Seems like it's all the same inference for the various arguments.

Government cash for clunkers....

A.K.A. my tax dollars for AntiM's healthcare.

Sigh....

With all due respect to both KD and Aunty, my post was not meant to be used as a hammer maliciously thrown in the direction of a specific party. A stated conclusion was intentionally excluded in hope of something either broader in context or more distilled would be forthcoming. Perhaps a cold G&T is in order for the latter, or this for your consideration of the former....

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. -- Noam Chomsky

Whoa...


The Chomsky line just went WAY over the heads of most of "us".













































But I like it!


(Just watch out or "we" will be calling you a socialist soon )

Hankster, the point is it's a very very lucrative business. We're not talking 10% profit margins here more like 200% to 300% or more. Raping and pillaging us at all levels of care even on your death bed and you don't seem to disagree with that. The doc get's maybe a couple hundred to be responsible for life and death decisions but send me over to Radiology and they gouge out $1,500? It's gotta stop. That's why I call for a regulated industry just like we regulate health care insurance. Blood suckers should be ashamed of themselves.

"When you consider that the alternative would be to cut you open and take a look, I'd say that's a bargain."

Btw, that's pretty warped logic. The alternative is to force you to extract less out of our pockets. Your "we" would still be turning an envious profit. Just not an insane one.

sounds socialist to me

are vision and owner allowed to charge what they want?

if you're insinuating i'm a lesbian, you're right. thankfully, i'm not a socialist

close to being a lesbian or a socialist?

leave me out of this! i voted for Ron Paul

Ron Paul is quite real. I voted for him so that he might be a replacement for the status quo a-holes we were offered by the big two/one party. He also stands for exactly the opposite of the sloth and greed of corporate america and their lackies, our government.

and if you have a problem with the easter bunny and santa claus, take some ex-lax since you don't like bran flakes. fairies are real by the way, just ask Hankster.

Doubt it...

Although it may be true if you think there are only TWO parties.

Libertarian Party (1971)
Constitution Party (1992)
Green Party (1996)

American Party (1969)
America First Party (2002)
America's Independent Party (2008)
Boston Tea Party (2006)
Independence Party of America (2007)
Jefferson Republican Party (2006)
Moderate Party (2006)
Marijuana Party (2002)
Objectivist Party (2008)
Party for Socialism and Liberation (2004)
Peace and Freedom Party (1967) - active primarily in California
Prohibition Party (1867)
Reform Party of the United States of America (1995) - currently divided into two factions both using the name of the "Reform Party"
Socialist Equality Party (2008)
Socialist Party of the United States of America (1973)
Socialist Workers Party (1938)
Unity Party of America (2004)
Workers World Party (1959)
Working Families Party (1998)

Where's the Faux-Centrist Party?

Fish on...

Todd

Who pays the huge R&D costs? The Canadians?

Is it R&D or is it mostly to cover the costs of being sued when 87 yr old Aunt Mary has an adverse reaction?

But Oxycodone aka Oxycontin doesn't have those problems....(sarcasm)

The best pain reliever to hit the market was Vioxx.

You got that right !

Only because "YOU" keep voting for only one of the "TWO"...

My Fiance is a nurse and would bring home sample packs, that was the only non narcotic that would rid my back pain.

Who wants to bet that yet ANOTHER self-imposed ban is a comin' shortly?

The reasoning of course will be that EVERYBODY ELSE is making too many personal attacks.

The clunker fund has run out of money. I got 19MPG on my last tank with no car payments so I guess I will keep driving my 12 year old Ford.