Re: OT: Credit card rates

blake murphy wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:03:23 -0400, George wrote:

blake murphy wrote:
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:57:26 -0400, George wrote:

blake murphy wrote:
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:54:23 -0400, Dora wrote:

Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
On Aug 22, 10:18 am, "Dora" <limey...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mandatory number of terms would do it. Cronyism wouldn't build up
over years and years and maybe we'd have people in Congress and the
White House.who were beholden to the rest of us instead of scratching
each others' backs.
The idea of term limits for the US Senate is asinine. Term limits
have worked like *** here in Missouri, and many other states. A
bunch of inexperienced legislators in state governments is bad. The
same in Congress would lead to stupid legislation.

--Bryan
Whereas we have experienced legislators passing stupid legislation or not dealing with the vital matters at hand.
term limits aren't a solution. better informed voters would be.

your pal,
blake
I am enjoying seeing some of their toes being held to the fire in those town meetings and how some of them whine so much about people speaking up according to the first amendment of the Constitution. Clearly some folks are over the top but most are just normal folks who understand our representatives are our employees and don't need to be worshiped.

I just feel so sorry for them that it can't be business as usual where the lobbyists deliver the proper gratuity with instructions and they put on their little show and pretend to argue about something.
many, if not most, of the town hall agitators don't know what the *** they are talking about. and sorry, shouting other people down is not a first amendment right.
Can't agree. I think there is a typical distribution. Clearly there are a few pros, then some hot heads and then sensible folks. Just like any other situation where free speech is involved and no different than in past cases where the roles were reversed. I haven't been to a town meeting (our representatives are weasels and have scaled them back and won't announce them in advance) but two friends have been to two different meetings and they said they were nothing like the few heated minutes the media keeps on playing over and over.

What we are seeing is lots of pent up anger. Few have forgotten all of the money the politicians transferred to their fat cat friends with bailouts. Lots of folks are just plain angered that the health care plan just needs to be rammed through and no one can explain what it is but they want to make it into law and it will add a now estimated $2 Trillion (2,000 Billion dollars) to the national debt.

Also Pilosi is a total embarrassment to herself and to the Congress for her anti-free speech remarks.

'they're going to pull the plug on grandma!' please.
Obviously you or I don't know because no one can explain what they want to ram into law. Other countries that have socialist health care systems do ration care based on age.

blake

no, they're not going to 'ram into law' pulling the plug on grandma. it's
a lurid fantasy.

So Obama beating his drum every day that Obamacare must be implemented quickly is not "ramming it into law"?


i haven't heard the protesters say one thing that made any sense. it's all
'socialized medicine,' 'keep government hands off medicare,' 'we'll have to
pay for health care for illegals' and pictures of obama with a hitler
mustache. i suspect there is a great deal of overlap between them and the
people demanding to see obama's birth certificate.

in case you haven't noticed, the u.s. spends about twice per capita on
health care


Because of our level of sophistication for one thing. Super duper fancy cutting edge stuff is very expensive. Do you think other countries send their royalty and rock stars here for care because they heard about the great food in the Mayo clinic?

<http://www.kff.org/insurance/snapshot/chcm010307oth.cfm>

and it's getting worse results:

infant mortality: <http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?c=bg&v=29>

Right, we employ high risk extraordinary means to preserve the life of infants so it makes the numbers look bad. Just like trying to explain to someone the other day why they should choose a local surgeon who has bad numbers.


longevity:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy>

someone is looting that money. i suspect it's the people laying the
astroturf that's growing these kooks at the town halls.

So if you don't agree with someone they obviously must be a kook? Are you Pilosi's twin?


and please provide a cite for countries with socialist medicine pulling the
plug on grandma. it's horse***.

Old folks have lower priority than young folks. If you are grandma and you have some disease which requires expedient treatment and it takes months to get it what effectively was done to you?


blake
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