not going to be healthy. And in the future you are going to be expensive.
If the people made good health choices knowing that the rest of the country is sharing their burden, it would work out great. But if a large number of people are willing to forgo personal responsibility, it is going to be an ever increasing burden on everybody.
The US does not have a major health care problem. The US does not have a major health insurance problem (although there are some things that need to be addressed, like dropping coverage after people get sick). The US has a major social problem - lack of personal responsibility. This is not going to help.
Also, if you want to be taken seriously, learn to capitalize properly and do not call people rude names.
Detroit to Chicago: 300 miles. LAX to JFK: 2800 miles.
(2800/300)*2E9 USD = 18.7E9 USD. You are way off.
The US federal government has loaned 80E9 USD to the GM, GMAC, and Chrysler in the last few years. You could have built Los Angeles to Seattle, Seattle to Boston, Boston to Atlanta, and NY to Los Angeles for that.
The elections are not pretend. They are real elections. The government need not fear real elections as it has already brainwashed the voters into voting for the establishment every time.
This is Schumer, not Obama. Schumer is going after the votes of the lazy unemployed* people in upstate NY who see illegal immigrants doing jobs that they refuse to do and complain that the immigrants are taking their jobs.
* There are lazy employed people. There are non-lazy unemployed people. I am talking about the lazy unemployed people only. I am not trying to associate the two adjectives.
Zuckerberg and Anderson are not rich because they had vision to bring human contact to the internet.
Zuckerberg and Anderson are rich because they realized that most internet users cannot or will not learn to use use their computers well enough to handle an email application, an IM application, a news reader, and a web browser, and that most internet users are not online for content but for mindless entertainment.
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Fire Lord's goblins are taking over the kingdom.
"News for nerds, stuff that matters."
Big government is like a black hole that sucks in money and spits out hawking radiation in the form of taxes.
Fixed that for you.
Many people have no idea what any of these are.
"Oh. I search with Google. This must be what I use."
Something has to be done.
This is something.
Ergo, this has to be done.
Politician's logic.
The scary thing is that I have heard people say that something has to be done and it is better to do something bad (that they imagine will somehow lead to something better) than to do nothing at the present time.
US voters do not remember things that happened more than a few months ago. Why do you think they did all this between December and April?
Where are you getting auto insurance for less than $500 per year?
Almost everybody thinks reform is needed. Almost nobody thinks that Congress is competent enough to make good reforms.
No, we are on our way to a health system that might work in other countries, but will not work here.
Unless you define "work" as "provide more ways for politicians to milk more from the people".
You have forgotten one thing: Americans do not take care of themselves very well. It does not matter how good or available health care is, if you lead a sedentary life and eat too much food you are not going to be healthy. And in the future you are going to be expensive.
If the people made good health choices knowing that the rest of the country is sharing their burden, it would work out great. But if a large number of people are willing to forgo personal responsibility, it is going to be an ever increasing burden on everybody.
The US does not have a major health care problem. The US does not have a major health insurance problem (although there are some things that need to be addressed, like dropping coverage after people get sick). The US has a major social problem - lack of personal responsibility. This is not going to help.
Also, if you want to be taken seriously, learn to capitalize properly and do not call people rude names.
If US citizens are working as enemy combatants outside of the US, then they should be eligible as military targets as well.
Just to make it clear that the US military has no business going after US citizens on US soil. We have other agencies for that.
You think they'd take Florida, New Jersey, New York City, Washington DC, and California instead of Alaska?
Ok, we'll triple the 20B for material expenses and inflation (which has been pretty flat lately). 60B.
Now we'll pretend the whole thing is mountain ranges and multiply by 10. 600B.
Where does the other 5.4 to 7.4 trillion come from?
Probably from an estimate by somebody who did not want it to be done. Do you have a link to that estimate?
How did you come up with 6-8 Trillion?!
Detroit to Chicago: 300 miles.
LAX to JFK: 2800 miles.
(2800/300)*2E9 USD = 18.7E9 USD. You are way off.
The US federal government has loaned 80E9 USD to the GM, GMAC, and Chrysler in the last few years. You could have built Los Angeles to Seattle, Seattle to Boston, Boston to Atlanta, and NY to Los Angeles for that.
Sure, it was in RAM at some point. Are you going to run this RAM virus checker after every RAM write?
The elections are not pretend. They are real elections. The government need not fear real elections as it has already brainwashed the voters into voting for the establishment every time.
Time to market.
If the malware is /sbin/halt, you've still got a problem.
It could be in ROM.
It could be in processor cache.
It could be in the video card's memory.
Could it be in pipelined instructions waiting to be executed?
Exactly. The obviously ridiculous bills (e.g. DMCA, PATRIOT Act, NY State Budget) never get passed.
The rich still have higher tax rates than others.
Those are theft, plain and simple. And they have nothing to do with trickle-down economics.
Where exactly in Reagan's scheme are we pouring money into the top?
According to that article Newegg did not threaten to sue, Newegg's supplier did.
This is Schumer, not Obama. Schumer is going after the votes of the lazy unemployed* people in upstate NY who see illegal immigrants doing jobs that they refuse to do and complain that the immigrants are taking their jobs.
* There are lazy employed people. There are non-lazy unemployed people. I am talking about the lazy unemployed people only. I am not trying to associate the two adjectives.
Yeah, we need to get rid of all those people harvesting the food we eat. That will fix everything!
Zuckerberg and Anderson are not rich because they had vision to bring human contact to the internet.
Zuckerberg and Anderson are rich because they realized that most internet users cannot or will not learn to use use their computers well enough to handle an email application, an IM application, a news reader, and a web browser, and that most internet users are not online for content but for mindless entertainment.