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Ed,
You really need to start taking your meds again. First of all, I can't  
believe that you have the time to write this crap. Secondly, I am trying to  
understand your totally convoluted brain and why it works this way. You really  need 
to start drinking.......and never stop. It will give you a whole new  
perspective on life.

Rummy

In a message dated 10/30/2008 7:53:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ekroposki at charter.net writes:

Recently several snide remarks were made toward a returning Rhodie  by a
newbie without aforethought to whom the remarks were directed.   This is
consistent with contemporary liberalism.  Specifically, They  did no
recognizable serious research into the underlying  facts.

Could it have been that the jokes are trying to politely tell  the recipient
something about himself?  Could they be asking real  questions as to whether
these educated people are making any good  contribution to real problems?  

I would suggest the possibility  that lawsuits are just a form of coercion. 
Often the coercion applied is  economically more deleterious than the
original problem.  Humans  respond to leadership and rebel against coercion.

Rather these  folks accept a feel good answer to social problems.  I would
like to  ask Peter if he ever sat down and listened to a survivor of the
Soviet  Socialist system that escaped from that system before or shortly
after the  collapse of the ‘Iron Curtain’.  

Others point to socialized  medicine in Europe as a working solution.  There
is a reason why most  of the best physicians around the world ardently seek
to practice medicine  in the USA.  The reason is that socialized medicine
does not offer the  best care nor does it offer the best health care workers
an environment  conducive to the best medical practice.

I can point to some very  competent individuals who made the best of a bad
situation.   Specifically to some physicians and other health care workers
who choose to  work within the socialist system.  After talking with  those
physicians, nurses and other health care workers all believed  that
socialized medicine was not the best answer.

What I say, is  that for the most part the supporters of nationalized health
care have  studied neither the facts nor the caregivers assessments.  They
are  trying to inject a feel good opinion on others.  They are trying to  use
the power of the state (government) to accomplish their personal  opinions.

They are trying to use the failed Marxist solutions in  America.  And, again
I ask which system has a demonstrable track  record of providing a higher
standard of living for all?  The  historical answer is not socialism.

I ask how long the Philadelphia  lawyer would have been on a waiting list in
a socialized country for  elective surgery ?  Or in order to be moved up the
list how many  payments would be needed (typical solution is graft)?

Whereas, in  America his doctor got him an appointment for his surgery at  the
hospital/clinic of his choice.  Freedom is amazing and elusive and  it does
not come from socialism. 

Ed K
addendum:   
“Barack Obama's motto "Change you can believe in" has acquired a  new
meaning, changing his positions is the only thing you can believe in.  His
campaign began with a huge change in the image he projects, compared to  what
he was doing for 20 years before.”  Thomas Sowell (it should be  noted that
Sowell is a black man with a Ph.D. in economics and studied at  the
University of Chicago)

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