Failing its most fundamental job

[jakee 1,254]

9 hours ago, billvon said:

Right.  And I don't want either one choosing.

What does that sentence even mean?

The whole rest of your post is arguing for healthcare to be outsourced, so you want healthcare to be provided by Walmart. Not sure why you won’t own that.

9 hours ago, billvon said:

If the most fundamental job for a government is providing healthcare - absolutely. 

 

You could have a system where the government employs all the doctors but you can choose which one you get. 

Why have you just said two polar opposite things as if they’re both true?

[kallend 1,623]

Shameful!

 

[Phil1111 911]

29 minutes ago, kallend said:

Shameful!

 

Yet its never discussed in US media. This week the Sackler family won immunity for their personal share of over 500,000 dead Americas, re opioid crisis. At the height of the crisis 100,000 were dying every year. The family is worth $11 billion they agreed to pay $6 billion of which only $750 million will go to families of the victims.

All sounds very corrupt, very American. Well hold on, in some Muslim countries you can pay cash for causing the deaths of others. Then never see any punishment beyond that.

In Putin's Russia life expectancy is dropping like flies after the first frost. No talk about that on Russian TV.

[SkyDekker 1,122]

2 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

Yet its never discussed in US media.

I hope you at least get a chuckle out of the irony of posting that under a slide from the Washington Post.

[JoeWeber 2,299]

3 hours ago, kallend said:

Shameful!

 

Red States and Counties are dying faster. I wonder why?

[ryoder 1,384]

25 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

Red States and Counties are dying faster. I wonder why?

The emotional trauma of seeing Bud Light go woke?

[Phil1111 911]

2 hours ago, ryoder said:

The emotional trauma of seeing Bud Light go woke?

Now Chick-fil-A has gone woke as well. FOX viewers are dumbstruck. Ok, ok even more dumbstruck.

[tonyhays 86]

5 hours ago, JoeWeber said:

Red States and Counties are dying faster. I wonder why?

In Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World he writes about the fall of the soviet empire and the subsequent rise of psuedoscience and quackery, a mistrust of actual science.  The life expectancy took a sharp turn downwards then too.

Saw this online awhile back, haven't fack checked it so take with a grain of salt.

 

[JoeWeber 2,299]

4 minutes ago, tonyhays said:

In Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World he writes about the fall of the soviet empire and the subsequent rise of psuedoscience and quackery, a mistrust of actual science.  The life expectancy took a sharp turn downwards then too.

Saw this online awhile back, haven't fack checked it so take with a grain of salt.

 

Interesting that Nye County, Nevada is a stand out area of early death. What might be going on there that causes the old to die early?

[Phil1111 911]

1 hour ago, JoeWeber said:

Interesting that Nye County, Nevada is a stand out area of early death. What might be going on there that causes the old to die early?

Smoking and guns. Not necessarily in that order.

[kallend 1,623]

And the clown show that is the House GOP leaves town for the weekend with a government shutdown looming in a week.

[ryoder 1,384]

There may be some adults in the room:

Poltico: Stop government shutdowns forever? Bipartisan group makes the push

[kallend 1,623]

On 9/22/2023 at 3:51 PM, ryoder said:

There may be some adults in the room:

Poltico: Stop government shutdowns forever? Bipartisan group makes the push

Right now I’m in Bar Harbor, ME. for a hiking vacation in Acadia NP. That is, until the plonkers in the House GOP ruined it. 

[ryoder 1,384]

4 hours ago, kallend said:

Right now I’m in Bar Harbor, ME. for a hiking vacation in Acadia NP. That is, until the plonkers in the House GOP ruined it. 

I rode the motorcycle through RMNP over Trail Ridge Road today. I hadn't even thought of the possibilty that might soon not be possible.

[JoeWeber 2,299]

4 hours ago, kallend said:

Right now I’m in Bar Harbor, ME. for a hiking vacation in Acadia NP. That is, until the plonkers in the House GOP ruined it. 

Relax. Bar Harbor Manhatten Style Clam Chowder is the best. Grab a few cans and some extra cans of minced clams and go to your Air B-n-B for a feast.

[ryoder 1,384]

So McCarthy finally worked with the Democrats.

Threat of government shutdown ends as Congress passes a temporary funding plan and sends it to Biden

 

 

[wmw999 2,122]

4 minutes ago, ryoder said:

So McCarthy finally worked with the Democrats.

Threat of government shutdown ends as Congress passes a temporary funding plan and sends it to Biden

 

 

He’s out. But it’ll be a real shit show of dick-waving to replace him  

Wendy P. 

[JerryBaumchen 1,048]

2 hours ago, wmw999 said:

He’s out. But it’ll be a real shit show of dick-waving to replace him  

Wendy P. 

Hi Wendy,

His a totally vacuous person. 

He had never been a leader in politics.

I won't miss him.

Jerry Baumchen

[ryoder 1,384]

13 hours ago, wmw999 said:

He’s out. But it’ll be a real shit show of dick-waving to replace him  

Wendy P. 

No law that says the Democrats can't support him. Especially, it it takes influence from the Lunatic Fringe.

[JerryBaumchen 1,048]

2 hours ago, ryoder said:

No law that says the Democrats can't support him. Especially, it it takes influence from the Lunatic Fringe.

Hi Robert,

It now seems as though the Dems now have him in their back pocket.  They might consider keeping him if that can work a deal.

One thing about fracture in the governing party is that it gives the non-governing party a lot more clout.

I have never had much time for McCarthy; but:  The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Jerry Baumchen

[ryoder 1,384]

17 hours ago, wmw999 said:

He’s out. But it’ll be a real shit show of dick-waving to replace him  

Wendy P. 

Ooh! It may be even better than that!

Fox News: House GOP members seek to expel Gaetz amid renewed threat to vacate House Speaker McCarthy

[ryoder 1,384]

I love her summary at the end!

 

[airdvr 197]

On 9/22/2023 at 1:02 PM, kallend said:

And the clown show that is the House GOP leaves town for the weekend with a government shutdown looming in a week.

[JoeWeber 2,299]

1 hour ago, airdvr said:

And when you d have the money it has only imaginary value, so what's the difference?

[JerryBaumchen 1,048]

2 hours ago, airdvr said:

Hi airdvr,

You say this as if it is something new. 

How much federal largesse has your state taken in, in oh say about the last 10 yrs?

Let's face it, every state is at the federal tit.

Jerry Baumchen