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Originally Posted by Arbitrary  I kinda see what she was going for but it didn't come together at all. |
I don't see it at all. What I see is a person being asked a question about something she knows nothing about, and instead of deferring she decided to forge ahead with a cut and paste cliche from the Republican playbook: all government programs are a burden on the tax payer and must be shrunk. Use words like "effective" and "efficient".
Never mind the fact that neither were government programs to begin with. To me that's a fucking monstrous gaffe and clearly shows she's out of her element. I mean I couldn't tell you much about what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac actually do, but I'm not running for fucking VP.
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Originally Posted by Khorum Palin was correct that the consequences of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae's tremendous influence on the taxpayer's lives (combined they represent more than HALF of the mortgage positions in the USA) and noone anywhere can argue that. |
Slow down there tiger. That sentence doesn't make sense. Palin is correct about the consequences..... doing what? That sentence right there is missing a piece.
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Originally Posted by Melchizedek You show up to an ER with a life threatening injury, you are going to get seen. Period. |
Funny, I thought that's what happened in Canada too. I guess I must have missed all the heart wrenching stories of people dieing because they couldn't get treatment in time. Oh, maybe that's because that is total bullshit. Yes, granny might have to wait 6 or 10 months for a new hip. However if Billy over there gets shot in the face, he's going to get medical help. Or say, if my sister has a yet another gall bladder attack last week, she'll still get operated on within a few hours of getting to the hospital, even though her specialist appointment wasn't until November. Same as my grapefruit sized left nut 10 years ago, I wasn't supposed to see a specialist until February but there I was New Year's Day still drunk and stoned, and they magically found a doctor to operate (coincidentally same one did my sister).
In short, shut the fuck up. The US health care system is the best in the world
for those who can afford it. For the average person, most developed nations have more effective health care systems, and there's plenty of evidence of that. Life expectancies being one major one, of course. But there's numerous other metrics as well, such as percent of GDP spent on health care, both public and private (hint, the US spends a lot more than anyone else to get a less effective system).
As far as all you're blabbering about drugs and treatments developed in the US, I hope your ignorant ass isn't a diabetic. If you are, bow down to your Canadian overlords, asshole.
