So, Pelosi's approval rating is at 11%, Reid's at 8%....and these are the two of the three most powerful people in the world right now. Did anyone mention that you guys are fucked?
And Drudge had a headline under the Wicked Witch of San Francisco's picture "The Most Powerful Woman in the World?"
Unless you're saying that the US Federal Government grossly mismanages everything it comes into contact with, which I'd agree with, I'm not seeing your point. Edit: That figure is actually low. The Federal Government only pays for a portion of Medicaid. Most of the money is contributed by the individual states.
I was just referring to the claim that you couldn't afford to replicate the NHS because the money isn't there, when it already is. The fact that it would be impossible to replicate that system in the US then becomes a question of exactly why the US is so different to many other Western countries.
Why would we ever want to be like other countries anyway? If all the other countries jump off a cliff, should the US?
What if it's a cliff in the U.S.? What if one of the people is a guy named Cliff? Should we make him jump off his own name?
Then it would be the same as dividing by zero. No, everyone would have to climb up on top of him and jump off.
Pretty sure they do, but you can self medicate there. I think it's also rated as something like the 5th most democratic country. Seems like the US is much further down the list. [EDIT]Ah! The Netherlands is #4. The US is #18. LINK
I recall a story - might have been Canada or might have been UK - which described patients being held in ambulances outside the building for hours so that they wouldn't be "on the clock" in terms of wait time.
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Neither of those statements depend on the other. My first statement can stand alone, just as my second statement can stand alone. I'm not a Democrat, and I'm not a Republican. You've already made your assumptions and I'm not going to change them no matter how honest and straightforward I am. That's your right. I just have a little more faith that things will work out, and that the country isn't doomed. Of course you won't feel stupid when 5, 10, 15, 20 years from now the country is still doing fine, but it won't have mattered by then, and you'll be on to something else.
I've maintained you're a liberal in moderate's clothing for some time now. Your "can't we all get along" plea with conservatives after a Congressional rule-breaking procedure to cram an unconstitutional statute is proof enough. So your stance that you don't really know what's going to happen was another "optimistcally concerned" facade to mask your support for the legislation. I would hope it would be safe to assume you wouldn't otherwise unless you're simply another vandybitch or Lietard reveling in schadenfreude, if only more subdued.
Is it? I saw a headline recently that the US Government is having to pay back the money that it owes Social Security - and it doesn't have it. We are in DEFICIT SPENDING - meaning we are spending what we don't have in hopes that it will come in sooner rather than later. You have caught that periodically the House and Senate have to vote to extend the debt so that the government can still write checks, right? In short, Bailey, we ain't got it and we ain't gonna have it for the foreseeable and unforeseeable future. Especially with all the spending that Obama is doing.
I should clarify, you already have the money in the budget. Whether or not the money should be there is a good thing to question, however that amount is already being spent.
And the data about the infant mortality rate is bullshit as well since different countries have different opinions as to what qualifies as infant mortality. In some countries you can have a live birth and then death occur up to 48 hours later and it is classified as a spontaneous abortion, not an infant death.
Sugar, I have LOTS of money in the budget - doesn't mean I have the $$$ bills to back it up and pay for it when it comes due. And no, the amount is already being spent; it was spent long ago over and over again.
