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MagneticEnergy

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Nov 5, 2009, 5:47:40 AM11/5/09
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What people spend on health care has nothing to do with the job
market. You can spend more on health care and get better results,
that has nothing to do with your "global financial competition",
minimum wage, or union actions.

These discussions are all about the deceptive use of the media to gain
power. If the environmental "green movement" was that sincere, there
would be no talk about world currencies or government since it
actually harms the environment (if you literally believed their
science, which I do not) to transport all these "competitive, cheap
goods" all over the world.

There would be no talk of "net neutrality" when google searches or
simply using the internet for a period of time are proven to waste as
much energy as boiling a cup of water, or what ever it is they
claim. If you can't buy a stack of compact discs to record your
data, then what good is free internet?

People that can not afford internet access do not have the financial
skills to use the internet appropriately, and net neutrality advocates
point to the opportunity of lead programs that are really education
centers, not internet access points. Training programs do not have
to operate on the internet, and most job applications involve showing
up, filling out a form, and having a contact number, employers to not
have time to interact on the internet with potential employees.

Net neutrality's abuse potential outweighs its benefit, by giving the
government the eventual control of personal communications and the
freedoms privacy that represents.

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Chaser!


Mr. Obama's campaign manager is a poor liar in this regard, of just
young and dumb?

Opportunity for the Obama administration is fading quickly to do the
right thing, and when Americans get hungry, their eyes open.

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Robert Cohen

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Nov 5, 2009, 2:47:00 PM11/5/09
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re: health benefits of USA companies in U.S.A. have nothing to do with
anything much re overall economy

If such is not a joke, then the polemic's author might console
stockholders of
the bankrupted GM, whom will be writing off their itty bitty losses
in GM stock
come April 15

GM cost has/had been approx $1500 per BOP, Chev, GMC, Hummer, and
Saturn sold
per each unionized worker's GM health benefits

Somebody, please correct me If I am factually full of it but just re
that estimated $1500
per car sold, i already knew that i am 'out of it' generally

RHF

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Nov 6, 2009, 8:37:01 PM11/6/09
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On Nov 5, 2:47 am, MagneticEnergy <butterfly77...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What people spend on health care has nothing to do with the job
> market.   You can spend more on health care and get better  results,
> that has nothing to do with your "global financial competition",
> minimum wage, or union actions.

Health Care Spending in the USA is said to be 15%
of the GDP -that's- One in Seven Dollars

Funding US Heath Care through US Jobs and US
Incomes Taxes on American Workers ADDS to the
Cost of American Products {Goods} and Services.
Resulting in Increasing those Cost for Domestic
Made Items; and Items that we Export {Made in
the USA}; while Imported Items do not have those
Costs Built into them.

Funding US Heath Care through a VAT Sales Tax
Taxes both Domestic and Imported Products {Goods}
and Services Equally; plus USA Made Items then sell
Cheaper on the International Market.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/dde71b44cb7f7488

Why Obama-Care© SUCKS -cause- It's Funding
is based on US Jobs and US Incomes Taxes on
American Workers and Employers; and puts
American Made Products {Goods} and Services at a
Price Disadvantage Around the World; which is Bad
for the American Economy and Kills American Jobs.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/ea97b840be227617

The Government Option and Single Payer Works
most efficiently when Funded by a VAT Sales Tax
System that is broadly based and who's Cost is
Equally Distributed among all Citizens.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/bc0b9120a84fbb9e

Warning Your Private Medical Insurance Premiums
Could Triple Under Obama-Care© -source- WSJ
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/a7e31bccc1d98b86
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.rush-limbaugh/msg/761f49abafefaee5

-if- Health Care is a 'basic' Human Right . . .
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.rush-limbaugh/msg/95b4b2d695fbc6cc
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/1561fc697f2cc612

Paying For A National "Universal" Health Care System
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/ea97b840be227617

Universal Health Care -means- Universal Health Care
Insurance -aka- Everybody Pays
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/56b0e08cc98891d9
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/d676440217d9f07f
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.shortwave/msg/86252753633ddf86

idtars ~ RHF
.

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> physical control, unless those ...
>
> read more »

Ima

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Nov 6, 2009, 9:11:30 PM11/6/09
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On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:37:01 -0800, RHF wrote:

>
RepubliCAN'Ts, We need more war to fix the economy

Democrats, We need to save the lives of our citizens

I wonder what party is more <cough cough> "Christian"?

cuh...@webtv.net

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Nov 6, 2009, 9:52:11 PM11/6/09
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AMA (American Medical Association) Members REVOLT Over Born in Kenya!
Sucks Up To islam TERRORIST!
DUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMB
ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Endorsement.
www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=277584

Is GOOD, REVOLT!!!

