So I just watched SiCKO...

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  • ThumbingMyWay32
    ThumbingMyWay32 Posts: 1,224
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    in some quarters, that's hate speech :)

    our system is set up so that the least able to pay have the best care, seriously, come to NY!

    again, name an effective government program, then i'll (most Americans) will start to believe.


    You'll be my effective go between for Abook, Hawk. I hope you're ready... Yeah, you're ready.
    "Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive"

    "What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact."

    Camden 5-28-06
    Washington, D.C. 6-22-08
  • Alex_Coe
    Alex_Coe Posts: 762
    my2hands wrote:
    do you suck tail pipes for kicks or what chief? :rolleyes:


    I don't remember why, but I dislike you. Tail pipes are fucking delicious.
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    in some quarters, that's hate speech :)

    our system is set up so that the least able to pay have the best care, seriously, come to NY!

    again, name an effective government program, then i'll (most Americans) will start to believe.

    It's not about the system...it's about the guys running the system currently. All that can change.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    ThumbingMyWay32 wrote:
    No, I've just been in enough conversations to have finally learned its best to ignore Abook.

    Abook is a cool poster and is passionate about her beliefs, don't be afraid to engage just b/c you disagree...You don't learn a helluva lot from people you agree with. Trust me, i have as many stereotypes about people on the other side of the spectrum as you do, but try to figure out "perspective."
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • Rushlimbo
    Rushlimbo Posts: 832
    ThumbingMyWay32 wrote:
    No, I've just been in enough conversations to have finally learned its best to ignore Abook. Even though I've been away for 4 months and he couldn't afford me the same favor in another thread.

    I have a tendency to throw sarcastic comments on the table that apparently offend him rather often. Sometimes I think it offends him every time I let one out because he responds to every one. Even when I'm talking to some one else, like you for instance. Every time we talk it's just a bunch of periods and letters...

    I'm afraid..... You wouldn't understand. Plus, because of those little zingers I like to throw out from time to time he's been rather generous in his assumptions that I never have anything substantive to say. There within lies my propensity to avoid these forums. It's like talking to a box full of carbon copies.

    But anyway, no, I don't suck tail pipes.

    Abook isnt a guy, Einstein.
    War is Peace
    Freedom is Slavery
    Ignorance is Strength
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    Abook is a cool poster and is passionate about her beliefs, don't be afraid to engage just b/c you disagree...You don't learn a helluva lot from people you agree with. Trust me, i have as many stereotypes about people on the other side of the spectrum as you do, but try to figure out "perspective."

    Aww, just let him stay in his little bitty box. It's safer in there. :p



    and thanks for the kind words, Hawk :)
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    stopped reading there...

    if you canucks have "better" health care, why are you flooding Buffalo's and Cleveland's hospitals?

    Answer: Government couldn't wipe their own ass efficiently...

    keep health care "corporate' (i.e. free)

    The only Canadians who "flood" American hospitals are rich Canadians who can't wait a week or a month to get a non-critical MRI . Trust me, there are far more Americans trying to pose as Canadians for free health care than there are Canadians "flooding" American hospitals. If you think that the insurance companies that "provide" health care coverage for you are not more interested in making money than making sure that you get the best treatment, then you are nuts.
    1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    It's not about the system...it's about the guys running the system currently. All that can change.

    I just want "the guys" in private business working on incentives, I don't trust govt...
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    Aww, just let him stay in his little bitty box. It's safer in there. :p



    and thanks for the kind words, Hawk :)

    This is why I need to be sent over to the mid-east,,,i can get you and TMW together :)

    me = world's solution to diplomacy :)
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    I just want "the guys" in private business working on incentives, I don't trust govt...


    And I don't trust wealthy private sector "guys". I trust good people who I think would do a better job.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    Songburst wrote:
    The only Canadians who "flood" American hospitals are rich Canadians who can't wait a week or a month to get a non-critical MRI . .

    or those "non-critical" hip replacments, or organ transplants..
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    Rushlimbo wrote:
    Abook isnt a guy, Einstein.

    are you as disappointed as I am that Rush is out for the week? :)
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • freedomboy
    freedomboy Posts: 129
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    IMO, the problem is with the lying, greedy people we put in office, not the system itself. The system can be used much more efficiently by people who actually have an interest in working for the people... not just the rich ones who buy them off. And the ones that would actually make great leaders are called 'long shots' and 'vanity candidates'. :rolleyes:

    Unfortunately, reality has proven that there are a series of broken systems here. The electoral system is clearly broken, the labor and economic system is clearly broken and as a result the health care system is broken. So to fix it, we have to use the propagandistic charade that our government has been using for centuries against them, which is the illusion of democracy. They will give it to us if we all move together on this.

    There is no reason not to, we have nothing to lose. To wait until we can fix the other problems could take 100 years. Think of how many people will suffer and die in that time...

    WE NEED A UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM NOW!
    Freedom is a state of mind...
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    And I don't trust wealthy private sector "guys". I trust good people who I think would do a better job.

    I trust the private sector over the govt...i don't believe that people working for the state a re "good" people, and I don't believe that people working for private industry are "good" people...but at least the latter are behaving on incentives....i'll trust my well-being to that over govt any day.
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    brokendave wrote:
    WE NEED A UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM NOW!

    i strongly disagree...i

    but 'll be persuaded if you can point to an efficient government program.
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    ThumbingMyWay32 wrote:

    But anyway, no, I don't suck tail pipes.

    you should try it some time, its a hoot :cool:
  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    but 'll be persuaded if you can point to an efficient government program.

    I wonder how many times you'll need to ask this question before someone will finally concede that it is unanswerable.
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    i strongly disagree...i

    but 'll be persuaded if you can point to an efficient government program.

    sure, dial 911 and tell them someone just broke into your home with a gun. hang up and wait 2-3 minutes
  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    jeffbr wrote:
    I wonder how many times you'll need to ask this question before someone will finally concede that it is unanswerable.


    sure, call your local fire department and tell them your house is on fire. wait 3-5 minutes. your answer should be on its way
  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    i strongly disagree...i

    but 'll be persuaded if you can point to an efficient government program.


    yet you want to dump endless amounts of $ into the largest government operation. the military.

    or are you saying our troops are inefficient?

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