If anyone says America should have Universal Health Care, just ask them if they really want to pay for Rush Limbaugh and Bill Gate's healthcare. See, there's the problem - America is a country at war with itself. Anyone an American doesn't like somehow deserves only to die alone in horrible agony. Where's that Christian compassion?
Or so one would think. The prospect of universal health care frightens me. I'm genuinely concerned about the kids who will be removed from their parents because mommy and daddy weren't good enough to keep up with state mandated checkup schedules, which could be made mandatory under universal health care. What's the old security line? The innocent have nothing to fear? Something like that anyway. I don't see why there has to be mandatory che
also indirectly the united states is paying for your medicines. because your country and all other countries on the planet put caps on the profits for the pharm. companies. the only exception is the united states. and someone has to provide the real profits for these companies. so that these companies can take part of that profit and come up with new meds to help when the old ones start to fail. There is a substance that is highly effective in treat
Moore's out to make a buck like all of the capitalists he derides. I only wish he were honest about that, cacto! You've said this before, I disagree and I'm over it, but you can talk about it on the article you've created for that very purpose. I don't think it's at all relevant to this discussion.
Didn't you just say that Australia allows for PRIVATE health care insurance, cacto? Moore's proposal would BAN that! Who cares about what Moore wants? He's just raising the issue, you don't have to do what he says. Doctors in the public system get paid quite well. It makes good sense to do so. That doesn't change just because there isn't a private system anyway. There'll still be tonnes of foreign doctors you can attract if, for some strange reason
What does Socialized Medicine mean? It means that a third of your income goes to pay for "free" healthcare, whether you're using it or not. No, it means that moron scaremongerers with a penchant for extremism and being dickheads make outrageous claims they can't back up whilst throwing capital letters around like they're confetti. Bugger off Ted if you're not prepared to say something sensible, or at least be clever with your jokes if that
Of course, that would come with a big tax increase and I can hear all the insurance, medical professional lobbyists getting ready to go to battle. Not to mention the smaller government even if that means our highways collapse contingent. It doesn't, actually. From memory the medicare levy is roughly 2% for most people - a thousand a year if you're on the average wage. If you're earning millions I guess it's a lot of money, but really if you're earning mi
"Free" health care coverage pretty much guarantees the quality of our care will drop, as there's no way the government will pay $100k a year plus for thousands of doctors across the country. Why not? They do in Australia and, from what Sicko suggested, the UK as well (I haven't seen figures for that country though). It's actually a good investment because doctors pay lots of taxes through purchases of luxury goods and income taxes, so the government get
If you're going to start out with a completely flawed premise, though, there's no sense in discussing it with you! You don't have to discuss anything with me. No one said you had to read this article, and if you don't want to talk about infant mortality and its usefulness as a general indicator of of health system effectiveness then no one is going to force you to. It's a big internet. There's room for non-child-mortality-based talk, crazy as it may soun
Today I went and saw an advance screening for Michael Moore's latest vehicle, Sicko. As far as Moore movies go it wasn't a bad example of the genre - some melodrama, some sticking it to man yee-hah moments, a little additional pathos and some laughs. NOTE: For the hard of thinking I of course add on the obvious rider that he, like most people, believes in truth management. Far be it from me to fail in pointing out the flaws of everyone who considers themselves a mouthpiece
On the other hand, if they reject the Holy Bible, but don't mind someone handing out The Holy Qu'ran, then we know all we need to. You know all you need to do what? Reinforce your own suspicions that people who go to Arabic schools are more likely to be Muslims than Christians?
not only would the world benefit, but you and your family would as well cuz even if you didn't make a cent more than you do now (highly unlikely), you'd be doing something for which you seem to be so well equipped. Exactly. If I can waltz into a journalism job at a highly respected newspaper without any experience then you should be able to do it as well. You write better than I do and you actually seem to care about the facts.
1. Our Founding Fathers' belief system was routed in the biblical Judean Christian Faith, not the Muslim Faith. Kupe answered this one pretty well, but it helps sometimes to remember that Islam is rooted in the Judeo-Christian ethical and belief systems. Moses, Abraham, Mary and Jesus have a place in Islam too, so really Islam couldn't be considered to be entirely against the founding fathers' beliefs, just one that pares off with the 'Jesus wasn't
or have you forgotten about the pics of the 2nd grade Palestinians with the guns in their hands. WWW Link Granted there are some Muslims there, but only a few. Plenty of white kids with guns on that one. Maybe they're going to start shooting stuff up - non-Muslims certainly have no trouble doing it in US schools after all.
1. They're both right and we can never know which one is real until we're dead. After all both work as explanations; science explains what's there, and there's no reason to assume God isn't an asshole who likes to fool humans with strata and space. 2. God created them as fossils, not as living things. If God is everything, then somewhere in there is a tricky little bastard that likes to play practical jokes on archaeologists. If there wasn't God wouldn't be everything. 3. Those
I too have always found Muslin to be the most belligerent of fabrics. It's in the weave.
I'm happy to say I've never read a single Potter book or seen a single Potter movie. Aren't I special? That's not very good. You should at least try the first one. Well-written books are always worth reading. Bugger any potential blows to your reputation. I never would have figured you as someone who followed pointless trends!
Regardless of your knowledge and intellectual output you dont expect to be say a "Yale" Graduate if you dont believe in their existence and accordingly didnt even apply to join? do you? Yale has never claimed to love everyone though. Yale has never asked to be worshipped, or claimed omnipotence or omniscience. Subtle differences, really, but important nonetheless. It's the same with the workers. They didn't have t
Welcome to the mirror. Look deeper if you dare, but I fully expect to be written off. Oooooooh, I'm scared! You're a bit of a tosser, aren't you? You should post more. This site needs more tossers who can write well.
prove that please? I think Brad went into that a while back, although so far as I can remember it wasn't statistically significant. I think he wrote an article on the topic directly, although I couldn't find it with a cursory google. Democrats get the creative professions, the poor and the intellectuals, Republicans get business owners, management and the religious. On the topic: Americans are stupid. Have you seen any? Spoke
Welcome to mankind...the tree of man. Stop kidding yourselves that somehow the "right" guy will come along and by thinking so it gives you justice to lambaste whosoever you find is not worthy. It's childish. Especially when you could be looking for him yourself. I read your little story and I can't say I was that impressed. History is full of rulers who reshaped a nation in their image and changed the way it thought and acted, if just for a
For some, the only justice is that his life be taken as well. Mercy for the murderers, KFC? They shouldn't be grieved a murderer 'gets off lightly' with a life sentence; if they must grieve it should be because he's receiving a much harsher punishment. If the tales of those who have lived in cages are anything to go by it's not a good life, and certainly a much harder death than being hanged or shocked or lethally injected. C
Anything else is just so much random, meaningless proselytizing, self-serving and arrogant, and engaged in for no other reason than to pat yourself on the back for being so much smarter than those who aren't 'in the know.' What's wrong with that? You say it like it's a bad thing!
Do you think Jesus was religiously tolerant? Of course. I'm not aware of any 'smite the infidel' talk coming from Jesus' corner. He seemed very live and let live, despite the fact that the Romans and many others in that part of the world were pagans and non-Jews. I'm not sure it would have been practical to be all that religiously intolerant as a Jew in the province of Syria at that time.
Ever since 1960, everywhere in the country there has been a tremendous increase of abortions, divorce, immorality and filthy propaganda reaching Americans through movies, music, TV, videos, and literature. You have the most fascinating bureau of statistics! How do they quantify the amount of 'filthy propaganda reaching Americans'? Does it have its own unit of measurement? And what about immorality? Does every citizen dutifully fill out forms o
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