"SteveB" wrote in message
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I'm not upset about the situation. I'm really ****ed off. All these

I think being upset and really ****ed off are pretty close.

Washington, Wall Street, and corporate types making millions by raping the
common people, and doing it with disdain and disrespect. $90 million to
someone who crashed Freddie and Fannie. Plus all the tens of millions to
their cohorts. And lot of people left holding devalued real estate, or
worse, losing their houses. But not Barney Frank who once operated a male
prostitute ring out of his Washington house.

I'm not sure what Barney Frank's roommate's illegal activity has to do with
the financial crisis. Pushing it just a bit, at least he was being a
capitalist. lol


We need to do something, and capitalistic, not socialistic. The only
bright spot on the horizon is for there to be some form of Congressional
housekeeping in 2010, but that would take a year to really trickle down.
And by then, if Obama gets this package passed, we will be in over our
heads.

I don't completely disagree. The current situation is pretty bad, but it has
the potential and the direction currently of getting better.

We need a more social view and we need to use capitalism to get there. Gov't
regulation does work but imperfectly. We need it, however, to regulate raw
capitalism which also doesn't work.

If he would only work on jobs programs with the earnest he spends on the
healthcare issue. If we have employed people, they will either get health
care, or be able to afford to purchase it. The only reason we would need
federal health care is if everyone is unemployed, and screaming for it.
But

The rate of unemployment is slowing. If you don't believe it, look it up. No
one is talking about the gov't running healthcare, and continually saying it
doesn't make it true. Additionally, there's a base of people who will never
be employed unfortunately. We can't just abandon them to walk the streets.
There are something like 60,000 homeless people in Los Angeles alone...
that's horrible and for a civilized country unbelievable. Our return on our
healthcare investment in this country is really bad, something like 30th in
the world, yet we spend way, way more than any other country.

then, they will be limited to what they get, getting only gruel when they
think they will be getting balanced meals. Yet, the people who administer
the program will be cruising along in their $80k a year jobs, with a
SEPARATE Platinum Health Plan that will cover everything associated with
the human body including addadicktome operations. For, after all, they
are above the common commoner.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here... sorry.

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