From: lucasea on

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> unsettled wrote:
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>> Don Bowey wrote:
>> > "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote:
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>> >>Don't blame Bush for this one. It was easily predictable
>> >>and *had* to happen.
>> >
>> >
>> > Why did it have to happen?
>>
>> Because when there's money available to be grabbed, it will
>> be grabbed.
>
> That will happen in a money-grabbing society for sure !
>
> The wholesale corruption of the USA never fails to amaze me.


Nonsense. There are a few soulless idiots like Unsettled who, in order to
justify their own money-grabbing corruption, try to make it sound like
*everybody* does it. Nowhere close. The average American, if there is such
a thing, is honest and hard-working. Except for pockets of corruption, I'm
reasonably certain that corruption is no more endemic here than anywhere
else.

Eric Lucas

Eric Lucas


From: lucasea on

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> JoeBloe wrote:
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>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us:
>> >JoeBloe wrote:
>> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us:
>> >> >lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote:
>> >> >> "Don Bowey" <dbowey(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > As I recall, the pollution controls began being enforced about
>> >> >> > 1970. By
>> >> >> > the end of the decade the air was much cleaner.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> And not coincidentally, since US sales accounted for the majority
>> >> >> of MG
>> >> >> sales, they went under essentially at the end of the decade of the
>> >> >> 70s.
>> >> >
>> >> >Eh ?
>> >>
>> >> Austin-Healey, right? No, they didn't go under.
>> >
>> >They just stopped making them.
>> >
>> >
>> >> The word for today is :
>> >>
>> >> * * * S P R I D G E T * * *
>> >
>> >Eh ?
>> >
>> >Actually I was talking about MG and they didn't go down until a couple
>> >of years
>> >ago.
>> >
>> >http://www.mg-rover.com/static/index.html
>> >
>>
>> I was talking about the MG Midget, which eventually became the
>> spridget!

Um...you might actually want to read that article. The Midget was
introduced in 1961 as essentially the same car as the Mark II Sprite, and
the Spridget was born.. After the demise of the Sprite in 1972, and for the
next 6 years, it became just the Midget. So you should really say that the
Spridget morphed into the Midget.

Eric Lucas


From: Eeyore on


lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote:

> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
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> >> >> the way to get it [healthcare] is to go to work at a place that provides
> coverage.
> >> >
> >> >Is that normal for minimum wage employers ?
>
> OK, time for a little reality check and damage control here. No, minimum
> wage employees do not generally receive health care.

So the minimum wage employee gets hit twice.

They'd like health cover but the employer's unlikely to provide it.

They don't earn enough to afford it themselves ! Sheer genius.

Graham

From: T Wake on

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> unsettled wrote:
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>> T Wake wrote:
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>> > A nationalised health service only requires that the central control
>> > gets a
>> > doctor anywhere in the country. The doctor then does his job and makes
>> > people well again.
>>
>> Doctors don't make people "well again."
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> They do sometimes.

I have been to the doctor in past, unwell, the doctor has treated me and I
was well again. Once more unsettled is simply wrong.

More importantly, that was not a crucial part of my post - even if it is
true and doctors dont make people well again (ever), the fact remains /BAH
was incorrect.

>> The best they can do is delay death for a while longer.
>
> And that too.

I wish they wouldn't do it to unsettled.


From: T Wake on

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> unsettled wrote:
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>> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote
>> > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
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>> >>>A single-payer in the US cannot have that; it is too big--3000 miles
>> >>>wide 1700 miles long. You cannot administer distribution system
>> >>>using a small business model while keeping the decisions central.
>> >>
>> >>Then how do the likes of FedEx and DHL function *worldwide* ?
>> >
>> >
>> > They cannot deliver individual service. They do not repackage,
>> > recolor, nor remake the package nor the contents. There is
>> > no comparision to carrying a package from point A to point B
>> > and fixing a single individual's ailment.
>>
>> I don't know what DHL does but FedEx uses a lot of contractors.
>> Lost or delayed packages incurr some costs which they pay
>> instead of trying to manage the entire system themselves
>> from a central point.
>
> The NHS employs contractors too.
>

Well said, the example is getting more accurate as we go along. Despite
/BAH-Unsettleds desire to simply argue, they actually want an NHS but they
just cant bring themselves to admit it. As a result they create all manner
of strawmen.