bmwracer wrote:Once again, President Obama's speech really impressed. :victory: :applaud:
Wish I was a believer. :fingerscrossed:
Wish I was a believer. :fingerscrossed:
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Started by ahochaude · 23 Nov 2003 · 35,048 replies
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Wish I was a believer. :fingerscrossed:
Eve wrote:
Wish I was a believer. :fingerscrossed:
Until this country initiates true campaign finance reform to eliminate the extraordinary influence of corporate lobbyists, politicians both on the left and the right, will continue to suck on that corporate cock to safeguard their own political futures to the detriment of the country. This country has long been beholden to monied interests but in recent years the problem has reached a crescendo.
The will to change campaign financing will never effectively come from Congress itself because they benefit handsomely from the status quo. The recent Supreme Court decision doesn't help matters either.
We need a f*cking Constitutional Convention for two issues - campaign finance reform and term limits in Congress.
As I grow older I see, hear, and feel the disaffection of ordinary people everywhere.
Tu_triky wrote:Until this country initiates true campaign finance reform to eliminate the extraordinary influence of corporate lobbyists, politicians both on the left and the right, will continue to suck on that corporate cock to safeguard their own political futures to the detriment of the country. This country has long been beholden to monied interests but in recent years the problem has reached a crescendo.
+1.
bmwracer wrote:
+1.
Corporations pump bajillions of dollars into Congress and the result is like spackle in your bowels...a seized up engine that is worthless and takes you nowhere, but is full of shit.
Tu_triky wrote:Corporations pump bajillions of dollars into Congress and the result is like spackle in your bowels...a seized up engine that is worthless and takes you nowhere, but is full of shit.
And the battles in Iraq and Afghanistan have also sucked the life out of the economy... :sweat:
As the President indicated, we had a $200B surplus in 2000, now we have a $1T deficit. :bleh:
bmwracer wrote:
And the battles in Iraq and Afghanistan have also sucked the life out of the economy... :sweat:
As the President indicated, we had a $200B surplus in 2000, now we have a $1T deficit. :bleh:
F*cked with no Vaseline, just a match and a little bit of gasoline.
^ You are quite the poet. :mrgreen:
bmwracer wrote:^ You are quite the poet. :mrgreen:
It is merely angst verbalized. :hehe:
I only speak from old age and not from any political savvy.
I am disturbed by what is happening in US.
Just in the case of Health Bill/Insurance etc...........
In UK 1930's and forties....
When I was in teens and waiting to go to Uni I worked in a local hospital insurance plan. Very simple and completely voluntary. No government involved. It worked well. Later,after the war in about 1948 (?) the British National Health Plan emerged. Sounded good on paper. Has been totally messed up since it began. So much 'free' stuff that selfish people rushed to obtain... unnecessary medicalprocedures to hairpiece. To dozens of rolls of cotton batting as in cotton balls etc. In some places the plan worked very well. In other places it never worked at all.(The cotton batting was used to stuff pillows)!!!!
The local hospital in which I worked was turned over from a strict Matron to a business manager. Nurses were no longer smart and medically responsibe. Profit was the Big Boss. Two years ago over one thousand patients died in that hospital. It became a question up in London in the Parliament I assumeit is probably on going. the business manager allowed to resign with large Golden Handshake. Patients fell from trolleys. Patients immobile were given meals on traytable which they could not reach. Meals removed uneaten later.
There is a large chance that similar things would happen in US which is a much larger country to deal with. Just think of the companies who will be lobbying for the right to cater to the needs of various hospitals. It boggles my mind.
I was lucky to have the best possible doctors and medical attention three years ago when I was diagnosed with colon cancer. I would not be alive under any National Health Plan. In UK unless you are a member of the government or wealthy enough to pay large amoutns for private doctors, you wait for everything and often die whiile waiting. This is not to say that there are not wonderful doctors and places where good medicine works on time in IK but Socialistic thinking is not the way for US to go in my own opinion.
The writing is very clear on the wall to me and UK stand as a very bad example for Socialtistic government in what has worked well as a capitalist US.
Just my opinion and I don't wish to ruffle feathers.
Peggy
Please excuse typos..sorry :puppydog:
I am disturbed by what is happening in US.
Just in the case of Health Bill/Insurance etc...........
In UK 1930's and forties....