Crocodile Dundee II issa onna teh TV Land channel.Termorry, ah yam going
acrossit Highway 80 tu teh Sears store anna byes me a Shark floor steam
cleaner thangy furr mah hardwood floor.Metinks ah kin gitz ah lottttt uv
use from tat gizmo.
cuhulin

Morton Davis

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Nov 9, 2009, 7:37:16 PM11/9/09
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"RHF" <rhf-new...@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:c3625541-af76-461a...@q40g2000prh.googlegroups.com...

On Nov 5, 2:47 am, MagneticEnergy <butterfly77...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What people spend on health care has nothing to do with the job
> market. You can spend more on health care and get better results,
> that has nothing to do with your "global financial competition",
> minimum wage, or union actions.

Health Care Spending in the USA is said to be 15%
of the GDP -that's- One in Seven Dollars

Funding US Heath Care through US Jobs and US
Incomes Taxes on American Workers ADDS to the
Cost of American Products {Goods} and Services.
Resulting in Increasing those Cost for Domestic
Made Items; and Items that we Export {Made in
the USA}; while Imported Items do not have those
Costs Built into them.

===================
BULLSHIT. Imported items have the double digit taxes of those countries plus
the double digit inflation built into them,


Message has been deleted

Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick

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Nov 10, 2009, 9:28:36 AM11/10/09
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"EHWollmann" <arctur...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:l7KdnXIRbKbMhWTX...@posted.toastnet...
> All of you Rightards are such stupid idiotic jerks. You are not worthy to
> argue or comment about American heathcare because yours sucks forever.
> Look at the French healthcare, They are world's #1, they are not rich like
> US but why their system is so efficient! So quit argue and shut the fuck
> off. let Obama run his healthcare program. I know his economy is not no
> different than Bush, but don't just throw his idea off like you're a whole
> bunch of negro haters.
>

The funny thing about racists, -especially- the liberal ones, is that
they never know who they are.

--

--
Popeye
"If one does as God does enough times, one
will become as God is." -Dr. Hannibal Lector.

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cuh...@webtv.net

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Nov 10, 2009, 12:35:12 PM11/10/09
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Manchelle Obama's poll numbers Slide.
www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=277847

Slidinnnnnn DOWNNNNNN,,,,,,,

She hates America, No Wonder she is Slidinnnnnnnnn DOWNNNNNNNNN,,,,,,,
cuhulin

RHF

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Nov 10, 2009, 4:50:04 PM11/10/09
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On Nov 9, 4:37 pm, "Morton Davis" <antike...@go.com> wrote:
> "RHF" <rhf-newsgro...@pacbell.net> wrote in message

>
> news:c3625541-af76-461a...@q40g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
> On Nov 5, 2:47 am, MagneticEnergy <butterfly77...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What people spend on health care has nothing to do with the job
> > market. You can spend more on health care and get better results,
> > that has nothing to do with your "global financial competition",
> > minimum wage, or union actions.
>
- - Health Care Spending in the USA is said to be 15%
- - of the GDP -that's- One in Seven Dollars
- -
- - Funding US Heath Care through US Jobs and US
- - Incomes Taxes on American Workers ADDS to the
- - Cost of American Products {Goods} and Services.
- - Resulting in Increasing those Cost for Domestic
- - Made Items; and Items that we Export {Made in
- - the USA}; while Imported Items do not have those
- - Costs Built into them.

===================

- BULLSHIT. Imported items have the double digit
- taxes of those countries plus the double digit
- inflation built into them,

Exported Items generally do not pay the Domestic
VAT Sales Taxes so that these items can be sold
at the lowest Price on the International Market; and
bring Income into the Country of Origin.
.

RHF

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Nov 10, 2009, 4:54:02 PM11/10/09
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On Nov 9, 11:37 pm, "EHWollmann" <arcturian...@earthlink.net> wrote:
- All of you Rightards are such stupid idiotic jerks.
- You are not worthy to argue or comment about
- American heathcare because yours sucks forever.
- Look at the French healthcare, They are world's #1,
- they are not rich like US but why their system is so
- efficient!  So quit argue and shut the fuck off.
- let Obama run his healthcare program.
- I know his economy is not no different than Bush,

That's just so much Liberal-Fascist Name Calling
and NOT FACTS.

- but don't just throw his idea off like you're
- a whole bunch of negro haters.

So Pelosi & Reid & Obama are all 'negros'
will i never knew . . .

Morton Davis

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Nov 10, 2009, 11:35:25 PM11/10/09
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"RHF" <rhf-new...@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:498d887b-5a36-43a3...@i12g2000prg.googlegroups.com...

