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From: jmfbahciv on 3 Nov 2006 08:57 In article <cIadnRExj-EqqtbYnZ2dnUVZ8s-dnZ2d(a)pipex.net>, "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >news:eia884$8qk_011(a)s880.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >> In article <b0b87$454896c9$4fe760b$14253(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >>>> In article <4546F871.E7AD0EB5(a)hotmail.com>, >>>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>>unsettled wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Also compare the availability of goods and services in Europe >>>>>>and other places in the world to ours. >>>>> >>>>>What !!!! >>>>> >>>>>Are you being funny ? >>>> >>>> >>>> No, he's not. There are a lot of Europeans who come to the US >>>> to shop. >>> >>>There have been many flights bringing Europeans to shop at >>>the Mall of America in Minnesota. Straight in, shop all day, >>>get back on the plane the same day and go back. >> >> I hadn't heard that one. > >Neither had I. It seems unusual for people to fly over 10 hours each way to >go shopping. The prices there really must be rock bottom. Oh, I've heard of people going to Califoria (from Asia) and Boston and NYC from Europe to buy stuff. I had not realized that these shoppers had discovered that Mall. /BAH > >> I suspect it would be the place to >> go with everything in the same building. > >Strangely, we have things like that in Europe as well. > >
From: lucasea on 3 Nov 2006 09:01 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:eife05$8qk_002(a)s820.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <4549E5B2.FE517C00(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >The last thing I'd fancy after a long flight is shopping ! >>> >>> I observed this behaviour when we went to China. Our tour >>> groups were upper middle class people. We arrived at the >>> Great Wall and the shopaholics turned left to go into the >>> store while we turned right to go on the Great Wall and walk >>> a little bit of it. These people never saw the Great Wall. >>> >>> They went half-way around the world and didn't even bother to >>> look at a remarkable feat of the human species. >> >>Americans ??? > > Not all were. Translation: "yes, almost entirely." Eric Lucas
From: lucasea on 3 Nov 2006 09:02 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:454B3BC8.8C79824F(a)hotmail.com... > > > JoeBloe wrote: > >> You're an absolute dipshit. It has ALWAYS been about our nation's >> security. > > No it isn't. Even Bush couldn't say it was, and keep a straight face. Eventually, he started mumbling something about taking out an evil dictator that was killing his own people, then faded off into silence on the issue. Eric Lucas
From: jmfbahciv on 3 Nov 2006 09:00 In article <454B3D79.250DEEA6(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >The last thing I'd fancy after a long flight is shopping ! >> >> >> >> I observed this behaviour when we went to China. Our tour >> >> groups were upper middle class people. We arrived at the >> >> Great Wall and the shopaholics turned left to go into the >> >> store while we turned right to go on the Great Wall and walk >> >> a little bit of it. These people never saw the Great Wall. >> >> >> >> They went half-way around the world and didn't even bother to >> >> look at a remarkable feat of the human species. >> > >> >Americans ??? >> >> Not all were. I think this had more to do with people who had >> new money. It was certainly a lesson to me about people who >> don't know how work gets done. > >I can't imagine what goes through their minds. Oh, I can imagine. A good example is this thread. > > >> That part of the Wall was amazing. We climbed it and walked it. >> JMF has fear of heights. He wanted to go on (est. angle of >> some of walk was >45 degrees). I looked back and then had to >> look _down_. I figured I'd have to carry him back if we went any >> further. > >I'm glad you enjoyed it. > >My time on mainland China was really just involved with business in the Shenzhen >area. I'd like to see more though. I'm going to get up and look it up. I don't know where that area is. > >I do like Hong Kong big time though ! Hong Kong was a amazing when were there. I don't know how it has changed since China took it over, though. /BAH
From: Lloyd Parker on 3 Nov 2006 03:19
In article <d908b$454a26a8$4fe71d7$24805(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >Lloyd Parker wrote: > >> In article <eicp5g$8qk_014(a)s950.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, >> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>>In article <454952A9.54CB1E21(a)hotmail.com>, >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>unsettled wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Eeyore wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>unsettled wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>MooseFET wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>unsettled wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>Where there's national health insurance, which is universal >>>>>>>>>in any given country, where does the money come from? From >>>>>>>>>the unemployed, perhaps? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>It also comes from the employers but less money is required so the US >>>>>>>>employers who provide health insurance are placed at a disadvantage. >>>>>>>>In the US health care costs about 60% more than in Canada so US >>>>>>>>employers are at a disadvantage to that degree. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>There is some compensating advantage in that in Canada, you have to >>>>>>>>spend hugely on heating so your workers don't freeze to death on the >>>>>>>>shop floor. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>I really love this. You actually think you're getting >>>>>>>something for nothing. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>No. >>>>>> >>>>>>It's less expensive the 'socialist' way. >>>>> >>>>>Hoodwinked. Bwahahahahahaha. >>>>> >>>>>Never. >>>> >>>>It's a simple fact. >>>> >>>>USA 2003 $1.7 trillion. >>>>( $5666 per head of population ) >>>>http://www.kaiseredu.org/topics_im.asp?imID=1&parentID=61&id=358 >>>> >>>>UK NHS budget ?76.4 billion. >>>>( ? 1273 per head of population ) >>>>http://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/PressReleases/PressReleases No >> >> t >> >>>ices/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4127292&chk=HDOR9C >>> >>>>And of course in the USA it's only those with health insurance who get >> >> proper >> >>>>treatment. >>> >>>Wrong. I have insurance. I have no access to treatment unless >>>I get "permission" from the primary care physician to whom I've >>>been assigned. If you are already ill with an untreatable disease >>>you have no access unless the PCP is cooperative. Mine isn't and >>>nobody will take new patients who are already ill. >>> >>>That is why I'm trying to point out that having insurance is >>>not a guarantee you will get access to treatment when you need it. >>>The only thing our politicians are trying to do is to make >>>the insurance available to all from a single payer, the US >>>government. This will cause a decrease in access. >>> >>>/BAH >> >> >> Wrong. The gov't as payer has no reason to deny payments, unlike a for-profit >> private insurance company. Note that Medicare has far less overhead expenses >> than any private insurance company. > > >Bullshit. > What, the Medicare datum? Look it up, damn it, before spouting off about something you are obviously ignorant about. >I am about to get onto the appeal merry-go-round with >medicare about an MRI where they only approve a CT >scan. I am allergic to iodine/shellfish based >radiographic dye, so the alternative was prescribed >by my physician. > > > |