When I was in teens and waiting to go to Uni I worked in a local hospital insurance plan. Very simple and completely voluntary. No government involved. It worked well. Later,after the war in about 1948 (?) the British National Health Plan emerged. Sounded good on paper. Has been totally messed up since it began. So much 'free' stuff that selfish people rushed to obtain... unnecessary medicalprocedures to hairpiece. To dozens of rolls of cotton batting as in cotton balls etc. In some places the plan worked very well. In other places it never worked at all.(The cotton batting was used to stuff pillows)!!!!
The local hospital in which I worked was turned over from a strict Matron to a business manager. Nurses were no longer smart and medically responsibe. Profit was the Big Boss. Two years ago over one thousand patients died in that hospital. It became a question up in London in the Parliament I assumeit is probably on going. the business manager allowed to resign with large Golden Handshake. Patients fell from trolleys. Patients immobile were given meals on traytable which they could not reach. Meals removed uneaten later.
There is a large chance that similar things would happen in US which is a much larger country to deal with. Just think of the companies who will be lobbying for the right to cater to the needs of various hospitals. It boggles my mind.
I was lucky to have the best possible doctors and medical attention three years ago when I was diagnosed with colon cancer. I would not be alive under any National Health Plan. In UK unless you are a member of the government or wealthy enough to pay large amoutns for private doctors, you wait for everything and often die whiile waiting. This is not to say that there are not wonderful doctors and places where good medicine works on time in IK but Socialistic thinking is not the way for US to go in my own opinion.
The writing is very clear on the wall to me and UK stand as a very bad example for Socialtistic government in what has worked well as a capitalist US.
Just my opinion and I don't wish to ruffle feathers.
Peggy
Please excuse typos..sorry :puppydog:
Re Afghanistan.
History shows tht that area has been at war with themselves or anyone foolish enough to enter the borders for hundreds of years. Have you looked at a map of that country?? Have you looked at the mountains where thousands can hide?? This has been, and still is, a tribal land. All others stay out.
Peggy
History shows tht that area has been at war with themselves or anyone foolish enough to enter the borders for hundreds of years. Have you looked at a map of that country?? Have you looked at the mountains where thousands can hide?? This has been, and still is, a tribal land. All others stay out.
Peggy
brad2 wrote:Re Afghanistan.
History shows tht that area has been at war with themselves or anyone foolish enough to enter the borders for hundreds of years. Have you looked at a map of that country?? Have you looked at the mountains where thousands can hide?? This has been, and still is, a tribal land. All others stay out.
Peggy
Indeed.
:shakehead:
Tired... stupid dogs kept me awake last night :grumble:
Anime Dad wrote:Tired... stupid dogs kept me awake last night :grumble:
Your dogs or neighbor's?
Regardless, I know the feeling. :sweat:
bmwracer wrote:
Your dogs or neighbor's?
Ours.
When I got up this morning I noticed an axe on our outside furniture (I was chopping trees last weekend) It was lucky for them I didn't see it last night when I got up for the 4th time to shut them up :sweat:
Anime Dad wrote:
Ours.
When I got up this morning I noticed an axe on our outside furniture (I was chopping trees last weekend) It was lucky for them I didn't see it last night when I got up for the 4th time to shut them up :sweat:
Are they dingos? :ashamed:
Anime Dad wrote:Ours.
Ugh. :sweat:
When I got up this morning I noticed an axe on our outside furniture (I was chopping trees last weekend) It was lucky for them I didn't see it last night when I got up for the 4th time to shut them up :sweat:
There's always the ubiquitous rolled up newspaper.
Anime Dad wrote:It was lucky for them I didn't see it last night when I got up for the 4th time to shut them up :sweat:
Our dog wouldnt dare to do it more than once.
I have a sense of humor failure when woken up at night.
Do yours live inside or outside?
Eve wrote:
Do yours live inside or outside?
Outside! No inside animals at our place. Except the kids ;)
Anime Dad wrote:
Outside! No inside animals at our place. Except the kids ;)
:hehe:
Our pets are the kids. ;)
And better behaved than his real ones who are grown and gone. :victory:
Boy, I have a three-day weekend, then I'm all spazzed out: I forgot my Triscuits, Omega-3 pills, and o-cha when I got to work today. :banghead:
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