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Originally posted by Mirthful Me
Sorry intrepid, but the notion that the American healthcare system operates on the contingency of ability to pay is patently false. The magnitude of any given healthcare providers write-off on receivables is alarming, there is no gate keeping in regards to medicine.
Originally posted by devilwasp
[is this like you hinting at something or being serios here?
if its the first one i have noticed your views in other threads.
if its the second then dont accept it because no matter how unexciteing the post may be its about how useful it is. if it backs your point or points then its game.
Originally posted by devilwasp
Originally posted by Frosty
The hammer and sickle represented the first peasant-worker state in history. Today is represents the oppresion and misery these peasant-workers went through from having to see the ARA leave because Lenin though it was plot to overthrow the state, to Lenin and Stalin's conspiracies of Wesetern-Zionist-Capitalist who wanted to ovethrow the state (just an excuse to shoot people in the head), from when Stalin enacted his Five Years Plan, to the defeat in Afghanistan, to outrages spending to keep up with US spending.
not really.
under lennin it was not a comunist state it was a dictatorship country.
Originally posted by sleeper
The benefactors are the people who live in Left-wing countries, whose economies are devastated because they don�t have Capitalism---So Capitalist Americans send millions of dollars in cash and food aid to hundreds of countries so that those people living in "Left-wing utopias" don�t starve to death.
Originally posted by Amelia
America should START helping his OWN population
Most of the population is POOR...Why spend billions in stoopid wars when they could spend this money helping poor people in the USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the worst of the worst....
Originally posted by Durden
Like I've said earlier in this thread. Loving and being proud of one's country is fine and good.
But this thread has gone way beyond ridiculous in the portrayal of the US as the one and only country with a real democracy, the only place where people receive proper medical care etc. etc. etc.
How is such ignorance even possible in this 'information age'?
Originally posted by sleeper
From your post so far you are in my humble opinion the number one expert of everything ignorant---but then I don't want to exaggerate your intelligence.
Originally posted by Durden
Originally posted by sleeper
From your post so far you are in my humble opinion the number one expert of everything ignorant---but then I don't want to exaggerate your intelligence.
Keep 'em coming, kid. Still no rational argument to support your views?
Originally posted by sleeper
With all the stuff I have already given you I can only conclude that you must be writing a book on the marvels of American Capitalism. You might be smarter than I give you credit for.
Originally posted by TrueLies
I watched "dirty pretty things" last night....
It was about a bunch of illegal immigrant working in the black market, sweat shops, hotel's, ect... They wanted to make enough money to move to America.
It was made in london by miramax and I think it said bbc at the beginning..
Anyway, you feel pathos when you watch the movie. You can't help but to feel for these people who are working so hard to try and flee their own countries because of religious prosecution or poverty and the likes...
Two of them were trying to save money so that they could move to nyc, I guess thats where it's all at...
The way they look at America I can see why they would think it doesn't get any better then america... They don't have to worry about being prosecuted, or slaughtered in a genocide, they don't have to worry about living in poverty once their here, they get apply for amnesty, h1b visas, refugee status, ect and start a fresh life, work hard and actually get somewhere...
Face it, America is still the land of opportunity it's up to YOU make your dreams come true... And you can do that without fear of the above happening...
Originally posted by sleeper
Even in Western countries like, Europe and Canada, starting a business is a monumental task (cutting through all the bureaucracy) that few succeed.
Originally posted by Figjam
this is way too funny! You guys THINK that the USof A os the best place to live, but us Aussies know better. Of all the places I've been & lived, I have to say honestly that nothing compares to the Land Down-under....Australia!! We're not called the Lucky Country for nothing. AND we are as advanced as any western society on this planet......even more so in some cases. But don't let me shatter your illusions, you keep on thinking USA is the best place to be & we'll keep our little piece of heaven to ourselves!
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
I don't know anything at all about John Howard and I don't know anyone else who does either. I'd like to help Australia with it's gun rights issues, but I have my hands full here.
If you are not already, you should join a firearms rights organization like the National Rifle Association so that over time you can get legislation or even Constitutional protection for your rights to keep and bear arms.
Originally posted by sleeper
There is no limit to what Americas can do
All Americans have health care (the best in the world)---in some case way to much of it.