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From: Eeyore on 25 Nov 2006 21:51 krw wrote: > rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... > > krw wrote: > > > > > Think, dumb donkey. A controlled economy *is* communism. > > > > Where did I say controlled ? > > My you do like to snip out what makes you look so foolish. Here, > I'll remind you: > > > > It's more like a mixed economy run by a party that still calls > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > itself communist. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > "Economy run by" => "Economy controlled by", dumb donkey. Did the Republicans *control* the US economy and do the Democrats do so now ? Is the USA economy a *comtrolled economy* ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 25 Nov 2006 21:52 krw wrote: > rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... > > T Wake wrote: > > > > > Shall we look at Halliburton and think about how it has got the contracts it > > > is currently running? Do you mean to imply there was an open tender and they > > > simply put the best bid in? > > > > It's been interesting to see that none of the right-wingers has responded to my > > comments about Bechtel and Halliburton. They can't refute it, it would seem. > > The assertion has been made so many time I'm tired of answering it. > You actually blew your own legs out on this by by admitting that > that a Brit firm wanted a piece of the action, but wasn't allowed > to since the work was being done with USD. Golden rule. And why was that ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 25 Nov 2006 21:55 krw wrote: > rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... > > krw wrote: > > > rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... > > > > krw wrote: > > > > > rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... > > > > > > krw wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > It makes as much sense as nationalizing health care; none. Why > > > > > > > don't you nationalize food production while you're at it? > > > > > > > > > > > > Who said anything about nationalisation ? > > > > > > > > > > What exactly do you think *NATIONALIZED* Health Care is? > > > > > > > > > > Dumb donkey! > > > > > > > > The NHS *does not* nationalise all health care. > > > > > > > > Private practice continues and GPs run their own practices essentially as they like. >> > > They simply receive a salary from the NHS. > > > > > > If they receive a salary from the NHS, their practices *have* been > > > nationalized. > > > > Not at all. That's a completely wrong connection. > > The boss is the government. The doctor is no longer controls his > practice. == nationalized. The doctor *does* control his own practice you numbskull ! The government / state / NHS does not own the practices nor does it dictate any part of their day-to-day running ! Graham
From: Eeyore on 25 Nov 2006 22:05 Don Klipstein wrote: > In article <4568EA1A.564BC718(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore wrote: > >unsettled wrote: > >> T Wake wrote: > >> > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > >> >>Phineas T Puddleduck wrote: > >> >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>>>Have you ever read anything modern ? > >> >>>> > >> >>>>Thatcher was quite mad btw. > >> >>> > >> >>>"Quite" - barking towards the end. There is no love for Thatcher in > >> >>>Wales, for example. Less then for Beeching, in faact. > >> >> > >> >>Her idea of running the economy using 'corner shop' economics was a total > >> >>disaster. > >> > > >> > > >> > Don't let /BAH hear you say that.... She is convinced Thatcher was the great > >> > saviour of UK economics. /BAH wouldn't for one second think that Thatcher's > >> > meddling caused all manner of long term problems. > >> > >> LOL it wasn't as though you had none when she became > >> Prime Minister. > > > >Eh ? > > > >Thatcher presided over the start of the destruction of British manufacturing > >industry for one. > > I think roughly same time as USA's Reagan presided over USA going from > "World's Greatest Creditor Nation" to "World's Greatest Debtor Nation". > And partly from tax cuts unsupported by spending cuts, but also from > not fixing what USA's Democrats broke in the previous 15-20 years despite > enjoying some time with ideological majority in both houses of Congress! > The R's attacked the D's more successfully on issues where I think the > D's were more on the right side! > > "A pox on both houses" - to be endured until more politicians benefit > from solving problems than from causing them! My own feeling is that the 'political class' no longer serves any useful purpose. > I have the sensation that Republicans try mostly to shoot down the > regulations that save the most whales, and that Democrats try mostly to > defend the ones that cost the most per whale saved! LOL ! > >Britain now has to buy its planes, ships and even trains from abroad > >just to name a few examples. > > >(Further sad news snipped) And now they wonder why no-one wants to take engineering degrees here ! Graham
From: Eeyore on 25 Nov 2006 22:06
Don Klipstein wrote: > Michael A. Terrell wrote: > >Don Bowey wrote: > >> > >> Oregon has it's own medical plan. > > > > And a fine job they do, letting their mental patients run free to > >make threatening phone calls to people. One has lost multiple ISP > >accounts for threatening people online, been bared from the local > >Wal-Mart, and arrested for trying to run over someone, as well. > > Are you arguing on basis of the actions of one person in the entire US > "state" of Oregon? It's amazing how often ppl do this. Newspapers do it too. Graham |