On Nov 9, 11:37 pm, "EHWollmann" <arcturian...@earthlink.net> wrote:
- All of you Rightards are such stupid idiotic jerks.
=====================
Posts the idiotic jerk.
===================

- Look at the French healthcare, They are world's #1,
======================

By whose measure? According to the W.H.O. USA health care is the best.


Brenda Ann

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Nov 11, 2009, 12:38:10 AM11/11/09
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"Morton Davis" <anti...@go.com> wrote in message
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Actually, the W.H.O. ranks France as #1.

The US is ranked #37.

1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 United States of America
38 Slovenia
39 Cuba
40 Brunei
41 New Zealand
42 Bahrain
43 Croatia
44 Qatar
45 Kuwait
46 Barbados
47 Thailand
48 Czech Republic
49 Malaysia
50 Poland
51 Dominican Republic
52 Tunisia
53 Jamaica
54 Venezuela
55 Albania
56 Seychelles
57 Paraguay
58 South Korea
59 Senegal
60 Philippines
61 Mexico
62 Slovakia
63 Egypt
64 Kazakhstan
65 Uruguay
66 Hungary
67 Trinidad and Tobago
68 Saint Lucia
69 Belize
70 Turkey
71 Nicaragua
72 Belarus
73 Lithuania
74 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
75 Argentina
76 Sri Lanka
77 Estonia
78 Guatemala
79 Ukraine
80 Solomon Islands
81 Algeria
82 Palau
83 Jordan
84 Mauritius
85 Grenada
86 Antigua and Barbuda
87 Libya
88 Bangladesh
89 Macedonia
90 Bosnia-Herzegovina
91 Lebanon
92 Indonesia
93 Iran
94 Bahamas
95 Panama
96 Fiji
97 Benin
98 Nauru
99 Romania
100 Saint Kitts and Nevis
101 Moldova
102 Bulgaria
103 Iraq
104 Armenia
105 Latvia
106 Yugoslavia
107 Cook Islands
108 Syria
109 Azerbaijan
110 Suriname
111 Ecuador
112 India
113 Cape Verde
114 Georgia
115 El Salvador
116 Tonga
117 Uzbekistan
118 Comoros
119 Samoa
120 Yemen
121 Niue
122 Pakistan
123 Micronesia
124 Bhutan
125 Brazil
126 Bolivia
127 Vanuatu
128 Guyana
129 Peru
130 Russia
131 Honduras
132 Burkina Faso
133 Sao Tome and Principe
134 Sudan
135 Ghana
136 Tuvalu
137 Ivory Coast
138 Haiti
139 Gabon
140 Kenya
141 Marshall Islands
142 Kiribati
143 Burundi
144 China
145 Mongolia
146 Gambia
147 Maldives
148 Papua New Guinea
149 Uganda
150 Nepal
151 Kyrgystan
152 Togo
153 Turkmenistan
154 Tajikistan
155 Zimbabwe
156 Tanzania
157 Djibouti
158 Eritrea
159 Madagascar
160 Vietnam
161 Guinea
162 Mauritania
163 Mali
164 Cameroon
165 Laos
166 Congo
167 North Korea
168 Namibia
169 Botswana
170 Niger
171 Equatorial Guinea
172 Rwanda
173 Afghanistan
174 Cambodia
175 South Africa
176 Guinea-Bissau
177 Swaziland
178 Chad
179 Somalia
180 Ethiopia
181 Angola
182 Zambia
183 Lesotho
184 Mozambique
185 Malawi
186 Liberia
187 Nigeria
188 Democratic Republic of the Congo
189 Central African Republic
190 Myanmar


Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick

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"Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick" <Pop...@finalprotectivefire.com> wrote in
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> "EHWollmann" <arctur...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:l7KdnXIRbKbMhWTX...@posted.toastnet...
>> All of you Rightards are such stupid idiotic jerks. You are not worthy
>> to argue or comment about American heathcare because yours sucks forever.
>> Look at the French healthcare, They are world's #1, they are not rich
>> like US but why their system is so efficient! So quit argue and shut the
>> fuck off. let Obama run his healthcare program. I know his economy is
>> not no different than Bush, but don't just throw his idea off like you're
>> a whole bunch of negro haters.

Pelosi's victory for women

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi scored a giant gain for feminism last
weekend. In shoving her controversy-plagued healthcare reform bill to
victory by a paper-thin margin, she conclusively demonstrated that a woman
can be just as gritty, ruthless and arm-twisting in pursuing her agenda as
anyone in the long line of fabled male speakers before her. Even a basic
feminist shibboleth like abortion rights became just another card for Pelosi
to deal and swap.

