Re: Obama\'s getting too much attention...
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canada, germany, sweden, all have long wait times, piss poor diagnostics, and no choice of doctors. France wants the patient to prepay for major surgeries then reimburse. is this where we are headed?
and please explain to me why nationalizing student loans was part of this bill?
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Wow that's alarming, let's get some Swedish, French, German and Canadians on here to back it up.
The student loan thing... I couldn't care less.
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banjo you put up a lunj of att big profits.
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Ummm..... What dude? I don't know what you mean.
When corporations become as big as they are allowed to they become what our govt considers to big to fail, that's not a democrat or republican thing, its just the way it is, but it is scary. Why do you so vehemently despise government helping these companies but support the economic philosophy that allows them to get that big? Is it that American dream thing where you think you will someday, maybe, have so much money that you will be in that one percent.
Here is a breakdown of how American wealth is spread among our nation.
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
I'm not going to be an ideological foot soldier for those whose wealth I will never have.
Health care costs are not going to drive business out of America. If they would, nobody would be doing business in first world countries, because they all already have universal health care. What do you have to say about that?