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bpuharic

On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:03:15 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:38:48 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:54:48 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:00:00 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

and if the private sector is so great why do we have BP and the most
expensive healthcare in the world, and a stock market that just pulled
11 trillion dollars out of the net worth of the US?

Why weren't the government inspectors checking the BP rig?

why should they? deregulation, remember? the bad oil companies go
bankrupt...

oh...wait...the rich stacked the deck to limit liability so the
taxpayer gets stuck with the bill...

Because there was regulation, the government just chose not to enforce
it.

that is correct. shows what happens when corporations start tossing
the term 'socialist' at the pres...

Our health care is so expensive because we use too much of it. People
get a hangnail and they end up with an MRI. You can't go to the doctor
without coming home with a couple bottles of pills. Most of the money
we spend is in keeping corpses alive for a few extra days. Did you
watch 60 minutes last Sunday?

aint free enterprise wonderful? almost sounds like you're arguing for
govt control of healthcare!

In this case it IS government health care (Medicare)

ever hear of blue cross? aetna? kaiser? they're not medicare

Why was the SEC asleep at the switch and why did Clinton force
Brooksley Born out when she warned us about the derivatives?

the SEC was asleep during the run up to this disaster under teh bush
administration...and you're absolutely correct; brooksley born got
screwed by a govt drunk on free market fundamentalism...

just like the tea baggers argue today...you know, the most right wing
of the right wing...

The deregulation that allowed this happened in the 90s.

and the 80's under reagan with his 'smaller govt' fundamentalism

Non responsive answer. Why does Fed Ex exist if the government is
always the best way of doing things?

never said they were the BEST.

Write that down and refer to it before you respond again.

when the govt takes 11 trillion out of the economy in 3 years lke wall
street just did...

you be sure and let me know