It was a stunningly impressive recovery for someone who seemed to be coming
apart at the seams last summer, when a sputtering, rattled Pelosi struggled
to deal with the nationwide insurgency of town hall protesters -- reputable,
concerned citizens whom she outrageously tried to tar as Nazis. Whether or
not her bill survives in the Senate is immaterial: Pelosi's hard-won,
trench-warfare win sets a new standard for U.S. women politicians and is
certainly well beyond anything the posturing but ineffectual Hillary Clinton
has ever achieved.

As for the actual content of the House healthcare bill, horrors! Where to
begin? That there are serious deficiencies and injustices in the U.S.
healthcare system has been obvious for decades. To bring the poor and
vulnerable into the fold has been a high ideal and an urgent goal for most
Democrats. But this rigid, intrusive and grotesquely expensive bill is a
nightmare. Holy Hygeia, why can't my fellow Democrats see that the creation
of another huge, inefficient federal bureaucracy would slow and disrupt the
delivery of basic healthcare and subject us all to a labyrinthine mass of
incompetent, unaccountable petty dictators? Massively expanding the number
of healthcare consumers without making due provision for the production of
more healthcare providers means that we're hurtling toward a staggering
logjam of de facto rationing. Steel yourself for the deafening screams from
the careerist professional class of limousine liberals when they get
stranded for hours in the jammed, jostling anterooms of doctors' offices.
They'll probably try to hire Caribbean nannies as ringers to do the waiting
for them.


A second issue souring me on this bill is its failure to include the most
common-sense clause to increase competition and drive down prices:
portability of health insurance across state lines. What covert business
interests is the Democratic leadership protecting by stopping consumers from
shopping for policies nationwide? Finally, no healthcare bill is worth the
paper it's printed on when the authors ostentatiously exempt themselves from
its rules. The solipsistic members of Congress want us peons to be ground up
in the communal machine, while they themselves gambol on in the flowering
meadow of their own lavish federal health plan. Hypocrites!

And why are we even considering so gargantuan a social experiment when the
nation is struggling to emerge from a severe recession? It's as if liberals
are starry-eyed dreamers lacking the elementary ability to project or
predict the chaotic and destabilizing practical consequences of their
utopian fantasies. Republicans, on the other hand, have basically sat on
their asses about healthcare reform for the past 20 years and have shown
little interest in crafting legislative solutions to social inequities. The
usual GOP floater about private medical savings accounts is a crock --
something that, given the astronomical costs of major medical crises, would
be utterly unworkable for families of even average household income.

International models of socialized medicine have been developed for nations
and populations that are usually vastly smaller than our own. There are
positives and negatives in their system as in ours. So what's the point of
this trade? The plight of the uninsured (whose number is far less than
claimed) should be directly addressed without co-opting and destroying the
entire U.S. medical infrastructure. Limited, targeted reforms can ban
gouging and unfair practices and can streamline communications now
wastefully encumbered by red tape. But insurance companies and the
pharmaceutical industry are not the sole cause of mounting healthcare costs,
and constantly demonizing them is a demagogic evasion.

How dare anyone claim humane aims for this bill anyhow when its funding is
based on a slashing of Medicare by over $400 billion? The brutal abandonment
of the elderly here is unconscionable. One would have expected a Democratic
proposal to include an expansion of Medicare, certainly not its gutting. The
passive acquiescence of liberal commentators to this vandalism simply
demonstrates how partisan ideology ultimately desensitizes the mind.

Last week's startling gubernatorial victories by Republicans in Virginia and
New Jersey were routinely dismissed as local aberrations by the liberal
media or inflated as referendums on President Obama by the conservative
media. But voters were clearly revolting against the deranged excess
spending of government at both state and federal levels. So it was as much a
protest against Congress as against the White House.

Obama sure needed a lift and got it from Pelosi. The administration has
seemed to be drifting lately. Obama has dithered for months about a strategy
for Afghanistan -- another rats' nest we should pull our troops out of
overnight. Then there was the bizarre disproportion in Obama's flying to
Denmark to flog a Chicago Olympics yet not having time to make it to Germany
to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall -- which suggests a frivolous
provincialism as well as ignorance of history among the president's
principal advisors. And Obama's muted response to last week's massacre at
Fort Hood has exposed ambiguities and uncertainties in the U.S. government
and military about how to respond to homegrown militant Islam. The
presidency is a heavy burden -- a prize that can become a curse.


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http://salon.com/news/opinion/camille_paglia/2009/11/10/pelosi/index.html

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But, but, but I am trying to lose my D.ckhead status and turn into a
Woman!
I don't think the GNC Phyto Estrogen capsules I am taking twice each day
is quite doing the ''trick''!
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