You know a country is on the way down...

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

...when you read mindbogglingly backwards statements like this:

"If we do not fix our health care system, America may go the way of GM - paying more, getting less, and going broke," Mr Obama added.

Many groups - including the AMA - have expressed concern that a public plan would have competitive advantages that would ultimately drive private insurers out of the market.

letting people suffer is better for the market

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8100605.stm

[V Knid esq]

I thought this was going to be about Iran.

[adsr]

I thought maybe it was going to be about Nkorea..

[wheezer]

letting people suffer is better for the market



surely there's some validity to the point that short-term, loads of people would lose their jobs if the private insurers went out of business?

[thembuzz]

yeah, i love that. apparently, it's all to do with choice. like, under the current system, poor people can choose to either get rich or die at 37 of tuberculosis. and universal healthcare is essentially socialist. never forget that. socialist. it'll be like europe over there if obama gets his way

[wheezer]

what there'll be good beer and the metric system?

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

heheh... reminded me of this again

http://www.thelocal.se/blog/20090423/436/

[thembuzz]

what there'll be good beer and the metric system?

and this

http://downloads.contiki.com/contikipedia/europe/mattyvcontiki/Greek_guard_athens.jpg

is this what 'president' obama wants for americans?

PALIN 2012

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

you know a few 100,000 adults and babies dying every year to keep my health system competitive is one thing, but pom poms on a soldiers shoes is too much for my heart to bear.

[thembuzz]

you might as well just give the taliban american passports and the keys to the whitehouse

[Sheridan]

what there'll be good beer and the metric system?

God, if only!

[V Knid esq]

And the fact that Obama is attempting to make the US healthcare system more egalitarian, this is a good thing or a bad thing?

[V Knid esq]

Or is it all A TRICK?

[thembuzz]

obama isn't america's first black president, he's america's first RED president. YEAH!!! HIGH-FIVE!

PALIN 2012

[Dal-tech]

Everything is being ruled by corporations these days. It show's you the flaw of globalization. When one big Nation F's up everyone suffers. When big oil F's up jacking up the prices out of sheer greed thus destroying the world economy everyone suffers. I'm convicted the human race will go extinct because we are just a bunch of apes who like tribal warfare. They (the powers that be) will never put down their weapons or make energy a resource not owned by a few people making zillions in profit while millions suffer.

[Dal-tech]

obama isn't america's first black president, he's america's first RED president. YEAH!!! HIGH-FIVE!

PALIN 2012

Palin has an annoying voice and will be another George Bush. You'll see more war, high energy prices, poor people will suffer. etc, etc.

[Dal-tech]

Rush Limbaugh is just Mussolini for dumb white people. Isn't it funny how Sarah Palin out of no where (Alaska) became this presidential contender. If you go to Alaska, a lot of people there are poor like some indian reservation. So the whole system is fake. Obama? He became president because he was popular, a good speech writer but what did he really accomplish? So you see, most people are sheep (consumers).

[thembuzz]

Palin has an annoying voice and will be another George Bush. You'll see more war, high energy prices, poor people will suffer. etc, etc.

PALIN 2012, MOTHERFUCKER